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Fishing
It’s been said when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Well the same can be said for mudfish. When the Swamp gives you mudfish, make mudfish nuggets. Despite what many say, mudfish meat is very mild tasting and doesn’t require a bunch of exotic seasonings or cooking methods to make it edible. Try this, and…
John D. Rockefeller was one of the wealthiest men to ever live. He amassed a fortune worth billions in today’s money, so it’s easy to see why his name sticks out on the pages of history books still today. What the history books don’t talk about very much though is the real legacy he left…
When Melinda Tanner, of Douglas, headed on an early April fishing trip, she was excited to get after some big bass in her pond located on her Broxton farm in Coffee County. Little did she know this would be a fishing trip she would never forget, and for all the wrong reasons. “The bass had…
Jodi Manders, of Cordele, has done it again. For the third turkey season in a row, she’s killed a gobbler that’ll make the top-12 all-time Georgia turkeys killed by female hunters. “On Friday, April 17, I was debating on going fishing with my husband Randy or going turkey hunting the following Saturday morning,” said Jodi,…
The uncertainties yet to be faced in the outbreak—and recovery—of COVID-19 across the country, the state and our region has led the organizing committee for Blue Ridge Mountain Trout Unlimited (BRMTU) to cancel the 2020 Blue Ridge Trout & Outdoor Adventures Festival, commonly known as simply the Trout Fest. “BRMTU believes we share a responsibility…
Milly Prince, of Valdosta, may only be just 14 years old, but she’s got a pending No. 3 gobbler ever for a Georgia lady under her belt already. Milly was hunting in Brooks County with some friends on Saturday, April 11 when she rolled the big longbeard. It was her first turkey ever. “We didn’t…
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) announced the promotion of Alan Isler to Chief of the WRD Game Management Section. Alan is a longtime employee of the State of Georgia, having joined the Wildlife Resources Division in 2004 as resource manager for the Wildlife Conservation Section, and most recently serving as…
It’s that time of the year when those south Georgia rivers begin popping up in the headlines. This week, it’s the Canoochee River and a brand-new river record for spotted sunfish, or more commonly called stumpknockers. “I noticed that starting with Mr. Glen Solomon’s warmouth last year that y’all started keeping records for the Canoochee,”…
Derek Pritchett, of Chatsworth, has been called one of the luckiest guys alive after surviving a pair of tornadoes on Sunday night and killing two turkeys, one of them a rare smoke-phase gobbler, just two days earlier. “Both of the tornadoes were not even an eighth of a mile on both sides of my house,”…
When she has the chance, Rachel Brown, 25, of Dallas, Ga., accompanies her dad at their family’s Lake Sinclair vacation home. On Thursday, April 9, they had the chance to go fishing together like they have many times before. “We fished some that afternoon and caught some bass and bream, which is our normal,” said…
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