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June 22, 2012 Texas’ Premier Outdoor Newspaper Volume 8, Issue 21

Tournament troublesRayburn event doesn't

live up to billing. Page 8

Tagging provides valuable information

By John KeithLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

These guys take the term “fi shing for bites” to the extreme.

With the help of recreational anglers, researchers at the Harte Research Institute in Corpus Christi are out to catch sharks — the bigger the better — and tag them to track

TOOTHY GRIN: Angler Keith Long said he targets sand-bar sharks to tag because of their threatened numbers. Photo by Keith Long.

See SHARK, Page 15

Searching for CWD

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Inside

White bass population on the rise at the bass lake.

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White out on Fork❘❚ FISHING

Denison couple builds museum sharing trophies, artifacts.

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Museum of memories

Texan boats huge fi sh.Page 8

Marlin mania

Dove breed more than you think.Page 5

Restocking for fall

❘❚ HUNTING

Game fi sh — or not

Mark a shark

Big red


A taunting text, a little luck, and some competitive spirit all helped a veteran tur-key hunter obtain a rare trophy.

With low hopes, Mike Warner of Dallas traveled to friend Rob Jackson’s lease northwest of Graham for an eve-ning turkey hunt on

See RED, Page 14

FULL STRUT: Mike Warner bagged this unusual red-bearded trophy while hunting on a friend’s lease north of Graham. Photo by Mike Warner.

By Conor HarrisonLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

When the New Mexico Game and Fish Department announced in February it had found Chronic Wasting Disease in

hunter-killed mule deer less than fi ve miles from the Texas state line, it raised some eye-brows.

A CWD task force, comprised of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department person-

nel, private veterinar-ians, deer breeders and ranchers, met in May to discuss a plan to combat the disease so close to Texas’ bor-der. The areas of focus include Hudspeth and Culberson counties.

“In May, we updated the CWD manage-ment plan,” said Shawn Gray, TPWD mule deer leader. “We are being as proactive as pos-sible, but we have yet to fi nd (the disease) in

See CWD, Page 14

Task force recommends harvesting mule deer to test

What makes a fi sh a game fi sh?By Mark England LONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

So you think you know what a game fi sh is, huh?

In Texas, the answer isn’t simple. Just ask guide Mike Powell of All Seasons Guide Service, who fi shes for redfi sh and speckled trout in the Port O’Connor area.

“To me, a game fi sh is any-thing that has legal limits,” Powell said.

While there are bag limits and minimum length limits

for game fi sh such as redfi sh and tripletail along the coast and largemouth bass inland, there are also bag limits and minimum length limits for nongame fi sh such as fl oun-der (fi ve per day — except for November, two — and a mini-mum length of 14 inches).

And some game fi sh, blue and white marlin, don’t have bag limits.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Ken Kurzawski said his research indicates the game fi sh designation was

added primarily to denote what gear was legal for the tak-ing of game and nongame fi sh.

“It’s a way to keep the method of harvesting a sporting one,” said Kurzawski, regulations and public information program director. “When you designate something a game fi sh, you can only harvest it with a pole and a line. Admittedly, there’s a con-servation component. The idea is to do what’s needed to main-tain a sustainable population.”

See GAME FISH, Page 15

WHAT WILL IT BE? Experts are just as confused as the rest of us on why some Texas fi sh have the game fi sh designa-tion while others don’t. Photo by David J. Sams, LSON.

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HUNTING

CAN’T CATCH ME: This full-mounted lion and sable are one of the many life-sized mounts preserved in a Sherman museum by Lacy and Dorothy Harber. Photo by John Keith, LSON.

Sharing the bountyBy Craig NyhusLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Lacy and Dorothy Harber of Denison have taken 55 African safaris and 30-plus trips to other hunting destinations around the world. Now, they are opening the doors to their decades of travels for all to see at the Harber Wildlife Museum in Sherman.

And anyone planning their fi rst safari or interested in seeing life-sized animals from around the world should plan a trip north.

“We started hunting together before we were married in 1958,” Lacy Harber said. “Our fi rst trip to Africa was in 1985.”

“We started planning the museum during

that fi rst trip,” Dorothy said.When their expanded home on Lake

Texoma was teeming with trophies, they knew it was time.

“There was an old Furr’s Cafeteria on Texoma Parkway in Sherman,” museum Managing Director John Munson said. “Dorothy said, ‘Why don’t we put the museum there?’”

The building sat empty for 10 years before the Harbers bought it.

“It had been vandalized, robbed and there was graffi ti everywhere,” Munson said. “It was like no project I had ever done — many of the mounts were assembled after being brought inside the building.”

Dorothy Harber and Munson led the way on the renovation, and just before the 2011 holi-days, the museum opened its doors. Looking at it now, the building looks brand new.

Scenes from all regions of Africa, North America and the former Soviet Union con-tain trophies from each area.

“We’ve taken safaris to South Africa, Namibia, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Botswana (eight times) and Tanzania (six times),” Lacy said. “And we’ve been to Australia seven or eight times.”

Dorothy said the museum was always in the back of their minds.

“We did life-sized mounts of almost all of

the animals,” she said. The couple changed their focus to archery

hunting early in their hunting careers.“About 75 percent of the animals were

taken with a bow,” Lacy said.And animals there are. More than 300 tro-

phies grace the 11,000 square-foot building, from African antelope to lions to polar bears.

Looking at each of the animals brings the story of the hunt to their minds.

One of the polar bears stands 10 feet, 4 inches tall.

“We were on ice for nine days out of

Museum highlights couple’s travels, trophies

See MUSEUM, Page 7

In the salt Monster axis fi nally fi ndsits way into record book


C.P. Wade knows what a big axis buck looks like.

As a guide and ranch manager for Porter’s Exotics, Wade has seen

some very big axis in his days.The Bryan native said he is on the

exotic ranch near Flynn several times a week, even when clients aren’t hunting with him. But fi ve years ago, a special buck caught his eye.

“I normally run out there dur-ing the weekends, on off days, etc., to check on things and make sure the ranch and the animals are OK,” he said. “I had been hunting axis earlier in the year. When we don’t have clients, I can sometimes do a little hunting myself.”

Wade had seen glimpses of a mon-ster axis during the two years previ-ous, but had never seen him with a client or when he was hunting.

“After making the rounds one morning, I spotted him,” Wade said. “I keep close tabs on the animals at the ranch, especially the big ones, and I hadn’t seen this animal in two years.”

Wade, wearing a camoufl age

shirt, shorts and fl ip fl ops, snuck out of his truck and crept to within 200 yards of the big axis in velvet.

“I was sicker than a dog that day,” he said. “I had a 102-degree tempera-ture, but this buck was so big and post-mature, so I decided to take him.”

One shot with his .308 with a 26-inch barrel put the big axis down.

“I’m an offi cial exotic scorer and I rough scored him when I shot him,” Wade said. “I saw he would be pretty close to number 1, but I never really paid it much attention.”

Wade said friends persuaded him to fi nally have the buck offi cially scored, which happened the second weekend in June.

“The fi nal scores on my buck were 403.9 gross and 395.8 with the vel-vet deductions,” Wade said. “In Texas Game Record’s current stand-ings, this should place him around number 5 on the all-time list.”

Better late then never.

HARBER WILDLIFE MUSEUM• 4703 Texoma Parkway, Sherman, Texas• (903) 771-1134• www.harberwildlifemuseum.com• Open every day during summer• Cost: $5 for adults, children 12 and under are free

VELVET MONSTER: C.P. Wade shows the huge axis he took almost fi ve years ago at Porter’s Ex-otics near Flynn. The big buck was just recently scored for the record book. Photo by C.P. Wade.


Traveling hunters know the time, effort, money and plan-ning that go into an international big game hunt.

But fewer realize what happens after a trophy is taken. Just as much time and effort should go into ensuring your once-in-a-lifetime trophy makes it back to your trophy room in one piece — not always an easy task.

“There are different ways of (getting your trophy back) with different countries,” said John Meehan, president of Fauna and Flora Customhouse Brokerage Company, Inc. in New York. “A lot of the time, the hunter is reliant on dealing with the people who are arranging the hunt.

“Even though it is (the hunter's) responsibility that you have exactly what you are supposed to have.”

Many well-developed international hunting destinations, such as South Africa, have companies that specialize in ship-

See TROPHIES, Page 22

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Twelve-year-old BRYSON KENNEDY, from Bertram, went on a family vacation

last summer to New Zealand and took this Himalayan tahr, along with a red

stag and fallow deer on a hunt with Four Seasons Safaris and outfi tter Shane

Johnson. Bryson’s dad, Kevin, said Bryson was shooting a Tikka rifl e in 7mm

Rem Mag that Shane provided. Bryson took all of his animals with one shot,

earning the moniker “Ole Deadeye.”

Dove breeding takes offBy Conor HarrisonLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

The birds were pass-ing close on the open-ing morning of the 2011 Texas dove season.

Several hunters brought down limits of birds in the large fi eld fi lled with sunfl owers near Schertz and, while cleaning the birds, they noticed a large num-ber of very young, small birds in the bag.

According to Corey Mason, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s dove leader, southern states like Texas differ from northern states when it comes to dove reproduction.

“It is not uncom-mon for Texas dove to nest fi ve or six times each year,” Mason said. “Each time a female dove will lay two eggs. It takes about 2 to 2 1/2 chicks (per year) to maintain populations where they are. After that, each new bird adds to the population.”

Dove are notoriously lousy nest builders, often losing nests to rain, high winds and predation.

“They use fl imsy sticks and grass,” Mason said. “A decent wind storm will damage nests, but they overcome that.”

Peak nesting for mourning dove occurs in June and July, but they will nest from April through September, thus many of the birds shot on opening weekend are young. White-winged dove peak a little earlier — it’s not uncommon to see their nests in March and April.

According to outfi tter Daniel Hernandez of Double H Outfi tters, he has seen lots of local birds already nesting.

“We are seeing a lot of birds and it looks really good,” Hernandez said. “I am fi guring they will have at least three nest-ings this year. I have heard from other hunt-ers that (the dove) are on their second nesting already.”

Mason said mois-ture, along with good crops, will help chick success this year.

“The rain will defi -nitely help them,” he said. “Dove are unique in that both parents provide parental care. More food for the adults means more crop milk (a regurgitated substance used to feed chicks). When the adults are in better condition, they can provide more suste-nance to their young.”

And more healthy birds means good things for hunters in the fall.

“This is good news for hunters because,

especially early in the season, most of the birds shot in Texas are native,” Mason said. “The birds might be more spread out, so there should be more opportunity than last year.

“The native sunfl owers and other annuals that drop seeds are looking really good this year. More food equals more recruitment.”

Outfi tter Cam Bennett of Coffee Flat in Young County said he has defi nitely noticed more birds already this year.

“We are seeing a lot more movement,” he said. “We’ve had better weather, the crops look better and the tanks are full.”

Bennett is waiting on cooler weather to push many birds into the area.

“We are seeing quite a few native birds,” he said. “But we still need a push later in the summer to get a lot more birds in the area.”

Pairs breed up to 6 times each year

BIGGER FLOCKS IN THE FALL: Dove breed throughout the spring and summer, making plenty of young birds in time for the fall hunting season. Photo by LSON.


Olympic shooters get rousing send-offBy Craig NyhusLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

A benefi t held for the USA Shooting team provided a chance for people to meet and shoot with some of the U.S. Olympic shooters before they head overseas.

Demonstrations of the events, food and a sporting clay shoot offered a glimpse into the lives of the shooters. And the Dallas

Cowboys cheerleaders were on hand to entertain at the Willawalla Creek Shooting Center in Saint Jo, west of Gainesville.

The events on June 15-16, spon-sored by Pioneer Natural Resources and Fayez Sarofi m & Co., were both a fund-raiser for USA Shooting, which survives solely on private donations, and a send-off for the U.S. team.

The team’s coach, Brett Erickson, a four-time Olympian, says they are

ready — and that his job is easier than when he was shooting.

“It’s a lot less pressure now,” Erickson said. “We can’t do any coaching while they’re shooting — we’re just spectators. But I want the kids to do well.”

The “kids” will be headed overseas early. The events start on July 28 in London, but all of the shooting teams will spend a week in Copenhagen, Denmark training and preparing.

“The Olympic Village is one big distraction,” Erickson said. “We’ll practice and have a chance to get all the teams together.”

And a shooting sport gets the Olympics off and running.

“Air rifl e will be the fi rst medal pre-sented at the Olympics,” said USA Shooting CEO Robert Mitchell.

Glenn Eller of Katy and Kim Rhode of El Monte, Calif., are the veterans on the team. Rhode will be entering her fi fth Olympics, and Eller his fourth. Should Rhode add to her collection of four Olympic medals, she’ll be the fi rst American athlete in any sport to medal in fi ve consecutive Olympics. She is compet-ing in two events in these games — Women’s Trap and Women’s Skeet.

Eller is the defend-ing gold medal win-ner in Men’s Double Trap, but expects stiff competition from Josh Richmond of Hillsgrove, Pa., who will compete in his fi rst Olympic Games.

“They’re the two best Double Trap shooters in the world,” U.S. Olympic Team Leader for Shooting Dwayne Weger said.

Vincent Hancock of Eatonton, Ga., will defend his 2008 gold medal in Men’s Skeet and Daryl Szarenski of Seale, Ala., will com-pete in his fourth Olympics in the Men’s 10 Meter Air Pistol.

And the veterans said they’ll work with the rookies to help them prepare.

“I shot and worked with Josh (Richmond) on the U.S. Army Marksmanship Team,” Eller said. “But it’s a whole different thing at your fi rst Olympics.”

“We help them with coaching and also to get ready for what they’ll see over there,” Rhode said. “The Olympic Village is so huge, it’s nerve-wracking. As a rookie, you don’t know anyone. It helps to have someone to show you around and introduce you to people.”

The fund-raiser brought some fun activities for the shooters as well. The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders both took some shots and performed, and Richmond put on a shooting dem-onstration for the crowd.

Fund-raiser includes demo shoots, Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders

FUN WHILE RAISING FUNDS: Glenn Eller of Katy will make his fourth trip to the Olympic Games in Lon-don, but took some time to meet and greet supporters and pose with a few of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders at the Shoot for Gold fund-raiser. Kim Rhode of El Monte, Calif., will be making her fi fth Olympic trip and could become the fi rst U.S. athlete in any sport to win medals in fi ve consecutive Olym-pics. Photos by Craig Nyhus, LSON.

NSSF intervenes in CBD lawsuit

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the fi rearms and ammunition industry, will fi le to inter-vene in the lawsuit brought in June by the Center for Biological Diversity and six other groups to pressure the Environmental Protection Agency to ban traditional ammunition containing lead components.

The EPA already has twice denied petitions fi led by CBD to ban traditional ammunition, noting that it does not have the author-ity to regulate traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

“This is a frivolous law-suit clear and simple,” said Lawrence G. Keane, senior vice president and general counsel for NSSF. “There is no sound science that shows the use of traditional ammu-nition has harmed wildlife populations or that it pres-ents a health risk to humans who consume game taken with such ammunition.”

According to CBD, others joining its lawsuit were the Cascades Raptor Center of Oregon, the Loon Lake Loon Association of Washington, Preserve Our Wildlife of Florida, Tennessee Ornithological Society, Trumpeter Swan Society and Western Nebraska Resources Council.

— NSSF

TIPS FROM THE TOPGlenn Eller and Kim Rhode are the best of the best, and they offered a few tips for the hunter as the Texas dove opener is less than 75 days away. And both hunt, although Eller prefers deer hunting on his lease near Hebbronville. Eller: “Pick a point on the target.” Rhode: “Don’t look at the whole bird; when you

do you’re seeing a lot more than that.”Rhode: “Point your index fi nger straight down

the barrel. Your left one if you shoot right-handed. It’s just another thing that is pointing to the target.”

Eller: “Lean into it.” Rhode: “Yeah, keep your weight forward. And

don’t miss.”Eller: “You can’t eat what you can’t shoot.”

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Greenland,” Lacy said. “We went out by dogsled.”

“It was 53 (degrees) below,” Dorothy recalled.

Other animals bring to mind the 29-day trip to the former Soviet Union. And last year, the couple each took a Texas desert bighorn after buying both of the hunts at auction.

On each safari, there was no gender preference in who would get to take the best ani-mals. Dorothy’s Marco Polo sheep, measuring 58 inches, is the world-record Marco Polo taken by a woman.

“We go as a team,” she said.The museum sports more

than just trophies, with birds, snakes and even bugs from each African region on display. The highlight for many, though, might be the hundreds of artifacts —

many centuries old.African spears, arrows and a

primitive pygmy crossbow rest in one case. Bamboo drink-ing cups and African musi-cal instruments rest in others. And at the end of the room, a bronze of a seated Cameroon king on his throne, thought to be King Nsaangu from more than 100 years ago.

“Every time we go, we bring things back,” Dorothy said.

The museum is a gift to the community, with educa-tion being at the forefront, the Harbers said. Buses fi lled with schoolchildren have accounted for many of the 1,200 people that have entered. Hunter education classes take place in the seminar room.

“And a world culture course at Austin College is studying the artifacts so we can learn more about them,” Munson said.

Expansion is in the plans as well, including a fi sh dis-play and another adjacent building.

“We have a total of more than 500 trophies,” Lacy said. “And there are more at the taxidermist.”

Even the banks are hunter friendly, with the lobbies of most of the 34 locations of the American Bank of Texas sporting trophies taken by the Harbers, who own the bank.

Larry Griffin of Wildlife Artistry in Little Elm did the most of the taxidermy work.

“We tried to make it edu-cational and do justice to the animals, showing the animals in their natural habitat,” Griffi n said. “A lot of these animals, people will never see in the wild.”

And the animals are likely to keep coming to Griffi n’s shop — the couple’s hunting career is still going strong.

“When you fall in love with Africa, you go back,” Dorothy said.

MuseumContinued From Page 4

LOOK AT THIS: Lacy Harber talks to a group of people at his new museum in Sherman about the animals, including two desert bighorn sheep, that he and his wife, Dorothy, harvested. Photo by John Keith, LSON.

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FISHING


“It was an epic battle.”These were the words Freeport Capt.

Russell Smith used to describe the half-day scuffl e with a 119-inch, 721-pound marlin, caught by Christopher Howat of Spring.

The men were members of the Birdie Time crew, competing in the Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfi sh Classic out of Biloxi.

Nothing about catching the giant fi sh came easy, he said.

“We got lucky, I should say. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong — except that we caught the fi sh,” Smith said.

The six-man crew began the tournament by running more than 150 miles off the Louisiana coast.

“We stopped at a rig loaded with bait, and

decided there was so much bait out, we were going to camp out and not leave it,” he said.

The fi rst afternoon and follow-ing day yielded zero fi sh — not even a single bite.

“Then the winds picked up and the seas got rough,” Smith said.

Despite the sour conditions, the huge marlin took the bait at 6:33 a.m.

“She put on probably the most awesome show I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said. “She was coming at us wide-open on the surface, jumping in the rough seas. She almost ran the boat over.”

The fi sh took more than 2,000 feet of line off the reel within three minutes of the fi ght, he said. Smith believes the big fi sh died quickly from the struggle.

“She was straight down 3,000 feet,” he said. “She went so nuts, trying too hard to get away; they get down in that cold water and it kills them.”

The strain of reeling in the behemoth was complicated even further as it rained on the crew for four hours of the fi ght.

“She was so heavy, she was pulling out

drag just fl oating,” Smith said. “It took 48-pounds of drag to stop the fi sh.”

Once the mar-lin was fi nally in the boat, Smith said they were excited and knew it was a good fi sh. The group headed back to have it weighed in. Lucky

for them, it did end up being the biggest mar-lin caught in the tournament, and was the third biggest in the tournament’s history.

Winning fi rst place brought the Birdie Time crew a check for $225,100.

“It put us on the map,” Smith said. “We represented Texas well.”

When a bass tournament goes wrong


What happens when a bass tournament guarantees the biggest amateur payout in the history of the state of Texas, hourly payouts for big fi sh, proceeds going to help wounded veterans, and then delivers on none of it?

You get a lot of hacked off anglers and sponsors.

That is what Michael McCloud, director of Big Bass Mania, is facing after his tour-nament guaranteeing $125,000 in cash to the winner failed to meet expectations June 8-10 on Sam Rayburn Reservoir.

McCloud began advertis-ing his tournament on the

Web and with several Texas publications last year. But as the event got closer to frui-tion, rules began to change and the guaranteed payout began to look shaky.

“I fi shed the tournament,” said Hunstville angler Clint Wade. “I saw the advertise-ments about a year ago, and about 60 days out I signed up. As we got to 30 days out, a new deal came up on their Web site saying the tournament now required 700 entries to hit the $125,000 threshold.

“About two weeks out, it

really started to go south.”Wade said he decided to

call McCloud.“I could tell by talking to

him that he was an amateur (in running tournaments),” Wade said. “He just didn’t speak the lingo. He told me they had to have 700 entries, but it would pay out depend-ing on the number of entries. He said if they got 400, it would still pay $45,000 to the winner.

“On their Web site, they had a counter of people who had registered, and it said 589 the day before the tournament.”

When Wade arrived at the tournament check-in the night before the tournament, he said McCloud told him a little over 400 anglers had signed up.

“I asked him, ‘What hap-pened to 589?’ He said that many had registered, but they hadn’t paid. To my knowledge, there was no way to register without paying.

“He said he still thought at least 300 anglers would show up.”

A total of 91 anglers even-tually fi shed the tourna-ment, leading many anglers

to feel they had been misled by McCloud.

McCloud said he would certainly do some things dif-ferently, but he never meant to not deliver on his payouts. He blamed a group of anglers on Texas fi shing forums for slandering his tournament. He also said 589 anglers did sign up for the tourna-ment, but the Web site gave an option for anglers to pay at the tournament, so many that registered did not show

7-hour struggle yields 721-pound fi sh

Monster marlin


On Lake Fork, the largemouth bass is king.

But a recent boom of white bass has some people questioning the affect on the most-targeted species on the lake.

“It was very rare to catch any white bass at all, and now you can catch them at will,” said Lake Fork guide Gary Paris. “You can fi nd them any-where now — they’re all over. They’re in shallow, they’re in deep.”

Paris said he thinks the white bass actually may be benefi cial to large-mouth fi shing on the lake.

“It (the white bass population) helps push the black bass into the cover where they need to be, instead of an open-water roamer like they had been,” he said. “Since the white bass have expanded, when you do fi nd a school of whites there’s typi-cally black bass in there, which make them accessible to catch, too.”

Paris said he is aware of the negative connotation some people hold of the white bass, but was glad to have the ability to catch an additional species as their numbers grew.

“There’s a lot of people upset about it,” he said. “It really doesn’t bother me at all.”

Other anglers on Lake Fork are not so sure about the white bass.

“I don’t like them, I don’t want them here,” said Lake Fork guide Brooks Rogers. “As of right now, I wish they wouldn’t have gotten in here, and had never showed up.”

White bass were once unheard of in the lake, Rogers said, but 10 years ago the fi rst rumors of anglers catching a couple started, and every year seemed to bring more of the smaller bass.

“There has been a white bass explosion,” he said, “but I don’t think we have them to the extent of a Tawakoni or Cedar Creek.”

The introduction of the white bass could be linked to anglers releasing them in Lake Fork, he said.

“All signs lead to people bringing them from Tawakoni,” he said. “The sand bass started showing up on the west side of the lake, and that’s the Tawakoni side.”

Rogers said the increase in white bass has put guides on edge about the possible repercussions, but for now he is trying to stay hopeful they won’t affect the largemouths.

“I don’t feel like they’ve changed a lot of stuff yet — I can’t really tell that it’s affecting things,” he said.

The contact between the black bass and white bass is going to be mostly insignifi cant, said Texas Parks and Wildlife Department dis-trict biologist Rafe Brock.

“There could be slight interaction dur-ing the schooling times,” he said. “But white bass are more open water and fol-low the bait around the water body, while largemouth aren’t near as migra-tory as the white bass are — they’re more structure or habitat oriented.”

Brock said the majority of lakes are going to have habitat that is com-plex enough to support both species comfortably. If a lake has less struc-ture there may be more overlap, but it would still be minimal, and both species should have enough to eat.

“Most largemouths are going to be eating bluegill, while white bass aren’t,” he said. “It could even be an additional food source for the large-mouth, for the bigger ones that hang out farther offshore.”

White bass on the rise in Fork

Big Bass Mania fails tolive up to promises

See WRONG, Page 19

SHARING THE STRIKE: Guide Gary Paris got a two-for-one special, a largemouth and a white bass, with this cast on Lake Fork. Photo by Gary Paris Outdoors.

Population explosion

HECK OF A FIGHT: This big marlin took more than 7 hours for Spring angler Chris Howat to reel in. He and the rest of the crew aboard the Birdie Time took fi rst place in the Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfi sh Classic. Photo by MGCBC.

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Coastal trout spawn throughout

summer

Stripers and hybrids hypedBy John KeithLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

The self-proclaimed “man in San Antonio for striper” is living up to his title.

Guide Steve Nixon has been fi nding striped bass success on Canyon Lake — whenever he can avoid the recre-ational boaters.

“Canyon is known more as a pleasure lake versus a fi shing lake,” he said. “The fi sh are real motor shy, so when they’re in shal-low water and a jet-ski or boat runs over them, that school is done — it’s over.”

The stripers are grouping together more as the water heats up, Nixon said.

“The next month will get really good. The fi sh will get in big-ger schools and congre-gated better together, and deeper.”

Finding a school often takes some hunting, but once they are found, the fi sh bite well on white and chartreuse jigs.

“Sometimes they’re as deep as 50 or 60 feet when we’re trolling with downriggers,” he said. “If you are live-bait fi shing, you do it with perch.”

Mike Van Dusen, of Dallas, has been enjoying the hybrid striped bass action on Lake Ray Hubbard.

“The hybrid action has been excellent,” he said. “Using live bait for hybrids is phenomenal.”

Van Dusen said he used to fi sh strictly with artifi cials, but the switch to live bait has produced even better results, with his preference being gizzard shad between three and six inches.

“Live bait makes a difference,” he said. “It’s just a differ-ent kind of fi shing, but I have caught hybrids on vertical jigs off the bottom.”

Fishing humps in depths of 24 to 30 feet of water has been the most productive, and also very consistent.

“Their pattern is holding pretty good,” he said.

Van Dusen said he doesn’t catch stripers on Ray Hubbard, but he is content to focus on the hybrids.

“Last year was a great year,” he said. “I want to say this is better than last year.”

John Varner, who guides on Cedar Creek, Tawakoni, and Ray Hubbard, said the stripers and hybrids have been on a pretty reliable pattern.

“We’re almost in typical summertime patterns,” he said. “Afternoons are better than mornings, which is typical for this time of year.”

Being conscien-tious of the day-to-

day weather changes helps to fi gure out how to fi sh for them, he said.

“For hybrids, right now they’ll be in deep water, and as it gets hotter they will school in the middle of the day. It can be really hot and they’ll do that,” he said. “If you get a cloudy day, you can fi nd them schooling on top and throw a top-water at them.”

Varner said if a front comes through with a lot of rain, the fi shing may slow down for a day or two, but changes in lake level have minimum effect on the fi sh.

Most of Varner’s bites have been coaxed with 2-ounce slabs or by moving up to bigger fl utter spoons. Varner feels good about the summer fi shing season.

“I think we’re just fi ne.”

Guide Steve Nixon, (210) 573-1230Guide John Varner, (214) 384-5801

Fish grouping into schools

SUBSTANTIAL STRIPER: Pat Johnson of San Antonio boated this striped bass on Canyon Lake. Photo by Capt. Steve Nixon.

POSTSPAWN CATCH: This female trout should have weighed more, but a re-cent spawn caused her to lose weight. This weight loss can have an impact on tournament trout anglers. Photo by David J. Sams, LSON.


The group fi shing in the Brush to Bay Tournament in early June was perplexed.

The 27-inch trout they had just pulled from the fl ats near the Tide Gauge Bar looked like it should have weighed a lot more.

“That girl just got rid of a bunch of eggs,” said one of the guides. “That trout should weigh a lot more then it does.”

Indeed, bad timing can cost tournament anglers serious checks if the trout they pull in is a big female who has just recently spawned.

“Female trout have an extended spawning season,” said Mark

Weight fl uctuations depend on eggs

See TROUT SPAWN, Page 22


AMISTAD: Water clear; 78–84 de-grees; 24.06’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters, crankbaits, spinner baits and soft plastic frogs. Channel and blue catfi sh are good on cheesebait, shrimp, and nightcrawlers over baited holes.

ARROWHEAD: Water off-color; 79–85 degrees; 9.01’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters, Texas rigs and lipless crankbaits. White bass are good on slabs and Rooster Tails.

ATHENS: Water lightly stained, 79–85 degrees; 1.63’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on Tex-as-rigged craws in green pumpkin and shaky heads on docks and deeper brush piles. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows. Cat-fi sh are good on prepared bait.

BASTROP: Water stained; 78–82 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon spinner baits and crankbaits.

BELTON: Water clear; 79–83 degrees; 0.01’ high. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows under lights at night.

BOB SANDLIN: Water lightly stained; 79–84 degrees; 2.95’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to good on shallow crankbaits with the deepwater jig and Carolina rig bite becoming more consistent. Crappie are good on live minnows and jigs over brush piles and mid– to deep–water stickups. White bass are good on slabs. Catfi sh are fair to good on trotlines or juglines with soap and nightcrawlers.

BRIDGEPORT: Water lightly stained; 79–83 degrees; 5.72’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on shaky heads with green pumpkin fi nesse worms around deeper docks. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid striper are good on slabs.

BROWNWOOD: Water stained; 79–83 degrees; 11.03’ low. Largemouth bass are good on chartreuse buzzbaits and spinner baits over grass fl ats, and on black/chartreuse soft plastic worms with chartreuse tails near the rocks. Crappie are good on minnows and blue tube jigs in 10–16 feet. Yellow catfi sh are good on trotlines baited with live bait.

BUCHANAN: Water murky; 79–82 degrees; 22.71’ low. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon worms and Senkos, and on cotton candy top-waters on secondary points early. Striped bass are good on chartreuse soft plastics, spooks and black/blue crankbaits

at daylight. Channel catfi sh are good on shrimp and dipbait.

CALAVERAS: Water clear. Largemouth bass are slow. Striped bass are good on spoons and striper jigs near the dam. Channel catfi sh are good on cheesebait, shrimp, and shad. Blue catfi sh are good on liver and shrimp.

CANYON LAKE: Water stained; 78–82 degrees; 4.64’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on char-treuse crankbaits, white Pop R’s and green fl ukes upriver. Striped bass are slow. White bass are fair on Li’l Fishies. Smallmouth bass are good on chartreuse soft plastics, perch-colored grubs, and watermelon red spinner baits along ledges. Crappie are fair on pink tube jigs and minnows over brush piles. Channel catfi sh are slow. Yellow and blue catfi sh are fair on juglines and trotlines baited with live bait upriver.

CEDAR CREEK: Water lightly stained; 79–85 degrees; 0.54’ low. Largemouth bass are good on blue fl eck soft plastics, shaky heads and shallow crankbaits around docks closer to main lake — crankbaits on deeper brush piles effective as well. Some fi sh being caught on frogs in black near fl ooded willows. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid striper are good on live shad. Crappie are fair to good on minnows.

CHOKE CANYON: Water clear; 78–82 degrees; 13.01’ low. Largemouth bass are good on chartreuse spinner baits, crankbaits and large soft plastic worms. Crappie are fair on min-nows and white tube jigs.

COLEMAN: Water lightly stained; 78–81 degrees; 15.78’ low. Largemouth bass are good on chartreuse spinner baits and soft plastics. Hybrid striper are good on live shad. Channel catfi sh are good on trotlines baited with live perch.

COLETO CREEK: Water fairly clear; 1.95’ low. Largemouth bass are good on chartreuse soft plastics and perch-colored top-waters.

CONROE: Water fairly clear; 78–82 degrees; 2.61’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on Carolina-rigged watermelon soft plastics, crankbaits and spinner baits. Striped bass are good on minnows and white striper jigs. Crappie are good on minnows and pink tube jigs over brush piles. Catfi sh are good on stinkbait and nightcrawlers.

COOPER: Water lightly stained; 80–85 degrees; 1.05’ low.

Largemouth bass are good on top-waters early and chartreuse shal-low crankbaits and Texas-rigged soft plastics later in the day. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid striper are fair to good on plastics and live shad over main lake humps. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait and cut bait.

FALCON: Water stained; 81–85 degrees; 32.75’ low. Largemouth bass are good on minnows and shallow-running crankbaits in the north end of the lake. Channel and blue catfi sh are good on shrimp and stinkbait.

FORK: Water clear; 79–84 degrees; 2.03’ low. Largemouth bass are good on wakebaits and shallow crankbaits along main lake points in early morning — deep crankbaits around brush piles are effective as well. Some fi sh being reported on Carolina-rigged fl ukes. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs over brush piles and around bridge columns. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait.

GRANBURY: Water murky; 80–84 degrees; 1.63’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on watermelon soft plastic worms and lipless crankbaits. Striped bass are fair on minnows. White bass are good on minnows and pet spoons. Catfi sh are good on nightcrawlers, chicken livers, and stinkbait.

GRANGER: Water clear; 81–85 degrees; 0.02’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on black power worms upriver among newly fl ooded vegetation. Crappie are good on marabou jigs over main lake brush piles in 6–15 feet. Yellow catfi sh are good on trotlines baited with live perch.

GRAPEVINE: Water clear; 78–84 degrees; 1.35’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on watermelon Texas-rigged craws, watermelon fi nesse jigs and crankbaits along main lake points. Best bite is at 4–8’. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are good on slabs. Catfi sh are fair to good on nightcrawlers and cut shad.

HUBBARD CREEK: 78–83 degrees; 15.6’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to good on top-water early and late, midday switching to Texas rigs, jigs, deep-diving crankbaits and drop-shot rigs. Crappie are fair to good on jigs and live minnows over brush piles. Catfi sh are fair to good on nightcrawlers and prepared bait.

JOE POOL: Water lightly stained; 77–83 degrees; 0.25’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on Tex-

as-rigged soft plastics in 8–10’. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass are good on slabs. Catfi sh are fair to good on prepared baits.

LAKE O' THE PINES: Water lightly stained; 78–82 degrees; 3.27’ low. Largemouth bass are good on Carolina-rigged soft plastics and medium-running crankbaits along main lake points. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfi sh are good on cut shad.

LAVON: Water lightly stained; 79–84 degrees; 0.69’ low. Largemouth bass are good on Texas-rigged creature baits, shallow and medium crankbaits around shallow cover. White bass are good on slabs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs around bridge columns. Catfi sh are good on cut shad and nightcrawlers.

LBJ: Water clear; 78–82 degrees; 0.27’ low. Largemouth bass are good on white top-waters, pump-kinseed jigs and chartreuse sticks in 10–20 feet at daylight. Crappie are good on minnows and pink crappie jigs over brush piles. Yel-low and blue catfi sh are good on trotlines baited with live perch.

LEWISVILLE: Water lightly stained; 79–85 degrees; 0.55’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on fi nesse presentations in 10–15’ along main lake points. Larger rock along main lake points producing as well. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid striper are fair on slabs. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait.

LIVINGSTON: Water fairly clear; 79–83 degrees; 0.15’ high. Largemouth bass are good on white spinner baits and lipless crankbaits.

MARTIN CREEK: Water fairly clear; 79–84 degrees; 4.25’ low. Largemouth bass have been good on white soft plastics in the fl ooded willows. Good catches being report-ed on watermelon jigs and worms in deeper water. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait and minnows.

O.H. IVIE: Water stained; 79–85 degrees; 41.55’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters early and late, midday switching to deep-diving crankbaits, Texas rigs, shaky head jigs and wacky rigs. Crappie are fair to good on live minnows. White bass are good on slabs. Catfi sh are fair to good on nightcrawlers and prepared bait.

OAK CREEK: Water stained; 79–84 degrees; 16.01’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to good on poppers early and late, midday switching to Carolina rigs, Texas rigs, jigs

and spoons. Crappie are good on jigs and live minnows over brush piles. Catfi sh are good on chartreuse nightcrawlers.

PALESTINE: Water clear; 79–84 degrees; 0.14’ low. Largemouth bass are good on swim jigs, Carolina rigs and Texas rigs in hematoma near shallow cover and docks. Crappie are good on min-nows and jigs. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait.

POSSUM KINGDOM: Water fairly clear; 78–86 degrees; 6.37’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to good on drop-shot rigs, spoons, shaky heads and Texas rigs with a decent early top-water bite. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs over brush piles and around bridge columns. White bass are good on top-water early — mid-day on slabs and tail spinners. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait and nightcrawlers.

PROCTOR: Water stained; 79–83 degrees; 0.85’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on watermelon crankbaits and soft plastic worms. Crappie are good on min-nows. Channel and blue catfi sh are good on trotlines and juglines baited with perch and goldfi sh.

RAY HUBBARD: Water clear; 79–83 degrees; 0.05’ high. Largemouth bass are good on soft plastics, square-billed and medium crankbaits in shad patterns — also on swim jigs around riprap. Crappie are fair on minnows and Road Runners. White bass are excellent on humps in 17–23 feet with hybrids mixed in. Catfi sh are good on prepared baits.

RAY ROBERTS: Water lightly stained; 79–84 degrees; 0.17’ low. Largemouth bass are good on bone-colored poppers early. Carolina-rigged green pumpkin/chartreuse artifi cial worms around secondary points and main lake humps. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs on coe brush piles. Good schools of white bass reported in the mornings on the main lake near Wolf Island. Cat-fi sh are good along the face of the dam on punch bait and cut shad.

RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water lightly stained; 79–85 degrees; 0.46’ low. Largemouth bass are good on jigs in threadfi n shad around shallow docks. Carolina-rigged soft plastics around deep brush piles have also been effective. The deep crankbait bite is picking up.

SAM RAYBURN: Water lightly stained; 78–83 degrees; 1.00’ low. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon red soft plastic worms,

crankbaits and lipless crankbaits. Catfi sh are good on trotlines baited with live bait and shrimp.

TAWAKONI: Water stained; 79–85 degrees; 0.49’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on chatterbaits, jigs, swim jigs and soft plastics around shallow docks, rocks and vegetation. Crappie are fair on 1/16 oz. curly-tailed grubs and small minnows on docks, bridge pilings and deep timber. White bass are excellent on white slabs and tailspins — school-ing on points early and late. Striped bass and hybrid striper are good on 4” to 6” white or shad pattern artifi -cial shad in the shallows early then suspending deep during the day — drifting live bait is also producing. Catfi sh are excellent in deep water drifting cut bait and fresh shad.

TEXOMA: Water clear; 79–84 de-grees; 0.14’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on medium crankbaits along main lake points and jigs and Carolina rigs in 8–12 feet. Striped bass are good on slabs and live shad. Catfi sh are good on nightcrawlers and cut bait.

TOLEDO BEND: Water stained; 77–81 degrees; 2.93’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on wa-termelon spinner baits, crankbaits and lipless crankbaits. Striped bass are good on white striper jigs. White bass are good on minnows and pet spoons. Crappie are good on minnows and white tube jigs. Bream are good on crickets and nightcrawlers. Channel and blue catfi sh are good on trotlines baited with live bait and liver.

WEATHERFORD: Water lightly stained; 79–83 degrees; 1.60’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on Texas-rigged soft plastics and jigs — target docks close to deeper water. Early morning top-water bite reported. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass are good on slabs and live minnows.

WHITNEY: Water stained; 79–83 degrees; 0.41’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on spinner baits and crankbaits. Catfi sh are good on shrimp, nightcrawlers, and liver.

WRIGHT PATMAN: Water stained; 79–84 degrees; 0.97’ low. Largemouth bass are good on Texas-rigged worms, shallow- and medium-running crankbaits and swimbaits along main lake points. Catfi sh are fair to good on cut shad and prepared bait.

— TPWD

TEXAS FRESHWATER FISHING REPORTLily pads producing

CADDO LAKE — The fi shing has been good, with artifi cial frogs as the go-to lure for bass, said Caddo Lake guide Peter Daniels.

“We’re catching fi sh in the deep grass on frogs — you can fi nd them in the lily pads,” he said.

Top-waters in the morning are effective, while wacky worms around cypress knees produce later in the day. Bream are biting well on crickets around Johnson’s Ranch and Big Green Break areas.

Daniels said even as the water continues to heat up, many bass will stay toward the surface due to the shallow layout of the lake, which

helps keep the top-water bite reliable.To contact Peter Daniels, call (318) 422-0426.

Dropping inLAKE ALAN HENRY — Most

anglers are having a tough time catch-ing fi sh, said Lake Alan Henry guide Guy

Adams, but he is “putting a hurt on them.”“A lot of people are struggling right now,”

he said. “I’m catching a lot of fi sh — the fi sh-ing is good.”

Adams said the key to catching bass right now is following the bait and to drop the lure right in front of the fi sh when they appear on the graph, instead of casting over them.

“You have to put the bait right in front of them,” he said.

Adams is fi nding fi sh off of ledges, with most of the bass holding between 25

to 45 feet deep. He favors shad-colored baits.

To contact Guy Adams, call (361) 522-6270.

Top-heavy morningsLAKE TRAVIS — Bass and catfi sh are

willing to bite, said Lake Travis guide Allen Christenson.

“Early morning fi shing is where it’s at,” Christenson said. “There’s some fast top-water

action the fi rst couple of hours for largemouth bass, and a little later the catfi sh bite starts.”

Christenson has been catching bass on top-water plugs, poppers and chuggers, while

the catfi sh have been biting on Canadian nightcrawlers and jigging spoons. The worms are even eliciting an occasional crappie bite.

A bumper crop of shad has caused the bass to be fat and healthy, Christenson said.

“It’s excellent for largemouth bass — they’re fatter and thicker than I’ve ever seen them,” he said. “It looks like they swallowed a grapefruit.”

To contact guide Allen Christenson, call (512) 261-3644.

— John Keith

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Paying to play


Michael Mulone is a busy man.

As director of event partners for B.A.S.S., it is his job to scout potential sites for future bass tournaments, develop rela-tionships with host towns and coordinate all of the advance work that goes into putting a bass tournament together.

It’s a time-consuming task.But how do tournament offi-

cials decide where to host a tour-nament? A few obvious things have to happen to be considered.

“The fi rst step is to have a good fi shing lake,” said James Kunke, tourism director for the City of Lewisville Convention and Visitors Bureau. “You also have to have good lake access and infrastructure to support a tournament.”

Lewisville hosted its fi rst tournament — a B.A.S.S. Elite Series event in 2005 — and more recently has hosted sev-eral B.A.S.S. Open events.

“The bigger events have to be supported,” Kunke said. “The city has to be willing to provide support with ven-dors, set-up, local marketing, etc.; some groups make you submit a bid, but we don’t really pursue those. For us, it is all about building relation-ships with the tournaments.”

Mulone said he sends information to potential host cities and then prepares a presentation similar to other

sports organizing groups.“We put our events out to

bid,” Mulone said. “We ask for a variety of resources to help facilitate things. But what we provide in return is signifi cant in its impact. We spend way more than we get when you factor in hotels, media and other economic factors.

“The average economic impact on a city hosting an Elite event is $1.1 million.”

Del Rio has hosted many tour-nament organizations thanks to the popularity of Amistad International Reservoir.

According to Donna Langford, head of the Del Rio CVB, negotiations take place with each tournament trail for what the city will offer.

“A lot of times, they contact us,” Langford said. “We visit with them, see what their

needs are and what works for us. We furnish services and help them with permitting.”

Langford said the average price to bring a B.A.S.S. Elite Series tournament to Del Rio is $50,000.

“But we see a lot of revenue out of (the tournaments),” she said. “Even if the anglers stay in an RV to save money, they still pay camping fees and buy gas to fi ll their boats.”

According to Mulone, a city that hosts a Bassmaster Classic, like Shreveport this year, sees an impact of $24.4 million.

Kunke said any money going to a tournament comes out of hotel tax funds designed specifi -cally to bring events to the city.

“For a Central Open, we know that 400-450 hotel room nights will be used,” he said. “We know the value that provides.”

Bass tournaments can cost city $50,000,but bring economic benefi ts

COME ONE, COME ALL: Major bass tournaments are a partnership between the fi shing organization and the city which hosts the event. Photo by LSON.


YES, WARDENS STOP FAST BOATSPolk County Game Wardens Ryan

Hall and David Johnson observed a speedboat racing back and forth along the Lake Livingston dam. The boat was traveling at more than 80 miles per hour in choppy conditions. After the wardens stopped the boat, the driver of the boat performed poorly on fi eld sobriety tests and was placed under arrest for boating while intoxicated. Hall obtained a search warrant and a sample of the subject’s blood was collected. The driver said he didn't think that game wardens stopped fast boats. Case pending.

SHOOTING AT EYES ON RIVERNETS FELONS

A report of shots being fi red in a campground at Fort Griffi n State Historical Park was received by Shackelford County Game Warden Shea Guinn. Guinn contacted four subjects at the back of the camp-ground. Two of the men admitted to walking down the river and shooting at “eyes” with a .45 pistol. They hid the pistol in the brush when they knew they had been reported. Guinn secured the pistol. Two of the men were convicted felons, and mari-juana and drug paraphernalia were found. The men said they were not hurting anyone. Cases pending.

JOGGING IN PLACE DOESN’T DROP ALCOHOL LEVEL

Tom Green County Game Wardens Jason Huebner and Cynde Aguilar arrested a subject on Lake Nasworthy for BWI. Apparently, the suspect thought he could exercise his way to sobriety as he jogged in place the entire time while in route to the Intoxilyzer. It didn’t work. The subject provided a sample that mea-sured 0.115. Appropriate charges have been fi led.

SIMPLE SOLUTION TOUNTANGLE MAN FROM ROPE

Titus County Game Warden Jerry Ash received a distress call from a local marina claiming a man had gotten his foot tangled up in a rope that was stuck on an underwater tree branch and that the man’s boat was sinking. Ash and the Lake Patrol responded and discovered that the only rope wrapped around anything was around the boat’s propeller. Ash cut the rope free and informed the marina of the correct situation.

SMALL CATS BEGAT CITATIONWhile checking boat ramps on

Lake Amistad, Val Verde County Game Warden Dustin Barrett made contact with two men who were in possession of 24 undersized catfi sh. Cases pending.

FAMILY OF TRESPASSING HOG HUNTERS

Titus County Game Warden Jerry Ash was called to assist with tres-passers hog hunting on the Titus County Fresh Water District Flood Control Property. Three male sub-jects, one female subject, a child on an ATV, and about six dogs were caught in the center of the property. Citations were issued to the males for criminal trespass and no hunting license. Cases pending.

SPOTLIGHTERS FROMROAD SHUT DOWN

Archer County Game Warden Richard Key observed a vehicle traveling from Young County with a spotlight in use. The vehicle made several stops while heading north on the county road. When stopped, three people were identifi ed and three .22-caliber rifl es were found along with one dead rabbit and two spotlights. Key advised that it was a violation to shoot from the road, whether in the vehicle or not. Citations were issued for hunting from a public road. Cases pending.

BWI WHILE WAITING FOR DWI TRIALWhile working water safety

enforcement on Miller Creek Reservoir, Baylor County Game Warden Josh McCrary observed a boat operator make four unsuc-cessful attempts to load his boat on a trailer in relatively calm water. McCrary noticed that the opera-tor displayed signs of impairment. Upon completion of the sobriety tests, the suspect was arrested for BWI. The suspect is currently await-ing a DWI trial in Taylor County.

MEASUREMENTS CORRECT, FISH IDENTIFICATION NOT

Comanche County Game Warden Mike Alexander checked a boat on Lake Proctor with a cooler full of

white bass. The man stated that he measured every fi sh and that he did not keep anything less than 12 inches. That was true, but three of the 12-inch fi sh were largemouth bass and two were hybrid stripers.

A BUSY START BEFORE BOARDING PATROL BOAT

While preparing to patrol Lake Travis, Travis County Game Wardens Christy Vales, Theron Oatman and two cadets encountered two men fi shing adjacent to their boat slip. The men were fi shing without a valid fi shing license. Meanwhile, a woman approached the wardens and said her friend had an emer-gency. The man had fallen between two boats tied up when a large wake caused him to lose his balance as he was walking from boat to boat. The man slipped and suffered a severe laceration. EMS was called and the man was treated. The wardens and cadets fi nally made their way to their patrol boat to start their eve-ning patrol. Cases pending.

BUSY BWI DAY LAKE AUSTINCapt. Scott Jurk was assisting

Travis County Game Warden Braxton Harris test a boat operator when he noticed a man having diffi culty bringing his boat into the ramp area to trailer it. Travis County Game Warden Jeff Hill talked to a subject

who stated he had just eaten and had two beers at a restaurant on the lake, but he had a hard time trying to pronounce the name of the bar.

PONTOON OPERATOR’S MATH SHAKY On Lake Georgetown, Williamson

County Game Wardens Turk Jones and Joel Campos stopped a pontoon boat operated by a man. Campos per-formed a safety check on the vessel and noticed several empty beer cans on the boat. When asked how many beers were consumed that day, the man responded “about 12.” Jones asked the operator to put on a life jacket and board the wardens’ boat. When asked again how many beers he had consumed, he said that he and his wife brought 20; his wife con-fi rmed she had about six and there was one left so he fi gured he had about 12. After performing poorly in the sobriety tests and refusing chem-ical analysis, the subject was booked into Williamson County Jail.

ONE BOAT OVER SNAPPER LIMIT, OTHERS MYSTERIOUSLY NOT

A report that some large boats were catching and retaining too many red snapper was provided to Kenedy County Game Warden Jason Duke. The boats were in state waters out from the Kenedy/Willacy county line. Duke, along with Game Wardens Roy Martinez and Dennis Gazaway made contact with one of the boats. After being inspected, the subjects were found to be eight fi sh over their daily limit. Each of the fi sh were large red snapper. Additional boats were checked, but between cell phones and marine radios, everyone was exactly at their legal limit when checked. Cases are pending.

GAME WARDEN BLOTTER

Guadalupe County Game Warden Tracy Large received a call from the sheriff’s offi ce informing him a woman was stuck on a low-head dam on the San Marcos River. Large found that a woman had fallen over the dam, 7 feet down, and was on a 4-foot ledge. She couldn't move either direction because the water was so swift she

would be swept over into the rocks below. Large, with the help of volunteer fi remen, directed the rescue using ropes to secure a ladder and lower the ladder down to the victim, who was able to climb out. Her legs were so tired, Large and a fi reman had to carry her to shore. The woman was uninjured.

WARDEN RESCUES WOMAN FROM SMALL LEDGE BELOW DAM



the state. Right now we are working with landowners to increase surveillance.”

CWD testing cannot be done on live deer, so the initial plan calls for the harvesting of an undeter-mined number of mule deer within the next few months to check for the disease. Mandatory hunter checkpoints will also be instituted for hunters in that region.

“There’s a pretty good chance that those deer were on Texas soil at some point,” Gray said.

Two zones have been cre-ated in the area — a con-tainment zone that will not allow breeders to trans-port any live deer from the area and a high-risk zone directly east of the contain-ment zone where breeders would be allowed to trans-port mule deer from a deer breeder facility for any deer

breeder who has “5-year status,” meaning no posi-tive tests for the disease for the previous 5 years.

The task force unani-mously recommended that, “Trap, Transport, and Transplant” permits shall not be issued for white-tailed deer or mule deer until at least 300 “not detected” CWD test results for white-tailed deer or mule deer (depending on the species to be detained under the permit) 16-plus months of age have been submitted to TPWD. All test results must be for deer taken on the prospective trap site of contiguous land under one ownership. This sample size is the number of samples required to have 95 percent confi dence that CWD would be detected in an infi nite population where CWD prevalence is at least 1 percent.”

Some of the task force’s recommendations are sub-ject to regulation changes from TPWD.

Dr. Dan McBride, a pri-vate veterinarian in Burnet and member of the task force, said the group is approaching the situation with science-based facts and an approach learned from other states’ mistakes.

“We have a good team with good parameters,” he said. “There are no sil-ver bullets. We are going to look in the next few months. If the disease is here, the protocol put in place will be very well implemented.”

McBride said Texas prob-ably wouldn’t be able to eradicate the disease when it does get here, but the containment zones are a good start to get a handle on the disease. He also said the group is not recom-mending killing out popu-lations of mule deer if the disease is found.

“I think the ranchers have a good, common- sense idea of what we are trying to do,” he said. “We aren’t going to kill out

whole populations of mule deer. If we fi nd the disease in West Texas, the model we set out there won’t be the same model we use if we fi nd the disease in the Hill Country.

“That will require another template.”

McBride reiterated the task force does not set pol-icy; it just provides recom-mendations to TPWD on how best to proceed.

He also said that if CWD is detected in areas with a high density of deer breed-ers, “the commerce in pen-raised deer would have to be altered somewhat.”

“We don’t want an area of Texas to infect another area,” he added. “It is an interesting disease, and we are still pretty limited in our knowledge.”

For the complete list of the task force recommendations, along with maps of the containment areas, go to LSONews.com.

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the Wednesday before the end of the season. The pair split up and headed to two different fi elds.

“We weren’t expect-ing much, because we just don’t have turkeys like we used to,” Warner said. “We didn’t think we would have much action.”

The mood changed quickly when Warner received a text message from his friend who shot a tom within 30 minutes of the start of the hunt.

“I started hunting hard because I got jealous,” he said.

Warner traveled between a few different spots where he stopped to call, but couldn’t get a turkey to respond. Two hours after he received the text, he was feeling discouraged.

“Basically, I was think-ing this was going to be the fi rst year I didn’t kill a spring gobbler in 25 years,” he said.

While he was waiting and listening, Warner thought he heard a distant gobble.

“Sure enough, then I heard him closer,” he said. “I never could see him because he came from a direction I didn’t expect him from. He was silent for fi ve minutes and then gob-bled at 20 yards.”

Looking at the tom through his scope, Warner didn’t notice the unique-ness of the bird standing in front of him.

“I saw he had a good

beard, but I wasn’t thinking ‘odd-colored beard’ looking at him through the cross hairs,” he said. “I got him and rolled him over and was like, ‘Alright, another year, another bird.’”

Once he realized the tom’s beard was red, he was uncertain on what exactly caused the abnormality, fi rst thinking the turkey might have been an albino.

“His beard was almost strawberry blonde when he was fresh, and then almost turned a darker red,” he said.

Jackson quickly became the one who was jealous when he found out about the turkey, Warner said. The beard measured just shy of 9 inches, and the bird had inch-long spurs.

Evan Brown, the National Wild Turkey Federation regional director for East Texas, said a red beard is certainly unique, but not completely unheard of.

“It’s pretty rare,” he said. “There have been several others seen or taken in Texas.”

The unusual color of the beard can most likely be contributed to an absence of pigmentation.

“It is a lack of melanin,” he said.

Melanin is the same pig-ment that colors human skin and hair, and in nor-mal quantities produces the darker beard found on most toms.

RedContinued From Page 1

TEST IN PROGRESS: TPWD will begin killing mule deer along the New Mexico border to test for signs of CWD, which has already been found in that state. Photo by David J. Sams, LSON.

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Once again, though, there’s an exception to the rule — catfi sh.

“They’re designated as a game fi sh, but you can harvest them with a trotline,” Kurzawski said. “There’s a longstanding tradition of catching them that way, and it’s something we made an excep-tion for.”

Bill Balboa, TPWD’s Galveston Bay ecosystem team leader, sees placing the game fi sh designation on a fi sh as a conservation tool.

“If you defi ne a fi sh as a game fi sh, you limit how people harvest the fi sh,” Balboa said. “By defi ni-tion, you’re conserving the fi sh.”

Much of the public associates the game fi sh designation with conservation given the brawl between recreational anglers and commercial fi shermen over bestowing the tag on redfi sh and speckled trout in the 1980s.

Commercial gill nets were deci-

migration patterns and study growth. Understanding shark behavior can help

benefi t saltwater fi sheries as a whole, said Dr. Greg Stunz, Endowed Chair for Fisheries and Ocean Health at the Harte Research Institute.

“Predators are important to keep marine spe-cies in check,” Stunz said. “But you still need more wildebeests than you do lions.”

The absence of data makes it hard to know how to best manage the different shark species, and what to do to preserve healthy populations.

“Sharks are very important and play an impor-tant part in the ecosystem,” he said. “There is a real serious lack of data with what we know about sharks, particularly along the Texas Coast.”

There are three different types of tags: pas-sive, acoustic and satellite.

The passive tag is placed on every shark caught and costs about $2. These tags simply have a phone number and a Web page listed so the angler can report the tag.

The acoustic tags are surgically implanted and give information when the shark swims within 1/2 mile of the institute’s network of hydro-phones, and carry a cost of a few hundred dollars.

The satellite tags relay information more continually, cost around $5,000 each, and are designed to separate from the shark after six months.

“All this together gives us a good picture and makes sure they’re around for recreational anglers for years to come,” Stunz said. “We work very closely with recreational anglers, and we have kits they can get from us and then go to our Web page and upload numbers from the shark.”

Philip Jose, a gradu-ate student in charge of the shark-tagging proj-ect at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, said working with recreational anglers helps the research tremendously.

“We spend a lot of time on the piers because

there’s so many people fi shing,” he said. “We’ll go over and ask if they want us to get the shark off the hook for them — there’s teeth fl ashing everywhere — and they’re like … ‘yeah.’”

Once it comes time to tag the shark, there is some fi nesse involved, as the tag is placed at the base of the dorsal fi n.

“It’s really sort of an art form,” Jose said. “It’s like trying to punch through leather, and then it’s like putting a hot knife through butter, so you have to be real careful.”

When dealing with sharp-toothed fi sh, the taggers have to stay in control and be mindful of what they’re dealing with.

“You have to be careful because they know when you’re starting to let up so they’ll kick, and try to take a piece of you while you’re try-ing to take a piece of them.”

Keith Long of Burleson is one of the rec-reational anglers who catches sharks to tag along the Galveston area beaches.

“I was fi shing for sharks for three to four years before I started tagging,” he said. “I’ve tagged probably 100 or so.”

Even in the few years since he has started tag-ging, information has been gathered to bet-ter understand patterns of the sandbar shark, which is labeled as “near-threatened” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

“They’ve started picking up a migration pattern going through Texas,” he said.

Long said the tagging is a free program anyone can do, and having a partner to help is valuable.

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mating redfi sh, in par-ticular, critics of com-mercial harvesting charged.

“Red drum was defi -nitely in peril,” Balboa said. “Gill nets don’t discriminate. They catch all fi sh.”

The battle culmi-nated in HB 1000, which the Legislature passed in 1981, giving redfi sh and speckled trout game fi sh status.

“That purely was a measure to take redfi sh and speckled trout off the commercial har-vest list,” said Gene McCarty, TPWD Deputy Executive Director of Administration.

The game fi sh sta-tus by itself, however, doesn’t ban commer-cial harvesting. For example, Texas allows the limited commercial harvesting of game fi sh such as cobia, mackerel and tripletail.

The Legislature, as it did with redfi sh and speckled trout, must ban commercial harvesting for a fi sh by statute.

“While making it a game fi sh, the com-mercial harvest also has to be prohibited,” said McCarty, former head of the Coastal Fisheries Division. “There are two pieces to that.”

The division between game and nongame fi sh can seem as fl uid as the water in which anglers fi sh.

Again, ask Mike Powell.

“Red snapper has about as many legal lim-

its as God allows,” he said. “It’s a game fi sh.”

Only it’s not — not in Texas.

Powell is right about the restrictions, how-ever. Texas restricts anglers going after red snapper to a daily bag limit of four and a pos-session limit of eight, not to mention a minimum length of 15 inches. Oh, and recreational anglers can only fi sh for them with a pole and a line, and it’s unlawful to use any hook other than a circle hook when using natural bait.

So why isn’t red snapper a game fi sh?

In deciding whether to grant the game fi sh designation, TPWD looks at the economic impact on everyone from the recreational angler to lure makers, Balboa said. Tradition plays a big role, too.

“If there’s been an established fi shery for a species, that’s taken into consideration,” he said.

Red snapper histori-cally have been har-vested commercially.

“My guess is there’s signifi cant interest on the commercial end as well as from con-sumers,” Balboa said. “People want to eat fresh seafood.”

Pinning down what the game fi sh label means can prove mad-dening, but Powell isn’t sweating it.

“I guess you can ask the state biologists what their definition is,” he said. “Mine works for me.”

SharkContinued From Page 1

IS IT? Catfi sh are considered a game fi sh in Texas, and they are the only game fi sh that may be taken on a trotline, jugline or by hand. Photo by David J. Sams, LSON.

HOOK AND LABEL: Keith Long caught and tagged this 7-foot-8-inch sandbar shark. Photo by Jim Knight.


NORTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good under birds and pods of shad on soft plastics. Redfi sh are good under rafts of shad on top-waters. Trout are good while working deep shell on plastics.

SOUTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good under birds and pods of shad. Trout are good at the jetty on live bait and top-waters. Redfi sh and Spanish mackerel are good on live shrimp tight to the rocks. Red snapper is good offshore.

BOLIVAR: Trout are fair to good on the south shoreline on artifi cials. Top-waters have been good early. Sand trout

are fair to good on shrimp in the Intracoastal.

TRINITY BAY: Trout are fair over shell and on well pads on soft plastics. Trout, redfi sh and fl ounder are good at the spillway on live bait.

EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair for drifters working deep shell on limetreuse, glow and chicken–on–a–chain artifi cials and plastic min-nows. Trout are good in the channel on croakers.

WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout, sheepshead, redfi sh and black drum are good at the jetty on shrimp and croakers. Redfi sh

are good in the back lakes. Red snapper are good offshore.

TEXAS CITY: Trout are fair to good on the reefs and in the channel on live shrimp and croakers. Redfi sh and sand trout are fair to good in Moses Lake on shrimp.

EAST MATAGORDA BAY: Trout are fair to good for drifters on live shrimp over mid–bay reefs. Redfi sh are schooling in the middle of the bay. Redfi sh are fair in Lake Austin on live shrimp.

WEST MATAGORDA BAY: Trout are fair to good on sand and grass humps on soft plastics

and top-waters. Redfi sh are fair on top-waters and live shrimp in Oyster Lake. Black drum are good on the reefs on live shrimp.

PORT O'CONNOR: Trout and redfi sh are good on top-waters and live bait over sand, grass and shell in San Antonio Bay. Trout and redfi sh are fair for drifters working the back lakes with live shrimp.

ROCKPORT: Trout are fair to good in the guts and channels on free–lined shrimp. Trout are fair over grass while drift-ing with live shrimp. Trout are good around the islands on croakers. Redfi sh are good

on mullet in the deep guts on the outgoing tide.

PORT ARANSAS: Trout, redfi sh and sheepshead are fair to good at the jetty on shrimp and croakers. Red snapper, kingfi sh and ling are good offshore.

BAFFIN BAY: Trout are good on top-waters worked over shallow rocks. Trout are good on for waders working plastics over sand and grass. Redfi sh are good in knee–deep water on small top-waters.

PORT MANSFIELD: Trout are good on top-waters on the edge of the channel and around sand and grass. Redfi sh are fair

to good while wading shallow fl ats on small top-waters. Off-shore is good for red snapper, kingfi sh and ling.

SOUTH PADRE: Redfi sh are fair to good around Gas Well Flats and South Bay on shrimp and artifi cial shrimp. Trout are good on plastics and top-waters while wading spoils.

PORT ISABEL: Trout and redfi sh are fair to good on the fl ats on live shrimp. Trout are good on the deeper edges and fl ats in Laguna Vista and Airport Cove on top-waters, and artifi cial/live shrimp.

— TPWD

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TEXAS SALTWATER FISHING REPORTUsual suspects

FREEPORT — The old tried-and-true baits are proving their prowess, with shrimp and mullet catching the most fi sh close to shore, said Brian Gourley of Saltgrass Bait & Tackle shop.

“People are catching a lot of reds out here,” he said.While redfi sh have been the most common bite, both speckled and sand trout are being caught.

Some anglers are baiting their lines with live mud minnow or live mullet, and have found success.Gourley said the fi shing is “about normal,” and he has not heard of any species too unusual

being caught.Local anglers also reported catching some good-sized trout on artifi cial shrimp.To contact Saltgrass Bait & Tackle, call (979) 239-3650.

Shying from shrimpCORPUS CHRISTI BAY — Trout has been the

name of the game, said Julie Beers of Bluffs Landing Bait and Tackle.

“It’s been pretty good,” she said. “People are coming back with lots of fi sh.”

Beers said the fi shing is about the same as it was a month ago and holding steady, with redfi sh and trout being the most common catch. An occasional fl ounder or black drum is not unheard of, she said.

Croaker has been the most popular bait, with shrimp not bringing as many bites as earlier in the year.

“Shrimp seems to kind of fi zzle out around July,” Beers said. “Croaker is more desirable.”To contact Bluffs Landing Bait and Tackle, call (361) 937-7100.

Inconsistent conditionsSEADRIFT — The wade fi shing has been much better than fi shing out of a boat, said

Seadrift guide Capt. Kris Kelley, but neither has been spectacular.“Redfi sh action has been good,” he said. “Trout has been kind of spotty — it’s real unpre-

dictable right now.”Kelley said the trout fi shing tailed off after the June’s full moon, with changing weather con-

ditions compounding problems when fi shing out of a boat.“There’s a lot of timing issues,” he said. “They hit on grass last week and then we lost that.”Kelley has been catching fi sh predominantly on croaker. He said most fi sh are pinned along

the shoreline.To contact Capt. Kris Kelley, call (888) 618-4868.

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NATIONALNebraska retains 104,298 acres of wildlife habitat

Outdoorsmen and women rely heavily on Conservation Reserve Program lands to provide habitat for game species, as well as places to hunt. A better-than-expected general CRP sign-up will help keep most of those places intact. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will accept 104,298 acres in Nebraska offered under the 43rd CRP general sign-up.

The USDA received 1,385 offers in Nebraska, of which 1,249 were accepted. There were 113,911 acres offered. In Nebraska, 201,190 CRP acres will expire Sept. 30, representing a net loss of 96,892 acres.

Nationally, 3.9 million acres will be accepted.

— Nebraska Game and Parks

Action taken to extend Louisiana state waters

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission took the fi rst move to extend state waters from three miles offshore to three marine leagues, or approximately 10.357 miles.

The commission approved this action based on Act 336, which recognizes that the Louisiana gulfward boundary historically con-sists of three marine leagues and designates that boundary to be enforced by state law.

“The bountiful resources that are native to Louisiana’s waters should be managed beyond the three-mile boundary currently recognized by the federal regulatory body and this is a bold fi rst step by Louisiana in claim-ing what is rightfully ours,” said Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham.

LDWF offi cials encourage fi shermen to use caution and their own personal judgment when fi shing beyond the three-mile boundary

that is currently recognized as federal waters, as it is expected that federal agents will con-tinue to enforce federal law. Until the time when the U.S. Congress confi rms Louisiana’s action today, the battle will continue over Louisiana’s state water boundary.

— Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

Indictments issued in antelope poaching case

A grand jury has indicted two men and a juvenile male from Rio Rancho, N.M., on several counts in connection with the illegal killing of fi ve pronghorn antelope Feb. 10.

Michael Yarbrough, 21, Travis Miller, 18, and a 17-year-old are accused of cutting a fence, illegally trespassing on a ranch and shooting two bucks and three doe antelope. The heads of the bucks were removed and all the carcasses were left in a pile to rot. There was no legal hunting occurring at the time.

The suspects were indicted on several misdemeanor charges. The adults also face fourth-degree felony charges of contribut-ing to the delinquency of a minor. They face numerous fi nes, possible jail time and loss of hunting privileges.— New Mexico Department of Game and Fish

South Platte project conserves water, waterfowl habitat

Ducks Unlimited wanted habitat for water-fowl in northern Colorado. United Water and Sanitation District wanted a facility to recharge water through the aquifer to the South Platte River. The two organizations came together to develop the 50-acre Haren Wetland Recharge Project, near the South Platte River in southern Weld County.

With additional funding from the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the North American Wetlands Conservation Council, DU

designed the project and United completed the construction. The Haren Project will help meet the residential and commercial water needs of many Front Range communities, while provid-ing waterfowl migration habitat.

— Ducks Unlimited

Game wardens investigate deer illegally shot, left to die

Nevada game wardens are seeking informa-tion on a deer that was shot and left to suffer and ultimately die near Pioche on the morn-ing of May 31.

The mule deer was shot in the spine with a small-caliber bullet. Evidence from the crime scene showed signs of prolonged struggling.

The small-caliber bullet and the deer’s location right next to a road would have made the animal’s condition obvious to the shooter.

This poaching has nothing at all to do with hunting, said Cameron Waithman, game war-den from Boulder City. There are no hunting seasons open, and the shooter could not possi-bly have had any reason to be out looking for or killing big game.

— Nevada Department of Wildlife

8-year-old wins $50,000 boat

Over 800 anglers participated in the Jacksonville Fishing Rodeo held at Metropolitan Park in downtown Jacksonville, Fla. Each paid $40 to compete for $40,000 in cash prizes.

In addition, every angler who weighed a legal fi sh got a portion of their Rodeo Ticket placed into a drum for a random drawing.

Eight-year-old Sophie Killebrew screeched with glee when her name was drawn on stage and, accompanied by her family, accepted the keys to a 21-foot Contender boat outfi tted with a 200-hp Mercury outboard and sitting on a custom aluminum trailer all valued at

more than $50,000. Not a bad prize for a youngster entering a

whiting that weighed just over a 1/2 pound.— Southern Kingfi sh Association

La. approves 3-zone framework for waterfowl seasons

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission approved a three-zone framework for the 2012-2015 waterfowl seasons.

Options presented included no change in the current two-zone confi guration and two-, three-zone options that offered differ-ent boundaries for a revised west zone layout. The previous west zone was divided to form a new coastal zone and a west zone.

Based on hunter preferences in survey data and the department’s recommendation, the commission approved creating a third zone with a new boundary of La. Hwy. 106 from its junction with US Hwy. 167 west to Oakdale, then south from Oakdale on US Hwy. 165 to its junction with US Hwy. 190, then west on US Hwy. 190/La. Hwy. 12 to the Texas border.

The season dates in each zone for the 2012-13 waterfowl season will be proposed at the July commission meeting and approved at the August meeting.

— Staff report

Have GPS?Anglers can access the GPS waypoints of

man-made fi sh attractors in 102 Oklahoma lakes right now on the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Web site.

The Web site provides a link on the homep-age that directs anglers to a list of lakes where fi sheries personnel have submerged a range of fi sh attractors. By clicking on the name of any lake, anglers can access the coordinates for the sunken fi sh attractors and plug them into their GPS.

— Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation


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Texans dominate IFA events in Rockport

Clint Barghi of Friendswood caught a redfi sh and speckled trout that mea-sured a combined 47.50 inches in length to win the IFA Kayak Fishing Tour presented by Hobie Fishing event at Rockport on June 10.

The event, which operated out of Cove Harbor Marina, was the last regular-season event for the IFA Kayak Fishing Tour’s Texas Division.

Barghi, winner of the 2011 IFA Redfi sh Tour event at Corpus Christi, traveled fi ve miles in his kayak, fi shing top-water baits and popping corks in the Rockport area.

“It was windy again, but the area we fi shed needs strong wind to catch fi sh,” Barghi said. “All I can say is thanks for the time and effort spent to make this event happen.”

Second-place fi nisher Noel Guerrero, of Portland, measured a 28-inch redfi sh and a 17-inch trout to take the $1,000 prize. In his third year fi shing the IFA Kayak Fishing Tour, Guerrero fi shed the shorelines in the South Bay area with top-water baits.

“The fi sh were in the same place that I pre-fi shed,” Guerrero said. “I caught a lot of fi sh, which made for a good day.”

In the redfi sh division, Pistol Ahrens, of New Braunfels, and Alan Thompson, of Adkins, weighed in a two-redfi sh limit that totaled 15.65 pounds to win the IFA Redfi sh Tour event at Rockport on June 9.

In their second year fi shing the IFA Redfi sh Tour, the anglers ran 55 miles to fi sh the waters south of Corpus Christi. The team sight-fi shed with scented plastics and reported good weather.

— Staff report

Jordan and Lee take TTT Lewisville

The Texas Team Trail, presented by Cabela’s, hosted its fourth and fi nal regular season event June 9 on Lake Lewisville.

The duo of Russell Lee and Hunter Jordan landed 17.61 pounds of Lake Lewisville largemouth to claim victory. Russell Cecil and Todd Castledine fi nished second with a bag weighing 17.24 pounds.

Third place went to Nathan Lintner and Mark Rose with 17.22 pounds. Big Bass honors went to Joe Setina and Lamonte Loyd with their 7.63-pound bass.

With the win, Lee, of Sachse, and Jordan of Cleburne, won a total prize pot valued over $31,000.

“We had an overall great day,” Lee said. “It gets hot down here and heavy boat traffi c is expected on Lewisville this time of year. We adapted and caught most of our fi sh down grassy points, then switched over to boat docks in the afternoon.”

— Staff report

TOURNAMENT BRIEFS

up after the negative comments sur-faced.

“They slandered us before the tournament,” McCloud said. “The only thing we tried to do was give anglers a chance to win some-thing besides an infl ated boat or truck. We didn’t draw near what we thought we would because of the people on the forums.”

McCloud said even after two unsuccessful tournaments on Amistad Reservoir (22 anglers) and in Florida (11 anglers) earlier this year, he still felt like the Rayburn tournament would be a success. He said advertising and tourna-ment costs made him lose money.

“We didn’t walk away with any-where close to what we spent,” he said. “It was a no-win for us — a dead loss.”

Because of the low turnout, McCloud said they had to cancel the hourly pay-outs after the event had begun.

Wade said he caught a nice bass during the fi rst hour of the Sam Rayburn tournament, but when he went to check in for the hourly prize, he was told there might not be hourly payouts.

“I was told they didn’t have the number of entries they expected and they didn’t know (what the pay-out amounts would be),” Wade said. “Just before 3 p.m., I caught another nice fi sh that I took to get weighed. I asked Michael how much the hourly payout would be, and he said it wouldn’t pay very much. I didn’t catch a good fi sh on Saturday, but I got the weigh-in at 3 p.m. and asked

again about the hourly payouts.“I was told they weren’t paying

any hourly because they only had 91 anglers.”

The tournament paid $5,000 in cash to the winner at the fi nal weigh-in. The top 10 spots received cash prizes. McCloud said the event paid out like they had 100 paid entries, even though they only had 82 paid contestants because of free entry fees given away in promotions leading up to the tournament.

Anglers also complained that nothing would go to help veterans.

“The emcee at the fi nal weigh-in told the crowd that the tournament was established to fund wounded warriors, but they lost a lot of money and, therefore, no money could be

donated,” Wade said. “That made a lot of people mad.”

McCloud said he would never would promote something for wounded veterans and then pur-posefully mislead people.

“My dad is a disabled vet from Vietnam,” McCloud said. “We just didn’t have any money left over. I spent all of this extra money that I wouldn’t have spent if I had known that less than 100 people would show up.”

Anglers weren’t the only people disappointed in the low turnout.

Sponsors such as Advantage Bait Company said nothing that was prom-ised to them by McCloud occurred.

“We’re embarrassed to be associ-ated with this,” said Jason Schwartz, owner. “Our sponsorship was to

donate 10 spinner baits to the pro staff members in return for getting our names on tournament jerseys and banners. Well, the jerseys never got done and there were no ban-ners. Michael always had an excuse that it was never his fault.”

Following the tournament, the Big Bass Mania Web site and Facebook pages were removed. McCloud said the pages haven’t been removed, just “hidden” on the advice of his attorney until the negative comments stopped.

“It was never our intention to scam someone, and we defi nitely never used soldiers to scam anyone,” McCloud said. “We aren’t the guilty ones. We made mistakes; we’re human. We just want the badmouthing to stop.”

WrongContinued From Page 8



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ping trophies back to the states.

The process starts with an outfi tter after their client has taken an animal.

“It is imperative that they get the animal skinned out and salted as soon as possible,” said Kerrville taxider-mist Gary Broach. “If you can do it (in a coun-try that doesn’t have many resources for tro-phy shipments), some countries allow you to salt it and put it in a bag with your luggage.”

The South African company, Swift Dip, processes trophies for many hunters in the Limpopo Region.

According to their brochure, documents needed to process a hunter’s trophies are a

signed copy of the pro-fessional hunter reg-ister with all neces-sary permit numbers, a hunting permit with species hunted, CITES permit (if applicable), a valid exemption per-mit signed by the land-owner and a permission to hunt letter to the cli-ent, along with several other forms depending on the species taken.

“It is advised, if pos-sible, to have the hunt-ing permit before you commence the safari,” according to Swift Dip’s brochure. “On arrival at our processing facility, all trophies are being re-checked according to the Collection Register and PH Register.”

After checking to make sure the trophies were obtained legally, Swift Dip attaches a metal tag to the skulls, horns and hides, and then they are subjected to a sun-drying process, along with being boiled

for a maximum of 25 minutes. Finally, they are cleaned and bleached.

All skins are dipped in a pickled bath for a minimum of 48 hours before being salted for no less than 30 days.

Once the horns and skins go through the dry-ing process, they are pack-aged and shipped to a taxidermist in the coun-try or a brokerage house, such as Fauna and Flora or Coppersmith in the states.

“For us, we wind up building relation-ships with the persons responsible for getting things done,” Meehan said. “They are there, in their own country, and know how to get it done on the ground.

“We can wind up working for the hunter, outfi tter or exporter.”

Check the next issue of LSON for part 2 of this story on what needs to be done once a trophy hits American soil.

TrophiesContinued From Page 4

Fisher, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s sci-ence director. “They can spawn from April through October. And they spawn a lot — up to once a month.”

That’s great news for anglers catching large num-bers of the popular game fi sh — but not so great for those depending on weight to win a tournament.

“They do drop weight,” Fisher added. “For tour-nament anglers, that defi -nitely makes a difference. They are larger in the winter and weigh more because all of their food is going to their body, not to raising eggs.”

Capt. Joe Sneed said he used to fi sh a lot of trout tournaments, and liked to catch trout with a full roe sack to help improve weight.

“I had several bud-dies who fi shed the most recent CCA event,” Sneed said. “They caught several nice fi sh on artifi cials, and those fi sh with a better set of roe and a full stom-ach could have weighed a pound or two more. A 26-inch trout that weighs 6 pounds could go 7 1/2 pounds.”

Sneed says he thinks the trout have two major spawns each year depend-ing on water temperature.

“I clean fi sh year-round,” he said. “If you catch one without a fully developed roe sack it can be pencil thin. But then I’ll clean one that is fully developed and it can be as thick as a dime or quarter.

“What’s that going to add to a tournament angler’s weight?”

SALT WITHOUT THE PEPPER: Once trophies have been harvested on safari, it is imperative to get them skinned and salted. Here, trophies in South Africa are salted and dried before being picked up by Swift Dip, a company that cleans and exports them to the hunter’s home country. Photos by Conor Harrison, LSON.

Trout spawnContinued From Page 9

The best kind of catchCapt. Mark Holland of Matagorda Sportfi shing has had a

lot of interesting catches throughout his career.But none compares with what Holland hauled in at a

buoy several miles offshore of Matagorda on June 12.Holland rescued six people clinging to the buoy after

their boat sank.Holland and his clients were catching red snapper,

kingfi sh and ling when they found the stranded boaters.“We were in the right place at the right time,” Holland

said. “It was kind of weird, because I never fi sh there that much — not in a long time. When we approached the buoy, I spotted what appeared to be a bow of a boat stick-ing out of the water about a foot. I then looked toward the buoy and saw someone fl agging us down.

“Upon a closer view, we could identify that there were people clinging to the buoy. We saw three kids with life vests standing on the fl oating buoy and three adult males holding onto the buoy while treading water.”

The group had been cut by barnacles on the buoy, but were otherwise unhurt.

They told Holland they had tied their boat to the buoy and they took a big wave that swamped their boat. Holland returned the group back to Matagorda, where they were reunited with their family.

“He told me we were the only boat they had seen all day,” Holland said.

— Staff report



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32. A handy item to have in the kit

33. Angler’s term for bass nests38. A crappie fi shing method

_____ rigging39. Boat gear40. A very good gundog42. A bird trained to hunt

43. Fishing method without a rod

DOWN1. A fl ock of quail

2. To remove spent shell from gun

3. A wildfowl cover 4. A habitat for some fi sh

Legend: Major=2 hours. Minor=1 hour. Times centered on the major-minor window. F=Full Moon, N=New Moon, Q=Quarter > = Peak Activity. For other locations, subtract 1 minute per 12 miles east of a location, and add 1 min-ute per 12 miles west of a location.

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4 red snapper fi llets1/2 tsp. salt1/4 tsp. scallions1 tsp. sage3 tbsps. butter1/2 cup chicken broth

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a shallow baking dish large enough to hold the fi sh in a single layer. Season the fi sh on both sides with salt and pepper. Place in the

prepared dish and arrange the lemon slices over the fi llets, sprinkle with scallion and top with the sage. Dot with butter, pour the broth into the dish and bake the fi sh, basting occasionally with the pan juices for 10-12 minutes, or just until opaque at its thickest part when tested with a fork. Transfer the fi sh to serving plates, spoon some of the pan juices over the fi sh and serve right away.

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10 dove breasts Seasoned salt Pepper Flour Cooking oil 1 can chicken gumbo soup 1 can golden mushroom soup 1 can onion soup

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sprinkle seasoned salt and pepper on dove breasts and fl our them. Brown lightly in a skillet with cooking oil; then put in a greased baking dish and set aside. Combine the 3 cans of soup in a saucepan and heat. Pour soup mixture over dove and bake 1 hour. Also good with quail and pheasant.

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Dove breast gumbo

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San Antonio2012 A.M. P.M. SUN MOONJun-Jul Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets22 Fri 8:24 2:12 8:48 2:36 06:34 08:36 9:24a 10:51p 23 Sat 9:17 3:05 9:40 3:29 06:35 08:36 10:21a 11:27p 24 Sun 10:09 3:58 10:32 4:21 06:35 08:36 11:19a NoMoon 25 Mon 11:01 4:49 11:24 5:12 06:35 08:36 12:17p 12:02a 26 Tue Q 11:51 5:39 ----- 6:03 06:35 08:36 1:17p 12:38a 27 Wed 12:17 6:29 12:41 6:54 06:36 08:36 2:20p 1:15a 28 Thu 1:05 7:18 1:32 7:45 06:36 08:36 3:25p 1:55a 29 Fri 1:54 8:09 2:23 8:37 06:36 08:36 4:31p 2:39a 30 Sat 2:46 9:01 3:16 9:31 06:37 08:36 5:39p 3:29a 01 Sun 3:40 9:56 4:11 10:27 06:37 08:36 6:44p 4:25a 02 Mon > 4:37 10:53 5:08 11:24 06:37 08:36 7:45p 5:27a 03 Tue > 5:36 11:51 6:06 ----- 06:38 08:36 8:39p 6:31a 04 Wed F 6:36 12:22 7:05 12:50 06:38 08:36 9:27p 7:37a 05 Thu > 7:35 1:22 8:02 1:49 06:39 08:36 10:10p 8:42a 06 Fri > 8:33 2:20 8:58 2:45 06:39 08:36 10:48p 9:44a 07 Sat 9:28 3:16 9:51 3:39 06:39 08:36 11:23p 10:44a 08 Sun 10:19 4:08 10:42 4:30 06:40 08:36 11:56p 11:40a 09 Mon 11:08 4:57 11:30 5:19 06:40 08:35 NoMoon 12:35p 10 Tue 11:54 5:43 ----- 6:05 06:41 08:35 12:29a 1:29p 11 Wed Q 12:14 6:27 12:38 6:49 06:41 08:35 1:03a 2:23p

Amarillo2012 A.M. P.M. SUN MOONJun-Jul Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets22 Fri 8:37 2:26 9:01 2:49 06:33 09:03 9:29a 11:12p 23 Sat 9:30 3:19 9:54 3:42 06:33 09:04 10:29a 11:45p 24 Sun 10:23 4:11 10:46 4:34 06:34 09:04 11:30a NoMoon 25 Mon 11:14 5:02 11:37 5:26 06:34 09:04 12:31p 12:18a 26 Tue Q ----- 5:52 12:05 6:17 06:34 09:04 1:34p 12:50a 27 Wed 12:31 6:42 12:55 7:07 06:35 09:04 2:39p 1:24a 28 Thu 1:18 7:32 1:45 7:59 06:35 09:04 3:47p 2:02a 29 Fri 2:08 8:22 2:36 8:51 06:35 09:04 4:57p 2:43a 30 Sat 2:59 9:14 3:30 9:45 06:36 09:04 6:06p 3:31a 01 Sun 3:54 10:09 4:25 10:40 06:36 09:04 7:12p 4:26a 02 Mon > 4:51 11:06 5:22 11:37 06:36 09:04 8:12p 5:27a 03 Tue > 5:50 ----- 6:20 12:05 06:37 09:04 9:05p 6:32a 04 Wed F 6:50 12:35 7:18 1:04 06:37 09:04 9:51p 7:40a 05 Thu > 7:49 1:36 8:16 2:02 06:38 09:03 10:30p 8:48a 06 Fri > 8:46 2:34 9:11 2:59 06:38 09:03 11:06p 9:53a 07 Sat 9:41 3:29 10:04 3:53 06:39 09:03 11:38p 10:55a 08 Sun 10:33 4:21 10:55 4:44 06:39 09:03 NoMoon 11:55a 09 Mon 11:21 5:10 11:43 5:32 06:40 09:03 12:08a 12:52p 10 Tue ----- 5:56 12:07 6:18 06:40 09:02 12:39a 1:49p 11 Wed Q 12:27 6:40 12:51 7:02 06:41 09:02 1:10a 2:45p

Dallas2012 A.M. P.M. SUN MOONJun-Jul Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets22 Fri 8:17 2:05 8:41 2:29 06:19 08:37 9:12a 10:48p 23 Sat 9:10 2:58 9:33 3:22 06:19 08:37 10:10a 11:23p 24 Sun 10:02 3:51 10:25 4:14 06:19 08:37 11:10a 11:56p 25 Mon 10:54 4:42 11:17 5:05 06:20 08:37 12:10p NoMoon 26 Tue Q 11:44 5:32 ----- 5:56 06:20 08:38 1:12p 12:30a 27 Wed 12:10 6:22 12:34 6:47 06:20 08:38 2:16p 1:05a 28 Thu 12:58 7:11 1:25 7:38 06:21 08:38 3:22p 1:43a 29 Fri 1:47 8:02 2:16 8:30 06:21 08:38 4:31p 2:26a 30 Sat 2:39 8:54 3:09 9:24 06:21 08:38 5:39p 3:15a 01 Sun 3:33 9:49 4:04 10:20 06:22 08:38 6:45p 4:10a 02 Mon > 4:30 10:46 5:01 11:17 06:22 08:38 7:45p 5:11a03 Tue > 5:29 11:44 5:59 ----- 06:22 08:38 8:39p 6:16a 04 Wed F 6:29 12:15 6:58 12:43 06:23 08:37 9:26p 7:23a 05 Thu > 7:28 1:15 7:55 1:42 06:23 08:37 10:07p 8:30a 06 Fri > 8:26 2:13 8:51 2:38 06:24 08:37 10:43p 9:34a 07 Sat 9:21 3:09 9:44 3:32 06:24 08:37 11:16p 10:35a 08 Sun 10:12 4:01 10:35 4:23 06:25 08:37 11:48p 11:33a 09 Mon 11:01 4:50 11:23 5:12 06:25 08:37 NoMoon 12:30p 10 Tue 11:47 5:36 ----- 5:58 06:26 08:36 12:20a 1:25p 11 Wed Q 12:07 6:20 12:31 6:42 06:26 08:36 12:52a 2:20p

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ACROSS1. A rare gundog,

_____ spaniel 6. A valuable gauge

anglers use 9. A predator of small

game10. A scavenger, turkey

______11. To stand ready to

shoot13. Term for shedded

antlers14. A very good fi re-

wood15. A toothy fi sh17. Food source of

wildlife19. A wood-eating

mammal21. A species of grouse23. A method of fi shing

popular on Texas coast

25. To pull back the bowstring

28. Deer have this many sense glands

30. A tasty fi sh that bites best in winter

31. Crappie spawn in _____ water

5. A quick-to-erect type tent

6. Term for a hookless lure

7. A type of gun choke setting

8. The handle section of a bow

12. Roe16. An outdoor gear17. An axis food source18. Movement in fl ight of

an arrow19. A deer resting place20. The hunting area22. To put wildfowl to

fl ight24. Fish eggs26. A game bird27. An action on a

repeating gun29. Denotes the shoot-

ing eye32. A species of rabbit34. Part of fi shing gear35. A type of sport fi shing36. Muskies usually at-

tack from here37. A type of lure41. It’s on the hook


Through September 3CCA State of Texas Angler’s Rodeo(713) 626-4222startournament.org

June 22-23Marco Pena Memorial Fishing TournamentBenefi ting Make-A-Wish FoundationMarker 37 Marina, Corpus Christi(210) 542-0970mpmfi shingtournament.com

June 22Ducks Unlimited2012 Texas State ConventionCollege Station(210) 414-4858ducks.org

Texas Deer AssociationSeguin Chapter Sportsmen’s BanquetFalls City Community Hall(210) 767-8300texasdeerassociation.com

June 23Bass Champs TournamentNorth Region #5Lake Ray Roberts(817) 439-3274basschamps.com

June 28-July 1Texas Wildlife AssociationTWA Convention — WildLife 2012JW Marriott Hill Country ResortSan Antonio(210) 767-8300texas-wildlife.org

July 7Texas Deer AssociationSoutheast Beaumont Chapter BanquetMCM Elegante Hotel and Conference CenterBeaumont(210) 767-8300texasdeerassociation.com

July 11-14John Uhr Memorial Billfi sh TournamentRockport(361) 205-0789johnnybastante.com

July 12Dallas Woods and Waters ClubMonthly MeetingSheraton Dallas North Hotel(214) 570-8700dwwcc.org

July 13-14Texas Bighorn Society2012 RoundupFort Worth(806) 745-7783texasbighornsociety.com

July 19Dallas Safari ClubMonthly Meeting Bent Tree Country Club(972) 980-9800biggame.org

July 20-2222nd Annual Texas Hunters and Sportman’s ExpoMcAllen Convention Center, McAllen (956) 664-2884texashunterassociation.com

9th Annual Southeast Texas Great Outdoors ExpoFord Park Exhibit Hall, Beaumont(512) 358-1000, ext. 202iemshows.com/setexas

July 21-22Texas Gun and Knife Association ShowCivic Center, Amarillo (830) 285-0575texasgunandknifeshows.com

July 26-29Port Mansfi eld Fishing Tournament(956) 944-2354portmansfi eldchamber.org

July 27-28Deer Breeders CorpQuality Whitetail Deer AuctionWestin La Cantera, San Antonio(866) 972-5001dbcdeer.com

July 28-29Gulf Coast Trout SeriesTexas Redfi sh ShowdownHarbor Walk Marina and Yacht Club, Hitchcock(281) 300-5806

August 3-5Texas Trophy Hunters AssociationHunters ExtravaganzaReliant Center, Houston(800) 800-3207ttha.com

August 4-5Texas Parks and Wildlife DepartmentBowhunter Education Class, Grand Prairie(817) 564-6579tpwd.state.tx.us

Texas Gun and Knife Association ShowCivic Center, Abilene(830) 285-0575texasgunandknifeshows.com

August 9-11Texas Deer AssociationTDA’s 14th Annual Conventionand Fund-raiserJW Marriott Hill Country ResortSan Antonio(210) 767-8300texasdeerassociation.com

August 9Dallas Woods and Waters ClubMonthly Meeting and DinnerBeretta Gallery(214) 570-8700dwwcc.org

August 16Coastal Conservation AssociationHill Country Chapter Annual BanquetNew Braunfels Civic Center(800) 594-2056ccatexas.org

Dallas Safari ClubHill Country Chapter Annual BanquetNew Braunfels Civic Center(800) 594-2056ccatexas.org

August 17-19Texas Trophy Hunters AssociationHunters ExtravaganzaWill Rogers Center, Ft. Worth(800) 800-3207ttha.com

August 18Ducks UnlimitedNorthwest Prairie DinnerLa Hacienda Party Room, Cypress(713) 594-5359ducks.org/texas

August 24-26Texas Trophy Hunters AssociationHunters ExtravaganzaAlamodome, San Antonio(800) 800-3207ttha.com

August 25Texas Parks and Wildlife DepartmentHunter Safety CourseCopper Breaks State Park, Hardeman County(940) 839-4331tpwd.state.tx.us

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Master of the .410Skeet shooter Wayne Mayes achieved what could be regarded as the most amazing feat in

skeet history — 200 perfect, 100-straight scores of .410 bore.Using Remington Premier STS Target loads, Mayes set the new world record at the Pan

American shoot at the Dallas Gun Club held on May 31-June 3.Mayes’ original score sheet with the factory Remington Premier STS hull from his last shot

are now on display at the Hall of Fame museum at National Skeet Shooting Association — National Sporting Clays Association headquarters in San Antonio.

“It is an honor to have Wayne on our team,” said John Bauer, Shooting Sports Manager at Remington Arms Company.

— Remington

DSC helping OlympiansThe USA Shooting Team has secured exclusive use of a shooting range in Denmark for a

pre-Olympic Games training camp, thanks to a contribution from Dallas Safari Club. Prior to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the USA Shooting Team conducted a similar

camp in Korea. That move was considered a key factor behind the team’s successful showing with six medals, 12 top-5 fi nishes and two Olympic records.

Immediately before the London Games, which begin July 27, the range in Copenhagen will be specifi cally dedicated for use by the USA Shooting Team for training around the clock in a distraction-free environment. In addition, the camp will be used to enhance team unity and camaraderie as well as solidify the athlete-support structure.

“We’re extremely proud to support USA Shooting and the athletes as they get set to rep-resent our country — as well as our sporting way of life,” DSC Executive Director Ben Carter said. “Many members of the USA Shooting Team come from a hunting and wildlife conserva-tion background, and they’re true ambassadors for our community both at home and abroad. We feel privileged having the ability to assist them with the training opportunities they’ll need to enhance their success in London.”

— DSC

Red deer, sika added to CWD listThe Texas Animal Health Commission announced that, effective immediately, it has deter-

mined that Red deer and sika deer are “susceptible species” for Chronic Wasting Disease and therefore must meet the same entry requirements as other cervid species regulated by the agency such as elk and moose.

The new entry rules for Red deer and sika deer will require they originate from herds with at least fi ve years of participation in a herd certifi cation program from states where CWD has been detected, and at least three years participation in programs from states that have not found CWD thus far.

The agency decision was based in part on the disclosure that a farmed Red deer herd in Minnesota was confi rmed positive for CWD in May.

Under the new TAHC entry requirements, besides originating from a herd with three or fi ve years status as described above, Red deer and sika deer shippers must also obtain entry per-mit and request entry in writing.

— TAHC

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