Crazy Stories From The Trout Stream

I love to trout fish, and I go a lot. My fishing buddy Jerry Taylor and I hit the trout waters at least two or three times a week from when I limit out on turkeys to when bow season begins. Some jaw-dropping, frightful and “I can not believe that just happened” incidents have occurred…

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Madison County Hosts 8th Annual Peach Classic Coonhound Event

On March 11-12, the North Georgia Houndsmen’s club hosted the sanctioned United Kennel Club Peach Classic Hunt and Show for 2022. It was held at the Madison County Fairgrounds in Comer. The event drew an excellent turnout with 94 dogs being hunted and 50 competing in the bench show. There were entries from 10 different…

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QDM Coons: A New Era Of Opportunity

We had turned the dogs loose 30 minutes previous and hadn’t heard a bark. It was mid January, cold, and very windy. I almost walked back to the truck to get the Garmin GPS unit to locate the dogs but opted to walk out of the hollow and up on top of a ridge containing…

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Deer Drives Done Right

The mature doe cautiously exited the Oglethorpe County clearcut and trotted toward the bottom of a deep ravine. Six other antlerless deer and a small 4-pointer followed her. The whole group hesitated before entering another thick cutover. I picked out the leader, converted her to tablefare, bolted in another cartridge and dropped the second largest…

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Post-Rut Deer Strategies For December Success

Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the woods, Georgia deer hunters were sitting on food sources most fitting… on clover, wheat, rye and oat plots. In privet bottoms, honeysuckle thickets, water-oak stands and over late-dropping pears… in hopes a whitetail would soon be theirs! Corny poem? Oh, yeah, but it holds a lot…

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Staging Areas For Mature Georgia Bucks

Good grief it was hot. You have to really love deer hunting to walk a mile to your stand, mostly across open pasture, in the kind of intense heat and humidity that we were having. But, for the first time since bow season opened, the wind was correct, and very directional. No switchin’ back and…

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Tricks And Tips For Taking Coyotes

The gray light of dawn had just illuminated the woods, and I had just stopped my second sequence of calls when I heard him trotting on the dry hardwood leaves. I shouldered the gun, immediately, while I had a chance. A short minute later he came into view. I settled the crosshairs on his shoulder,…

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Woodcock Should Fly Into Georgia Around December 10

  Twenty yards ahead of us, the little bell on Alder’s collar quit tinkling… our big male setter was on point! The privet was so thick in the river bottom, we were eight yards from the dog before we saw him… another three yards, and the bird flushed. As it cleared the privet, shotguns roared…

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Allure Of Coon Hunting

  Ol’ Slick “opened up” with a loud tenor bawl, about a half-mile into the Broad River bottoms. He was telling me that a coon had walked there… much earlier in the night. The trail was ice cold. Ten minutes later, I could tell it was gettin’ hotter, as Slick’s barks changed to a shorter,…

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Hunt Pressured WMA Bucks

The hunter had scouted the middle Georgia WMA two weeks before the quota hunt was to begin. He had combined the trip to include a squirrel hunt, along with the scouting, as the area was open to small-game hunting right up to the occurrence of the first deer hunt. One beautiful ridge of white and red…

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