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Northern Zone deer hunters being permitted to hunt after Jan. 1 just took another step toward becoming a reality. WRD just released their 164-page proposed hunting seasons and regulations package for the 2015-16 and 2016-17 hunting seasons. That complete document is available at http://georgiawildlife.com/Hunting/ProposedRegulations. Scroll down to a link that will take you to the…
The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia is again conducting research on hunting leases in Georgia. Hunters who lease property are being asked to take part in a quick online survey. If you leased land from someone in Georgia in 2014, please take about five minutes and answer 12…
Most sportsmen likely haven’t noticed, but your Georgia state senators and representatives have been meeting at the capitol in Atlanta since mid January. Lawmakers still haven’t adopted my personal belief that before any new law can be proposed they have to strike one existing law that’s overreaching or just plain stupid… Nor have legislators done…
The Georgia Bass Chapter Federation (GBCF) Youth Division held their 2015 Junior State Championship Tournament at Lake Blackshear on March 14, 2015. Under the TBF/FLW program, the best young anglers from junior bass clubs in Georgia competed for bragging rights and the opportunity to represent Georgia at the Nationals. Three youth clubs sent their top anglers…
We see some great pictures and hear some awesome stories about hunting and fishing in Georgia, but one theme—monster catfish—always stops traffic and gets the crew buzzing at the GON office. There’s just something exciting and intriguing about these massive fish prowling the depths of our lakes. Mason Milby, 8, of Farmington, was jug fishing…
It was an impressive scene as rack after rack from great Georgia bucks were handed off to be measured by official Boone & Crockett scorers. Scoring events for GON’s Truck-Buck Contest and the Youth Big-Buck Contest were held in Tifton on Feb. 21 in Madison on Feb. 28. A total of 273 racks were measured…
Since the invention of trail cameras, hunting has never been the same. Hunters use them to pattern and kill deer and turkeys, and even trappers are using them to figure out when certain critters are in the area. Trail cameras also let hunters capture some of that wacky and weird stuff that happens in the…
The Lake Rabun striper record has been smashed with a 39-lb., 14-oz. fish that beats the old record by nearly 20 pounds. The fish was caught on March 4 by Danny Wall, of Lakemont. "It was just a matter of being in the right place at the right time, I guess," Danny told GON on…
Judy Hodnett, of White Plains, stopped by the GON office yesterday with a picture of something strange she found in the woods in January. It was a picture of a 10-point buck that she unfortunately found hanging dead on a barbed-wired fence. Her property borders the new portion of Oconee WMA in Greene County, and…
We didn’t publish this as an advertisement for AVIAN-X turkey decoys, but I suspect they’ll sell a few because of it. We just thought these photos were cool, and y’all have learned by now that GON editors like to publish weird stuff that happens in the woods. Chris Huggins, of Newnan, sent us these two…