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Tony Couch's Mid Georgia Trail kicks off January 21st

Jan 17

Tony Couch's Mid Georgia Trail kicks off January 21st

Legendary angler and Georgia Big Stick Tony Couch is back with another year of his successful Mid Georgia Tournament Trail. Tony runs a great tournament, and this year will be focusing only on Lakes Oconee & Sinclair. Other than Hammond's Digital Tournaments on Lanier (see our post in this blog) Tony's Mid Georgia trail is the only one we know of that actually offers weekday tournaments on a regular basis (about every other Thursday) as well as Saturday tournaments twice a m

High Tech Fishing: No blast-offs or weigh-in's & more bass saved

Jan 17

High Tech Fishing: No blast-offs or weigh-in's & more bass saved

There is no blastoff crowds or weigh-in lines for Tim Hawkin's high-tech Hammonds' Digital Tournaments on Lake Lanier. The Hammond's Fishing Center's top gun worked for months developing an app that would allow fishermen to weigh and then photograph their catches in real time. Tim says what really drove him to design this system was the need to keep bass alive in the summer heat--to get them back into the water as soon as possible. Of course, the no-contact tournament was a b

Won't it be great to worry about what's on our front deck instead of whether we will test positive?

Jan 17

Won't it be great to worry about what's on our front deck instead of whether we will test positive?

So after a tournament fishing year that many of us (except the winners) would just as soon forget, the New Year is here. Tournament fisherman everywhere are getting their gear ready for the start of local derbies and, for some, the beginning of the major circuits. Maybe you have been quarantined and missed out on a lot of tournaments (some of which were postponed or canceled) that you might have otherwise fished. With the vaccine being given as you are reading this--thousands

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