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Two Giant Sinclair Catfish Caught And Released

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…

Video Of Buck Attacking Dead Buck

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…

Chatsworth Schools Show Out At NASP State Tournament

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…

A Young Man Who Just Wants To Hunt And Fish

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…

Special Letter From Mother Who Lost Her Son To Cancer

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…

Youth Big-Buck Contest Results 2015-2016

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…

High School Bass Angler Signs With Bryan College

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…

Floods Leave Dead Bucks High In Trees

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…

Harris County High Schoolers Win B.A.S.S. Nation On West Point

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…

Brantley Gilbert and Michael Lee “Take It Outside”

Country Music Super Star Brantley Gilbert and Backwoods Life co-host Michael Lee have teamed up for a video project like no one before with the recently released Take It Outside episode #1. Released in late February, Take It Outside marks new territory for country music and outdoor video as country star Brantley Gilbert gives an…