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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) TrophyCatch program, now in Season 7, has awarded prizes for the catch and release of more than 9,000 largemouth bass since the program began in 2012. To date, 7,303 Lunker Club, 1,751 Trophy Club and 66 Hall of Fame fish make up the milestone. “We want to…
As soon as I saw the photo, I knew two things. One, we were going to do a story on it. Two, I knew it would make some folks mad. I never thought it would make a few folks that mad. In 30-plus years of making GON magazines, this is something we come across most…
Approximately 26 short-finned pilot whales stranded on or near St. Catherines Island Wednesday, Sept. 25, leaving 15 dead in Georgia’s second mass stranding of these large marine mammals this year. Staff from the Georgia Sea Turtle Center and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have also helped. Why the whales beached themselves isn’t known.…
Is fall the best time to hunt, or is it the best time to fish? Actually, October is a great time to be in the Georgia outdoors, whether you’re slinging arrows, letting lead fly, or a casting a fishing line. But why choose? I try to do it all! Lately, I’ve been wanting to get…
Topwater baits over rocky humps and points, and dragging jigs on them and down the sides as they drop off into deeper water—that simple pattern is a great way to catch Clarks Hill bass in October. Clarks Hill’s 72,000 acres of water have gone through many changes since the river was dammed in 1950, but…
It’s no secret that the rut is the best time to have an encounter with that old buck you have had your eyes on all summer. It’s seemingly the only time of year he really lets his guard down by chasing does all over creation in an attempt to spread his genes. To figure out…
Georgia hunters who got to the woods for opening morning of bow season were greeted with an unseasonable cool morning. Well, that was just a tease. Since then it’s been brutally hot and dry. Food plot seed that went in the ground is feeding the crows unless you were lucky to get pop-up thunderstorms, one…
If you’re out poking around the woods in Toombs or Tattnall counties this fall and happen to see a lizard that matches the description of an Argentine black and white tegu, get a picture if possible, and if you’re sure it’s a tegu, feel free to shoot it. State, federal and university ecologists would prefer…
Gator season won’t officially close until Oct. 7, but this season already has been highlighted by what is certainly going to be a new state record. A 14-foot, 1.75-inch gator was killed on Lake Eufaula by tag holder Derrick Snelson, who hired Lethal Guide Service. That gator is pictured just below, and a full feature…
The Top-4 Georgia counties for big bucks remained the same as last season. Worth County is still No. 1 based on the big bucks it has produced in the past 10 years, followed by Lee, Dougherty and Macon counties. There was some movement for the next grouping. Pulaski County came in at No. 5 in…
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