Posts by Lindsay Thomas Jr.
Targeting Warm Season Food Plots
Two years ago this May, the staff of the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) moved into our new national headquarters outside Athens. While we are happy to be in a permanent, new and very practical facility, it is the 23 acres surrounding the building that most excites the staff members who love to experiment with…
Read MoreMinnows Early, Jigs Late Catch Sinclair Transition Crappie
October is a fantastic time to fish for crappie on a Georgia reservoir for several reasons. With the ranks of fishermen thinned by the call of deer stands, and with the last of the skiers and summer pleasure boaters gone for the season, a die-hard crappie angler will find plenty of uncontested water waiting for…
Read MoreCooperating Across Property Boundaries
At the 2006 Buckarama in August, I spent Saturday helping run the Quality Deer Management Association’s (QDMA) booth. This was a priceless opportunity for those of us on the QDMA staff to meet and talk with Georgia deer hunters — not only do we hear from QDMA members about their successful efforts but we get…
Read MoreLake Weiss Spinnerbait Attack For May Bass
“This little pocket coming up looks good,” Charles Redding told me. “We’ll get a good one out of here.” We were way back in Cowan Creek on Lake Weiss, so far back that the clouds of mud stirred up by the trolling motor left a trail that went out of sight behind us. Charles eyed…
Read MoreAltamaha’s Big Monster Catfish
Two summers ago, Johnny Gordon of Ludowici and his partner, Tommy Bacon, made local papers and the pages of GON with a photo of a 70-lb. flathead catfish that they caught in the Altamaha River near Jesup on a limb line and a live bream. At the time it was one of the heaviest flatheads…
Read MoreJune Wildlife in Mind
Every September you probably take the same approach to the opening day of dove season that many people do: sit and wait for a friend with a good dove field to invite you on a shoot. If so, it may seem a little early to start thinking about a good dove shoot, but not if…
Read MoreSeptember Wildlife in Mind
It’s September, and the thoughts of most hunters are focusing on the upcoming deer season. At this point, when the season has not even opened yet, not many folks are thinking about the end of the season, but a little foresight in September can do a lot of good for your deer herd. Now is…
Read MoreAugust Wildlife in Mind
You can have your dream of a luxuriant food planting for deer, turkey or other game in the isolated heart of your hunting grounds. “But,” you say, “I don’t own a bulldozer or tractor, much less a trailer to haul them on.” Even if you don’t have farm machinery, or you are in an area…
Read MoreOctober Wildlife in Mind
If you are thinking it’s too late to plan or plant any new wildlife crops this year, think again. October is the optimum time to put in annual grasses like rye, wheat and oats or ryegrass, especially if you have access to a seed drill. You may already have all of your food plots committed…
Read MoreNovember Wildlife in Mind
November is a quiet time of year for habitat management, relatively speaking, but there are always a few things you could do-and things you don’t have to do-out there in your habitat. This month’s column looks at a few items on which readers have asked for more information. We recently received questions concerning minerals: if,…
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