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By Bryce Davidson The Alee Angler Kids Fishing Derby in Savannah at Lake Mayer was a huge success! We had about 80 kids come out and fish with their families on Saturday morning, Sept. 10. The weather showed sunshine and no clouds. We opened registration at 9 a.m. and had people already lined up ready…
The smoke of Fourth of July fireworks and cookouts may be behind you as you read this. With that, the calendar in many hunter’s minds will have kicked into thoughts of Saturday, Sept. 10. That’s the date of the deer season opener for archery, just one week after the opening day of our dove season. …
A combined effort by anglers and agencies is seeking to add shallow-water habitat at lake Allatoona for largemouth bass. The E3 Bassmasters of the Georgia Bass Nation, Allatoona U.S. Army Corps of Engineers volunteers, and the Georgia DNR conducted the final phase of a habitat enhancement project on Lake Allatoona on Feb 6. The project…
Daylight, 35 degrees and a big sow was well within rifle range. It was an exciting start to the Cumberland Island youth deer and hog hunt on Dec. 19, 2020. It had probably been a decade or better since I’d spent a few days on a Georgia barrier island looking for deer and hogs. In…
The minutes ticked on: forty-four, forty-five, forty-six. I was running out of patience, time and getting really antsy. Dad told me to sit still; it was just getting prime time for the deer to start moving and coming out to eat. The anticipation was killing me. I had seen the big buck on the trail…
It was 6:00 o’clock that morning. The alarm clock was making the noise of an airplane roaring through the sky. I leaped out of my bed as I was rubbing the gritty, sleepy sand out of my eyes. I did not get much sleep last night because I was so excited about the next morning…
Easton Withrow, 10, of Cleveland, collected a $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors after winning GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on Sept. 26 in Madison. The Shoot-Out had originally been planned for July at the Outdoor Blast, but hosting site restrictions didn’t allow GON to hold its annual hunting show. In addition, Easton won a…
We owe it to the WRD crew for making plenty of public-land places for kids to be exposed to hunting. Below are the charts of every youth hunt that is available for any youth 16 years old and younger. Consider the following when making plans to attend a hunt. • For quota youth hunts, the…
The annual GON Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out will take place on Saturday, Sept. 26 at the Infinite Energy Center in Gwinnett County as part of the Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast. Here’s the second half of the field of those who will be shooting for a chance to win a $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors and…
My son Kasen Gurr, 14, of Danville, was selected for the Rum Creek WMA first youth quota hunt of the 2020 turkey season. I haven’t hunted turkeys much, so we had a family friend Craig Pearce ride up to do the calling for us. While standing there awaiting sunrise, we shared hunting memories of a…
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