February 27, 2015 - Lone Star Outdoor News - Fishing & Hunting

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FISHING

Pond Boss conference focuses on growing 15-pound bass in backyard ponds.

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HUNTING

Light goose conservation season a success, but some hunters don’t like the extended season.

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TalkingtotomSouth Zone season starts March 21, and hunters are expecting plenty of mature toms this season.

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BaffinBaytroutGuides having tougher February wading in Baffi n due to crazy weather changes.

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On the beds

Border lake anglers throwing to female bass in shallows

ByJillianMockFOR LONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

On Amistad and Falcon International Reservoirs, dense underwater cover and warm-ing water temperatures mean the largemouth bass have started spawning.

“It’s going to be better (this year) than it has been the last two years,” said Gail Criswell, owner of Amistad Marine. “We’ve got more water and the hydrilla is recover-ing and it seems we have plenty of bait fi sh.”

Both lakes are still recovering from major drought and low water levels. “Two years ago we were 41 feet low and now we’re 25 feet low,” said James Bendele at Falcon Lake Tackle. “We get down below 30 feet give or take we lose so much of our cover … We don’t have any small brush to protect the fi sh.”

Largemouth bass will survive well in a variety of habitats but prefer vegetated habitat, whether it’s fl ooded hardwoods, mesquites, salt cedars or aquatic hydrilla. Cover of any kind is especially critical for the survival of juvenile bass, which make a tasty meal for

every lake predator from cormo-rants to adult largemouth.

Bendele said that in the span of 10 days he knew of two to four 11- pounders caught on Falcon and a few 5-, 6-, and 7-pounders. All in all, he fi nds the number of smaller and midsize fi sh to be a good sign for the fi shery.

“We’re not catching huge num-bers of big fi sh like we were a few years ago but the number of big fi sh is up (and) you’ve got to have little ones before you can have big ones.”

On Amistad, Criswell said the average size was around 2 pounds, although one fi sherman did catch a 9-pound, 6-ounce largemouth. She added that the average fi sher-man was probably catching eight to 15 bass a day.

“It’s still not going to be as good as it was in 2005, 2006, 2007 or 2008,” Criswell said, but “it’s mak-ing a big comeback.”

Recovering water levels means recovering fi sh habitat and popu-lations.

Newly fl ooded vegetation last year meant real good survival of young fi sh. Bendele said this

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Veteran takes unique buck

Odessa Pumps and Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation work together to provide opportunity

ByCraigNyhusLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

One might think that a Marine Force Recon veteran who commanded snipers in Afghanistan and other foreign lands would be calm and cool as can be when a buck steps out.

Not so.Colgan Norman hunted in northern Minnesota where he grew up, but

the hunts on public lands in thick woods didn’t produce much action.“I saw one buck and passed on one doe,” he said. “And that was all I saw

in all of the hunts over several years.”After seven years in the Marines, ending as a captain and sniper

commander, he was again a civilian, and now lives with his wife in Connecticut.

He read about the opportunity for a deer hunt with the Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation through the Operation Once in a Lifetime Soldier Initiative program, supported by Odessa Pumps in Odessa.

“I wasn’t sure if the hunt was only for soldiers that had been wounded,” he said.

Operation Once in a Lifetime Founder Patrick Sowers said Norman

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Black drum run on ByConorHarrisonLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Midcoast black drum anglers are having a good February, with plenty of the “big uglies” being caught on crab and squid.

The ship channel near Ingleside is once again the place to be for anglers with a boat — for anglers who are stuck on dry land, it is tough to beat one of the many fi shing piers in the area,

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HUNTING

All about the numbersByJillianMockFOR LONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

The conservation season on snow geese started off strong in Eagle Lake and Garwood but the hunting is getting more diffi cult as the geese leave to head north.

The electronic calling season on light geese started Feb. 2 and runs through March 22. The fi rst weekend of February, foggy weather coupled with electronic calls made for excellent conditions.

“A hunter got 150 geese … fog and wind are key right now,” said Tim Kelley of Tim Kelley’s Waterfowl Outfi tters Unlimited and The Eagle Lake Lodge at Wingswept. “You’ve got that electric call going and the birds can’t see (they) will drop right through to the call

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South Zone ready

ByConorHarrisonLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

It was three springs ago when abundant rains fell across South Texas and the oft-parched landscape exploded in new growth.

South Zone turkey hunters will reap the rewards of that rainfall this spring, when toms born that year will be dominant 3-year-old birds. And there should be loads of those wizened toms to hunt this season.

“Turkey numbers are up a bit, especially where you have good habitat this season,” said Jason Hardin, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s turkey leader. “We just had

such phenomenal recruitment in 2012, and all of those 3-year-old birds will be there. The 2-year-old age class will be spotty, but there should also be some jakes around.

“Hunters will have those big boss toms and jakes this season.”

Hardin said the coastal plains should hold the areas with the highest numbers of birds, with areas to the west becoming hit or miss depending on suitable habitat.

“The coastal plains will be really good,” he said. “The places with good habitat out west will also hold plenty of birds, but it will


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A 10-year dayLate-season South Texas quail hunt brings bobwhites

ByCraigNyhusLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Roy Washburn, an avid quail hunter, has waited a decade for a day like this.

He spent the second-to-the-last day of the season hunting quail in South Texas with the Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation.

“It’s been a 10-year day,” he said. “It’s been 10 years since I’ve had a quail hunt like this — I was impressed with the numbers of the totally wild quail on the ranch.”

The hunt, auctioned off at last year’s Wild Game Supper to raise funds for the foundation, was purchased by Washburn’s friend Stan Graff, but Graff couldn’t make the trip and gave it to his friend. Washburn hunted with his son-in-law, Dane Bruun of Corpus Christi.

The dogs, all 12 of them that alternated shifts, were professional hunters, owned by Darrell Layman of Pearsall. On their 38th hunt of the year, the conditions were hot and dry. That didn’t slow the dogs though, as 16 coveys were pointed and flushed before the two shooters had their limit. Thorns and cactus didn’t seem to bother the dogs, as they would stop briefly to yank one out before resuming running.

Layman has been doing commercial hunts for six years, and this season, he is very popular.

“Don’t they know I’m hunting,” he said to himself after the sixth phone call dur-ing the hunt, each caller asking if he was available for the season’s last day.

Layman’s unique rig consists of a Polaris 5-passenger UTV followed by his dog trailer. He hunts mostly wild quail with his German shorthairs and pointers.

Layman said the quail numbers are good this year in parts of South Texas, “especially from around here (Carrizo Springs) to Cotulla.”

Over Valentine’s Day weekend, humid and cooler tem-peratures provided good scenting conditions for Boomer, the vizsla owned by Eric Shirey of Omaha, Nebraska, and Moose, the black lab of David Sweet of Spring. The dogs were house dogs, not pros, and each sported rubber “boots” on their paws. Their owners spent a fair amount

of time both during and after the hunts removing cactus and other thorns from the hides of their hunters.

Despite being fewer in numbers and experience than the professional dogs, several coveys were pointed and flushed on Valentine’s Day, although the day after proved best, when 14 coveys were flushed in four hours. Not all of the covey rises provided shots for the hunters, and some that did managed to all fly away despite the shooting, but the group, led by Kyle and Konner Smith of Floydada, managed to bag a fair number of bobwhites.

Lone Star Outdoor News will auction another two-day quail hunt for two at its Wild Game Supper benefitting the Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation, to be held in October at the Beretta Gallery in Dallas. Watch the ads in Lone Star Outdoor News for the date! Sealed bids will be accepted prior to the party, send to: Craig Nyhus, Lone Star Outdoor News, P.O. Box 551695, Dallas, TX 75355.

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TPWDbiologistwinsNWTFawardTexas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Dana Wright has trapped hundreds of wild turkeys

for in-state and out-of-state restoration efforts. In fact, no current biologist or technician with TPWD has trapped or handled as many turkeys as Wright.

In recognition of Wright’s dedication to wild turkey management, she received the National Wild Turkey Federation Joe Kurz Wildlife Manager of the Year Award at the 39th annual NWTF Convention and Sport Show.

“I am grateful to have a job working in wildlife conservation and deeply honored to have received this award,” said Wright. “It’s rewarding to see landowners work to create the proper habitat and grow wild turkey populations in places there had been no birds for 20 years or more.”

Wright’s conservation work takes place in one of the most productive Rio Grande turkey habi-tats in Texas. Her infl uence on landowners, paired with her call for the protection and restora-tion of degraded roost habitat, makes her more than qualifi ed to receive the award.

Wright coauthored TPWD’s procedures for rocket-net and drop-net wild turkey trapping. She provides trapping training to agency staff, graduate students and other resource agencies. Ad-ditionally, Wright has been on the front lines for identifying trapping locations for research and restoration efforts.

— NWTF

GanderMountaincomingtoFriscoGander Mountain is once again expanding the nation’s largest and fastest-growing network of

outdoor specialty stores with a new location in Frisco, set to open in the fall. “Gander Mountain is already a well-known and trusted name in Texas among those who love

the outdoors, and who enjoy great traditions like hunting, fi shing, hiking, boating and camp-ing,” said David Pratt, Gander Mountain’s chief executive offi cer.

The newest Gander Mountain will be located in a new 60,100-square-foot store in the Eldo-rado Marketplace, near the northeast corner of Eldorado Parkway and Dallas North Tollway. It will be the 22nd Gander Mountain location in Texas, and the fi fth in the DFW Metroplex.

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WardensarrestdeershootersneardowntownNewBraunfels

Texas game wardens arrested two adults and two juveniles for killing three deer and fi ring as many as 30 rounds in and around Landa and Prince Solms parks in the New Braunfels city limits.

“From the evidence we have developed, this appears to be a case of indiscriminate thrill killing,” said Capt. Jeff Carter of TPWD. “On top of that, multiple rifl e rounds were being fi red at night in a populated area.”

Two dead bucks and one doe were found in the bed of the truck. When offi cers checked the vehicle for weapons, they discovered multiple empty shell casings on the fl oorboards.

Charged with hunting deer at night and hunting from a vehicle on a public roadway, each offense a Class A misdemeanor, were Eric G. Johnston, 25 and Anthony E. Castillo, 39, both of New Braunfels.

— TPWD


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Chasing rabbits a tasty endeavor

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32-pound, 3-ounce bobcat nets team $31,000


The richest big bobcat contest in the country paid out another $31,443 to the winning team of Judd McLure, Joseph Davis, Wade Koehl and Jeb Bertolatus at the February edition of the West Texas Big Bobcat Contest.

The winning cat weighed 32 pounds, 3 ounces.The second-place team of Carl Moore, Mike Havlak and Steve Havlak

brought a 28-pound, 3-ounce bobcat to the scales to win $15,721.50.Third place paid $5,240.50 to Nathan Timm, Chad Box and Dusty

Hohensee.The three jackpot contests each paid out $7,600 for the most grey fox,

63, most coyotes, 32, and most bobcats, 8.The contest is simple — monthly sign-ups (through March) for teams

up to four members and teams must shoot at least fi ve grey fox or fi ve coyotes before they can turn in a bobcat.

A total of 380 teams participated in February’s contest, with 26 bob-cats being weighed.

Target of opportunityByCraigNyhusLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

After hunting quail in South Texas, Konner Smith went to help shoot the fi nal few doe permits left on the Managed Lands Deer Permit ranch with the Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation.

The does didn’t cooperate. A lack of a winter freeze, 75-degree weather and an abundance of new, green vegetation kept the does far from the feeders.

As the sun set and the skies dimmed, a change of plan was needed.

“Let’s go shoot a few rabbits — the .22 is in the truck,” his guide said.

The .22 wasn’t just any .22 rifl e. The fully sup-pressed Ruger SR-22 obtained from Dark Horse Arms is just what any 16-year-old wants to shoot.

A champion trap shooter, Konner proved he could handle the .22, quickly dropping two cottontails and two jackrabbits before it was too dark.

“There’s a catch,” David J. Sams told him. “You have to have your mom cook them and tell us how they were. And she needs to give us the recipe.”

Konner’s mom, Shelly, known for her cooking, obliged and the family tried out his quarry.

“We ate the rabbits, the cottontails were pretty good,” Konner’s dad, Kyle, said. “I can’t say the same for the jackrabbit, though.”

Shelly also cooked the quail the hunters brought home, using the same recipe, so “it also works with quail,” she said.

Shelly Smith’s Fried Rabbit

Ingredients:2 rabbits (backstraps and hind legs)2 eggs2 cups of milk2 cups fl ourSalt and pepper to tasteVoodoo Seasoning to taste2 cups Cottonseed Cooking Oil Mix the eggs and milk in one bowl. Soak rabbit

backstrap and legs in the milk/egg mixture.In a separate bowl, mix the fl our, salt, pepper and

Voodoo seasoning.Dip the rabbit in the fl our mixture.Heat the oil to a medium heat.Place dipped rabbit in the oil and cook until a

golden brown, turning once.

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FISHING

Guides baffl ed in Baffi n

Demand down at power plant lakes; hot-water discharge not as prominent

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The cold shoulderByBrianHughesFOR LONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Texas lakes like Brandy Branch, Squaw Creek, Monticello, Fairfi eld, Welsh, Martin Creek and others have long lured fi shermen from around the state in search of good winter-time fi shing.

Power plant lakes generate electricity by taking in cold lake water and heating it to produce steam, which then powers the turbines, which turn the generators, which make electricity.

Bass and other gamefi sh in this discharge area are much more active, and therefore more easily caught. In addition to better fi shing, these warm-water areas also see spawning activity as much as two months before “cold water” lakes.

In the past year, however, many angler have gone to these warm-water areas only to fi nd water temperatures much lower than expected. This has led to many tabletop discus-sions at the marinas, cafes and bass clubs as to the reasons why. Many theories and suggestions have been put forth and it seems as though someone’s fi rst cousin, wife, brother,

or uncle-in law always has the inside scoop.This has led to a lot of misinformation and speculation.

Everything from plant closings and demolition, to vast right-wing conspiracies have been blamed.

Starting at Welsh, which was rumored to be shutting down and even demolished, Scott McCloud of SWEPCO (Southwestern Electric Power Company) was asked to clar-ify the situation.

“Lake Welsh is by no means closing entirely,” said McCloud. “The plant will be undergoing a retrofi tting of some equipment on the Number 1 and Number 3 genera-tors, to comply with existing EPA regulations on mercury and hazardous waste. However, Number 2 will run through-out this process. When the upgrades are completed, Number 2 will be retired permanently.”

The projected date for the completion of the retrofi t and retirement is April, 2016, according to McCloud. When asked about the lack of warm water from the discharge, McCloud pointed to the generating schedule as the culprit.

“All three units are running and functional as we speak,” he said. “However, with the milder winters the past couple

of years, generation has been in a down cycle.” Generation schedules are based on demand and are gen-

erally kept in-house for competitive reasons. The good news is anglers will be able to fi sh Lake Welsh for some time to come, while the bad news is that it may be colder than expected. SWEPCO is also the agency at Brandy Branch, which McCloud said was running as normal.

Brad Watson, spokesperson for Luminant, the company in charge of Monticello and Squaw Creek, said much the same thing.

Watson pointed out that, “generation schedules deter-mine the amount of discharge, and the marketplace deter-mines generation. If that is reduced, there may not be enough hot water released to warm the lake signifi cantly.”

However, he also stressed the operations at Monticello are, and have been, in full compliance with all government and EPA regulations.

There are currently no plans to shut down Monticello. Recent tournaments at Martin Creek and other lakes have

found the same situation. Lower demand means less gen-eration, which equates to a colder lake. It’s as simple as that.

Unstable water temperatures, lack of big trout frustrating Baffi n guides, anglersByConorHarrisonLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Last winter, well-known Baffi n Capt. Kevin Cochran hammered big trout consistently when wad-ing Baffi n Bay thanks to the cor-rect water temperature and a sta-ble pattern.

That hasn’t been the case this year winter.

“It’s been pretty mediocre the past two or three weeks,” Cochran said. “There was a decent run on nice fi sh before that, but then peo-ple started piling into the area and the fi shing has slowed — 60-some-thing degree water temperature in February is not what you want.”

Cochran said the March-like conditions have made fi nding big fi sh consistently an issue.

“You can’t really fi sh a cold-water spot because you need the water temps to be about 55 degrees and below for a while for that,” he said. “I can’t rely on that pattern like I could in January. The fi sh don’t know what to do with the up-and-down temperatures.”

Cochran and his clients are still catching nice trout — a 7-pounder this week — however, that isn’t the normal large fi sh he is used to catching.

“It doesn’t seem like we are catching the same schools of fi sh we did last year,” he said. “A lot of people last year caught big fi sh. It seems like this season, maybe that school of really big fi sh might be somewhere else. Last year, it was more extreme on the big end.

“It’s not surprising that this year isn’t as good as last year, because last year was really good.”

Cochran said he is using sinking twitchbaits for big fi sh, and some soft plastics when the bite gets tough.

“The top-waters worked well in December,” he said, “but they aren’t real reliable this month.”

Calling February a “roller coaster,” Capt. Chad Peterek said he is still catching plenty of num-bers, just not the large-sized trout he is accustomed to seeing in February.

“We are really having March-like weather with the high winds,” he said. “The trout aren’t on sand yet. I think they are behind — the tides have been lower than normal and it has just been a screwy pat-tern.”

Peterek said December and January were good months for big fi sh, but that has dropped off the past few weeks.

“This week, we had three fi sh over 28 inches — a 7, 7 1/2 and an 8,” he said. “This time of year, we should be catching six to 10 of those fi sh per week. Numbers have been easy, but the big ones are tough.”

For baits, Peretek is using soft plastic Gamblers.

“There was a good Corky bite until a few weeks ago over shallow grass, but now we are throwing soft plastics and dark has been bet-


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Couch potatoesBig bass biologists say keeping bass in one spot helps growth


Add more structure and food.Those two things, along with genetics and age,

could help you grow the biggest largemouth bass you’ve ever caught in a pond you manage.

That was one of the main takeaways when pond and lake managers from across the country came to Dallas last weekend for the Pond Boss IV conference to discuss all things bass management.

The most-anticipated presentation of the week-end was a review of a study conducted by University of South Dakota biologist Dr. Brian Graeb and a team of research scientists on Grand Lake, 120-acre private lake in East Texas owned by Lee Roy Mitchell.

“We really wanted to know how we could grow 15-pound bass,” Graeb said. “We came up with a strategy for trophy fi sh management based on age, habitat, nutrition and genetics. These are all barriers that must be overcome to grow big fi sh.”

In 2011, the team began studying the pond and found prey fi sh to be abundant — bluegills, copper-nose bluegills, crappie, redbreast sunfi sh, tilapia, giz-zard and threadfi n shad and crawfi sh. The habitat was comprised of old cedar trees and brush piles.

“Starting out, the genetics were easy,” Graeb said. “We collected 80 bass between 2.5 and 24 inches, did a fi n clip and removed the odolith. We found the lake had 31 percent pure Florida strain, 14 percent



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Running in the rivers

White bass run is on, except in North Texas


Texas anglers are still catching spawning white bass in the southern reaches of the state, but anglers in the central portion are now beginning to get in on the action, as well.

“They are piled up in both rivers,” said Sam Rayburn guide Bill Fondren, speaking about the Angelina River and Attoyac Bayou. “We are catching 80 to 90 a day — caught 87 this morning. They are really get-ting with it.”

Fondren said the females are fat and full of eggs, and the smaller males are also plentiful.

“The water temperature is about 51 or 52 degrees,” he said. “It was 55 for a little while, until the most recent cold front. We are catching them in both rivers on Road Runner and the new Stanley and Hale lures. They are making a little spinner and it’s a bad boy when you put a little crap-pie jig with it.”

Fondren said any creek bend or channel bank has fi sh piled on it — catching them is easy when you fi nd the right spot.

According to other guide reports, the white bass are still going strong in the Trinity River above Lake Livingston and the Sabine River near Toledo Bend Reservoir.

Anglers taking to message boards reported good catches of female white bass on all of the above mentioned rivers, even with the colder temperatures the state receive the past week.

When the weather turns frigid, guides say to look in the deeper river channels for white bass stacked up instead of the bends and sand bars where they can be found on warmer days.

However, the run has not made its way to North Texas, according to anglers and local game wardens who regularly patrol rivers and check for fi shing violations.

“It’s been a little bit of a weird year on the Neches River,” said Smith County Game Warden Chris Swift. “The fi sh are not in the creeks yet. They all seem to be at the north end of the lake. We had spawning fi sh this time last year, but everything is a little slow — nobody can even fi nd the crappie in Palestine right now.

“We should be catching some females by now, but we’ve only got small pockets of males.”

Swift said there are very few fi sh in the Neches north of Lake Palestine.

Two plead guiltytoshootingdolphintrappedinCowBayou

Two Bridge City brothers have pleaded guilty to federal wildlife violations, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.

Cory James Moseley, 23, and Cade Ryan Moseley, 18, pleaded guilty to taking a ma-rine mammal in United States waters on Feb. 17, 2015, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith F. Giblin.

According to information presented in court, on July 26, 2014, Cory Moseley and Cade Moseley were fi shing on Cow Bayou near Orange-fi eld, when they spotted two bottlenose dolphins stranded in the bayou. They shot at the dolphins with a compound bow and Cade Moseley hit one of the dolphins. The dolphin swam away but was mortally wounded.

Wildlife agents were notifi ed there was a dead dolphin in the bayou by an angler. The de-ceased dolphin was recovered and an investigation resulted in federal charges against the Moseley brothers. The second dolphin was located in the bayou and rescued by wildlife agents and SeaWorld San Anto-nio personnel.

The defendants each face up to one year in federal prison and a $20,000.00 fi ne. A sen-tencing date has not been set.

— TPWD


ALANHENRY: Water stained; 42–46 degrees; 9.69’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on lip-less crankbaits, jigs and Texas rigs. Catfi sh are fair on char-treuse nightcrawlers.

AMISTAD: Water murky; 58–62 degrees; 29.18’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on jigs, crankbaits, spinner baits and lipless crankbaits. White bass are good on slabs and white grubs.

ATHENS: Water clear; 47–51 degrees; 0.55’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on lipless crank-baits and soft plastic jerkbaits. Crappie are slow on minnows and jigs.

BASTROP: Water stained; 55–59 degrees. Largemouth bass are fair on watermelon red soft plastics, spinner baits and crankbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows over brush piles.

BOBSANDLIN: Water clear; 46–50 degrees; 1.29’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on spinner baits, swim jigs and lipless crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and white jigs.

BONHAM: Water stained, 47–50 degrees; 2.78’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on lipless crankbaits, jigs and jerk-baits.

BRAUNIG: Water stained. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits and dark soft plas-tic worms in the reeds and near the jetty and dam.

BRIDGEPORT: Water lightly stained, 46–49 degrees; 24.24’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on suspending jerk-baits and small jigging spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows.

BROWNWOOD: Water clear; 52–56 degrees; 12.52’ low. Largemouth bass are good on chartreuse jigs and watermelon soft plastics in 10–30 feet.

BUCHANAN: Water murky; 53–57 degrees; 32.88’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on

Carolina-rigged black/blue liz-ards, Rattlin’ Rogues and blue fl ake Whacky Sticks on jig-heads along ledges in 10–20 feet.

CADDO: Water stained; 49–53 degrees; 0.80’ high. Largemouth bass are good on lipless crankbaits, bladed jigs and black and blue fl ipping jigs. White and yellow bass are fair on minnows.

CALAVERAS: Water stained. Largemouth bass are good on dark soft plastic worms, spinner baits, and crankbaits near the dam. Striped bass are fair on chicken livers and shad along the shoreline.

CANYONLAKE: Water murky; 55–59 degrees; 11.33’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on pumpkin hair jigs with craw trailers, Carolina-rigged lizards, and Texas-rigged blue fl ake worms along break lines and ledges.

CEDARCREEK: Water clear; 46–49 degrees; 4.83’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on bladed jigs and lipless crank-baits. White bass are fair on minnows and slabs. Hybrid striper are good on minnows and slabs.

CHOKECANYON: Water stained; 55–59 degrees; 28.58’ low. Largemouth bass are good on pumpkinseed soft plastic worms and lizards, and fl ipping jigs in the grass. White bass are good on small spin-ner baits.

COLEMAN: Water clear; 56–60 degrees; 19.38’ low. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon red soft plas-tics and on chartreuse lipless crankbaits.

COLETOCREEK: Water murky; 58 degrees in main lake, 63 degrees at hot water discharge; 4.38’ low. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon soft plas-tics and spinner baits in 4–8 feet.

CONROE: Water murky; 55–59 degrees; 0.02’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on watermelon soft plastics, crank-baits and lipless crankbaits in 15–30 feet.

FALCON: Water murky; 56–60 degrees; 25.72’ low. Largemouth bass are good on chartreuse soft plastics, jigs, and slow-rolling spinner baits off ledges in 15–25 feet, and in pockets in 5–10 feet.

FAYETTE: Water stained. Largemouth bass are fair on chartreuse lipless crankbaits, spinner baits and soft plastics.

FORK: Water clear; 47–51 degrees; 7.02’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on black and blue fl ipping jigs and umbrella rigs in 6–12’ of water along chan-nel swings.

FT.PHANTOMHILL: Water clear; 42–45 degrees; 17.33’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on chrome lipless crankbaits and Texas rigs. Crappie are fair on live minnows. Catfi sh are fair on cut bait.

GIBBONSCREEK: Water clear. Largemouth bass are fair on watermelon red and water-melon/white soft plastics and crankbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfi sh are good on frozen shrimp and stinkbait.

GRANBURY: Water murky; 52–56 degrees; 9.99’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows.

GRANGER: Water clear; 52–56 degrees; 0.57’ high. Largemouth bass are slow. White bass are fair on spoons upriver near Dickerson’s Bottom and Comanche Bluff.

GRAPEVINE: Water clear; 46–49 degrees; 11.97’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on shaky heads, deep crankbaits and football jigs near brush piles. Crappie are good on min-nows and jigs.

HOUSTONCOUNTY: Water stained; 55–59 degrees; 0.24’

high. Largemouth bass to 3 pounds are fair on spinner baits and soft plastic worms near the dam and at drop–offs.

HUBBARDCREEK: Water off-color; 42–46 degrees; 30.07’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on chatterbaits, lipless crank-baits and Texas rigs. Crappie are fair on live minnows.

JOEPOOL: Water clear; 47–50 degrees; 1.30’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on lipless crank-baits, suspending jerkbaits and drop-shot fi nesse worms. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs.

LAKEO’THEPINES: Water lightly stained; 47–52; degrees; 0.79’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on lipless crankbaits and bladed jigs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs.

LBJ: Water stained; 54–58 degrees; 0.31’ low. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon worms, PBJ-colored jigs and green pumpkin tubes. White bass are fair on Li’l Fishies.

LEWISVILLE:Water lightly stained; 45–49 degrees; 7.07’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on bladed jigs, Flick Shakes and umbrella rigs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. .

LIVINGSTON:Water fairly clear; 54–58 degrees; 0.15’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits and watermelon soft plastics in the creeks. White bass are fair on lip-less crankbaits and spec rigs upriver. Crappie are good.

MARTINCREEK: Water clear; 56–64 degrees; 0.08’ high. Largemouth bass are good on shallow/medium crankbaits and spinner baits. Crappie are fair on minnow and jigs.

O.H.IVIE: Water stained; 42–46 degrees; 43.63’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on lip-less crankbaits, jigs and Texas rigs.

OAKCREEK: Water stained; 41–45 degrees; 25.54’ low.

Largemouth bass are fair on spinner baits, Texas rigs and crankbaits. Crappie are fair.

PALESTINE: Water clear; 45–48 degrees; 0.19’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on lip-less crankbaits, bladed jigs and fl ipping jigs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Hybrid striper are fair on slabs and minnows.

POSSUMKINGDOM: Water fairly clear; 42–47 degrees; 14.61’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on shad-pattern crank-baits, Texas rigs and lipless crankbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows.

PROCTOR: Water murky; 56–60 degrees; 12.73’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on chartreuse lipless crankbaits.

RAYHUBBARD:Water clear; 46–50 degrees; 9.08’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits, smaller umbrella rigs and suspending jerkbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and chartreuse jigs.

RAYROBERTS: Water clear; 45–49 degrees; 7.77’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on drop-shot fi nesse worms, jig-ging spoons and Texas rigs near deeper timber. Crappie are slow on minnows near brush piles.

RICHLANDCHAMBERS: Water lightly stained; 45–50 degrees; 10.26’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on shaky heads, weightless worms and drop-shot worms. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs.

SAMRAYBURN: Water murky; 54–58 degrees; 0.16’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on watermelon red soft plastics, crankbaits, and lipless crank-baits. White bass are fair on live minnows and white spinner baits. Catfi sh are good on liver.

STILLHOUSE: Water murky; 56–60 degrees; 14.96’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on perch-colored lipless crankbaits and small spinner baits.

TEXOMA: Water clear; 45–48 degrees; 5.17’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on suspending jerkbaits, umbrella rigs and Spy Baits. Crappie are good on min-nows near brush piles. Striped bass are good on minnows.

TOLEDOBEND: Water murky; 51–55 degrees; 2.99’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on dark red soft plastics, white spinner baits and crankbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows.

TRAVIS: Water murky; 53–57 degrees; 55.20’ low. Largemouth bass are good on green pumpkin worms, chrome spoons and fi retiger crankbaits in 15–35 feet. Striped bass are fair on shad crankbaits and chrome spoons in 30–50 feet. White bass are good on min-nows and white grubs.

WALTERE.LONG: Water lightly stained. Largemouth bass are fair on pumpkinseed soft plas-tics and Lipless crankbaits. Hybrid striper are slow. White bass are fair on minnows.

WHITNEY: Water murky; 54–58 degrees; 10.32’ low. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon and redbug soft plastics, spinner baits and crankbaits.

WRIGHTPATMAN: Water lightly stained; 47–51 degrees; 3.72’ high. Largemouth bass are slow on green pumpkin fl ip-ping jigs and bladed jigs near shallow cover. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs.

— TPWD

TEXAS FRESHWATER FISHING REPORT

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WhitesmovingupstreamYEGUA CREEK — The Lee County river is

producing white bass and crappie, according to poster Breaux on 2coolfishing.com.

Near Irwin’s Bridge on County Road 124, the angler has had success using pearl/chartreuse with a 1/16-ounce jig head fished slowly along the bottom. The big females have moved into the creek, along with good numbers of smaller males.

Along with small jigheads, Road Runners and tiny inline spinner baits are also catch-ing good numbers of white bass and crappie.

Look for shallow bends in the creek next to deeper pools.

’TooningforbigcatsLAKE LAVON — Guide Dusty Dooley

has seen customers land big blue cats on the Collin County reservoir, including a 50-pounder on February 21. Operating a pontoon boat, Dooley has taken up to six fishermen, and reports success catching both big blues and smaller cats for the table.

To contact Guide Dusty Dooley, call (214) 243-9151.

MixedbagBELTON LAKE — According to guides

at Sure Strike Guide Service on Belton Lake, the action has been pretty good considering the cold front that has swept across the state recently.

“Water is clear up around the dam and main lake, but becomes cloudy the closer you got to Rogers Park,” the report on Texas Fishing Forum said. “Water temperature ranges between 52 and 56 degrees and the water level is currently sitting at 12.68 feet low. A mix of largemouth and small-mouth are being caught, and are in anywhere from 4 to 40 feet of water. (We) fished a club tournament there on Saturday and 15-plus pounds took first. There were also sev-eral really nice largemouth bass in the 7-pound range and a few nice smallmouths, with the biggest being just over 3-and-a-half pounds. The fish were being caught on a num-ber of different baits, from jigs to crankbaits. Greens and natural-colored baits seemed to work the best.”

To contact Sure Strike Guide Service, call (254) 368-0294.

— Conor Harrison

TEXAS FRESHWATER FISHING REPORT

has seen customers land big blue cats on

50-pounder on February 21. Operating a pontoon boat, Dooley has taken up to six

producing white bass and crappie, according to

Near Irwin’s Bridge on County Road 124, the

the bottom. The big females have moved into the creek, along with good numbers of smaller males.

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ter than lighter,” he said. For locations, Peterek said the King Ranch Shoreline bite was killed when

the low tide came in. Now, focus on the midbay fl ats.“We are in mid-thigh depth sight-casting to lighter colored mud holes or

dark grass,” he said. “The fi sh are hiding and holding in those spots. The back of Baffi n (Alazan and Cayo del Grullo) had lots of bait, but we haven’t caught anything over 5 pounds.”

Peterek said a lack of structure hurts the fi shing in the back bays.“There isn’t any grass,” he said. “You’ve got to look for little ledges and rocks

back there. Most of the fi sh hold to what structure there is.”

F1 hybrids (fi rst-generation hybrids) and 55 per-cent Fx hybrids (everything else) and zero percent northern strain. It was a heavy Florida strain, so genetics were good.”

After examining what the bass were eating (55 percent ate crawfi sh, 50-70 percent ate small fi sh) and noticing the bass started out gaining weight quickly before leveling off in weight as they got older, the research team realized some of the fi sh were very fat and some were very skinny.

“We had lots of variability within the bass popu-lation,” Graeb said. “We began studying why. We started to look at habitat use and movement by putting radio telemetry into 40 bass and did an 18-month study on home ranges and movement.”

What the researchers found was some areas of the lake received heavy use, while other areas received very little. Also, the group found a wide variety in how far bass swam.

“The smallest mover had a home range of about 50 yards, and this is what we would normally expect,” Graeb said. “But we began to see bass that used the entire lake, routinely zipping over a mile to each end of the lake. In 24 hours, one bass swam 1.4 miles and we had one go more than two miles.

“These were very unexpected results.”After scanning the bottom of the lake, it was

found the old structure had rotted away and bass were traveling so far to fi nd food sources on what little structure remained.

“We determined habitat was the most limiting factor in this lake,” Graeb said. “It was like we had a bunch of marathon runners and we wanted couch potatoes. The bass were skinny by having to swim so far.”

The team went about making ambush points from structure built by Mossback Fish Habitat. Horizontal “trees,” trophy trees and high-density safe haven trees were all added to form “fi sh cities” throughout the lake.

“The goal is to try and decrease fi sh activity, decrease their home range and increase consump-tion,” Graeb said. “Our target is between 20- and 40-percent coverage of the lake. Currently, we have 22 fi sh cities and 13-percent habitat coverage with a plan to increase annually. We want to see if too much habitat begins to be too much of a good thing.”

Has it paid off with bigger bass yet?Check back in a year or two.

Overcoming obstacles key to big bassContinuedfrompage8

Focus on midbay fl ats for troutContinuedfrompage8

SharkboatseizedinGulfTexas game wardens seized a Mexican shark-fi shing boat in state waters near the

Texas-Mexico border earlier this month.Wardens were patrolling the Gulf of Mexico for illegal fi shing activity when they spot-

ted a Mexican fi shing boat moving northbound in Texas waters.When the wardens attempted to stop the boat, its occupants ignored the state ves-

sel and began racing back toward Mexican waters. After a brief pursuit, the wardens were able to get it stopped. Two fi shermen were arrested. The open boat, powered by a 75-horsepower outboard motor, was seized along with illegal long-line fi shing gear.

— TPWD


LANDOWNERTURNSINDOVEBAITERS

Bell County Game Warden Brandt Bernstein checked a field of dove hunters and discovered they had been hunting over bait and cita-tions were issued. The landowner knew nothing about the bait but was determined to find out who was responsible. A few days later, the landowner called and provided the names of two suspects who admit-ted to placing out the bait but said that “it should all be gone by now.” Bernstein interviewed both sus-pects and one admitted to hunting over the bait while the other sus-pect admitted he placed the bait. Case pending.

NIGHTPOACHERSCHARGESINCREASEAFTERBUCKCARCASS

FOUNDLa Salle County Game Warden

Ryan Johnson set up on a back road where poaching activity was known to take place. At about 8:30 p.m., a slow-moving truck moved by, shining a light. After following the vehicle for a short distance, a traffic stop was made. The two occupants had a loaded rifle lying across their laps. A set of fresh deer antlers were in the bed of the truck and the two occupants were taken to jail. A few days later, a deer carcass was discovered on a nearby ranch. The deer antlers from the truck bed matched per-fectly. It was also discovered that one suspect was a convicted felon. Now, state jail felony charges, as well as unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, are pending.

NOTNEIGHBORLYNEIGHBORSHOOTSDEER,DRAGSUNDERFENCE

A Webb County landowner reported he believed a deer was

poached on his ranch and drug under the fence. Webb County Game Warden Jon Balderas responded. There was evidence of a deer being shot, a fence being cut and a deer having been drug under the cut fence. Balderas then went to the adjacent property to see if anyone was at the deer camp and began looking for evidence. There was no contact made at the camp, but at the cleaning station there was evidence that a deer was recently processed, and the mate-rial used to repair the cut fence was also present. After Balderas investigated and talked to land-owners and to the hunters leasing the property, one man confessed to shooting the deer on the neighbor-ing property and cutting the fence to retrieve the dead deer. Multiple cases are pending.

MANBUSTEDSELLINGDEERMEAT A man was selling deer meat on

social media and at a garage sale in Travis County. Game Wardens Natali Merez and Jeff Hill received multiple calls and located the indi-vidual through a deer processor. Hill made contact with the subject at his house. A large freezer in the

garage contained shrink-wrapped jerky, sausage, steaks and ground meat. The man said his short-lived meat sales business has come to an end. Case pending.

REPEATPOACHEREARNSTRIPTOJAIL

A witness observed a deer head at a residence and reported it to Coke County Game Warden Jim Allen. A local landowner had sus-pected a buck had been poached on his property and forwarded Allen photos of the deer. The witness identified the same deer and an evidentiary warrant was obtained. Along with Tom Green County Game Wardens Cyndi Aguilar and Ricky May, and county deputies, the war-rant was served and the deer head was recovered. The gross score of the white-tailed buck was 248 3/8 inches. The residence was the home of a man that Allen arrested for hunting without consent and killing a buck scoring 159 5/8 in November 2014. The same man was also cited in January 2014 for hunting deer in a closed season. An arrest warrant was obtained. The same night the evidentiary search warrant was served, another war-

rant was also served on the ranch of the man’s grandmother and a stolen ATV was recovered.

THESEJUVENILESMIGHTGETGROUNDED

In Morris County, Titus County Game Warden Jerry Ash responded to a complaint about people tres-passing and shooting Canada geese and leaving them to waste. The only suspect was a juvenile who was seen at the private lake the previous night. Ash located the juvenile’s home and waited. The juvenile subject then returned home, driving without a license and pulling a trailer with a large hog in it. The subject claimed he had been hog hunting all morning with four of his friends. After verifying his story, Ash issued four citations for no hunting licenses, two cita-tions for no Hunter Education and a warning for no driver’s license. Later that evening, the original suspect contacted Ash and gave the names of the two juveniles who shot the geese. Ash contacted the juveniles, along with their par-ents, and discovered the suspects had later returned and trespassed to retrieve a goose but still had

not cleaned the goose more than 15 hours after it had been shot. Citations and civil restitution were issued.

MANFINALLYCAUGHTAFTERRUNNINGOVER,THENSHOOTING

DOEThe Chandler Police Department

called Henderson County Game Warden Chad West after a caller witnessed a person run over a doe in a neighborhood. The caller explained how the person threw the doe in the bed of the truck and sped off. The next day, West received a call from another con-cerned citizen saying she observed a doe in the bed of a truck with only the hindquarters missing. West went to the location of the truck and observed the doe had been shot in the head with a small-caliber rifle. After questioning the homeowners where the truck was located, it became clear the homeowners had no idea how the doe got in the bed of their truck. The homeowners did tell West that a friend stopped by late the previ-ous night and left in a hurry. The homeowners thought it was sus-picious but didn’t think much of it. The friend’s truck matched the description of the truck that had been reported the day before. The case went cold for about a month before a local constable caught an individual trespassing on a vacant lot and knew that it was the truck West had been looking for. The subject admitted he intention-ally ran over the doe to get some “free meat.” The deer was not dead and the subject shot it with a .22-caliber rifle after loading it into the bed of his truck. The rifle was recovered and multiple cases were filed.

GAME WARDEN BLOTTERSPOTLIGHTERSSHINELIGHTONWARDEN’SRESIDENCEHouston County Game Warden Zak Benge was

lying in bed when his dog began to bark. Looking out of his bedroom window, he saw a flash of light off the side of his barn. Benge got out of bed and walked to the window and observed the light again, and then saw the light shine down the fence line between his residence and his neighbor’s property. Benge threw on the clothes next to his bed and ran outside to his truck but could not see any vehicles. He left his property and caught two vehicles approximately one mile down the road still burning two lights. Benge

activated his emergency lights and the car in the back slowed down, but wouldn’t pull over. Fearing the truck in front would run, Benge went around the car and got the truck stopped in the bar ditch. Benge removed and handcuffed three men from the truck and then two more from the car. A search of the vehicles revealed five spotlights and four rifles — all loaded. The rear of the truck also contained a freshly killed doe the group had shot. Local deputies trans-ported the men to jail and the deer was donated to local individuals.

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was just what they were looking for.“The way he asked, he said he would love to be part of

program, but that he wasn’t wounded and didn’t want to take anything away from anyone,” Sowers said. “He never mentioned his Marine Force Recon experience or decora-tions.”

It was Norman’s humility that led to him being chosen for the hunt.

“He stood out,” Sowers said. “He was an example of true leadership and selfl ess service. It was an easy choice.”

On the fi rst evening of Norman’s hunt, several young bucks stepped out, but that didn’t stop him from getting excited. He quickly developed the erratic and rapid breath-ing known to all deer hunters.

“This is more bucks than I saw in all my years of hunt-ing,” he said.

“Relax, we’ll see an older one,” his guide Craig Nyhus told him.

The next morning, a buck that had been briefl y seen at the lease only twice previously stepped out. The buck, likely from an injury, sported two main beams on the left side. After some time looking at the buck, it was determined he was mature.

Now used to seeing deer, Norman was more relaxed.“Go ahead and slowly put the gun out the window,” the

guide whispered to the hunter. The buck turned broadside.“Whenever you’re ready.”Norman’s experience with fi rearms took over and it

didn’t take him long to take the shot. The buck was down.“I felt more calm looking at the deer this morning,” he

said. “I’m glad we saw the bucks last night — I might have been too excited.”

The cape, head and antlers are now at Heads Above the Rest in Clifton for taxidermy work, the backstraps went to Cinnamon Creek Wild Game Processing for steaks and the rest of the meat was made into sausage and will be shipped to Norman back home.

Norman’s trip back to Connecticut was eventful, as the fi rst of several blizzards in the area hit, causing him to spend two extra days in Virginia before getting home.

“It’s too bad I didn’t get stuck in San Antonio,” he said. “I could have gone back to the ranch.”

Sowers, a Dallas resident, started Operation Once in a

Lifetime after growing up in and serving in the military.“I was fortunate when I got out and worked in the cor-

porate world with all the corporate perks,” he said. “I got the opportunity to experience a lot of different things, and I wanted to give others the chance.”

OOIAL started out by taking soldiers to sporting events like NFL, NBA and NHL games, but realized that every sol-dier’s wish was different. Now, the charity has 18 different programs, providing everything from fi nancial assistance to hunting and fi shing trips.

“In seven years, we’ve helped more than 150,000 service members,” Sowers said. “The only requirement is that vet-erans must have served honorably and active soldiers must be in good standing. We evaluate each request from there — almost all of the requests are valid and are life-changing.”

Norman couldn’t agree more.“I will never forget that hunt,” he said. “It was truly once

in a lifetime.”

so that they’re literally right above you.” During the conservation season, there are no daily

bag or possession limits; the use of electronic calls is legal, as are unplugged shotguns holding more than three shells. The goal, as Kelley describes it, is to “bring the numbers of snow geese down because there is such an overpopulation of snow geese and they’re destroying their nesting habitat up in the tundra in Canada.”

Outfitters have mixed opinions about hunting the extended season. Kelley believes there are too few birds hanging around to guarantee a decent hunt past that second weekend of the extended season. Most outfitters

in the area follow Kelley’s exam-ple and shut down shortly after the conservation season begins, telling would-be hunters to come back for the regular season next year. Some have stopped hunt-ing geese altogether and focus on duck as their main source of rev-enue.

Other outfitters, like Bill Sherrill of W.S. Sherrill Waterfowl, do not hunt the extended season at all.

“I do not hunt the tape recorder season because I do not believe in it,” he said. “There might be too many geese somewhere, but there aren’t too many geese in Texas.”

By abstaining from the no-limit extended hunts, Sherrill hopes to get large populations of snow geese returning to his high-qual-ity habitat year after year.

Capt. Jamie C. Pinter of Goose Hunting Inc., one of the few out-fitters actively hunting through-out the extended season, remarked “the hunting has been good, not great, but we are still probably shooting 20 to 40 birds on every hunt.”

Butch Waggoner of Butch’s Guide Service, the only other out-fitter in the area that Pinter was confident is still hunting water-fowl, added that hunting right now can be really good but it might take some extra effort.

“You’ve got to drive so far to find the concentrations of birds,”

he said. “They are so few and far between. You’ve just gotta find them.”

If you are looking to hunt geese this time of year, the birds have generally moved over to wheat fields and some green grass fields after feeding on rice earlier in the winter. Best to start hunting while it is still cold, however.

While they might have different philosophies on tape recorder season, Kelley, Sherrill and Pinter all agree if the weather steadily warms, the birds head north quickly.

Veteran enjoys well-deserved huntContinuedfrompage1

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Fewer goose guides working conservation seasonContinuedfrompage4

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SanLuisPassDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time Height Feb 27 6:08 AM -0.2L 3:35 PM 1.0H Feb 28 7:00 AM -0.1L 4:09 PM 1.0H Mar 01 7:47 AM -0.1L 4:23 PM 0.9H 9:38 PM 0.7LMar 02 12:37 AM 0.8H 8:34 AM 0.0L 4:36 PM 0.9H 9:48 PM 0.7LMar 03 1:33 AM 0.8H 9:20 AM 0.0L 4:46 PM 0.8H 10:10 PM 0.6LMar 04 2:28 AM 0.8H 10:01 AM 0.1L 4:46 PM 0.8H 10:35 PM 0.6LMar 05 3:23 AM 0.9H 10:36 AM 0.2L 4:45 PM 0.8H 10:59 PM 0.5LMar 06 4:13 AM 0.9H 11:04 AM 0.3L 4:58 PM 0.8H 11:21 PM 0.4LMar 07 4:58 AM 0.9H 11:23 AM 0.4L 5:15 PM 0.8H 11:44 PM 0.3LMar 08 5:46 AM 0.9H 11:37 AM 0.5L 5:28 PM 0.8H Mar 09 12:14 AM 0.3L 6:48 AM 0.9H 12:01 PM 0.6L 5:26 PM 0.8HMar 10 12:55 AM 0.2L 8:12 AM 0.9H 12:34 PM 0.7L 5:25 PM 0.8HMar 11 1:44 AM 0.2L 9:38 AM 0.9HMar 12 2:35 AM 0.1L 2:01 PM 1.0HMar 13 3:30 AM 0.1L 1:20 PM 1.1H

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RolloverPassDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time HeightFeb 27 9:12 AM -0.3L 6:48 PM 0.9HFeb 28 10:10 AM -0.4L 7:28 PM 0.9H 11:24 PM 0.7L Mar 01 1:27 AM 0.8H 11:00 AM -0.3L 8:00 PM 0.9H 11:57 PM 0.7LMar 02 2:42 AM 0.8H 11:43 AM -0.3L 8:17 PM 0.8H Mar 03 12:30 AM 0.7L 3:44 AM 0.8H 12:20 PM -0.2L 8:21 PM 0.8HMar 04 1:01 AM 0.6L 4:37 AM 0.8H 12:51 PM -0.1L 8:06 PM 0.7HMar 05 1:30 AM 0.5L 5:26 AM 0.8H 1:13 PM 0.0L 7:46 PM 0.7HMar 06 1:51 AM 0.5L 6:14 AM 0.7H 1:25 PM 0.1L 7:49 PM 0.7HMar 07 1:56 AM 0.4L 7:05 AM 0.7H 1:36 PM 0.2L 8:03 PM 0.8HMar 08 3:07 AM 0.3L 9:01 AM 0.7H 2:57 PM 0.3L 9:20 PM 0.8HMar 09 3:40 AM 0.3L 10:04 AM 0.7H 3:23 PM 0.4L 9:41 PM 0.8HMar 10 4:25 AM 0.2L 11:20 AM 0.7H 3:47 PM 0.6L 10:06 PM 0.8HMar 11 5:26 AM 0.1L 1:04 PM 0.7H 3:38 PM 0.7L 10:36 PM 0.8HMar 12 6:51 AM 0.1L 11:15 PM 0.9HMar 13 8:28 AM 0.0L 7:56 PM 0.9H

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PortAransasDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time HeightFeb 27 4:56 AM -0.2L 3:23 PM 0.9HFeb 28 5:54 AM -0.1L 4:06 PM 0.9H Mar 01 6:44 AM -0.1L 4:40 PM 0.8H 7:43 PM 0.7L 10:29 PM 0.8HMar 02 7:27 AM 0.0L 4:07 PM 0.7H 8:03 PM 0.7L 11:37 PM 0.8 HMar 03 8:03 AM 0.0L 3:47 PM 0.7H 8:25 PM 0.6L Mar 04 12:37 AM 0.8H 8:35 AM 0.1L 3:28 PM 0.7H 8:48 PM 0.6LMar 05 1:34 AM 0.8H 9:04 AM 0.2L 3:17 PM 0.7H 9:09 PM 0.5LMar 06 2:30 AM 0.8H 9:32 AM 0.2 L 3:33 PM 0.8H 9:33 PM 0.4 LMar 07 3:26 AM 0.8H 9:57 AM 0.3 L 3:56 PM 0.8H 10:02 PM 0.4 LMar 08 5:24 AM 0.8H 11:22 AM 0.5 L 5:20 PM 0.8H 11:37 PM 0.3 LMar 09 6:25 AM 0.8H 11:47 AM 0.6L 5:40 PM 0.8H Mar 10 12:15 AM 0.2L 7:33 AM 0.8H 12:10 PM 0.7L 5:52 PM 0.8HMar 11 12:58 AM 0.2L 8:59 AM 0.8H 12:27 PM 0.8L 5:46 PM 0.8HMar 12 1:49 AM 0.2L 3:40 PM 0.9HMar 13 2:48 AM 0.1L 4:14 PM 1.0H

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BigredsandtroutGALVESTON BAY COMPLEX — Even though the

weather has turned cold, the fi shing remains hot in areas of the Galveston Bay complex, according to Capt. Blake Sartor on 2coolfi shing.com.

Sartor reported a strong bite for nice trout and bull reds this past week.

“Thursday we was fi shed for the big ones and started the day off with a couple nice 5-pounders,” he wrote. “The bite shut off until noon, then we landed several fi sh from 4-6.75 pounds on Corkys in 1 to 3 feet of water. This weekend we stayed in the boat and found good action on upper-slot reds and solid keeper-sized specks fi shing 3 to 4 feet of shell close to deeper water using both soft plastics and popping corks. March is coming up and it’s the best month to wade shallow for big speckled trout.”

To contact Capt. Blake Sartor, call (832) 385-2012.

Dinner,butnotrophiesSAN ANTONIO BAY — According to Capt. Chris Martin at Bay Flats Lodge, the trout and

redfi sh bite in San Antonio Bay has been good this month, although more slot-sized fi sh are being caught than trophy-sized trout.

“We experienced a good top-water bite during the middle of the day and caught the rest

on tails and Corky lures. Mostly knee-deep stuff over scattered grass,” he said. “We ended up with a good dinner — most of our trout were solid fi sh, and I released one trout in the 24-inch class. Reds were lower-slot fi sh. Most fi sh were caught on TTF Flats Minnows, with a couple reds on the Bug lure. One thing is for sure, the wind is blowing.”

To contact Capt. Chris Martin, call (888) 677-4868.

Chasingcold-weatherredsSEADRIFT — The action has been good near

Seadrift, according to Capt. Kris Kelley at Castaway Lodge.

“A couple of great days for catch and release with guests from Canada,” he said. “They had a ball chasing redfi sh in the cold front and then got the warm sunshine they were looking for as temps rose. Day one, we started off around 10:30 in the teeth of the front and managed 19 slot fi sh released, with about half as many undersized. The weather fi nally broke on us around 1:30, and the sun poked out, which allowed us to warm up a bit. Day two, we started off around 9:00 and managed to go deep in the numbers of slot fi sh pretty quickly. Temps warmed up and the bite on the fl ats slowly picked up around 2:00 or so. We managed to release all but two fi sh over the two-day trip.”

To contact Castaway Lodge, call (888) 618-4868.— Conor Harrison

NORTHSABINE: Trout and redfish are fair while drifting mud and shell. Trout are fair on Soft–Dines while wading the Louisiana shoreline.

SOUTHSABINE: Redfish are fair on the edge of the channel on mullet. Sheepshead and black drum are good at the jetty on live shrimp.

BOLIVAR: Trout are fair to good on the south shoreline on slow–sinking plugs. Black drum and redfish are good at Rollover Pass.

TRINITYBAY: Trout are fair for drifters working shell in 3–5 feet of water on plas-tics. Redfish are good at the spillway on crabs and mullet.

EASTGALVESTONBAY: Trout are fair to good on the north shoreline on Corkies and MirrOlures. Whiting and sand trout are good on the edge of the Intracoastal on fresh shrimp.

WESTGALVESTONBAY: Trout are fair on the mud and shell on twitchbaits in the afternoon. Sheepshead, redfish and black drum are good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs.

TEXASCITY: Whiting and sand trout are fair to good on shrimp from the piers. Redfish are fair in Moses Lake on the fall-ing tide on crabs and shrimp.

FREEPORT: Sand trout and sheepshead are good on live shrimp on the reefs. Redfish are fair to good at San Luis pass on cracked blue crabs.

EASTMATAGORDABAY: Trout are fair for drifters on plastics over humps and scat-tered shell. Redfish are fair to good on the edge of the Intracoastal on crabs and mullet.

WESTMATAGORDABAY: Redfish are fair to good on the south shoreline in the guts and bayous. Trout are fair in the guts for

waders tossing plastics and Corkies.PORTO’CONNOR: Trout and redfish

are fair on soft plastics on the edge of muddy channels. Redfish are fair to good at the mouths of drains on the falling tide. Sheepshead are good at the jetty on shrimp.

ROCKPORT: Trout are fair on the edge of the ICW on glow DOA Shrimp. Redfish are fair to good in the holes on the Estes Flats on mullet and shrimp.

PORTARANSAS:Sheepshead are good at the jetty on live shrimp. Redfish and black drum are good in the channels on crabs.

CORPUSCHRISTI: Trout are fair on the King Ranch shoreline on scented plas-tics and plastics. Redfish are good in the Humble Channel on crabs and table shrimp.

BAFFINBAY: Trout are fair to good in mud and grass on Corkies and MirrOlures.

Trout are fair to good in the guts along shorelines on Corkies. Redfish and black drum are fair to good in the Land Cut on shrimp and crabs.

PORTMANSFIELD: Redfish are fair to good on DOA Shrimp and scented plastics under a popping cork around grass holes. Trout are fair to good on mud along the edge of the ICW on twitchbaits.

SOUTHPADRE:Trout and redfish are fair to good on the edge of the Intracoastal on DOA Shrimp and scented plastics. Redfish, black drum and mangrove snap-per are fair to good in the channel on shrimp.

PORTISABEL: Sheepshead are good around the causeway on shrimp. Trout are fair on the edge of the flats on soft plas-tics under popping corks.

— TPWD

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Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency have officially recognized Gabe Keen’s 15.2-pound largemouth bass as the new state record.

The massive fish shattered a record set by a 14-pound, 8-ounce fish caught by James Barnett all the way back in 1954. Keen, a high school teacher who also coaches bass fishing in his spare time, said that he never expected to nab a state record during what he thought was simply practice.

“I was sitting in about 20 feet of water just slow rolling it off a bank,” Keen told WTVC. “He came in pretty good at first and then after two little surges he came right on into the boat, and took on last little tail flip at the boat and I got him in.”

Some anglers may have reservations about fishing on Friday the 13th, but not Keen. The fishing coach was actually practic-ing for a weekend bass tournament when he caught the largemouth in Chickamauga Lake. While Keen would have certainly loved to have caught the massive 15-pounder dur-ing the tournament itself — which offered a $25,000 prize for anyone who broke the state’s largemouth record — the angler said he is more than happy with his catch.

“For something like this to happen to me, it’s still sinking in,” Keen said in an interview. “But I’m tickled. I couldn’t be happier.”

— Staff report

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Howard Worden, creator of the world famous Rooster Tail spinner and many other fishing lures, passed away on February 11 at the age of 93. Worden was one of the owners of Yakima Bait Co. in Granger, Washington — a company that was founded by his father in 1929.

Worden was working for the company in the late 1940s when he designed the pro-totype for what would become the Rooster Tail spinner. One summer, during a visit to a lake in California, Howard built a weighted spinner with a willow leaf blade and a hackle tail. He called the new lure the “Retreat Special,” and soon Yakima Bait Company was producing and selling it around the Northwest.

The spinner started gaining some ardent followers, but Howard felt like the new lure needed a better name. After watching the hydroplane races in Seattle on television, he began calling his new spinner the “Rooster Tail.”

Sales of the lure quickly grew and today millions and millions of Rooster Tail spin-ners have been sold, used by anglers around the world to catch trout, bass, perch, crap-pie and many other kinds of gamefish.

— Staff report

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The 2015 Bassmaster High School Classic crowned two Tennessee high school teams co-champions after the competition on Lake Keowee in South Carolina.

The teams of Hunter Silverstrim and Nathaniel Burris of Queen City High School and Caden Watson and Cole Sands of Walker Valley High School each weighed in 11 pounds, 9 ounces to take home the High School Classic trophy. A total of 10 high school fishing teams competed on Keowee and weighed in on the same stage as the competitors in the 2015 GEICO Bassmaster Classic.

Silverstrim and Burris caught their big-gest fish of the day with a shaky-head jig, and also had success using a 3/4-ounce football head jig. Their day started slowly, but improved after noon when they caught three fish back-to-back. Shortly thereafter, they caught their biggest fish of the day.

“We had nothing before noon, and we were thinking we might walk across that stage with nothing. But then we started thinking we might actually win this,” Burris said.

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On Sunday evening at Bon Secours Wellness Arena, Casey Ashley completed a journey that began more than three decades ago and seemed to drag on forever these past few weeks.

The 31-year-old South Carolina native, who has lived just a few miles from Lake Hartwell all his life, caught five bass that weighed 20 pounds, 3 ounces to cap a mov-ing victory in the GEICO Bassmaster Classic presented by GoPro on his home waters with a three-day total of 50-1.

The weight was enough to help Ashley pass Elite Series pro Bobby Lane of Florida, who finished second with 46-15, and Texas angler Takahiro Omori, who placed third with 44-3.

The end of the weigh-in meant Ashley could finally take a deep breath after seven weeks when the lake was mostly off-limits due to B.A.S.S. rules and when virtually everyone he saw wanted to talk about him being the favorite to win.

“I know everybody wanted to win this tournament, but they couldn’t have wanted to win more than I did,” Ashley said. “I broke that record — that nobody can win on their home lake. There have been a lot of guys who said they fished the Classic on their home waters through the years when it really wasn’t their home waters. It was just close to their home. “But these are really my home waters. This is my back yard — and that’s special.”

Only two other anglers in 45 years have won the Classic in their home state.

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The Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team has completed its annual year-end popula-tion survey for endangered Mexican wolves and documented a minimum of 109 animals in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico at the end of 2014.

This is a 31-percent increase over the previous year and the fourth consecutive year with at least a 10-percent increase in the known population. There were 83 wild wolves identified in the 2013 survey.

“In 1982, the Mexican wolf recovery team recommended a population of at least 100 animals in the wild as a hedge against extinction; until we initiated the first releases in 1998, there had been no Mexican wolves in the wild in the United States since the 1970s,” said Southwest Regional Director Benjamin Tuggle.

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The Central Oklahoma University team of Colten Hutson of Edmond, Oklahoma, and Brock Enmeier of Enid, Oklahoma, won the FLW College Fishing Southern Conference event on Lake Texoma February 21 with a five-bass limit weighing 13 pounds, 15 ounces. The victory earned the club $2,000.

The duo won handily, as they were the only team to bring a limit to the scales on the finicky Texoma. A strong morning wind forced the team to scrap their early plans and change their strategy. They found suc-cess targeting one specific brush pile near the back of Buncombe Creek.

Texas teams advancing to the Southern Conference Championship tournament included third-place finisher Tarleton State University, Angelo State University (5th), Texas A&M University (7th), Texas A&M University-Galveston (8th) and Stephen F. Austin State University (9th).

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means there are more small fi sh surviving, which will hopefully mean more sizeable largemouth bass in the future.

February and March are the two busiest months on Falcon and Amistad when “the spawn is in full swing” and outfi tters like Tommy Law of Outlaw Guide Service are able to hit the water every day. Law confi rmed that the largemouth are “really active in the shallow water from 1 to 8 feet” right now.

In the shallows, Law and Bendele agreed, “plastics and spinner bait are the baits to use.”

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Higher water levels, decent cover, warm water, and spawning fi sh should spell a good season for largemouth bass on these two major South Texas lakes.

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The biggest bass was a 10.5-pound female caught midday on a bed in a creek. Anglers also found fi sh in shallow timber, although the type of timber varied, with some teams catching them near cedars, while others found them near submerged mesquite trees.

Bass on beds down southContinuedfrompage1

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FirstgiantfromLaPerlaprobablynotthelast

Blair Schwarz of McAllen caught the second largemouth bass weigh-ing more than 13 pounds this season from La Perla Ranch in Zapata County on Feb. 19.

The fi sh weighed 14.30 pounds and was caught on a Jackall ASKA square-billed crankbait in about 6 feet of water. Length and girth were unavailable at the time of writing.

The fi sh is the 22nd entry into Tex-as Parks and Wildlife Department’s ShareLunker program from private waters. The fi rst was caught by Dan Berg of Hilltop Lakes in 1987.

Tecomate’s La Perla Ranch and lake projects on the ranch are the brainchild of Blair’s father, Dr. Gary Schwarz, who fi rst became famous for his pioneering work on nutritional food plots for white-tailed deer.

The largest entry from private waters weighed 15.74 pounds and was caught by Kenneth Morris of San Angelo in 1995.

Schwarz’s fi sh, as the largest entry of the season so far, leads the race for Angler of the Year. G. Loomis pro-vides a prize package that includes a G. Loomis rod, a Shimano reel, and PowerPro line for the Angler of the Year. If a Texas resident catches the largest fi sh, that person also receives a lifetime fi shing license.

The last private lake lunker prior to Schwarz’s fi sh, was caught by Paul Detwiler of Tyler in 2009. That fi sh weighed 14.43 pounds.

— TPWD

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The big largemouth bass were on the beds, and the top teams took advantage at the Bass Champs South Region tournament Saturday on Falcon International Reservoir.

Boerne angler Jeff Richards, along with his partner Stan Mchardy, from Helotes, found several of the big females, including the 10.49-pound big bass of the tournament, to win the second leg of South Region with 26.12 pounds.

The two anglers took home $20,000 for the win, along with $5,500 in bonus money.

The duo battled windy conditions early in the day, but that didn’t stop them from heading to their spots to look for bass in shallow water while fl ipping jigs and spinner baits.

— Staff report


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including Red Dot Pier and the Copano Bay Pier along the midcoast.“We are catching plenty of big drum using cracked crab,” said pier angler Juan

Martinez. “They pull hard and are a lot of fun for the kids to catch. We have averaged about 30 pounds on each of them.”

Aransas Pass Capt. Charlie Newton said the black drum bite is one of the best he has seen in a while, evidenced by a morning charter last week.

“I went last Sunday and in two-and-a-half hours of fi shing, we boated 15 black drum,” Newton said. “The smallest was 35.5 pounds and the biggest was 40.5 pounds. It was a heck of a morning for fi shing.”

Newton said the usual spots near the old naval base in Ingleside were the best places to fi nd easy-to-catch black drum.

Rockport Capt. George Herzog said he doesn’t have too many clients that want to spend a day catching oversized black drum, but he talks to enough people to know the bite has been going strong the past few weeks.

“They are pretty thick in the ship channel,” Herzog said. “Cracked crabs and squid work the best, but they’ll eat just about anything if you can keep the hardheads from eating your bait.”



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PECAN SPRINGSBandera County property includes a pecan orchard. We offer weekend dove

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