Daryl Kirby

His first two fishing trips in years resulted in two remarkable Georgia trout for a Cornelia man. A …

There’s some pretty good bass fishing on the Oconee River as it flows south below Lake Sinclair through …

There’s quite a bit to be proud of at GON—at least I think so—but our record-keeping legacy has …

If you follow mainstream news, the drum beat of national politics never ends—budgets, departments, confirmation hearings, waste, fraud, taxes, tariffs and Trump... but you’re not going to hear anything about where the crappie are biting or whether there will be any turkeys willing to gobble this spring. At GON, we try to leave national politics…

There I was sitting on a park bench getting a little Vitamin D sunshine during a lunch break at the tail end of another magazine deadline.  Survived another one. Deadline week causes a bit of angst and stress in my house.   Not that any of y’all are counting, and neither was I, but a…

As my family and I count down the remaining issues of GON magazine—now just one hand’s worth—before I hop off this horse and pass the reins to some new blood, there’s certainly a feeling of nostalgia. Thirty-seven years of work—your life’s work—while watching a little newsprint tabloid dreamed up by Steve Burch grow into an…

Georgia is a big state with diverse hunting conditions. We have bucks that start chasing in late September on the coast, and others that don’t get fired up until early January in southwest Georgia. We have mountains where it’s acorns or nothing, and we have middle Georgia farmland where bean fields edged with food plots…