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When someone thinks of President Jimmy Carter, the title of outdoor writer probably does not quickly come to mind, but he has always enjoyed hunting and fishing, and he has done a lot of outdoor writing. Raised in rural Georgia, near Plains, Carter served two terms as a Georgia state senator and one term as Georgia governor…
Catfish grow big, and Georgia’s lakes sure seem to hold good numbers of these giants of the murky depths. Case in point, a recent outing on Lake Sinclair. On March 29, Chad Smith, a guide on lakes Sinclair and Oconee for almost nine years, took Rufus Brown and Brian Brown out fishing on Lake Sinclair to catch…
Editor’s Note: GON received the following letter and video from Eddie Munn, of Red Rock. Dear GON, I got a strange tale to tell. I’ve been hunting deer since 1967 and never seen or heard of this. Just shows you can’t trust ’em. Opening morning I dropped a 180-lb. 7-point 40 yards away. A couple…
On March 4, more than 1,000 students across the state competed in the 2016 National Archery in the Schools (NASP) Georgia State Tournament at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry. These 46 teams came together to try and qualify for the May 12-14 NASP Nationals tournament in Kentucky, but they also came to sling arrows…
President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid hunter, hit the nail on the head when he said, “There is delight in the hardy life of the open.” The outdoors relaxes the mind and soothes the soul. As an 18-year-old, high school senior, I crave being outside and experiencing nature firsthand. However, I’ve run into a bump in the…
Dear GON, In February of 2014 you published this picture of my son Noah, who was 13 when the picture was taken. He had taken a 3-point buck the day before he took the coyote. If it’s ok I would like to share with you the rest of Noah’s story. In July 2014, after several…
One lucky young deer hunter from GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest will win a $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors, plus a weekend deer and wild-hog Dream Hunt with Woods-N-Water outfitters. Imagine walking into a hunting store like Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna and having $3,000 to spend on anything you can dream of, and then being…
Jake Mims, a 17-year-old junior at Alexander High school in Douglasville, recently turned his love and passion for fishing into a Scholarship at Bryan Collage. Jake has had a passion for fishing for a long time. He started fishing around the age of 4. When he was 8 years old, Jake got a first-place win in…
It’s pretty slim odds when GON is able to write a story about the remains of a dead deer found dangling in a tree, but when we’re able to report that two different readers in two different parts of the state report the same instance in less than a month, it almost seems unbelievable. Brock Smith, of Bainbridge, made…
Cal Culpepper and Parker Marshall, both 16 years old, took first place in the Georgia B.A.S.S Nation High School fishing tournament at West Point Lake on Saturday, March 12. After the win, they drove across the state and finished ninth in Sunday’s 2016 TBF/FLW High School Fishing Georgia State Championship on Clarks Hill Reservoir. The two…