Posts by Nick Carter
Georgia Team Wins Bass Fishing High School National Championship
An adjustment on the water earned two McIntosh High School seniors a national championship at Lake Murray, S.C. April 15. Dalton Anderson and Dawson Lenz, both of Peachtree City, won the FLW/TBF National Championship with 16-lbs., 12-ozs. The two 18-year-olds beat out their closest competition by more than 8 pounds when the spawning blueback pattern…
Read MorePeachtree City Teens Represent The Southeast Region In FLW Nationals
Two 18-year-old tournament anglers from Peachtree City can arguably call themselves two of the top-10 high school bass anglers in the nation. When McIntosh High School seniors Dalton Anderson and Dawson Lenz started a school bass club their sophomore year, there’s no way they could have known it would take them this far. On April…
Read MoreSupplemental Feed Study Earns Gordon County Student High Honors In FFA National Competition
A senior at Sonoraville High School in Gordon County recently won high honors in a national Future Farmers of America (FFA) science competition for a study he conducted on the supplemental feed preferences of whitetails. He also collected some data in his study that hunters and deer managers might find interesting: deer prefer supplemental feed…
Read MoreThe Deer Corn Factor
The base of the burn barrel had heated to a muted orange glow by the time conversation rambled through college football into the existence of black panthers. Finally, a younger hunter in the group broached the subject all of us had in the backs of our minds. “Where y’all hunting in the morning?” he asked,…
Read MoreConservation Law Enforcement Corner November 2011
In the spring of 2010, WRD Law Enforcement rangers used a call out to the public to solve a bear case in which poachers killed a mother bear and one of her cubs. But as it turned out, the case they solved was not even the one they set out to. In early March 2010,…
Read MoreLineside Records Set On Georgia Mountain Lakes
Over the last few months, Lake Oconee has dominated coverage of lake records. We’ve watched catfish records for the lake change hands faster than hot potatoes. However, linesides have been the story on north Georgia’s mountain lakes. In the spring, new records for hybrid bass were set for both Lake Burton and Carters Lake, and…
Read MoreNorth And South Georgia Bear Hunters Racking Up Record Kills
From dense, tangled vegetation of the southeastern swamps to high mountain oak ridges, it’s already a record-breaking year for bear hunting in Georgia. On archery hunts alone, north Georgia hunters are killing more bears than they ever have. And dog hunters in south Georgia have broken the state record for live weight… twice. In south…
Read MoreDeath Threat Nails Dodge County Poacher
The ringleader of a group of poachers operating in and around Dodge County pleaded guilty to 13 counts and was handed a stiff sentence Oct. 4, 2011 after the assistant district attorney handling the case reportedly threatened felony charges stemming from a separate incident. William Stacey Jones and an accomplice, Mary Michelle Warren, both of…
Read MoreConservation Law Enforcement Corner October 2011
Cpl. Freddie Hays and Ranger First Class Billy Bryant were on routine night patrol at about 11:45 p.m. last Oct. 23 when they encountered a pair of poachers doing something a little out of the ordinary. The officers were patrolling Clybel WMA, at the Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center in Jasper County, when they saw a…
Read MoreMark Wilkins Buck A Year In The Making
Ever wonder how folks end up on the GON cover? Mark Wilkins, of Buckhead, will tell you all it takes is a phone call. But first you have to kill a cover buck. Mark hunted his 129 6/8-inch Pope & Young buck for more than a year before arrowing it the second afternoon of bow…
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