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In GON’s Hunting Land Special—a free classified listing that is published each July in GON—we connect hunters with clubs or landowners. All you have to do is get the information in the coupon to GON by the June 13 deadline. Here are three options to provide GON your hunting land information. All hunting land coupon…
Heath Williams, of Augusta, killed two record-book turkeys on April 3 in Burke County. Little did Heath know at the time, but some new property he got permission to hunt on just days before would lead not only to killing his first turkey in Georgia, but also to killing the No. 2 and No. 3…
A night of catfishing from the bank turned into a record-setting experience for a Lake Jackson angler. Donald Kennedy, of Monticello, reeled in a monster flathead catfish on Wednesday, April 13, from Jackson. Donald reached his spot on the bank near the split of the South and Yellow rivers at about 5:30 p.m. He immediately began…
High school bass anglers in northwest Georgia now have a closer-to-home avenue to compete on a regular bass-tournament circuit without having to drive to middle and south Georgia, where most of Georgia’s tournament fishing takes place. Bradley Nelson and Greg Crider, founders of the Northwest Georgia High School Anglers Association (NGHSAA), report that they have experienced…
When someone thinks of President Jimmy Carter, the title of outdoor writer probably does not quickly come to mind, but he has always enjoyed hunting and fishing, and he has done a lot of outdoor writing. Raised in rural Georgia, near Plains, Carter served two terms as a Georgia state senator and one term as Georgia governor…
Catfish grow big, and Georgia’s lakes sure seem to hold good numbers of these giants of the murky depths. Case in point, a recent outing on Lake Sinclair. On March 29, Chad Smith, a guide on lakes Sinclair and Oconee for almost nine years, took Rufus Brown and Brian Brown out fishing on Lake Sinclair to catch…
Editor’s Note: GON received the following letter and video from Eddie Munn, of Red Rock. Dear GON, I got a strange tale to tell. I’ve been hunting deer since 1967 and never seen or heard of this. Just shows you can’t trust ’em. Opening morning I dropped a 180-lb. 7-point 40 yards away. A couple…
On March 4, more than 1,000 students across the state competed in the 2016 National Archery in the Schools (NASP) Georgia State Tournament at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry. These 46 teams came together to try and qualify for the May 12-14 NASP Nationals tournament in Kentucky, but they also came to sling arrows…
President Theodore Roosevelt, an avid hunter, hit the nail on the head when he said, “There is delight in the hardy life of the open.” The outdoors relaxes the mind and soothes the soul. As an 18-year-old, high school senior, I crave being outside and experiencing nature firsthand. However, I’ve run into a bump in the…
Dear GON, In February of 2014 you published this picture of my son Noah, who was 13 when the picture was taken. He had taken a 3-point buck the day before he took the coyote. If it’s ok I would like to share with you the rest of Noah’s story. In July 2014, after several…