Lake Sinclair Blue Cat Record Broken Again

On the afternoon of May 9, Jeffery Goodman, of Decatur, caught the new blue catfish record for Lake Sinclair, according to GON’s official records. The huge catfish weighed 51-lbs., 14-ozs. on certified scales. WRD Fisheries Biologist Keith Weaver confirmed it was a blue catfish and weighed it around 5:15 p.m. at the Walton Fish Hatchery.…

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First Channel Catfish Record Caught At West Point

There is a new record channel catfish at West Point Lake, which fills a record that had stood as Open. Owen Knabe, of Newnan, landed the fish on April 22, and it weighed at 16-lbs, 7.5-ozs. to establish a new lake record channel catfish for West Point. Two species of invasive catfish—the blues and the…

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158-Inch Buck Taken By Hunter After Recent Life-Changing Injury

On Oct. 25, 20-year-old Luke Zech, of Monticello, was debating on whether to go to class or hunt. Luke is currently a film major at Georgia College in Milledgeville. Luke did what many deer hunters would have done with the rut quickly approaching; he decided to hit the Jasper County woods. Deer hunting for Luke is…

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