http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life Hunting, camping, fishing and stuff that gets you off the couch and into the woods. en-us sbernarde@ajc.com 2008-08-19T12:05:50-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Hunting, camping, fishing and stuff that gets you off the couch and into the woods. http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/08/19/flw_presser_moved_from_atlanta.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life FLW Outdoors’ plan to announce the $1 million winner its FLW Fantasy Fishing contest this week in Atlanta has been changed. The Thursday press conference, originally scheduled for Centennial Olympic Park, will now be held the same day in Columbia,... 6129903@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-08-19T12:05:50-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/08/18/calif_pro_cashes_in_flw_tourne.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life California angler Michael Bennett became bass fishing’s second instant millionaire Sunday by winning the FLW Tour’s Forrest Wood Cup at Lake Murray, S.C. The $1 million top prize increased Bennett’s career FLW earnings by 250 percent. He has earned $1.4... 6088503@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-08-18T11:31:15-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/08/13/a_million_dollars_for_catching.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life The $1 million top prize in this week’s Forrest Wood Cup bass tournament in South Carolina would buy a whole lot of hooks, line and sinkers, but Mark Hardin, a Jasper residents who is in the field of 77 qualifiers,... 5985103@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-08-13T11:44:08-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/08/08/hot_spots_aim_high_for_mountai.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life Trout anglers should aim high to find fishable streams in the North Georgia mountains, says the Georgia DNR. The best bets right now, if you are looking for smaller streams is to high higher-elevation streams. Drought conditions have limited where... 5878503@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-08-08T17:07:35-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/08/06/big_payoff_not_just_a_fantasy.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life The FLW Outdoors folks announced Wednesday that the $1 million winner of its online fantasy bass fishing game will be released during an Atlanta press conference on Aug. 21. In case you didn’t know, in FLW fantasy fishing, players pick... 5811903@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-08-06T13:07:08-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/08/01/hot_spots_easy_as_abc_at_allat.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life “It’s easy fishing now” at Lake Allatoona guide Robert Eidson (First Bite Guide Service) reports this week, “and it’s really ABC fishing.” Eidson’s clients have been catching 50 fish a trip on charters for hybrids and stripers, mostly on downlines... 5694203@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-08-01T16:27:40-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/07/30/not_too_early_to_think_fall_hu.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life Hunters get to scratch their itch for the upcoming season with the help of the Georgia Wildlife Federation, which has scheduled its popular Buckarama trade shows (Thursday-Sunday in Atlanta and Aug. 15-17 in Perry) in the next few weeks. The... 5628703@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-07-30T14:20:22-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/07/25/hot_spots_horton_a_smalllake_a.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life Fishing guide Randall Kirkpatrick, who takes his clients to some of metro Atlanta’s productive small bass lakes, says one lake not to overlook is Lake Horton in Fayette County. The 780-acre drinking-water reservoir has a healthy population of largemouth bass... 5515103@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-07-25T12:52:10-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/07/18/hot_spots_getting_down_on_lani.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life Lake Lanier guide Doug Youngblood says striper fishing on the big lake northeast of Atlanta is as good as it gets. “And that’s not an exaggeration,” he said. Because of the the hot fishing, Youngblood says he has stayed booked,... 5346103@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-07-18T10:59:32-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/07/11/new_fishing_report.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life You asked for it. You get it. Beginning this week, and updated each Thursday, I’ll try to help you catch more fish with the help of some experts who make a living on the water. But I’ll need your help,... 5189003@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-07-11T10:42:09-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/07/08/survey_gas_prices_keeping_angl.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life Angler reluctance to burn gas on the lake is rising as quickly as the prices at the pump, according to a survey last month. AnglerSurvey.com, which conducts monthly surveys to track consumer activities and expenditure trends, concluded that the impact... 5102403@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-07-08T09:56:44-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/06/26/ethanol.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life With E-10 gasoline (10 percent ethanol) available virtually everywhere in metro Atlanta, most boat owners are filling up their tanks with the blended fuel. That’ll be especially true next weekend. The July 4 weekend will be one of the busiest... 4876003@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-06-26T10:21:02-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/06/17/fishing_is_hot_but_is_it_too_h.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life Is it ever too hot to go fishing? I suppose the answer is dependent on how well they’re biting. If you’re drop-shotting over a deep brush pile and you’re catching fish, then the answer is probably no, it’s never too... 4662903@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-06-17T11:16:43-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/06/09/stories.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life I will miss my father the rest of my days. It’s been five months since he passed away and there hasn’t been a day in which I haven’t taken pause to remember something about him. Many of them are about... 4469603@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-06-09T10:06:28-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/entries/2008/06/04/pending_world_record_at_lanier.html?cxntfid=blogs_outdoor_life We’ve known for years that blueback herring was actually a good thing for the quality of fish being caught out of Lake Lanier. The illegally introduced baitfish, which has been used as legal bait for most of the past decade,... 4347103@http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/outdoors/ 2008-06-04T09:39:08-05:00