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Fishing
I couldn’t have been any older than six when I caught my first fish, but that memory is still very clear in my mind. I was sitting in a jonboat in the middle of my grandparents’ pond in northwest Arkansas with my dad, my Uncle “Foo,” and my cousin, Greg, and had my little Zebco…
“That made the whole trip worth it right there,” Matt Howard announced climbing to his feet. Looking 10 yards back at Brad Gill, who had been doing the turkey calling, Matt couldn’t have been more proud of his 11-year-old daughter, Sarah. “What happened?” Brad asked. “They didn’t stop, and she just didn’t shoot,” said Matt.…
If kids are the future of hunting and fishing, the Ducks Unlimited Greenwings event in Walton County provided an encouraging display of support. On August 13, the Walton County Ducks Unlimited Chapter held its annual Greenwings event in Social Circle at Jaw-Doc Farm owned by Dr. David Allen. According to Georgia DU Greenwings coordinator Louie…
What to do with a crisp, beautiful Saturday in November… In our busy lives the options are endless: stay home, build a fire, and watch football. Then again, it’s prime time to see a mature buck, maybe slip back to the creek stand. Or maybe it’s opening day of duck season, and you’re just minutes…
Cody Dalton isn’t your average 15-year-old hunter. Before his dream hunt to Little River Plantation in November he’d killed 33 deer, 13 of them with a bow. In fact, he took 13 deer in the 2004 season, one of them being on a check-in hunt at Ossabaw where the deer didn’t count against his state…
I felt a little guilty when I looked at my truck’s odometer to begin tracking my mileage for a scheduled story out of the office. My assignment was to do an article on the vast amount of WMA squirrel-hunting opportunity that is available in November while so many GON readers have deer hunting on the…
If ever there was a need to give a group of folks a thank you, it’s now. WRD Fisheries has turned a dilapidated downtown Waycross swimming pool into a place to host an annual kids fishing event (KFE). On June 18, 2005, the pool hosted a new bunch of kids that came out to fish…
Lindy Evans, of Lake Par,k deserves a big ol’ GON pat-on-the-back. Lindy is a retired teacher from Lowndes Middle School who is now spending his summer days running a fishing camp for kids. Camp GOLIJA stands for God, Lindy and Janice, his wife, and it started in 1991. The goal was to give kids a fun…
The Georgia Bass Chapter Federation’s first Junior Club State Championship was held April 30, 2005 on Clarks Hill Lake. Three junior teams participated in the first championship tournament. Anglers competed into two age classes, 11 to 14 and 15 to 18, with the winner of each age group advancing to the Junior World Championship, which…
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