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Week 11: David Wall, 183 6/8 non-typical County: Cook Date: Nov. 28 Last November, David Wall took the week of Thanksgiving off of work to get some good time in the deer woods. “I waited until the early morning of Monday the 25th to go and saw a few does and small bucks…
Week 10: Dwayne Griffin, 140 5/8 typical County: Colquitt Date: Nov. 20 Back in 1992, a 30-year-old hunter from Moultrie killed a 150-inch buck in Colquitt County that earned him a truck in the Hilsman Deer Cooler contest, plus a spot in GON’s Truck-Buck Shoot-Out—at that time only the second Truck-Buck Shoot-Out ever.…
Pretty scary when you turn on the news and see people running in and out of the smashed windows and doors of Lenox Mall and setting fire to your favorite Italian restaurant. The next evening the scene at Lenox was dozens of DNR Law Enforcement trucks, each with a 4-wheeler in the bed, parked in…
After a week of constant adjustments, everything came together perfectly for Buddy Gross on Championship Saturday. The Bassmaster Elite Series rookie, fishing only his second event on the trail, caught a tournament-best five-bass limit that weighed 27 pounds, 11 ounces and sprang from 10th place to a victory in the DEWALT Bassmaster Elite at Lake…
On June 10, Kevin Mullis, of Waycross, headed for the Alapaha River in the early morning hours with hopes that he and his cousin Jesse Tatum would be able to put a few bass in the boat. Little did he know that fate, luck and skill would soon come together to aid in catching an…
Two anglers who call Georgia home are among the 10 anglers who made the final day cut to fish for the $100,000 top prize and a Bassmasters Elite Series title at Lake Eufaula. Drew Benton, who moved to Blakely last year, enters the final day in 8th place, and Buddy Gross, of Chickamauga, just made…
A record for common carp has been established on Lake Lanier by James Martin, of Gainesville. His carp weighed 9-lbs., 3.2-ozs. and was caught the morning of June 6. “Anybody who knows me knows I’m always out on the water with my sidekick and beautiful wife Amber until deer season,” said James. “If you find…
Conventional wisdom says a tournament held on Lake Eufaula during 90-degree weather in June should be won offshore on the ledges. But Bill Lowen isn’t buying it. He never buys that anywhere B.A.S.S. takes him. The Indiana pro who cut his teeth fishing the shallow waters of the Ohio River stayed near the shoreline during…
It’s that time of year when you may be fishing for snapper and grouper. Continue your role as a conservationist when releasing fish by looking out for signs of barotrauma and being prepared to respond. Barotrauma is a condition seen in many fish caught at depths greater than 50 feet caused by pressure changes leading…
With the reopening of so many trails and access points I decided to break away from home the last weekend in May for a flash trip to north Georgia. The weather guessers on TV said the chance of rain was low and the temperatures weren’t supposed to be brutal, so I grabbed the tent and…
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