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Burton: Level: Full pool. Temp: 73 degrees. Clarity: Slight stain. The lake is turning over. Bass: Guide Wes Carlton reports, “The bass are biting sporadically. The early morning largemouth bite around the shoreline brush and timber is great. We have been catching the bigger fish on plastic swimbaits and hard-jointed swimbaits in the 6-inch range…
Blue Ridge: Level: 4 feet below full pool. Temp: 77-79 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Eric Crowley reports, “October on Blue Ridge can be a great time or a great time to do something else. A lot of this is to do with the annual drawdown of water by the TVA and the annual turnover…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: Falling into the 70s. Clarity: Light stained. Crappie: Rusty Parker reports, “Since the cooler weather is setting in, the crappie have started biting great. I went crappie fishing just a couple of days ago and didn’t think I would do that good but ended up with a limit of decent-sized…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.6 feet below full pool. Temp: Falling into the 70s. Clarity: Lightly stained. Bass: “Bass fishing is terrible,” reports tournament director and angler Dennis Hudson. “We had a tournament won here the other night with two fish weighing 4 pounds. There were only four fish caught in the tournament. They have sprayed…
Allatoona: Level: 1.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 81 degrees and dropping. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tournament fisherman Matt Driver reports, “The first of the month with be much like September but will be getting much better as the month progresses. This month the crankbait and swimbait bites get real good. The bait and bass are…
Discussions on a potential increase in the minimum-size limit on spotted seatrout that will initially result in fewer fish for the fryer—but over time could greatly improve the quality of these inshore fish—will continue as Georgia’s Fin Fish Advisory Panel (FFAP) gets back together in the first quarter of 2015. “When you compare and contrast…
The last thing Dillon remembered was a blast that sounded like a stick of dynamite exploding between his ears, and a white-hot flash of light that seemed to make the forest vanish in a bright haze. Then he was weightless and flying through the air; a brief flight abruptly halted by the end of his…
Law-enforcement folks are trained on how to react in scary situations, and it could have been that knowledge that saved the life of a Jones County deputy sheriff after being attacked by a coyote. “On June 4, 2014, around 11 p.m., I was riding my 4-wheeler on my property,” said Deputy Sheriff Paul Hathaway, who…
I started hunting this buck when I got my first picture of him on Oct. 22 close to my favorite stand. This particular area I am hunting is deep in the hardwoods and about a quarter mile from the next closest deer stand. It lies between two large beaver ponds where deer and big bucks…
Coyotes are an invasive, non-native species that has spread to every corner of Georgia in the past decade. With coyote populations in Georgia growing, while fawn-recruitment rates and other wildlife suffer serious impacts, more and more sportsmen are interested in learning how to trap. Animal-rights groups like PETA and HSUS have for decades done a…
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