Duck Opener: Areas for a Good Hunt by Todd Nafe

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INSIDE Target high rainfall FISHING Duck opener: areas for a good hunt By Todd Nafe

Despite dry conditions, duck hunting guides reported a great opener this month. But for many hunters, a successful 2005 duck season will depend on hunting near water. The best hunting is concentrated in a few areas, and is sparse elsewhere — even in areas where the ducks usually congregate. Currently, the normal factors that contribute to waterfowl migration aren’t in place. Hot, dry weather has caused many stock tanks and seasonal wetlands to dry up, and the usual cold fronts push- ing southward across the Great Plains are late this year. To sum up the duck hunting outlook statewide: where you find water, there’ll likely be good con- centrations of ducks. Migrating shrimp are leading to Bill Johnson, a waterfowl biologist for Texas Parks a feeding frenzy for red drum and Wildlife in the Panhandle, reports that only 7 and trout, which is good news to 8 percent of playas, which are seasonal wetlands for coastal anglers. that collect rainfall runoff from surrounding See Page 9 uplands, are holding water. The number is down substantially from last year, when roughly 60 per- Texas Parks and Wildlife cent of the area’s playas were wet. fisheries biologists were shocked Despite the shortage of water, Johnson says there when their electrofishing survey are ducks in the area. “Where there’s water, there are ducks,” he said. “The best bet would be to start floated a 13.9-pound closer to Lubbock, where they’ve had more rain.” largemouth bass. Stanfield Hunting Outfitters is located in Knox See Page 9 City, one spot that has had plenty of rain; Jeff HUNTING VESTED VIGIL: Guides across the state reported success at the beginning of duck season. See DUCKS, Page 10 Avian influenza has killed nearly 60 people in Southeast Asia. While experts downplay the State officials eye likelihood of “bird flu” reaching North American game populations this year, they recommend that hunters take regulation changes precautions. See Page 7 Proposals heard on NATIONAL several fish species An 8-year-old Maryland girl took the first black bear in the state’s By David Sikes 2005 bear-hunting season. A report says that young hunters Proposals are afoot in Austin that accompanied by an experienced would eliminate tag requirements for adult are the safest hunters in redfish and tarpon, meaning anglers the woods. would be able to keep more trophy See Page 4 redfish and keep a state-record tarpon. The Texas Parks and Wildlife CONSERVATION Commission heard these proposals A conference this month brings and others — such as cracking down on a flounder limit loophole and state agencies and concerned RANGE RIDERS: Deer hunters across the state greeted a new season last Saturday. organizations together to turning tripletails into gamefish — at its Nov. 3 meeting. address the threats posed by Items within the scoping package invasive aquatic species. could become more defined after pub- See Page 5 Mother Nature lic comment and tweaking by Texas GAMING DECISION: The wildlife Parks and Wildlife staff. All or part of department is considering making the package possibly could return to tripletails gamefish. DEPARTMENTS the commission in January to be commission’s April meeting. aids deer season heard again. If any of the proposals The redfish proposal calls for the Migratory Bird Hunting Page 6 survive, a final version of each could elimination of the annual oversized- either be adopted or killed during the See PROPOSALS, Page 10 Adventure Page 12 Conditions bode well for success PRSRT STD Product Picks Page 13 US POSTAGE Dry range conditions across much tough time observing deer, which PAID Outdoor Heroes Page 14 of Texas heading into deer season kept a low profile because lush range PLANO, TX should bode well for hunters looking conditions provided ample cover Crossword Puzzle Page 15 PERMIT 210 to fill their tags, according to Texas and abundant food. Wild in the Kitchen Page 15 Parks and Wildlife Department biol- Hunters likely won’t face that ogists. problem this fall, according to Mitch This Week’s Weather Page 15 The general deer season opened Lockwood, TPW white-tailed deer The Game Warden Blotter Page 16 Nov. 5 statewide, except for a few program leader. counties in the Panhandle. The “We’re dried up real bad,” Bordering States Page 17 North Zone closes Jan. 1, while the Lockwood said. “This will be the first South Zone continues for two addi- year in the last four that I’m not This Week’s Fishing Report Page 18 tional weeks, ending Jan. 15. For the telling hunters to get away from the Outdoor Datebook Page 19 last couple of years, many of Texas’ corn feeders to find deer. I think 500,000 or so deer hunters had a See DEER, Page 11

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Page 4 November 11, 2005 NATIONAL Girl, 8, kills 211-pound black bear Sierra Stiles, 8, was the first hunter to kill a “Clinging to the tradition of not allowing black bear during Maryland’s 2005 bear Report: Youth safest hunters when young people to hunt until they’ve turned 12 hunting season last week, and she did it or 13 may cause us to miss an important win- under the watchful eyes of her father and dow of opportunity,” said Rob Keck, CEO of uncle. accompanied by an adult the NWTF. “We’re missing the chance to As a mentored hunter, Sierra was able to do share this time-honored tradition with our something not many hunters have had the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance and Southwick Data from the Youth Hunting report also children and grandchildren by making them opportunity to do: kill a 211-pound black Associates Inc. The report was funded by the shows that youngsters are less likely to take wait.” bear. National Shooting Sports Foundation and up hunting in states that have the most For more information about the Youth Statistics show hunters like Sierra — young the National Wild Turkey Federation. The restrictive requirements for youth participa- Hunting Report or the NWTF, call (800) THE- hunters supervised by an adult mentor — are NWTF has led the charge in promoting youth tion. However, states that removed barriers to NWTF. the safest hunters in the woods, according to hunting opportunities and has teamed up youth hunting have a much higher youth a report written by Silvertip Productions, the with the USSA and NSSF to do just that. recruitment rate. — A National Wild Turkey Federation report $1.4 BILLION President Bush signs law Secretary of Interior Norton curbing firearm lawsuits President George W. Bush recently port. passed similar legislation outlawing highlights economic impact signed into law the “Protection of In the Senate, the measure passed frivolous lawsuits aimed at the gun Lawful Commerce in Arms Act,” 65-31. The House of Representatives industry. However, the new law cre- of national wildlife refuges which bans lawsuits designed to overwhelmingly passed the bill 283- ates judicial uniformity in all courts punish American firearm manufac- 144. across the United States. turers and retailers. Passage of the act was the NRA’s “This law will help preserve the Secretary of the Interior Gale Highlights from the Banking on “I would like to thank President No. 1 legislative priority. American firearms industry and also Norton today released a report that Nature 2004 report include: Bush for signing the most significant “What we witness today is the cul- help preserve American manufactur- shows recreational use of the More than 80 percent of retail piece of pro-gun legislation in twenty mination of a seven-year effort that ing jobs. American companies will national wildlife refuges generated sales came from people who trav- years into law,” said Wayne LaPierre, included a comprehensive legislative cease to make products if they con- almost $1.4 billion in total econom- eled some distance to get to nation- the National Rifle Association’s exec- and election strategy,” said Chris W. tinue to be sued every time a violent ic activity during the 2004 fiscal al wildlife refuges. Local residents utive vice president. “History will Cox, the NRA’s chief lobbyist. “We criminal they do not know, have year. accounted for just 17 percent of total show that this law helped save the worked hard to change the political never met and cannot control, mis- According to the study, nearly 37 retail sales to refuge visitors. American firearms industry from col- landscape to pass this landmark leg- uses a legal non-defective product. million people visited the national The Southeast region led the lapse under the burden of these islation. As always, our members This is a significant step toward sav- wildlife refuges in 2004, creating Refuge System in economic impact. ruinous and politically motivated were up for the task. Key electoral ing millions of manufacturing jobs,” almost 24,000 private-sector jobs With nearly 11 million visitors last lawsuits.” victories in 2000, 2002 and 2004 concluded LaPierre. and producing about $454 million year, national wildlife refuges in the The bill passed both chambers in helped pave passage of this law.” in employment income. Southeast created more than $451 Congress with broad bipartisan sup- In recent years, 33 states have — An NRA report Additionally, recreational spending million in economic activity and at refuges generated nearly $151 mil- supported more than 8,500 jobs. lion in tax revenue at the local, The report shows a considerable county, state and federal level. “consumer surplus” of more than More deer seen in headlights of Midwest drivers The report, “Banking on Nature $1 billion in 2004. Consumer sur- The arrival of fall marks the begin- ing numbers of accidents kill more ing signs. These signs are placed in 2004: The Economic Benefits to plus is a measure of how much more ning of a new football season, a new than 150 motorists each year and known active deer crossing areas. Local Communities of National people are willing to pay for recre- holiday season and the start of anoth- result in more than $1.1 billion in • Be aware that deer are most active Wildlife Refuge Visitation,” was ation than it actually costs them. er deer season. The migrating and vehicle damage. A recent National during the early evening. compiled by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Using findings from 93 national mating season for deer across the Highway Traffic Safety Administra- • At night, use high-beam head- Service economists. wildlife refuges considered typical United States usually runs from tion report recently revealed that lamps as much as possible to illumi- “Our national wildlife refuges are in terms of the nation’s recreational October through December — a sea- vehicle-animal collisions rose 24 per- nate the sides of the road where deer not only beautiful places where fish interests and spending habits, the son that proves deadly for many deer cent in 2000-01 when compared with can linger. and wildlife can flourish, they are report analyzed recreational partici- and motorists alike every year. 1992-93 (NHTSA does not make dis- • Be aware that deer often move in also economic engines for their pation in and expenditures for Some states experience more colli- tinctions on the type of animal). packs — if you see one deer, there is a local communities, providing jobs, freshwater fishing, saltwater fishing, sions with deer than others. According Recent studies that show the deer good chance several more are just a customers for local businesses and migratory bird hunting, small-game to claim statistics from State Farm — population is growing exponentially few yards behind. tax revenue for local governments,” which says it insures more vehicles across the United States. This means • Do not rely on car-mounted “deer Norton said. “With 17 new refuges hunting, big-game hunting and non-consumptive activities, includ- than any other company in the deer, many of which are being dis- whistles.” Studies have shown deer are and a 30-percent increase in the United States — the states with the placed by urban sprawl, are left wan- not affected by this deterrent. refuge system budget since 2001, we ing wildlife observation. Costs considered in the calcula- highest number of accidents involving dering as they seek a mate and flee • If a collision with a deer seems are ensuring our refuges continue to deer between July1, 2004 and June 30, hunters, often leading them on to inevitable, it may be best not to tion of the total economic activity be places of awe and wonder as well 2005 were: busy roads. swerve. The risk of personal injury is included money spent for food and as economic vitality for local com- 1. Pennsylvania Several remedies have been pro- greatly increased by swerving which refreshments, lodging at motels, munities across the country.” 2. Michigan posed and studied to help mitigate the can place you in the path of oncoming The report reinforces the travel cabins, lodges or campgrounds and 3. Illinois dangers of vehicle-deer collisions. For vehicles or may cause you to lose con- industry’s belief that ecotourism is transportation. 4. Ohio now, driver’s wishing to avoid vehicle- trol of your vehicle. becoming big business, according to In making its calculations, 5. Georgia deer collisions should: Roger Dow, president of the Travel Banking on Nature 2004 used the 6. Minnesota • Remain aware of posted deer cross- — A State Farm Insurance news release Industry Association of America, Fish and Wildlife Service’s “2001 7. Virginia who unveiled the report along with National Survey of Fishing, Hunting 8. Indiana Norton. The study measured the and Wildlife-Associated Recreation” 9. Texas economic impact of ecotourism, and the visitation numbers from 10. 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By Mark England of the cost of a scientific deer breeder’s permit, Kinsel said his organization wants TPW to reveal how it came he Texas Parks and Wildlife up with that amount. Commission is seeking public “Show us the numbers rather than T comment on proposed just throwing a number out there,” changes to the scientific deer breed- he said. er’s permit — including the denial of Another proposed parks and permit requests if an applicant has a wildlife change would reduce the “history” of violating TPW regulations. “window” for breeders to use transfer Most of the proposed changes, permits for a deer from 30 days to 48 however, are administrative. hours. “None are really deal killers,” said Kinsel called the proposal “over- Karl Kinsel, executive director of the regulation.” Texas Deer Association. “We can oper- He charged that TPW’s “strict-as- ate under them.” possible approach” to proposed regu- The aim of most changes is simpli- lations forces organizations like TDA fying the rules that deer breeders to “spend thousands of dollars to try operate under, said Kirby Brown, exec- to bring things back to the middle.” utive vice president of the Texas “That’s our beef,” Kinsel said. Wildlife Association. “We’re tired of being looked at antag- “We have no problem seeing the onistically.” clarification of some of the issues Brown was more sympathetic. He addressed,” he said. PERMIT PROPOSALS: A few of TPW’s proposed changes to the scientific deer breeder’s permit are stirring up comments. noted that its commissioners, by The proposed changes — which Photo by David J. Sams/LSON. their rules, can make proposed will be out for public comment until changes more liberal but not more the commission’s Jan. 25-26 meeting tion, no matter whether it led to a lems are solvable. “I don’t care so much whether restrictive. next year — cover everything from felony or a misdemeanor conviction. “What you have to remember is someone has a felony conviction as hiking the cost of a scientific breeder A pending case could also lead to a that these are proposed regulations,” whether they have a degree of “That way you don’t catch people permit from $180 to $400 to eliminat- permit denial. Brown said. “There are bound to be integrity and trustworthiness,” off-guard by making something ing the fee for transfer permits. “If you were over your limit of red holes. There’s time to address them.” Purcell said. “There’s got to be honest stricter than what was proposed,” Only a few changes, so far, are stir- drum, they could use that to deny you Steve Purcell with the Texas Deer and open auctions. Bidders have to Brown said. ring up comment. a permit,” Kinsel said. “Granted, Breeders Organization is taking a be able to bid on a deer knowing that TDA opposes letting TPW deny a that’s farfetched, but they shouldn’t wait-and-see approach with the pro- it will test out to the pedigree speci- Mark England, a Dallas-area writer, has scientific breeder’s permit to someone have that kind of latitude.” posal — but said he’s not opposed to fied.” more than two decades of experience as based on their violating a TPW regula- Brown, though, believes such prob- weeding out bad applicants. Regarding the proposed doubling a journalist. Migratory Bird OPEN SEASON DUCK bag limit of 3. Possession limit is 6. North and South Zones: Nov. 5- Nov. Zone B: Nov. 26-Feb. 5 with a daily Hunting Report 27 and Dec.10 - Jan. 29. bag limit of 3. Possession limit is 6. High Plains Mallard Management Zone C: Dec. 24 - Jan. 29. Daily bag Unit: Regular gun begins Oct. 28 and limit of 2, possession limit of 4. HIGH PLAINS MALLARD The region received some rain water, you will most likely have ends Jan. 29. PHEASANT MANAGEMENT UNIT: Duck in late October; however, since ducks. Coastal prairie ponds are The daily bag limit for ducks is 6 and Chambers, Jefferson and Liberty hunting continued solid. More the weather system was moving holding strong numbers of teal, can include no more than 5 mallards, counties: Oct. 29 – Feb. 26. Panhandle mallards have hit the High so fast, it only dumped an inch gadwalls, shovelers, wigeons only two of which may be hens; 2 Dec. 3 - Jan. 1. scaup; 2 wood ducks; 2 redheads; and Plains and are using playas and of rain which was quickly and pintails. Youth hunters had QUAIL stock tanks. Wigeons, gadwalls, soaked up by the parched earth. 1 dusky duck. Statewide: Oct. 29 – Feb. 26. solid shoots across the prairie bluewings, greenwings, shovel- Low-lying sloughs and ponds, GOOSE two weekends ago. Duck num- RIO GRANDE TURKEY ers and a few wood ducks have which normally hold water dur- West: Nov. 5-Feb. 7. Light and dark bers in the marsh look good, geese with a daily bag limit for light Special youth season: Oct. 29-30. been taken near Knox City, ing a rainy year, are dry. Those Jan. 21 -22. too. Reports from the J.D. geese of 20 in the aggregate. For dark Spearman, Amarillo and Dumas. ponds are holding seeds and geese, it’s 3 Canada and 1 white-front- North Texas (123 counties): Nov. 5 – Murphree WMA in Port Arthur Specklebellies and Canadas are acorns just waiting to be floated. ed. The possession limit is twice the Jan. 1. beginning to build in the Knox Until the region receives rain, indicate great shoots from the daily bag limit for dark geese. There is South Texas (26 counties): Nov. 5 – City area. Canadas and snow look for ducks holding on lakes, youth season. Hunters wishing no possession limit for light geese. Jan. 15. geese are showing in force near rivers and reservoirs. Wigeons, to hunt the Salt Bayou Unit East: Nov. 5-Jan. 29. Light geese Willacy, Brooks, Kenedy & Kleberg counties: Nov. 5 – Feb. 26. Spearman and Dumas since the shoveler, gadwalls, teal and a should check in at the J.D. with a daily bag limit of 20 in the aggregate for light geese —no posses- front. Goose season runs Nov.5- few mallards are using Toledo Murphree WMA headquarters on WHITE-TAILED DEER sion limit for light geese. Special Youth Season: Oct. 29 – 30. Feb.7. Sandhill cranes have Bend, Lake Fork, Caddo Lake, Hwy. 73. The Salt Bayou Unit found the region. Corn and Lake O’ the Pines and the Sulfur White-fronted goose Nov. 5 - Jan. 15. North Texas (200 counties): Nov. 5 – check station was damaged dur- The daily bag limit is 2. The possession wheat fields north of Amarillo River. Those ponds just north of Jan. 1. ing Hurricane Rita. Strong num- limit is twice the daily bag limit for dark South Texas (30 counties): Nov. 5 – are holding the brunt of the pop- IH-10 that have water are hold- geese. ulation. The Zone A sandhill ing gadwalls, wigeons, teal and bers of specklebellies are on the Jan. 15. SANDHILL CRANE Panhandle (6 counties): Nov. 19 - crane season runs Nov.5-Feb.5 shovelers. Prospects are fair to rice prairie, with a smattering of Zone A: Nov. 5-Feb. 5 with a daily Dec. 4. with a daily bag of three birds good. snow geese. Large flights of per man. Prospects are good. SOUTH ZONE WATERFOWL: snows are due any day. NORTH ZONE WATERFOWL: Along the coast, if you have Prospects are good. November 11, 2005 Page 7 Experts Hunting for a solution advise to feeding the hungry hunters on avian flu Groups work together to target early detection

State and federal wildlife experts say the chance of Texans encountering wild migratory birds with avian flu this year is remote. However, authorities are launching proactive efforts to detect the disease if it comes to North America, and they’re advising hunters how to handle game birds to reduce the risk of disease. At present, avian flu (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1) has not been found anywhere in North America — there are no records of positive tests in wild or domestic birds and no known human cases of the illness. However, “bird flu” has been publicized in news reports that note it has caused illness in more than 100 people and killed close to 60 people in Southeast Asia. All of those deaths involved contact with domestic poultry, not wild birds. Some people believe the disease could eventually travel to North America through wild bird migration, possibly using Alaska as a gateway. There has been a collaborative effort by scientists, public health officials and policy makers with state and federal agencies to develop a plan for the early detection of avian flu in North American birds. For more than a year, group members in Alaska have tested samples from thousands of wild birds and found no evidence of POUNDS OF FOOD: Hunters unload an axis deer at the Syracuse’s custom meat store in Keller. The deer will be donated to Hunters for the avian flu. Hungry. Photo by John McWilliam. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in a statement downplayed the risk of it reaching America. “Ongoing migratory bird surveillance, coupled or more than a decade feeding sites. They distribute with what we now know about the scope of the now, Texas hunters and Organization, supporters the meat to people in the local disease in Asia and the projected movement of meat processors have community who need help birds from affected areas, gives us reason to think used their talents to help providing well-balanced meals that, while possible, there is no evidence to indi- HuntersF for the Hungry feed donated more than to their families. cate that H5N1 will reach Alaska, or any other thousands of hungry Texans. Hunters for the Hungry part of North America, in 2005,” the statement The need is still there. Almost 178,000 pounds of wild encourages hunters to call read. one in four children in Texas processors before donating in Experts, though, urge hunters to use caution. live in poverty. The Food order to verify business hours Their recommendations are: Research and Action Center game last year and to ensure that storage space Do not handle or butcher game animals that (FRAC) puts the reality of is available. are obviously sick or found dead. hunger in Texas starkly. Texas Any organizations, meat Do not eat, drink or smoke while cleaning has more kids living in poverty increased need for food in Meats and Lee’s Deer processors or individuals inter- game. than anywhere else in the Texas. Processing. That represents Wear rubber gloves and washable clothing United States, or more than 1.2 Last year, Texas hunters, more than 52,000 servings of ested in providing a monetary when cleaning game. million children. meat processors and other big- lean protein. donation or venison to Hunters Wash your hands with soap and water or alco- And the thousands of new- hearted supporters of Hunters Rendon Meats is also on for the Hungry, or who want hol wipes immediately after handling game. comers to the state only for the Hungry joined forces to board for the upcoming season more information, can call 1- Wash tools and working surfaces with soap and increases the need for food. donate more than 178,000 and located in Burleson. 800-992-9767, ext. 506 or visit water, then disinfect with a 10-percent solution of This year, more than 200,000 pounds of wild game (712,000 Interested hunters can take http://www.tacaa.org/hunters. chlorine bleach. survivors of Hurricane Katrina servings) to help families strug- legally harvested deer to partici- htm on the Web. An updated Finally, cook game meat thoroughly — poultry are staying in Texas. Many of gling to make ends meet. pating meat processors who list of meat processors for the should reach an internal temperature of 155-165 them qualify for short-term In the Fort Worth area, the will process and package the 2005-06 deer season is posted degrees Fahrenheit. federal food assistance. needy received more than meat for a nominal fee to cover on the Web site. With another hunting sea- 13,000 pounds of meat last year basic costs. Meat processors — A Texas Parks and Wildlife report son around the corner, hunters — thanks to the generosity of then notify local food banks, —A Texas Association of are rallying to help meet the hunters and Syracuse’s Custom food pantries and emergency Community Action Agencies report

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By Diana Kunde turnover — that activates the project big fish. In late October, Hysmith was doing fish sur- They say that all good veys and seeing striped bass things come to those who “holding on cover” in spots wait. If that’s true, Texas where he expected to find seeks cool striper fishers should have a black bass. great late fall. On a mid-October morning “We’re just now actually — usually prime fall fishing getting into our fall fishing,” — two small boats caught 25- said Jim Crawford of Austin, 30 stripers between them, who guides for striped bass on using artificial baits like Kast answer Lake Buchanan. “It just Master and Little George. The stayed hot so long that the sunny day turned hot; while water temperatures were hot. there was action, most of the Data from instruments along It’s just now starting to cool catch was relatively small. down,” he said in late Steve Fogle of Flower Mound intracoastal waterway depths could October. reeled in the largest striper, at On this 22,333-acre Hill about 6 pounds. help predict freeze fish kills Country lake, some of the Texoma hasn’t suffered best striper fishing is from from the North Texas By Aaron Reed November through December drought like some other lakes, and even in January, because of inflows from Crawford said. rainier areas. Lake Tawakoni It’s a simple question: How fast and how deep do Texas “It takes a long time for a was a big zero for stripers the coastal waters cool when an arctic cold front blows through? big body of water to cool last weekend of October for The answer: No one really knows. Not yet, anyway. down and the fish to get used banker and part-time guide The answer matters because it may help scientists predict to it,” he said. “When a cold Jim Taylor of Emory. “We did whether or not a severe cold weather event will result in a front comes through, and the catch sand bass (white bass), major fish kill. A prolonged freeze, that lasted from Dec. 20, barometer starts dropping, but we didn’t have a striper 1983 to Jan. 9, 1984 along much of the Texas coast, killed that’ll turn them on to feed.” bite one,” he said. nearly 5 million fish — including 43,000 spotted seatrout — The record for striped bass The water was about 35 in the Upper Laguna Madre alone, according to Kyle Spiller, on Buchanan is 27.8 pounds; yards from the end of the the Texas Parks and Wildlife ecosystem leader for that bay. FALL FISHING: Some of the best striper fishing is from November the largest he’s caught through December and even in January. public ramp, one of only two The TPW Commission last January adopted regulations to weighed in at 24 pounds, said launch spots that were still ban fishing in certain harbors and “holes” where fish tend to Crawford, who fishes with There was rain, wind and biologist for Texas Parks and open on the 37,879-acre lake, congregate during cold weather. It’s a measure wildlife biolo- live shad. This year his top cooler weather on Lake Wildlife in Pottsboro, agreed he said. “The weather’s been a gists say will likely be used only rarely. The last qualifying catch was about 19 pounds. Texoma, for instance — a wel- it was just starting — at the little messed up this year, any- event — had the regulations then been in place — was in Fishing pressure has led to come relief from an unusually beginning of November — to way. I imagine that’s over,” January of 1997. smaller average catches, he hot September and cool down enough for the Taylor said. To help fisheries biologists predict the need for a temporary said. Most are between 3 and October.“It’s cool enough best fall fishing. “Hey,” said Hysmith of fishing ban, researchers at Texas A&M University- Corpus 7 pounds, Crawford said. now,” said Bill Bannister of “It just seems summer has TPW. “It’s just a waiting Christi proposed installation of a series of data loggers in a “I’d say we had a little bet- Pottsboro, who guides for hung on and on,” he said. game.” section of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway known as the ter-than-average spring and striped bass on the 89,000- “Fishing is still good; stripers “Land Cut.” summer and a little worse late acre lake. “We’re catching are still being caught, but not Diana Kunde has 30 years of The relatively deep, narrow channel stretches south from summer and early fall,” he them around the Mill Creek as good as the cool weather experience writing and editing Baffin Bay to the Lower Laguna Madre. said. “But we’re starting to area back west. A few are fishing usually is.” for newspapers including the The first set of instruments, funded by a grant from the catch fish again.” being caught off North Windy, cool days with rain Dallas Morning News. She is Coastal Conservation Association, is slated to go in this The weather on the last day Island. Right now, we’re using are the catalyst for cooling a freelancer based in month. The remaining instrumentation will be installed of October was good news for live bait.” surface water, causing the Arlington, reachable at with funding provided by TPW — possibly before the end of North Texas fishers as well. Bruce Hysmith, fisheries water circulation — or [email protected]. the year, said John S. Adams, a research specialist at the school. Adams said the solar-powered instruments would record seawater temperatures at four different depths and then trans- mit the data to university computers via satellite. Air temper- Anglers called to help atures and wind speeds will be recorded at nearby stations. At the school, scientists will use a “neural network” to develop a model to predict changes in temperature through- boost floundering out the water column. A similar system already provides real- time tide predictions along the Texas coast out to about 60 hours, Adams said. TPW brood stock Large, deep bodies of waters such as lakes have been studied, and researchers know that those waters tend to stratify Hurricane Rita hit one segment of nament is open to 30 two-person during cold weather, with deep, warmer layers where fish can Texas harshly. A water-pump failure teams, 60 people total, on a first-come, find refuge from lethal temperatures. related to the storm wiped out almost first-serve basis. Registration will take “In some other situations, we know the relationship,” the entire flounder brood stock at Sea place on-site the day of the tourna- Adams said. “We don’t know what it’s like in the Land Cut, in Center Texas. That’s prompted Texas ment. There is no entry fee, but all the Intracoastal.” Parks and Wildlife to ask for help from entrants must be 21 years old or older. But the researchers do have an idea of what they will find. experienced anglers. Participants may turn in three fish. “We suspect indeed that the bottom of the Intracoastal “What we really need help with is Anglers who bring in fish will be Waterway will stay warmer for a while after the passage of a collecting southern flounder,” said entered in a drawing for a chance to cold front and that fish might find refuge there,” said Phillipe David Abrego, facility director at Sea win a lifetime fishing license worth Tissot, a professor and researcher at TAMU-CC. Center Texas. $600. Those who do not bring in fish The open question, Tissot said, is whether wind and barge During the mandatory evacuation will be entered into a drawing for a traffic mixes the deeper water enough to make that “thermal of the hatchery during Hurricane Rita, fishing gear prize package — a Texas refuge” too short-lived to be of use to game and forage fish. failures in the water-pump system Tackle Factory rod and Shimano Water temperatures of 45-50 degrees over a period of 24 hours wiped out practically all their brood Curado reel combo, Boga grip and a will kill spotted seatrout and other popular gamefish. Tropical fish, including 66 red drum, 48 spot- Garmin GPS unit. Every participant species in Texas waters, such as snook and gray snapper, stop ted seatrout and 14 southern flounder. will receive a shirt and cap. feeding and die at higher temperatures. On Nov. 12 at the Texas City Dike, The tournament is 6 a.m. to noon. TPW will conduct a special fishing Anglers interested in becoming a tournament targeting southern floun- member of the Coastal Fisheries Bay Aaron Reed, kayakrockport@yahoo. com., is a freelance writer RED DRUM: A water-pump failure due to Rita killed based in Rockport. der as part of its Coastal Fisheries Bay Team can contact Robert Adami at the TPW’s brood stock. Photo by TPW. Team program. CCA/CPL Marine Development Participating anglers who bring in Center at robert.adami@tpwd. Two Texans shine at redfish championships qualifying flounder have a chance to state.tx.us or by calling (361) 939- win a lifetime fishing license and other 7784. Two Texas anglers raked in The winning team earned $75,000 Adams and Ramzinsky were fish- prizes. $75,000 after winning the top spot in cash — the largest award in the ing relatively deep in clear water. The Coastal Fisheries Bay Team tour- — A Texas Parks and Wildlife report in the Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series history of professional red fishing. Their primary baits were pearl- and Championship in Orange Beach, “We had a long run every day,” shad-colored Bomber crankbaits Ala., last month. Adams said. “We only had a couple that ran 6 to 8 feet deep. Todd Adams from Rockport and hours to fish each of the first two For information on FLW Outdoors Tommy Ramzinsky from Fulton days. We had even less time today and its tournament programs, visit caught a three-day total of six redfish since we had to check in an hour ear- http://www.flwoutdoors.com. weighing 38 pounds, 15 ounces to lier. We ran to our spot, caught two win the $300,000 tournament. fish in 45 minutes and left.” — A FLW Outdoors report November 11, 2005 Page 9 Rare 13-pound largemouth shows up in state fish survey

Catching a Texas largemouth out of a juniper bush with only its fact it weighed almost 14 pounds, bass weighing 13 pounds or more is top sticking out of the water,” Bonds and there were so many a rarity. said. “She might have been sus- ShareLunkers caught last year and But as rare as it is for an angler to pended up in that bush.” returned to the lake where they’ve land such a fish, it’s even more The normal routine of netting had another year to grow, makes me unusual for TPW fisheries biologists fish and dumping them into a hold- think there should be 14- to 15- to collect one during their annual ing tank to be weighed and meas- pound bass out there, and I’ll be sur- electrofishing surveys. ured came to a halt when DeLeon prised if someone doesn’t catch one The crew of Charlie Munger, brought the big bass aboard with his this year.” David DeLeon and Craig Bonds long-handled dip net. The ShareLunker program were lucky enough to have that “There was a lot of whooping and encourages anglers who have experience on Lake Alan Henry. hollering even from folks somewhat caught 13-pound-plus largemouth Using a specially equipped boat used to seeing big fish,” Bonds said. bass to lend or donate the fish to that sends an electric current into “Everyone realized it may have been Texas Parks and Wildlife for spawn- the water to temporarily stun fish, a once-in-a-career thing to sample a ing purposes. In the production the three were themselves stunned fish that big.” hatchery, the big females are paired when a 13.9-pound largemouth The crew quickly weighed and with pure Florida strain males. FALL PREY: Fishing picks up in the fall with the mass migration of white bass that was 24.8 inches long float- measured the fish and returned her Superior genetics from ShareLunker shrimp. ed to the surface. to the water. females and their offspring are used In comparison, the biggest bass “She swam right off,” Bonds said. to improve the quality of large- ever electrofished from Lake Fork, “She was just gorgeous — not really mouth bass stocked in Texas waters. the big bass lake in East Texas that long, but very thick, plump, in great Any angler legally catching a has produced 222 Budweiser shape, not a blemish on her.” largemouth bass weighing 13 ShareLunkers, weighed in at 11.5 While largemouths 13 pounds or pounds or more in Texas waters pounds and was collected in larger are very rare, Lake Alan Henry may enter it into the Budweiser October 1992, according to Kevin has established a reputation as one ShareLunker program by calling Storey, TPW biologist for that lake. of the best lakes in Texas to catch a program manager David Campbell “I’ve electrofished public and pri- trophy bass. During the Budweiser at (903) 681-0550 or leaving a page vate lakes in Virginia and Texas for ShareLunker season that ended this at (888) 784-0600. 10 years, and that’s the largest fish past April, Lake Alan Henry pro- A TPW employee will pick the I’ve personally electrofished,” duced nine ShareLunkers, the most fish up within 12 hours, and it will Bonds said. “We electrofished a of any lake in the state. be taken to the Texas Freshwater total of one hour that night, and we Regional Inland Fisheries Director Fisheries Center in Athens, where Gulf Coast got four other fish over 5 pounds.” Bobby Farquhar of San Angelo the big bass are used for spawning. Making the event even more thinks the latest big fish find prom- Anglers receive ShareLunker cloth- unusual is the fact that Lake Alan ises good things for the current ing and a fiberglass replica of their Henry, located southeast of ShareLunker season, which started catch at the annual ShareLunker Lubbock, is a canyon lake with rela- Oct. 1 and runs through April 30. banquet and may donate their fish feeding tively little shallow water. “I have 30 years experience and I to TPW or have it returned to them Electrofishing is normally not effec- just talked to a biologist who retired after the end of the season. tive in water more than about 8 feet after 35 years, and neither of us have The Budweiser ShareLunker pro- deep. ever seen a bass that big elec- gram is made possible through sup- “We had just come out of a cove trofished,” Farquhar said. “That tells port from Anheuser-Busch Inc. on Rocky Creek and rounded the me Alan Henry probably has a pret- frenzy main lake point when she came up ty high percentage of big bass. The — A Texas Parks and Wildlife report ‘The migration of shrimp helps the fishing out a whole bunch’

— CAPT. DAV I D HARRIS

By Wes Smalling gulf, Fisher said. “There’s actually a little dip (in fish numbers) between the shrimp seasons, in The arrival of fall to the Gulf August, when there’s fewer Coast triggers a mass exodus of shrimp in the bays.” white shrimp from the flats and Two recent TPW studies that shallow bays to deeper water. But sampled the stomach contents of is that really why the fishing is so red drum and trout show that dur- good in the fall? ing the fall run of white shrimp, Texas Parks and Wildlife studies that’s what the fish are eating the and veteran Gulf Coast anglers most. such as Capt. David Harris say no “They’re preying on the white doubt about it. shrimp as they move through — “The migration of shrimp helps not that they won’t take a crab or the fishing out a whole bunch,” another finfish that gets close to said Harris, a longtime fishing them when they’re ready to eat,” guide in the Galveston Bay area. said Lance Robinson, regional “It helps the fishing a lot because director for Coastal Fisheries, from that’s when the birds get work- the TPW Dickinson Marine ing.” Laboratory. “And it just stands to It’s an old trick: Find the birds, reason that shrimp, which are the you’ll find the fish. most available at the time, are “With working the birds, the what they’re going to mostly feed whole concept is the shrimp are on. With flounder it’s a little dif- moving,” Harris said. “The ferent, a little more confounding.” schoolies (of red drum and trout) Flounder moving out to the get around them and chase them Gulf are motivated more by water to the surface, and the shrimp are temperature and other factors diving out of the water and the than shrimp, Robinson said. Male birds are diving down chasing the flounder tend to move out in the shrimp.” summer, but the bigger females According to Mark Fisher, sci- that are so prized by anglers don’t ence director at the TPW Rockport start heading out until the water Marine Laboratory, prime spots to cools in the fall. find fish this time of year are deep- According to Harris, the er channels next to shallow flats Galveston Bay guide, the flounder because the fish tend to congre- run is on now. gate there to gorge on migrating “They’re actually a little later shrimp. than usual this year, about 30 As the water temperature cools days,” Harris said, adding that the in the fall, white shrimp begin to great flounder fishing usually lasts move into deeper, open bay into mid-November, but some waters, preferring soft mud or peat years it lasts as late as mid- bottoms. These movements peak December. from September to December. Red drum and trout numbers Wes Smalling is the former peak in the bays in fall when outdoors editor for the Santa Fe white shrimp are on the move, New Mexican and has more than a just like in the spring when brown decade of experience as a writer shrimp are heading out to the and reporter. Page 10 November 11, 2005

Continued from Page 1 Continued from Page 1 the daily bag. Possession limits on fish are meant to allow anglers to bring home two daily bag limits from a two- day fishing trip. Ducks Proposals Black drum was the subject of another proposal that would focus on Stanfield claims this year’s opener redfish tag on fishing licenses. The allowing anglers to break the state was the best he can remember. current rule allows anglers to keep two record. Currently, anglers can’t keep a “We’re going to need winter pret- oversized red drum within a license drum that measures greater than 30 ty soon, though,” Stanfield said. year in addition to a three-fish daily inches. The proposal would allow “But we don’t necessarily need it allotment. anglers to keep one oversized fish around here. We need some cold Instead, under this proposal daily, but only if it’s bigger than the weather up north in Canada and the licensed anglers would be allowed to state record. The daily bag on drum is Midwest to push more birds down.” keep one redfish greater than 28 inch- five fish. The rod and reel state record Farther south and east, Central es each day they fish. TPW Coastal stands at 81 pounds, 51.18 inches. Texas hunters are hoping for some Fisheries Director Larry McKinney Moving down the species list, offi- rainfall to lure ducks into the area credits an unprecedented redfish cials proposed aligning state and feder- and keep them around. Jose Cano, rebound that al kingfish TPW wildlife biologist in the Cross began in the rules. Timbers Region, says that ducks can 1980s when Currently, be found in the Central Texas area, the popular Black drum was the offshore char- but not in the usual places. species was ters that Lake Aquilla has a lot of teal — the designated a subject of another proposal catch a limit most Cano has seen in more than 11 game fish and of kingfish in years. “We’re seeing them in flocks gillnets were that would focus on allow- federal waters of fifty to a hundred at a time around outlawed in may not the lake, but a lot of the stock tanks Texas bays. ing anglers to break the legally fish in and ranch lakes where we normally As for tar- state record. state waters find ducks are dried up.” WATER WAYS: Ducks are flocking to areas that received good rainfall. pon, the idea during the Despite the current abundance on would be to same trip. Lake Aquilla, Cano is concerned that Outfitters in Winnie, just east of rains don’t fill up watering holes to eliminate the Federal rules, the dry stock tanks and ranch lakes Houston. “The birds are really, really the north, this should be a banner annual $120 tarpon tag required to however, allow charter captains and in the region will translate to fewer here and duck hunting has been year for coastal hunters. keep a single fish. deckhands in federal waters to catch birds sticking around. “The lake lev- superb. We’ve got a lot of gadwalls, Farther down the coast in Port Instead, TPW officials are suggest- two kingfish each in addition to their els are way down and the exposed wigeon and teal. A lot of birds are Aransas, Steve Johnson of Texas Gulf ing that anglers could keep one tar- customers’ daily bags. But if they do, vegetation needs to be flooded. We using our marshes.” Duck Hunting reports typically pon daily, but only if it’s bigger than once in Texas waters they would be in should have had enough rain by Beaty believes that the bumper good hunting, especially for red- the TPW state record. The rod and violation of state regulations if anyone now to have flooded the mud flats crop of birds is a result of several fac- heads. “We’re not seeing much of reel record stands at 210 pounds, an on the boat drops a line. and other places where mustard tors — including the two major hur- any other type of duck yet, but that’s 86.25-inch fish. There is no Texas fly This rule change would eliminate weed and other bank vegetation ricanes that hit the Gulf Coast this not unusual for the first of the sea- record for tarpon. At some point TPW the discrepancy between state and fed- grow up that ducks feed on,” he said. fall. “We didn’t get any tidal surge son,” Johnson said. “Once a few officials say the state likely would eral regulations. Even the good pecan and acorn from Hurricane Rita, so our marshes northers blow through, some of adopt catch-and-release records for Yet another proposed change would tarpon and snook, possibly based on crops, favorites of mallards and pin- didn’t get damaged,” he said. these will move on and new waves of make tripletail a game fish, establish- length. tails, don’t do much good if the “Through Cameron and other parts birds will move in.” ing a yet to be determined minimum Regarding flounder, TPW officials shoreline isn’t within walking dis- of Louisiana, all those marshes were Most years, duck hunting is a fair- length and a daily bag limit on this would like to see fewer anglers taking tance for hungry ducks. “I’m afraid wiped out and I feel like the birds ly predictable endeavor. But this year migratory species mostly caught in they may just keep going on to the poses a challenge to hunters across advantage of a loophole that allows bays during the spring/summer north that normally went there are com- them to gig flatfish on either side of coast,” Cano said. ing here.” the state. Remember, this rule of of Corpus Christi. thumb, though: Wherever you’re midnight and return with 20 fish. The And the Texas coast seems to be The good duck hunting condi- David Sikes writes about the outdoors the place to be for duck hunters, at hunting — the wetter, the better. daily bag on flounder is 10. tions are widespread along the coast, To eliminate this, TPW is proposing for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. least early on. “This has been the — Todd Nafe is the outdoor writer for according to other outfitters in the to replace the possession limit on best opener we’ve had in ten years,” the Waco Tribune-Herald and can be region, and the consensus is that if flounder with a trip limit that equals said Will Beaty of Central Flyway conditions stay relatively stable and reached at www.centexoutdoors.com

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Continued from Page 1 Except for the western edge of the Hill Country, where rainfall has been more consistent and range conditions are noticeably better than aver- Deer age going into the fall, deer should be readily available during the upcoming hunting season, accord- people will have some success hunt ing to Max Traweek, TPW biologist ing over feeders.” in Kerrville. “The very spotty, below- While hunting prospects can vary average acorn crop that most areas from property to property, here’s a are experiencing should also trans- brief overview of what to expect this late to good deer movement and season across the state: availability this year,” he notes. • Panhandle: “I think Panhan- “Body condition will most likely be dle hunters can anticipate a good to no better than average, again except excellent season for both whitetails for the far western sections that have and mule deer,” according to TPW remained green most of the summer. biologist Danny Swepston. “Even Since most of the Hill Country had though we had some dry months good range conditions this past late during the middle of the summer, winter and early spring, I would the early spring rains got the animals anticipate that antler quality will be off to a good start. Antler quality at least average and maybe better should be good and the majority of than average on those ranges not deer we have seen during surveys are obviously overpopulated with deer in excellent body shape.” and other browsers. As is the case • North Texas: “Overall range every year, we highly recommend conditions are good but an unusual- that landowners and hunters harvest ly hot and dry September may help an adequate number of both bucks bring deer to feeders more consis- and does and not wait too late in the tently this fall,” said Kevin Mote, season to work seriously on popula- TPW biologist for the Possum tion control.” Kingdom district. • Coastal Prairies: Hunters may Mote reports that while most areas of the district are reporting average be somewhat disappointed with this to above-average body weights and year’s hunting season due to the antler development, below-average poor range conditions necessary for summer rain should be a signal for good antler production, according to managers to take a few more mouths TPW biologist David Forrester. (deer and/or livestock) off early. “Hunters should take this oppor- Expectations remain high for a ban- tunity to improve the genetics of the ner year due to good carry-over of herd through selective harvest,” older age class bucks from the last Forrester urged. “Antlerless harvest two seasons. Much of the district will be very important this year for observed a light to moderate acorn several reasons including improving crop, most of which has already hit the buck-per-doe ratio and keeping the ground. the deer population within the car- • East Texas: In the aftermath of rying capacity of the habitat. Hurricane Rita, several counties in Because there were fewer bucks har- the Pineywoods saw extensive tree vested last year, that should bode damage, particularly mast-produc- well for increased opportunity this ing hardwoods. Although deer have year, as well as increased quality.” been enjoying easy and early access • Trans Pecos: TPW biologist to acorns, the impacts to available Tim Bone reports that Far West Texas food sources in the future could be is in good shape. costly, according to reports from “We’ve had above-average rains TPW field biologist Bobby Eichler. over most of the district this year,” he “The range is in moderate condi- said. “I am expecting an above-aver- tion after a drought for much of the age antler development year for both year,” he noted. “The southern end white-tailed deer and mule deer. of the Pineywoods was hit hard and Deer numbers should be up from last we lost a lot of oaks, which could year in most areas. We had a good pose a problem next year. It should fawn crop last year, and I expect be a pretty good hunting season another good one this year.” because deer will come to feeders; Wherever they go, hunters need to antler quality should be good be aware of several key changes to because prior to the drought, deer deer-hunting regulations this year as had good food early on in the year.” state wildlife biologists work to sim- Landowners with LAMPS antler- plify regulations. less deer permits are asked to be Also, biologists are encouraging patient as the office that coordinates hunters to take does this fall due to this program was shut down due to population concerns in some areas the storm and relocated to the Old and poor habitat conditions in oth- Sabine Bottom WMA near Tyler. ers. Numerous counties saw shifts in They are currently working about the numbers of doe days offered this two weeks behind schedule in year, and hunters are urged to check preparing permits and cannot guar- the Outdoor Annual. antee permits in time for hunting “Take an extra doe — where regu- season for new applicants. lations allow for such,” Lockwood • South Texas: Much of the said. “It’s true every year but especial- southern portion of the state has suf- ly this year that deer will have a hard- fered through an extended dry peri- er time making it through the win- od, although recent rainfall may pro- ter. It used to just be in the Hill vide some relief going into the sea- Country, but now we’re dealing with son. Jimmy Rutledge, TPW biologist population issues across much of the out of Carrizo Springs, said South state. When a hunter only takes one Texas has been blessed for the last deer, you’re probably not going to three years by having abundant, meet management goals.” timely rains and abnormally mild • New Rules: Finally, there are temperatures during this period; new buck harvest restrictions. There however, South Texas was due for are now special buck deer harvest some below-average rainfall and hot guidelines in Austin, Bastrop, temperatures that characterize the Brazoria, Caldwell, Colorado, De region. Witt, Fayette, Fort Bend, Goliad, TPW biologist Ty Bartoskewitz of Gonzales, Guadalupe, Jackson, Jim Hogg County states most deer Karnes, Lavaca, Lee, Matagorda, hunters this fall should find average Victoria, Waller, Washington, numbers of mature deer, although Wilson and Wharton counties. overall production this year was The new regulations implement a down. Antler development has been two-buck bag limit, one of which average with some exceptional ani- must have at least one unbranched mals being seen on most managed antler. They also redefine a legal ranches, but biologists are not antici- buck as a buck having an inside pating the numbers of Boone & spread of 13 inches or greater or at Crockett record book qualifying deer least one unbranched antler. they’ve seen in recent years. Body The six-points-or-better criterion condition on most deer looks to be in effect prior to this rulemaking is good to excellent. eliminated, as department data • Hill Country: The central and clearly indicate that the 13-inch-or- eastern areas of the Hill Country saw better standard is sufficient by itself extremely hot and dry conditions to protect younger bucks. interspersed with short periods of good rainfall this past summer. — A Texas Parks and Wildlife report Page 12 November 11, 2005 ADVENTURE

Hill Country rivers

STORY BY DARLENE MCCORMICK SANCHEZ •••• PHOTOGRAPHY BY BOBBY SANCHEZ

he van kicked up dust along the dirt casts with shoulders and biceps. Stopping the road as the sun sank below the Central rod abruptly will whip the pale green fishing Texas hills, leaving the October sky line into a loop — the desired form. Amazingly, T streaked with red and violet. Finding our lines began to dance at the river’s edge as Raye Carrington’s on the Llano River outside of many of us caught on to the rhythm. Mason proved harder than it had sounded. But But Raye Carrington’s place isn’t the only after some helpful directions from a kindly great fishing spot in the Central Texas hills. neighbor who could tell we were urbanites lost Fishing near Junction and Menard can add vari- in paradise, we saw the worn sign barely visible ety and adventure to any angler’s itinerary. Take in the dying U.S. Highway 377 light. My hus- about 45 miles band and I were down to Junction on the first trek and Jay Murr, of a long week- owner of end filled with Peacemaker River fishing and Expeditions, will kayaking on the be glad to take Llano and San out a group of Saba rivers. anglers on the Once there, Llano for a day of Raye showed us kayak fishing or where to park even an our bags for the overnight trip. night. Raye, a During a 4-mile well-known fly fisher in the state, began her river trip on a perfect October day, Murr armed combination fishing instruction/bed and break- his anglers with both fly and casting rods. The fast venture in 1999. She seemed comfortable in adventure offered stretches of gentle rapids her role as hostess and coach. Tall and slender, punctuated by placid water where we would Raye is a woman well suited to the graceful cast our lines. Murr and his brother made the requirements of fly casting. Not only that, but fly fishing look easy as they darted around in she has unerring taste when it comes down to their kayaks. They caught a few, including a 2- accommodating guests. We stayed in a tin- pound Guadalupe bass. But the rest of us just roofed cabin named “High Hopes” perched weren’t as lucky. Still, with the clear Llano atop stilts. On that crisp night, the stars blazed meandering past rose-colored sandstone cliffs on their heavenly stage, and we were obliged to framed by a cloudless blue sky, the setting was watch from the porch before turning in to a so beautiful nobody seemed to mind. Just a few comfy bed with designer linens. miles north in Menard, there’s plenty of fishing The next morning, after a splendid breakfast to be had on the San Saba, too. Brent Frazier’s of bacon, eggs, biscuits and fresh fruit, fly-fish- San Saba River Adventures offers kayak rentals ing hopefuls began their education in earnest. and fishing excursions on this narrow stretch of The Llano, considered one of Texas’ last wild river lined with lush greenery and towering rivers, attracts anglers for its fishing opportuni- trees. Bass and catfish are king here — especially ties that include lunker largemouth bass, giant yellow catfish to hear Frazier tell it. “The Guadalupe bass, sunfish and catfish. But to biggest one I can ever remember being out was begin with, we practiced casting in the grass. 76 pounds,” Frazier said. He caught his personal After about an hour, we graduated to casting at best yellow cat — a 68-pounder — near what’s the Llano’s bank. For the novice, taming the called Beyers Crossing on the San Saba. But for long coil of line seemed a bit awkward at first. Frazier, there’s always tomorrow when it comes Raye coaxed her students into powering their to fishing for hulking catfish. IF YOU GO Fishing/Kayaking: Frazier, (325) 456-6447 • CAVU Canyon Ranch in Segovia — visit www.cavu- • Raye Carrington’s on the Llano River in Mason — visit Lodging: canyonranch.com or call (325) 446-9135 www.llanoriver.com or call (325) 347-3474 • The Red Door Bed & Breakfast in Mason — contact Restaurants: • Peacemaker River Expeditions in Junction — contact Jay Brent and Monica Hinckley, (325) 347-6398 • Santos Taqueria in Mason — (325) 347-6140 Murr, (325) 446-2363 • Fox Hollow Cabins in Junction — contact Wayne Walker, • Sunshine Café and Bakery in Junction — (325) 446-2497 • San Saba River Adventures in Menard — contact Brent (325) 446-4267 • Hard Eight Pit Barbeque in Brady —(325) 597-1936 November 11, 2005 Page 13 PRODUCT PICKS

SLEEP SAVER: The Gun Grabber is a vertical gun holder that can be used in a hunting blind to secure a loaded rifle. A father who wanted to keep his young son and hunting buddy safe invented it. The device, made from molded nylon and injection-molded thermoplastic elastomer, provides a solid grip but allows for a quick and easy removal. It can also be installed on a tree stand or (with an accessory kit) on a WINGING IT: MOJO Outdoors’ Wing Thang allows hunters to economically have realistic waterfowl utility vehicle. movement throughout a spread. The lightweight wing look-a-likes can be easily transported to and from Available in a rifle or even the most remote hunting sites. Use with the support stake on dry fields or in shallow water. The shotgun model, it battery-operated Wing Thang utilizes MOJO’s direct-drive system and has no pulleys, belts or gears to will hold most bows. produce a quiet operation. It costs about $25. For retailers, go to www.mojooutdoors.com. The Gun Grabber costs about $25. To order, visit www.gungrab.com or DOUBLE DUTY: call (877) 486- Kershaw Knives’ Two- 4722. Can Jeep Knife does the work of two cutting implements. It can be PELLET POWER: 24 used as scissors or as a Seven Solid Scent knife. It is 4 1/4 inches Enhancement long when open, and Granules by the has stainless steel MDR Outdoor Group blades and an anodized are designed to aluminum handle. make a hunter’s The .9-ounce knife favorite liquid scent is small enough to work better and carry in a pocket or longer. To use, add hang from a key ring. It half an ounce of any costs about $35. For liquid scent, such as retailers, visit deer estrus, to the www.kershawknives.com all-natural or call (800) 325-2891. granules. Then, shake them out onto the ground where the fragrance will be released for days. The granules, according to the MDR Outdoor Group, won’t dry out and are effective in any weather. A 9.5-oz container costs about $15. To order, visit www.mdroutdoorgrou p.com or call (888) 648-3718. GOOD SPOT: Konus Optical & Sport Systems has introduced its Handy- 18 Spotting Scope. Offering 18-power magnification, the scope’s 50mm objective lens provides clear, bright images. The 12.8-oz optical instrument is 8 inches long with a handle that folds for storage. It can also be mounted on a standard tripod or window mount. The spotting scope costs about $50. For ALLURING LURE: SPRO’s Bronzeye Frog retailers, visit www.konus. has hopped onto the marketplace. The Dean com or call (305) 358- Rojas Signature Series frog, which won a best-of-show 9886, ext. 203. award in the soft-lure category at the 2005 ICAST show, was designed for open-water use. It features a realistic design, a no-slip tail and a Gamakatsu double hook. The lure is available in seven colors and costs about $9.50. For retailers, visit www.spro.com or call (770) 919-1722.

TEXAS HOLD ’EM: The Steady Ready by Knight and Hale Game Calls is designed to help NIGHT LIGHT: The Beacon Locator Light will hunters keep their guide hunters back to their tree stand or duck guns or bows at ready blind. Hang the Beacon on the tree stand. Then, position for prolonged when approaching in the darkness, hit a remote periods. The device attaches to a control from up to 200 yards. It also can be used hunter’s forearm with Velcro. Its steady arm to mark downed game or any spot that might need will keep out of the way until ready for use when it can be positioned to be found in the dark. The Beacon, by Knight against the user’s stomach or waist to provide support. According to its maker, a and Hale Game Calls, costs about $25. For dealers bow hunter can draw a heavy poundage bow with ease, and then hold it because the steady or to order, go to www.knightandhale.com. arm absorbs all the tension. The Steady Ready also makes it easier to hold the sight on a target for greater accuracy when shooting. It costs about $80. For dealers or to order, go to www.knightandhale.com. Page 14 November 11, 2005 HEROES

From left, are Jon Clayton, Jacob Clayton, John Langley, Hayden Sealy and Chris Sealy. The two boys killed the wild Matthew Soria of Houston caught this tripletail in Trinity Bay on live croaker. boars while hunting at Langley Log Hunting In Centerville. It was the first kill for both boys.

Want to share your great hunting or fishing adventure with the Lone Star Outdoor News family? E-mail your photo, phone and cap- tion information to editor@lonestaroutdoornews. com, or mail to: Heroes’ Corner, Lone Star Outdoor News, 9304 Forest Clint Smith, age 13, of Pflugerville established the Lane, Suite 114 junior angler and all-ages divisions rod and reel John Hall shows the 11-point buck he killed in South, Dallas, TX, record for ladyfish on Aug. 14 while fishing Taylor Shearrer, 11, left, with his 6-point buck and Gus Wheeler, 9, on South Texas on Oct. 17, 2004. Hall is a resident 75243. at Aransas Bay. The fish was 28.5 inches long and right with his 4-point buck. The deer were killed in Atascosa County during of Richmond, Texas. weighed 4.99 pounds. the Youth Hunt Opening Weekend. These were the boys’ first bucks. MADE IN TEXAS Lock and load your marshmallows Dallas-based company adds new twist to toy guns By Mary Helen Aguirre gunsmith, refined the product and That one goes faster.” came up with a prototype of the But the company’s No. 1 cus- Marshmallow Shooter. Last year tomer isn’t the small fry. It’s col- In today’s toy market, people the company launched the fin- lege kids, said company president might think they’ve seen every- ished shooter, which can blast de la Valdene. thing. But there’s always room for miniature marshmallows more “Our toy is so fun and quirky, it one more good idea — as one than 30 feet. More recently it appeals to so many ages,” said Dallas mom and dad found out. added the Marshmallow Blower. Raymond. The Marshmallow Besides being fun, toys need to “We all played around with the Shooter has earned a mention by be safe, and that’s where Dallas- colors and packaging,” said Good Morning America, The based Marshmallow Fun Co. comes Raymond, who is a partner in the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and into play. business along with de la Valdene, The Washington Post. It all started in 2003 when Kim Mitchell and Jeff Phipps of Florida. Currently, the company is build- Raymond of Dallas was looking for “It’s not a new concept,” she ing its brand and offering licensing a safe and fun party favor for her said, “We just took it to the next opportunities. Soon the son Jake’s ninth birthday party. level.” Marshmallow Blaster and So her husband, Beaver, fash- Since the toy’s launch at the eventually the Bow and Mallow ioned a blowgun from PVC pipes 2004 American International Toy will be released — along with the through which the children could Fair in New York, the company has company’s own brand of delicious shoot miniature marshmallows. sold more than 100,000 of the marshmallow ammunition. The blowgun shooters were a big Marshmallow Shooters, which also Through Marshmallowville hit with the boys. can use soft foam pellets. Media LLC, the partners have “When the parents came to pick The product is sold through the introduced comic books and an (their kids) up, they started to play company’s Web site (www.marsh- upcoming movie that’ll tell the with the shooters,” said Raymond, mallowville. com), in specialty story of Johnny Marshmallow and who also has a daughter, Sally, 9. stores such as Spencer’s Gifts and the M-Force, who, using inventions One of the guest’s father, Johnny Learning Express and in the cata- from genius inventor Professor de la Valdene of Dallas, was partic- logs such as Hammacher Flutternutter, save the world from ularly taken with the marshmallow Schlemmer and Gander Mountain. the evil Marshans. pelters. “I’ve never seen kids have Jake Secker of Dallas owns a so much fun,” said the father of Marshmallow Shooter as do many Mary Helen Aguirre is a native Texan five. of his friends. with almost 15 years of experience De la Valdene offered to send the “We always have wars,” said the item to Floridian Jeff Mitchell, an 12-year-old, who likes to climb on editing and writing for newspapers, engineer and inventor whom de la top of his backyard fort to shoot including the Atlanta Journal- Valdene had worked with on past down the marshmallows. “It’s real- Constitution. She is a freelancer in SURE SHOT: Kim Raymond poses in a bed of marshmallows with a projects. Mitchell, who is also a ly fun. My friend has the blower. New Mexico. marshmallow shooter. Photo by David J. Sams/Lone Star Outdoor News. November 11, 2005 Page 15 WEATHER

MOON PHASES SOLUNAR TABLE Major/Minor periods: For up-to-the-minute weather forecasts, please visit www.accuweather.com First Full Last New Houston Dallas San Antonio Amarillo Nov 8 Nov 15 Nov 23 Dec 1 11/9 5:45a/11:59a 2:02p/8:15p 5:51a/12:05p 2:08p/8:21p Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2005 11/10 6:12p/—— 2:34a/8:46a 6:18p/—— 2:40a/8:52a 11/11 6:35a/12:23a 2:59p/9:12p 6:41a/12:29a 3:05p/9:18p TIDES 11/12 7:00p/12:48p 3:29a/9:41a 7:06p/12:54p 3:35a/9:47a High Low High Low High Low High Low High Low High Low 11/13 7:20a/1:08a 3:53p/10:05p 7:26a/1:14a 3:59p/10:11p Sabine Pass Freeport Corpus Christi 11/14 7:44p/1:32p 4:20a/10:32a 7:50p/1:38p 4:26a/10:38a 11/9 11:11 p.m. 3:29 p.m. —- —- 11/9 11:12 p.m. 2:59 p.m. —- —- 11/9 11:20 p.m. 2:37 p.m. —- —- 11/15 8:01a/1:50a 4:43p/10:54p 8:07a/1:56a 4:49p/11:00p 11/10 8:46 a.m. 6:35 a.m. 11:25 p.m. 4:41 p.m. 11/10 8:47 a.m. 6:05 a.m. 11:26 p.m. 4:11 p.m. 11/10 8:55 a.m. 5:43 a.m. 11:34 p.m. 3:49 p.m. 11/16 8:25p/2:13p 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6:56a/5:22p 7:09a/5:22p 7:08a/5:35p 7:33a/5:35p 11/26 1:07 a.m. 7:09 a.m. 1:56 p.m. 6:11 p.m. 11/26 12:10 a.m. 5:40 a.m. 12:59 p.m. 4:42 p.m. 11/26 12:25 p.m. 5:48 a.m. 10:10 p.m. 4:48 p.m. 11/28 6:57a/5:21p 7:10a/5:22p 7:09a/5:35p 7:34a/5:35p 11/27 1:12 a.m. 7:18 a.m. 3:08 p.m. 7:06 p.m. 11/27 12:15 a.m. 5:49 a.m. 2:11 p.m. 5:37 p.m. 11/27 1:51 p.m. 5:53 a.m. 9:32 p.m. 6:39 p.m. 11/29 6:58a/5:21p 7:11a/5:22p 7:10a/5:35p 7:35a/5:35p 11/28 1:15 a.m. 7:39 a.m. 4:09 p.m. 8:03 p.m. 11/28 12:18 a.m. 6:10 a.m. 3:12 p.m. 6:34 p.m. 11/28 2:52 p.m. 6:11 a.m. —- —- 11/29 1:13 a.m. 8:08 a.m. 5:05 p.m. 8:59 p.m. 11/29 12:16 a.m. 6:39 a.m. 4:08 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 11/29 3:46 p.m. 6:36 a.m. —- —- Moonrise/set San Luis Pass Port O’Connor Port Isabel Houston Dallas San Antonio Amarillo 11/9 12:03 a.m. 3:58 p.m. —- —- 11/9 5:25 a.m. 5:34 p.m. —- —- 11/9 12:02 a.m. 3:08 p.m. —- —- 11/9 1:46p/none 1:58p/none 1:59p/12:05a 2:21p/12:07a 11/10 12:20 a.m. 7:04 a.m. 9:55 a.m. 5:10 p.m. 11/10 5:43 a.m. 6:40 p.m. —- —- 11/10 12:19 a.m. 6:14 a.m. 9:54 a.m. 4:20 p.m. 11/10 2:21p/12:59a 2:30p/1:02a 2:33p/1:13a 2:52p/1:18a 11/11 12:34 a.m. 6:53 a.m. 12:03 p.m. 6:18 p.m. 11/11 4:24 a.m. 7:49 p.m. —- —- 11/11 12:33 a.m. 6:03 a.m. 12:02 p.m. 5:28 p.m. 11/11 2:52p/2:04a 3:00p/2:10a 3:05p/2:18a 3:20p/2:27a 11/12 12:45 a.m. 7:14 a.m. 1:37 p.m. 7:23 p.m. 11/12 2:31 a.m. 9:17 a.m. 4:59 p.m. 9:13 p.m. 11/12 12:44 a.m. 6:24 a.m. 1:36 p.m. 6:33 p.m. 11/12 3:23p/3:09a 3:29p/3:16a 3:36p/3:22a 3:47p/3:35a 11/13 12:56 a.m. 7:45 a.m. 2:57 p.m. 8:27 p.m. 11/13 1:02 a.m. 9:39 a.m. 7:21 p.m. —- 11/13 12:55 a.m. 6:55 a.m. 2:56 p.m. 7:37 p.m. 11/13 3:54p/4:12a 3:58p/4:21a 4:08p/4:25a 4:15p/4:43a 11/14 1:04 a.m. 8:20 a.m. 4:07 p.m. 9:31 p.m. 11/14 8:50 p.m. 10:14 a.m. —- —- 11/14 1:03 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 4:06 p.m. 8:41 p.m. 11/14 4:28p/5:17a 4:30p/5:28a 4:42p/5:29a 4:45p/5:51a 11/15 1:09 a.m. 8:57 a.m. 5:11 p.m. 10:40 p.m. 11/15 9:57 p.m. 10:52 a.m. —- —- 11/15 1:08 a.m. 8:07 a.m. 5:10 p.m. 9:50 p.m. 11/15 5:06p/6:22a 5:06p/6:35a 5:19p/6:34a 5:19p/7:00a 11/16 1:04 a.m. 9:37 a.m. 6:13 p.m. —- 11/16 11:00 p.m. 11:32 a.m. —- —- 11/16 1:03 a.m. 8:47 a.m. 6:12 p.m. —- 11/16 5:48p/7:27a 5:47p/7:42a 6:02p/7:39a 5:59p/8:08a 11/17 7:16 p.m. 10:18 a.m. —- —- 11/17 —- 12:14 p.m. —- —- 11/17 7:15 p.m. 9:28 a.m. —- —- 11/17 6:36p/8:31a 6:34p/8:47a 6:50p/8:43a 6:45p/9:15a 11/18 8:24 p.m. 11:02 a.m. —- —- 11/18 12:05 a.m. 12:58 p.m. —- —- 11/18 8:23 p.m. 10:12 a.m. —- —- 11/18 7:29p/9:32a 7:27p/9:48a 7:44p/9:43a 7:38p/10:16a 11/19 9:42 p.m. 11:49 a.m. —- —- 11/19 1:11 a.m. 1:44 p.m. —- —- 11/19 9:41 p.m. 10:59 a.m. —- —- 11/19 8:26p/10:26a 8:24p/10:42a 8:41p/10:37a 8:36p/11:09a 11/20 10:54 p.m. 12:38 p.m. —- —- 11/20 2:12 a.m. 2:34 p.m. —- —- 11/20 10:53 p.m. 11:48 a.m. —- —- 11/20 9:25p/11:13a 9:23p/11:28a 9:39p/11:24a 9:36p/11:55a 11/21 11:26 p.m. 1:30 p.m. —- —- 11/21 3:06 a.m. 3:25 p.m. —- —- 11/21 11:25 p.m. 12:40 p.m. —- —- 11/2110:22p/11:53a 10:23p/12:07p 10:36p/12:05p 10:36p/12:33p 11/22 11:38 p.m. 2:23 p.m. —- —- 11/22 3:49 a.m. 4:19 p.m. —- —- 11/22 11:37 p.m. 1:33 p.m. —- —- 11/2211:19p/12:28p 11:21p/12:40p 11:33p/12:39p 11:35p/1:04p 11/23 11:46 p.m. 3:16 p.m. —- —- 11/23 4:21 a.m. 5:14 p.m. —- —- 11/23 11:45 p.m. 2:26 p.m. —- —- 11/23 none/12:58p none/1:09p none/1:10p none/1:32p 11/24 11:54 p.m. 4:08 p.m. —- —- 11/24 4:36 a.m. 6:13 p.m. —- —- 11/24 11:53 p.m. 3:18 p.m. —- —- 11/24 12:14a/1:26p 12:17a/1:35p 12:27a/1:38p 12:33a/1:56p 11/25 11:20 a.m. 6:58 a.m. —- 5:00 p.m. 11/25 4:18 a.m. 7:29 p.m. —- —- 11/25 11:19 a.m. 6:08 a.m. —- 4:10 p.m. 11/25 1:08a/1:52p 1:13a/2:00p 1:21a/2:04p 1:31a/2:20p 11/26 12:01 a.m. 6:51 a.m. 12:50 p.m. 5:53 p.m. 11/26 3:11 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 5:09 p.m. 10:01 p.m. 11/26 12:00 a.m. 6:01 a.m. 12:49 p.m. 5:03 p.m. 11/26 2:02a/2:18p 2:09a/2:24p 2:15a/2:31p 2:28a/2:42p 11/27 12:06 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 2:02 p.m. 6:48 p.m. 11/27 12:47 a.m. 9:25 a.m. 6:52 p.m. —- 11/27 12:05 a.m. 6:10 a.m. 2:01 p.m. 5:58 p.m. 11/27 2:57a/2:45p 3:06a/2:49p 3:10a/2:58p 3:26a/3:06p 11/28 12:09 a.m. 7:21 a.m. 3:03 p.m. 7:45 p.m. 11/28 7:58 p.m. 9:34 a.m. —- —- 11/28 12:08 a.m. 6:31 a.m. 3:02 p.m. 6:55 p.m. 11/28 7:29p/9:32a 7:27p/9:48a 7:44p/9:43a 7:38p/10:16a 11/29 12:07 a.m. 7:50 a.m. 3:59 p.m. 8:41 p.m. 11/29 8:58 p.m. 9:57 a.m. —- —- 11/29 12:06 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 3:58 p.m. 7:51 p.m. 11/29 4:56a/3:49p 5:08a/3:50p 5:08a/4:03p 5:32a/4:04p TEXAS TIDBITS TEXAS WORD TREASURES WILD IN THE KITCHEN Tasty venison burgers Across 1234 Complaints are common regarding the lack of flavor from ground 1. Group of newborn puppies 5 venison. The meat is very lean and 4. Popular lantern fuel can suffer miserably from overcook- 6. Thin layer formed at night 6 ing. I often add some ground fatty when air is chilled meat to my ground venison to add below the dew point flavor and moisture. In this 7. Fish caught by hook other 7 8 instance, I have used a creamy than in the mouth cheese, onions and mushrooms for 9. The last named hurricane 9 flavor. While most of us prefer to this season have our meat ground for us by a 10. Deer candy game processor shortly after har- Makes 4 big burgers 11. Forage areas planted by 10 11 vest, you’ll discover that freshly deer hunters ground meat tastes better than pre- 1 1/2 pounds ground venison 12. This tree doesn't shed viously ground and then frozen 2 tablespoons butter its leaves in the winter burger. You can also trim up hunks 2 cloves garlic, minced 14. Optical rifle sight of meat, freeze it and then thaw and 1 medium onion, finely diced 15. Small baitfish favored by grind into burger before cooking. 12 13 14 2 cups mushrooms, coarsely flounder fishermen Melt butter in a medium skillet chopped 16. When should a hunter over medium heat. Add onion and 1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles attach a tag after killing garlic until onions are translucent. 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs a deer? 15 Stir in mushrooms and sauté until salt and pepper 17. Game bird often shot soft. Transfer to a medium bowl and 4 burger buns from a deer stand allow to cool. Add ground venison, 4 lettuce leaves blue cheese, breadcrumbs, salt and Down 16 4 slices tomato pepper and mix well with your 1. Hunting area rented for a hands to blend. Form into 4 large season patties. Grill, pan-fry or broil patties until browned. Add to bun with let- 2. Opening weekend of deer 17 tuce, tomato and your choice of other condiments. season creates a mass ______from big cities Copyright 2004 Texas Word Treasures, Greg Berlocher. All Rights Reserved. — Chef Scott Leysath 3. It is illegal to hunt deer using roasts 8. Ground blend of venison and this animal 5. Outdoor plumbing pork Visit SportingChef.com for more great fish and game recipes and where to 4. Business that converts deer 7. Popular transportation for 13. It is illegal to hunt deer with catch Leysath’s TV Show, HuntFishCook. Leysath is the official chef for into sausage, jerky and hunters this type of rifle Realtree and Ducks Unlimited. He also appears weekly on Ducks Unlimited TV on OLN and The Sportsman Channel. Page 16 November 11, 2005 GAME WARDEN BLOTTER

RESIDENCY QUESTION PROVES HOG HUNTER SHOOTS SELF COSTLY • Atascosa County Warden • Brewster County Game ‘HEY, REMEMBER ME? YOU ARRESTED ME ...’ Derek Iden assisted deputies Warden Ray Spears cited an with a hunting accident. A man individual for taking a prong- Five subjects dove hunting after sunset caught the them citations and confiscating the birds shot was hunting hogs from a tree attention of Travis County Game Warden late, one of the hunters said, “Hey, remember horn antelope under an stand with a shotgun loaded Penny Nixon. One of the men had an me? You arrested me last year on a fishing- improper license. The hunter with buckshot. The gun acci- purchased a resident hunting unplugged shotgun. While Nixon was issuing license warrant.” dentally discharged, resulting in license and took a buck antelope using that license. Upon the man’s jaw receiving the investigation, however, the the trunk of the vehicle. After was selling high-end bass boats foot. After a two-hour search, brunt of the impact. He was air- licensee was found to not meet one of the men ignored an in the range of $20,000- the sheriff’s department left lifted to a San Antonio hospital Texas residency requirements. order to step away from the $40,000. After a few months Isom behind to stand watch. where he remained in critical The antelope was confiscated. trunk, Boone took his duty pis- passed, one of the owners With the use of his night-vision condition as of the day after the Civil restitution is pending. tol from his holster. The man would title the boats at the equipment, Isom spotted the accident. then reached into the trunk to Garland office for less than half man walking down the road HIT-AND-RUN HUNTERS retrieve and conceal the silencer of the actual sales price, pocket- approximately an hour later. He CHANCE ENCOUNTER ENDS • Two college students picked mechanism. A short chase ing the difference in sales tax. was arrested and turned over to LONGTIME CHASE the wrong way to bring down a ensued resulting in the man This company has been flying the Sheriff’s Department. • Palo Pinto County Game falling to the ground after under the radar with this tactic white-tailed deer. The Sam Warden Bill Jones passed a sus- Houston State University stu- Boone sprayed him in the face for nearly three years. Second- TURKEY GAG NOT SO FUNNY picious vehicle on the highway dents told Walker County with one burst of his pepper degree felony charges were filed • A dead turkey hanging near the peninsula at Possum Game Warden Zak Benge that spray. Both men were taken into with the Dallas County District between CB antennas brought they intentionally ran the deer custody without further resist- Attorney’s office due to the Erath County Game Warden Kingdom Lake. Turning around, down with a large truck, loaded ance, brought before the local number of violations (153 were Tony Navarro to the Tarleton Jones caught up with the truck, it into the truck, then traveled justice of the peace and assessed identified). The case was then State University campus. A stu- which was driving very slowly. to another location where they $1,500 in fines. Later, Hardin referred to the State dent told Navarro that he killed Jones noticed blood in the bed cleaned and processed the deer. County Wardens Kenny Lee Comptroller’s office, which the turkey with a bow and of the truck and began ques- One student first admitted to and Tim Elmore helped Boone expects to collect more than arrow and hung it on the tioning the two occupants. He the act, then brought his friend retrieve the silencer the man $100,000 in back taxes, fines antenna of his friend’s vehicle learned that the blood was from and the meat to Benge. had thrown in a wooded area. and penalties. as a prank. The one thing the a deer that had been killed the All evidence was recovered, man failed to do was tag the previous week. One of the men CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR including the silencer, a rifle, NOT WORTH THE TRIP turkey. He was cited for a tag- admitted killing two doe, one • Grayson County Game fishing tackle and numerous • Presidio County Game ging violation and for failing to buck and four turkey the previ- fish that were hidden in the Warden Tony Todd caught two have the necessary hunter-edu- Warden Dale Moses was called ous year. Jones asked him if he to a jury trial on an expired boat weeds adjacent to the lake. illegal immigrants, turning cation requirements. still had his old hunting license. registration and clean water Boone turned the firearms evi- them over to the U.S. Border The man said it was at his home decal case in a justice of the dence over to federal officials for Patrol. One was a 16-year-old HUNTING COMPLAINT LEADS peace court. During the trial, possible prosecution. girl who was deported back to TO METH ARRESTS in his wallet. Jones called Wise the defendant testified that he Mexico. The other was a man • A complaint about illegal County Game Warden Chris wasn’t going to spend any more MATH-CHALLENGED ANGLERS previously convicted of felony hunting led Houston County Dowdy for assistance. Dowdy money on the boat, and that he • Jones County Game Warden drug charges and escape. Game Warden Eric McCarstle paid a visit to the man’s parents would sit out the fine in jail if Lee Allen answered a call at Because of his felon status, he is and Trinity County Game to see if the man’s story checked found guilty. After hearing the Lake Fort Phantom about possi- being charged with illegal reen- Warden Ralph Montemayor to out. Dowdy couldn’t locate a testimony, the jury deliberated ble intoxicated boaters with too try into the U.S. and faces 10 to the Trinity County line in 2004 hunting license, but he for five minutes before finding many fish. City of Abilene Lake 20 years in federal prison. Houston County. The wardens did find a 2003 hunting license the defendant guilty, setting his Patrol Officer Renee Weems were checking the suspected missing three tags. The man fine at $500 for each case. arrived at the scene first and WARDEN’S GEAR NABS ESCAPEE camp when they noticed a man told the wardens that he had detained two people. They had • Young County Game Warden and woman cooking metham- given the tags to someone else ONE WAY TO ENSURE A QUIET DAY been drinking, but passed field- Brent Isom assisted the Sheriff’s phetamine in a small travel to use. It became clear to the OF FISHING sobriety tests. The individuals Department with a felony pur- trailer. The couple, both in their wardens that the two men were • Two men fishing on private had 20 crappie over the daily- suit involving narcotics. The early 40s, were arrested after subjects they had been pursu- property without the owner’s bag limit. The cases are pend- pursuit lasted approximately 45 deputies from both counties permission quickly landed in ing. minutes because the man flee- arrived. The Drug Task Force ing fruitlessly for the last two hot water. Hardin County ing had a radio scanner and was dismantled the lab, and years. The men had escaped Game Warden Michael Boone, ALLEGED BOATING SCAM BEACHED able to avoid road blocks. After deputies recovered stolen ATVs, them, they learned, because while inspecting the men’s • Marine Theft Sgt. Ned Nichols eventually wrecking his vehicle generators and numerous they hunted at mid-day, which vehicle, discovered several filed multiple felonies on a in the northwest corner of power tools. Four guns were also is very unusual. 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SIGNATURE Fill out the form and mail it in. November 11, 2005 Page 17 BORDERING TEXAS ARKANSAS Saskatchewan and Alberta. The dis- both positive and negative — will be LOUISIANA hunting, refer to the 2005-06 Commission approves ease causes damage to portions of the posted by license number on the Free hunting offered Louisiana Hunting Season and WMA emergency ban on cervid animal’s brain, and there is no cure for wildlife department’s Web site over Thanksgiving Regulations Booklet. (www.wildlife.state.nm.us) as soon as carcass importation the fatal disease. The Louisiana Department of the results are received. Testing nor- Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) will OKLAHOMA To minimize the risk of chronic mally takes eight to 10 weeks. NEW MEXICO provide the opportunity for any cur- Trout stocking in Lower wasting disease being brought into About 6,000 deer and elk hunters Testing under way for CWD in rently unlicensed adult (16 years of Arkansas, the Arkansas Game and Fish will participate in various hunts Mountain Fork River resumes age or older) to experience recreation- Commission passed an emergency New Mexico deer and elk throughout Unit 34 during the 2005- Trout stocking on the lower ban on the importation of cervid car- New Mexico hunters have submit- 2006 seasons. Of those, about 1,500 al hunting in the Sportsman’s Mountain Fork River designated trout casses. The ban goes into effect imme- ted more than 75 deer and elk to be hunters are expected to be successful. Paradise during Discover Louisiana area below Broken Bow Lake resumed diately. tested for chronic wasting disease The CWD restrictions affect which Hunting weekend on Thanksgiving Nov. 3, according to officials with the In 2002, the AGFC passed a similar since the hunting seasons began Sept. body parts of deer and elk harvested weekend, Nov. 25-27. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife law making it illegal to import, ship, 1, and the Department of Game and within the control area may be Louisiana residents and non-resi- Conservation. transport or carry into the state, by Fish is encouraging even more removed from Unit 34. dents are eligible. You can be a first- It was temporarily suspended at the any means, a live member of the hunters to participate. The restrictions include: No por- time hunter or someone simply wish- popular trout stream when fisheries cervid family, including, but not lim- Kerry Mower, lead wildlife disease tion of the spinal cord or backbone ing to try the sport again. personnel determined that the water ited to, white-tailed deer and elk. biologist, said although hunters may be removed from Unit 34 if the This special promotional weekend temperature was too warm for rain- The new ban makes it unlawful to statewide are encouraged to bring animal was killed in the Control Area. is a once-in-a-lifetime offer from bow trout. import or possess in Arkansas a cervid their animals in for testing, the pro- Only boned-out meat and quarters LDWF, acting with approval of the “The situation is much improved,” carcass from any area with a known gram this year is especially aimed at with bones attached (no spinal cord Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries said Paul Balkenbush, southeast case of CWD. hunters in a small portion of Unit 34 or backbone) may be transported out Commission. Once you have taken region fisheries supervisor for the One way the disease can be trans- in the southern Sacramento of Unit 34 if the animal was killed in advantage of a Discover Louisiana Wildlife Department. “We are finally mitted is by infected carcasses. At this Mountains. That CWD control area, the Control Area. Also acceptable for Hunting (DLH) weekend, you must seeing the cool weather that you time, 23 states have adopted regula- an approximately 200-square-mile removal from Unit 34 is cut and obtain the appropriate licenses and would expect to have this time of year. tions affecting the transportation of portion of Unit 34 near Timberon and wrapped meat, hides with no heads permits for any future hunting trips. We still need rain, but the water tem- hunter-harvested cervids. Weed, was where officials identified attached, clean skull plates with Anyone currently under a suspen- perature situation is back where we Chronic wasting disease is a nerv- the state’s 12th and most recent antlers attached, antlers with no meat sion or revocation of hunting privi- need it to be.” ous-system disease that has been CWD-infected deer. or tissue attached, upper canine teeth leges is not eligible. The scheduled bi-weekly trout observed in deer and elk in Colorado, The CWD control area comprises (“ivories”) and finished heads mount- Game species that can be hunted stockings at the lower Mountain Fork Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, about 15 percent of Unit 34. ed by a taxidermist within the unit. during DLH weekend include resident River resumed as scheduled starting New York, Wisconsin, West Virginia, There is no evidence of chronic Proof of sex must be kept with all game birds (quail) and resident game Nov. 3. 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Black bass to 4.5 pounds are good on white Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are slow. ing Bandit crankbaits and pumpkin seed french frys. baited holes in 10-15 feet all over the lake, some good crankbaits and buzzbaits in 6 feet. Crappie to 1 pound BASTROP: Water clear. Black bass are very good on Yellow catfish are slow. Crappie are good off the docks on live minnows in 15-20 catches made from water as shallow as 3 feet during are fair on live minnows around brushpiles near the dam watermelon/blue fleck and watermelon/silver fleck soft STILLHOUSE: Water clear; 70 degrees; 0.43' low. Black feet. White bass are good on slabs and jigging spoons early morning in 15 - 20 feet. Bream are good on live worms in grassy plastic worms, and on white spinnerbaits and crankbaits. around humps and points in 15-25 feet. Catfish are good areas. Catfish are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and blue and green tube bass are fair on pumpkinseed and watermelon seed soft TEXOMA: Water clear; 65-68 degrees; 1.15' low. Black plastic worms and lizards, and on topwaters. White bass on punch bait and fresh shad in 15-20 feet around bait- Bass are fair on soft Texas rigged worms, Rat-L-Traps LIVINGSTON: Water fairly clear; 65 degrees; 4.09' low. jigs. Channel and blue catfish are good on shrimp, cut- ed holes, areas along creek channels are producing best. bait, nightcrawlers, and stinkbait. Yellow catfish are slow. are good on minnows near Long Bridge. Smallmouth around docks with heavy brush. Smallmouth bass are Black bass are good on spinnerbaits. Striped bass are bass are fair on minnows. Crappie are slow. Channel and JOE POOL: Water stained; 64-67 degrees; 2.90' low. good on crawfish pattern deep diving crank baits along fair on Rat-L-Traps. White bass are slow. Crappie are BELTON: Water murky; 68 degrees; 1.41' low. Black blue catfish are good on minnows, chicken livers, Black bass are good during early morning on top waters lower lake rocky points. Crappie are fair on jigs and min- good on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are very bass are good on blue/white and red/white topwaters and shrimp, and hot dogs. Yellow catfish are slow. fished around points; later in the day switching to Rat-L- nows around docks with brush in 20 feet. Striped bass good on cutbait and prepared baits. Yellow catfish are shallow diving crankbaits, and on white/green soft plas- Traps and Carolina rigs. Crappie are fair on jigs and min- are excellent on top water plugs, Holiday Slabs and live slow. tics. Hybrid striper are slow. White bass are fair on silver TRAVIS: Water clear; 72 degrees; 15.30' low. Black bass are fair on white/red/green soft plastics, and on chrome nows around the barges and Corp of Engineers brush shad. Blue catfish are good on punch bait and fresh cut SAM RAYBURN: Water lightly stained; 70 degrees; 4.60' slabs and spoons, and on live minnows. Crappie are good piles in 15-20 feet. White bass are good during early shad in 15-22 feet. on minnows and white-tailed jigs. Channel and blue cat- spinnerbaits and crankbaits in 10 - 20 feet. Striped bass low. Black bass are good on wacky rigged worms and are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on min- morning on Holiday Slabs in 20 feet around main lake WRIGHT PATMAN: Water clear; 65-67 degrees. Black weightless Super Flukes around shallow grass, and on fish are fair on shrimp, live bait, and cutbait. Yellow cat- humps and ridges. Channel catfish are good on Bill's fish are slow. nows and green/blue fleck tube jigs. Channel and blue bass are good on soft plastics and shad pattern topwaters such as Yellow Magic's and Toads, and on catfish are fair on shrimp, liver, and stinkbait in 15 - 30 Bait and fresh shad around baited holes in 12-15 feet. crankbaits in 6-10 feet around lay down logs and shore- watermelon and chartreuse Carolina rigged lizards and BROWNWOOD: Water clear; 63 degrees; 1.54' low. feet. Yellow catfish are slow. LAKE O' THE PINES: Water stained; 65-67 degrees; line vegetation. Crappie are good on tube jigs and live worms off main lake points. Crappie are fair on pearl and Black bass to 4 pounds are good on black/blue Strike WHITNEY: Water clear; 3.09' low. Black bass are good 3.45' low. Black bass are good on topwaters and plastic minnows in 10-12 feet around the fishing barge at Kelly pink/white jigs over planted brushtops in 18 - 20 feet. Works jigs, and crawdad and shad colored Persuader worms in 5-10 feet around stands of lily pads. Crappie Creek Marina and main lake brush piles. Channel catfish Catfish are good on live bait, frozen shrimp, and cutbait. Stealth crankbaits near docks in 8 - 15 feet in weeds. on silver/chrome slabs, spoons, and Rat-L-Traps. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on are fair on minnows around man made brush piles in 12- are good on trot lines and on rod and reel in 10-15 feet TOLEDO BEND: Water clear; 69 degrees; 8.80' low. Hybrid striper are fair under lights and trolling. White 20 feet. White bass are good on slabs in the lower lake on punch bait. bass are fair on crankbaits under lights. Crappie are good live minnows and green/red tube jigs. Catfish are good on Black bass are good on buzzbaits and spinnerbaits shrimp, liver, and live bait. flats 20-24 feet. Channel catfish are good in 20 feet on around grass, Texas rigged and weightless soft plastics on small tube jigs and minnows over brushpiles and prepared baits in baited holes. Channel catfish are good around bridge pylons at the 279 Bridge. Catfish are slow. SOUTH along creek channel points and bends in 8 - 12 feet, and on a Bill's Bait in 5-15 feet. on shallow running crankbaits around timber in 6 - 8 AMISTAD: Water fairly clear; 71 degrees. Black bass are BUCHANAN: Water clear; 63 degrees; 6.70' low. Black NORTHEAST LAVON: Water stained; 65-67 degrees; 8.53' low. Black feet. Crappie are good on shiners around lay downs and fair on watermelon seed, watermelon seed/red, and char- bass are good on silver shad Terminator tungsten spin- ATHENS: Water clear, 64-67 degrees; 3.5' low. Black bass are fair on Texas rigged worms and Rat-L-Traps brushtops along creek channels in 6 - 8 feet. Bream are treuse topwaters and spinnerbaits in 5 - 20 feet. Striped nerbaits, blue back Chug Bugs, and _oz. Bleeding Shad bass are good on topwaters during periods of schooling around shoreline brush in 6-8 feet. Crappie are fair on good on crickets and worms in the shallows. bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Rat-L-Traps in creeks and feeders in 2 - 6 feet. Striped activity - plastic worms rigged with light weights are live minnows and one-sixteenth ounce red-white jigs in Channel and blue catfish are good on cheesebait over bass are good drifting live bait in 30 feet, and in surface effective for larger bass when fished below the schools. 15-18 feet around brush and standing timber. White baited holes in 30 - 50 feet. Yellow catfish are slow. action on Rattlin' Rogues, Perk Minnows, and white Crappie are good on live minnows in 10-12 feet around bass are fair on slabs and jigging spoons in 15-20 feet. PANHANDLE bucktail jigs with trailers. Crappie are slow to fair on min- docks with brush. Catfish are good on fresh shad and Catfish are good on punch bait and fresh shad in 15-20 BRAUNIG: Water stained; 90 degrees. Black bass are GREENBELT: Water lightly stained; 61 degrees; 21.15' nows and white and chartreuse crappie jigs over brush- punch baits around in 6-12 feet. feet around baited holes. slow. Striped bass are slow. Redfish to 22 pounds are low. Black bass are fair on slow rolled white spinnerbaits piles in 15 - 20 feet. Channel catfish are fair on trotlines fair on crawfish and perch. Channel and blue catfish to 3 over the grass and black/blue jigs fished tight to timber. BOB SANDLIN: Water clear; 65-68 degrees; 5' low. LEWISVILLE: Water stained; 66-68 degrees; 6.18' low. baited with live minnows. Yellow and blue catfish are fair pounds are fair on liver, shrimp, and shad. Yellow catfish Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows. White bass are Black bass are good on topwaters over main lake grass Black bass are fair on Carolina rigged soft plastics and on trotlines. slow. good on live bait and crankbaits. Smallmouth bass are beds early, switching to Carolina rigged french frys shad pattern crankbaits in 5-10 feet. Crappie are fair on fair on shad-colored crankbaits. Walleye are fair on min- CANYON LAKE: Water clear; 63 degrees; 1.70' low. around mid-morning. Crappie are good on live minnows live minnows and chartreuse/black jigs in 12-15 feet CALAVERAS: Water stained; 90 degrees. Black bass are nows. Catfish are good on minnows. Black bass are good on white Tiny-T buzzbaits, Rat-L- and jigs in 12-15 feet. White bass are good on topwa- around bridge columns and docks with brush. White bass slow. Striped bass are slow. Redfish are fair on perch, Traps, and 2” Spoiler Shads along break lines of flats ters when schooling and 1 oz. Holiday Slabs when hold- are good on small topwaters, slabs and Rat-L-Traps in tilapia, spoons, and Rat-L-Traps in 15 - 30 feet. Channel MACKENZIE: Water lightly stained; 62 degrees; 65.75' with channels leading to feeder creeks in 4 - 8 feet. ing on structure. Catfish are good during late afternoon 18-20 feet around mid to lower lake humps and points. catfish are good on liver, shrimp, and nightcrawlers. Blue low. Black bass are fair on shad-colored spinnerbaits and Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Smallmouth in 2-4 feet on punch bait and fresh shad. Hybrid stripers are slow. Catfish are excellent on Danny and yellow catfish are slow. crankbaits along points and near timber. Crappie are fair bass to 4 pounds are very good on Tiny Traps, smoke 3” BRIDGEPORT: Water clear; 63-67 degrees. Black bass King's punch bait in baited holes in 20-24 feet and drift CHOKE CANYON: Water gin clear; 74 degrees; 2.30' low. on minnows and jigs. White bass and striped bass are Super Tubes, and 4” root beer Strike Grubs over rock are good on worms and shad pattern Rat-L-Traps along fishing with fresh shad out from the cut in the old dam. Black bass to 7 pounds are good on white buzzbaits and fair. Smallmouth bass are fair. Walleye are fair on min- piles and on bluff ledges in 4 - 12 feet. Crappie are fair rock rip-rap, docks and brush piles. Crappie are fair on white buzz frogs in back of Four Fingers in 2 - 6 feet nows. Catfish are good on minnows. on minnows and crappie jigs over brushpiles upriver. MONTICELLO: Water clear; 74 degrees upper end, 89 chartreuse/black jigs and small minnows around main early, and later on 1oz. Tungsten Texas rigged with PB&J MEREDITH: Water lightly stained; 60 degrees; 23.65' Channel catfish to 6 pounds are good on minnows and degrees at hot water discharge; normal pool. Black bass lake brush in 12-15 feet. White bass are good on Rat-L- 4.5” YUM Craw Papi's and delicious double wide beavers low. Black bass are fair on chartreuse crankbaits on Black Salty baitfish in 8 - 20 feet. Yellow and blue cat- are good on topwaters along flats adjacent creek chan- Traps and slabs in 15-20 feet in the mid to lower lake. in the grass on the South shore in 6 - 12 feet, and on along grass lines and rocky shores with timber. Crappie fish are fair on live bait. nels during early morning, later in the day, deep diving Hybrid striper are good on live shad in 15 feet. Catfish crank baits and Carolina rigs are working well in shallow white spinnerbaits along grass edges. White bass are fair are fair on jigs and minnows. White bass are good on live COLEMAN: Water clear; 75 degrees; 1.13' low. Black are good in 15-20 feet on punch bait in holes baited flats adjacent Smith Creek. Crappie are slow. Channel on live minnows and vertically jigging blue Fle-Fly slabs bait and crankbaits near rocky points. Smallmouth bass bass are slow. Hybrid striper are slow. Crappie are fair on with soured grain. catfish are excellent on punch bait in 10-20 feet. around main lake points in 5 - 10 feet. Crappie to 2 are fair on shallow crankbaits along rocky shores. Walleye minnows and blue/red tube jigs. Channel and blue cat- pounds are good on live minnows and black/red neck are fair on live bait and bottom bouncers. Channel cat- CADDO: Water clear; 64-67 degrees; 1.28' low. Black PALESTINE: Water clear; 65-67degrees; 2.80' low. fish are good on live bait and cutbait. Yellow catfish are Curb's crappie jigs tipped with live minnows over brush- fish are good on minnows. bass are good on plastic worms and topwaters along the Black bass are good on four-inch worms under shaded fair on trotlines baited with live perch. piles and standing timber in 6 - 15 feet. edge of lily pads and isolated cypress trees in 3-8 feet. boat houses in 6-10 feet and around brush adjacent COLORADO RIVER: (At Colorado Bend State Park) Water White bass are excellent in the main channels on small creek channels. Crappie are fair on live minnows in 12- COLETO CREEK: Water clear; 76 degrees (85 degrees at WEST stained. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are slow. spinners, spoons and slabs. Yellow bass are excellent on hot water discharge); 1.89' low. Black bass are good on 15 feet around standing timber on the river channel and ALAN HENRY: Water lightly stained; 61 degrees. Black White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on small bits of minnow along the Cypress River channel. white grubs and watermelon soft plastic worms and brush piles near the end of submerged points. Catfish bass are fair on green pumpkin and black/blue jigs near cut shad, nightcrawlers, shrimp, and perch. Channel catfish are good on punch bait and small bits of lizards over grass in 5 - 10 feet. Striped bass are slow. are excellent on prepared baits in 6-12 feet around holes timber. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. DUNLAP/MCQUEENY: Water stained; 74 degrees. Black hot dogs in 6-10 feet along the river channel. baited with soured maize, flathead catfish up to 48 White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on live minnows. ARROWHEAD: Water lightly stained; 61 degrees; 1.3' bass are fair on white/green and white/blue Rat-L-Traps, CEDAR CREEK: Water stained; 64-67 degrees; 3.37' pounds landed on trotlines baited with small live perch. Channel and blue catfish are fair on frozen shrimp and low. Black bass are fair and improving on crankbaits and striper jigs, and soft plastics upriver in 10 - 25 feet. low. Black bass are good on soft plastics in 3-6 feet White bass are good on slabs and Rat-L-Traps around stinkbait. Yellow catfish are slow. soft plastics near flooded brush. Crappie are good on White bass are slow. Crappie are good on live minnows around concrete structures. White bass are excellent on main lake points. Hybrid stripers are slow. FALCON: Water murky north, clear south; 76 degrees. minnows near the derricks about 17' and Scotland and chartreuse tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are Holiday Slabs and Sassy Shads in the mid to lower lake. Black bass are good on Brush Hogs off brushy points in RAY HUBBARD: Water stained; 65-67 degrees; 3.17' Bridge; and fair near State Park. White bass are excellent fair on cutbait, stinkbait, and frozen shrimp in 15 - 30 Hybrid stripers are good on Sassy Shads and live bait in 10 - 20 feet. Striped bass are slow. Crappie are slow. low. Black bass are fair on soft plastics around lily pads on shad-imitation baits with some topwater action late in feet. Yellow catfish are slow. 12-20 feet in the lower lake. Night fishing under lighted Channel and blue catfish are excellent on stinkbait and on the north end of the lake and around rock rip-rap. day east of State Park and Sailboat Cove. Blue catfish GRANBURY: Water stained; 0.40' low. Black bass are boat docks is good on half-ounce Rat-L-Traps. Crappie frozen shrimp. Yellow catfish are slow. Mexican fishing Crappie are fair around the fishing barges on live min- are good on cut shad and prepared baits. good on chartreuse/white and chartreuse/green soft plas- are good on jigs and minnows under the bridges and nows during early morning and late afternoon. White licenses and boat permits are required to fish in Mexican tics, spinnerbaits, and crankbaits, and on minnows. around boat docks with brush in 6-10 feet. Catfish are bass are good on Holiday slabs in 20-24 feet around mid waters. Everyone in the boat must have a Mexico Fishing BUFFALO SPRINGS: Water lightly stained; 59 degrees. Striped bass are slow. White bass are fair on minnows. excellent on prepared catfish bait in 10-15 feet around to lower lake humps and points. Hybrid stripers are slow. License whether fishing or not. Black bass are fair on minnows. Crappie are fair near Crappie House. Hybrid strippers are good on silver shad Crappie are good on minnows and pink and white tube holes baited with soured grain; good catches also made Catfish are good on punch bait in holes baited with MEDINA: Water stained; 74 degrees; 7.36' low. Black near dam. Channel catfish are good on stinkbait near jigs. Catfish are good on frozen shrimp, live bait, and around shallow, windblown banks. soured grain in 15-18 feet. bass to 4 pounds are good on white buzzbaits and white docks and chicken liver near Crappie House. cutbait. COOPER: Water stained; 66-68 degrees. Lake is very RAY ROBERTS: Water clear; 65-67 degrees; 2.70' low. buzz frogs in back of creeks in 2 - 8 feet early, and later GRANGER: Water murky; 64 degrees; 0.23' low. Black low, boaters should use extreme caution. Black bass are Black bass are good during early morning on topwaters on June bug YUM Vibra Craws along main lake points in COLORADO CITY: Water clear; 74 degrees. Black bass bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on good on plastic worms fished around standing timber over grass beds, later switching to Carolina rigged pump- 10 - 16 feet, and on gold spinnerbaits and ghost minnow are slow. Crappie are slow. White bass are slow. Redfish jigs tipped with Berkley Crappie Nibbles in 12 - 15 feet. adjacent creek channels, some schooling occurring in the kinseed centipedes in 12-20 feet. Crappie are good on jerk baits upriver along stick-ups and ledges. Smallmouth are slow. Catfish are slow. Blue catfish are good on jug lines baited with fresh shad. flats close to creek channels. Crappie are fair on min- tube jigs in 12-15 feet around the mouth of major bass to 3 pounds are good on white buzzbaits and motor HUBBARD CREEK: Water lightly stained; 69 degrees; Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines. nows and Betts Jigs in 12-15 feet around timber and creeks. White bass are good on small prop-type topwaters oil jigs along ledges and rock piles in 10 - 25 feet. White 9.3' low. Black bass are fair on small crankbaits along LBJ: Water stained; 63 degrees. Black bass are very good submerged brush piles. Catfish are good on chicken liv- and slabs in flats near the mouth of major creeks. bass are fair on live minnows and vertically jigging blue rocky points with some topwater action late in day. on _oz. Bleeding Shad Rat-L-Traps, white/chartreuse ers and fresh shad in 6-15 feet. White bass are fair on Catfish are excellent on punch bait and fresh shad in 12- chrome Bomber slabs around main lake points in 10 - Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass and Terminator tungsten spinnerbaits, Tiny-T buzzbaits, and jigging spoons and half-ounce Rat-L-Traps in 18-20 feet 20 feet. 20 feet. Crappie are fair on live minnows and black hybrid striper are fair on live bait. Catfish are fair on pre- in the lower lake. Curb's crappie jigs tipped with live minnows around JDC Skip-N-Pops along break lines of flats and sloping RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water stained; 65-67 degrees; pared baits. brushpiles and standing timber at night under lights in points leading into creeks and pockets 3 - 6 feet deep. FAIRFIELD: Water clear; 70-90 degrees. Black bass are 3.82' low. Black bass are fair on Carolina rigged french 10 - 25 feet. Striped bass are good vertically jigging NASWORTHY: Water lightly stained; 70 degrees. Black Striped bass are slow. White bass are fair along break good on topwaters around main lake points with grass frys in 10-20 feet around submerged pond dams and white Fle-Fly slabs in the river channel and on main lake bass are fair on shad-colored crankbaits. Crappie are fair lines and deep lake points on 1/8oz. chrome Tiny Traps early, switching to deep diving crank baits and Texas and points. White bass are good on slabs and topwaters points in 20 - 35 feet. Channel and blue catfish to 10 on jigs and minnows. Redfish are fair. White bass and and Spoiler Shads. Crappie are fair on minnows around Carolina rigged soft plastics baits later in the day. around standing timber in the Hickey Island area and out pounds are fair on Lewis King punchbait, cut shad, and striped bass are fair on crankbaits and minnows. Catfish brushpiles along boat docks. Channel catfish are fair. Redfish and hybrid stripers are fair on live shad or perch from Pelican Island. Hybrid stripers are fair on large goldfish. Yellow catfish to 15 pounds are fair on juglines are good on live bait. Yellow and blue catfish are slow. fished under balloons. Catfish are good on cutbait and slabs and top waters in the 309 flats; some top water baited with perch and goldfish. OAK CREEK: Water lightly stained; 65 degrees; 18' low. prepared baits in 5-12 feet. schooling action occurring during early morning. Crappie NAVARRO MILLS: Water fairly clear; 3.11' low. Black Black bass are fair. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. are slow. Catfish are good on punch bait and fresh shad bass are fair on chartreuse/white and chartreuse/green FORK: Water clear 66-67 degrees; 3.55' low. Black bass Catfish are fair on chicken liver. No boat ramps open. in 15-20 feet. Rat-L-Traps and spinnerbaits. White bass are slow. are excellent on Carolina rigs with watermelon seed SOUTHEAST 4x4 vehicles can unload on the dirt road near the dam. Crappie are fair on minnows and green tube jigs. french frys, wacky worms, or junebug finesse worms TAWAKONI: Water stained; 65-67 degrees; 6.45' low. CONROE: Water slightly stained; 3.92' low. Black bass OH. IVIE: Water lightly stained; 71 degrees; 15.35' low. Channel and blue catfish are good on cutbait and along the edge of main lake grass beds.. Channel catfish Black bass are fair on Rat-L-Traps and soft plastics are fair on white/red and white/green fleck crankbaits Black bass are fair on shad-colored crankbaits and shrimp. Yellow catfish are slow. are excellent on Danny King=s Punch Bait in 20-22 feet around boat houses with brush. Crappie are fair on live and Rat-L-Traps. Striped bass are good on silver striper Carolina-rigged shad-colored soft plastics near creek around holes baited with soured grain. Crappie are good minnows in 12-15 feet at the fishing barge at Duck Cove PROCTOR: Water murky; 76 degrees; 3.90' low. Black jigs and watermelon soft plastic worms and lizards. channels. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White on live minnows and firetiger pattern jigs in 18-20 feet Marina. White bass are excellent on 1oz. white or char- bass are slow. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on live minnows and blue and red tube bass are fair on live bait and jerkbaits. 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Continued from Page 18 Fishing Report POSSUM KINGDOM: Water clear; 62 degrees; 2.5' low. Black bass are fair in Rock Creek. White bass are good in Bluff Creek and Neely's Slough. Striped bass are fair near piers in Willow Beach area. Blue and channel catfish are fair in the upper part of reservoir. SPENCE: Water lightly stained; 66 degrees; 45' low. Black bass are fair on white spinnerbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. White bass are fair. Striped bass and hybrid striper are fair. Catfish are fair on minnows. STAMFORD: Water lightly stained; 67 degrees; Black bass are fair on white spinnerbaits and live bait. Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows. White and striped bass are fair on live bait. Catfish are fair on minnows. SWEETWATER: Water lightly stained; 62 degrees; 31' low. Black bass are fair on white/chartreuse spinnerbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. White bass are fair. Catfish are fair on live bait and stinkbait. WICHITA: Water muddy; 60 degrees; Full at spillway. Crappie are slow. White bass and hybrid striped bass are fair on large minnows and white twister-tails along dam and near spillway. Channel catfish are fair on bait shrimp or punch bait. COASTAL NORTH SABINE: Trout are good under the birds in the middle of the lake on Carolina-rigged live shad, Top Dogs, Sand Eels and Bass Assassins. Redfish are good under the birds on topwaters and glow and chartreuse plastics. Flounder are good on live bait in the cuts out of the marsh on the Louisiana shoreline. SOUTH SABINE: Trout are good under the birds on Rat- L-Traps, She Pups, live shad and shrimp. Bull redfish and croaker are good on dead bait at Sabine Pass and off the Causeway Pier. Trout are good at night under the lights on green speck-rigs and live shrimp. BOLIVAR: Flounder are good on live mud minnows and shrimp on the bay side of Rollover Pass. Redfish are good in the surf on mullet, cracked crabs and shrimp. TRINITY BAY: Trout are good under drifting birds near the mouth of the river and around Jack's Pocket on shrimptails and topwaters. Croaker, black drum, whiting, sand trout, flounder and redfish are good at the Spillway on fresh dead shrimp and live shrimp under a popping cork. EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout and redfish are good under the birds on glow/chartreuse, motor oil and strawberry Bass Assassins, Sand Eels, Trout Killers, Super Spooks and Top Dogs. Croaker, flounder, whiting and sand trout are good on live bait at Rollover Pass. Trout are good on the deep reefs on live bait and glow plastics. WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are good for drifters working the mouths of bayous and the birds on shrimptails and red plastics. Sand trout, redfish and flounder are good at the jetty and the causeway on live bait. Flounder are fair to good at Sea Wolf Park on live bait. TEXAS CITY: Croaker, sand trout, whiting, redfish and flounder are fair to good on live bait off the piers at the dike. Trout are good for waders on the shell on topwaters and glow Bass Assassins, Sand Eels and Trout Killers. Redfish are fair to good in Moses Lake on live shrimp. FREEPORT: Bull redfish are good on cut bait and shrimp from the mouth of the New River. Croaker, redfish, flounder, whiting, sand trout and sheepshead are good around the rocks at the jetty. Flounder are fair to good in Christmas Bay on mud minnows and finger mullet. EAST MATAGORDA: Trout are good for drifters working scattered shell on the east end of the bay on red shad, fire tiger, pumpkinseed/chartreuse and plum/chartreuse Bass Assassins and Sand Eels. Trout are good for waders on mid bay reefs on topwaters, Bass Assassins, Sand Eels and Trout Killers. MATAGORDA: Redfish are good on live bait and topwaters on the north shoreline reefs and in Oyster Lake. Trout are good at night in the Colorado River on glow plastics. Trout are fair to good under the birds in Tres Palacios Bay on plastics. PORT O'CONNOR: Trout and redfish are good in the back bays near the drop-offs on chartreuse/white She Dogs and glow/chartreuse and electric blue/chartreuse Bass Assassins, Sand Eels and Trout Killers. Trout and redfish are fair to good on the leeward shorelines of San Antonio Bay on live shrimp and black/chartreuse plastics. ROCKPORT: Trout are good in Mesquite and San Antonio Bay on live shrimp and strawberry/white and pepper/chartreuse Bass Assassins, Trout Killers, Sand Eels and Stanley Wedgetails. Trout and redfish are good along the Intracoastal near the Estes Flats on live shrimp and DOA Shrimp. PORT ARANSAS: Trout and redfish are fair to good on live finger mullet and shrimp off the North Jetty. Redfish are fair to good on the East Flats on topwaters and plastics under Mansfield Maulers.