Advertisement

News

Outright Hunting Products Offering Blast Bargains

The GON Outdoor Blast is excited to announce that Outright Hunting Products is joining the 2018 Blast Bargains campaign and will be offering many items at a discounted price during the show. Outright Hunting Products sells their Morph-Pro Bow Hanger System and other bow hunting products. Blast Bargains is a special part of the three-day…

Proposal Legalizes Baiting For All Private-Land Deer Hunters

The issue of how far a Georgia deer hunter must be from placed feed — or bait — took a major step toward “legal with no distance requirement” for all private-land hunters today. After the legislature failed to act on several proposed law changes to make baiting legal statewide for deer hunters, Governor Nathan Deal…

Update: Kayaker Picked Up Swimming Rattlesnake

Family members kayaking with a man who was bitten in the hand by a rattlesnake originally told first-responders that the snake had fallen out of a tree into the man’s kayak. On Tuesday, they said the man actually picked up the snake with his bare hands, foxcarolina.com reported. The man paddled over to what he thought was an alligator…

Weiss, Coosa Stocked With 30,000 Stripers

The fisheries departments from Georgia and Alabama have combined efforts to stock 30,000 striped bass fingerlings in the Coosa River above Lake Weiss in the past month. The striper stocking, the first in this lake and river system since the mid 1980s, will supplement an existing population that is one of the few landlocked, freshwater…

Georgia Candidates For Governor Speak To Sportsmen

Eight Georgians are vying to be our next governor. Before heading to vote in the primary election tomorrow, it’s good to learn more about these candidates. Where else but through GON can sportsmen learn if our next Georgia governor actually hunts or fishes, where they stand on gun control, and where they land on the issue…

Tree Lounger Offering Blast Bargains

The GON Outdoor Blast is excited to announce that Tree Lounger is joining the 2018 Blast Bargains campaign and will be offering many items at a discounted price during the show. Tree Lounger is known for their comfortable tree stands. Blast Bargains is a special part of the three-day Outdoor Blast—we’re bringing pre-season deals back…

UGA QB Jake Fromm Goes To ER To Get Hook Removed

It’s common knowledge that UGA quarterback Jake Fromm loves hunting and fishing. A fishing trip in south Georgia yesterday ended with a trip to an emergency room for Jake. Jake got a treble hook stuck in his left leg during a fishing trip with fellow UGA student Jordan Rowe on Thursday. Jake and Jordan made…

Tired Lake Set To Open In Grady County

Grady County and south Georgia anglers will soon have reason to celebrate. A ceremony for the opening of Tired Creek Lake to fishing is set for May 25. Amazingly, the idea for this lake has been floating around since the Roosevelt administration when it was first suggested as a public works project during the Great…

Students Release 200 Stocked Trout Through TU Program

Forty students from St. Pius X Catholic High School in Atlanta recently released trout into a stretch of the Chattahoochee River in Fulton County as part of the Trout in the Classroom project. This program is sponsored nationally by Trout Unlimited and supported locally by the Upper Chattahoochee Chapter of Trout Unlimited. This environmental education…

Big Changes Regarding Lanier Ramp Fees

Are you used to pulling up at a boat ramp on Lake Lanier, getting your envelope out of the box, sticking in $5 and going fishing? If so, you need to know about big changes that took effect at some U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ramps on April 1. Citing safety reasons and an increasing…