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On the afternoon of May 9, Jeffery Goodman, of Decatur, caught the new blue catfish record for Lake Sinclair, according to GON’s official records. The huge catfish weighed 51-lbs., 14-ozs. on certified scales. WRD Fisheries Biologist Keith Weaver confirmed it was a blue catfish and weighed it around 5:15 p.m. at the Walton Fish Hatchery.…
The GON Outdoor Blast is excited to announce that Phillips Outdoors Inc. is joining the 2018 Blast Bargains campaign and will be offering many items at a discounted price during the show. Phillips Outdoors Inc. offers a wide variety of scents, lures and attractants for hunting, trapping and fishing. Blast Bargains is a special part of the…
There is a new record channel catfish at West Point Lake, which fills a record that had stood as Open. Owen Knabe, of Newnan, landed the fish on April 22, and it weighed at 16-lbs, 7.5-ozs. to establish a new lake record channel catfish for West Point. Two species of invasive catfish—the blues and the…
On May 8, 2018, Zoom Bait Company, based in Watkinsville, issued the following statement on its website zoombait.com. It is with great sadness we announce the founder of Zoom Bait Company, William Edward Chambers Sr., passed early Tuesday morning. Chambers, a famous iconic lure designer, was diagnosed with a rare form of Mantle Cell Lymphoma.…
A mother and her two young children were killed after their car hit a large alligator that was crossing Interstate 95. The family was traveling north on I-95 when the accident happened around 12:50 a.m. Monday, May 7. The crash occurred near mile marker 86, which is 86 miles north of the Georgia line near…
The Georgia State Duck Calling Contest returns to the Outdoor Blast this year. Top competition duck callers will compete for a ticket to the famous World’s Championship in Stuttgart, Arkansas. The duck-calling competition will be held Friday, July 27, and calling will begin soon after the show opens at 1 p.m. For information on the…
As of May 1, the DNR began allowing nighttime fishing on Public Fishing Areas across the state. This allows more opportunities for fishermen to get a few more hours on the lake after the sun goes down and to dodge the sweltering late summer heat that plagues our state. The PFAs will be open to…
Anglers wishing to fish Macon’s Lucas Lake need to be aware that an earlier closing time will begin on Friday, May 4. Anglers will need to be off the water by 3 p.m. The previous closing time was 7 p.m. Lucas Lake is a 589-acre drinking-water supply reservoir owned by the Macon Water Authority (MWA)…
We think predator control—particularly on coyotes, which are a non-native, invasive species in Georgia—is very important. To help promote this concept, GON is bringing back our annual Coyote Cull this May and June. This year we are offering three great prizes with a total value of more than $1,300, including a bolt-action rifle from Franchi…
The second of two scoring events for GON’s Truck-Buck Contest was held in Madison on Saturday, March 11. From among the more than 600 entries during the 2016-17 deer season, we now have the numbers crunched and know which hunters are in line to make the prestigious trip to the Outdoor Blast for the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out. Only GON subscribers who…