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Alligator Hunting
The 2020 Georgia alligator season is off to a good start, with reports of some huge gators already taken since hunting began Friday evening, Aug. 14 at sunset. GON will have full recaps and highlights of the season next month. One of the more interesting stories so far comes from Lake Seminole, where the Kilgore…
Georgia’s 17th alligator season is now in the books, and according to DNR, hunters killed at least 280 gators this season. The numbers aren’t final just yet, but they are pretty close. With the current 280 count, it’s the best season for harvest numbers since 2015, when hunters killed 326 gators. The season was highlighted…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering opening the Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge to hunting. The public is being invited to provide input that should be considered in the development of the hunt plan. Initial considerations of this proposal could include alligator hunting two weekends during the Georgia alligator hunting season, for a…
Gator season won’t officially close until Oct. 7, but this season already has been highlighted by what is certainly going to be a new state record. A 14-foot, 1.75-inch gator was killed on Lake Eufaula by tag holder Derrick Snelson, who hired Lethal Guide Service. That gator is pictured just below, and a full feature…
By Leo Coleman This year I drew my second-ever alligator tag. A Zone 4 tag was known to be a bit easier to get drawn, and I am fortunate to know some folks who allow access to hunt gators in the Zone. Pursuing gators in the dark is quite unlike any other hunting we’ve done.…
A Lake Eufaula alligator that was measured at 14-feet, 1.75-inches by WRD Technician Matt Skinner will likely set a new bar for Georgia’s state-record gator after paperwork goes through its normal process. The previous state-record hunter harvested Georgia gator came from in Lake Seminole in 2013. That gator measured 13-feet, 10.75 inches long and was caught by…
By Casey Grover Like every year, we all wait on the email stating whether we were successful or not with being selected for an alligator tag for Georgia. In this case, numerous people were disappointed they weren’t selected, but two individuals were on the opposite end of the spectrum: Kyle Daniel and Sean Dudish. On…
By Sheena Wilson I have been hunting for many years alongside my dad. Last August, I embarked on an alligator hunt, something I have been trying to do for six years. We started our journey on Friday morning, Aug. 17. We decided we would take our motor home, and we were planning on getting there…
An earlier-than-normal deadline for alligator quota hunts highlights the beginning of the 2019-2020 hunting season for those who play the quota-hunt lottery game. WRD began accepting applications for all their quota hunts this morning, and a July 15 deadline for alligator quota hunts means it’s time to begin making plans. “Because quota hunts allow a…
An alligator that measured 13-feet, 4-inches long recently had to be put down, according to Brent Howze, a WRD biologist in southwest Georgia. The large gator that could easily have been 50 years old was found by a farmer in an irrigation ditch in the Parker Slough area in the upper western portions of Lake Blackshear…