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By Conor HarrisonLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Fort Worth angler Tom Pennington doesn’t like to run many miles off-shore in his 26-foot Mako in search of big fi sh when the weather isn’t perfect.

Because of his smaller boat, Pennington feels

he is limited by the con-ditions on where he can fi sh. When the weather is rough and Pennington decides to stay closer to shore, he goes to his plan B — trolling around anchored ships several miles offshore.

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July 27, 2012 Texas’ Premier Outdoor Newspaper Volume 8, Issue 23

Bass after darkNighttime bite without the heat.

Page 8

Low returnsDove band recovery rate

less than 5 percentBy John KeithLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Researchers and vol-unteers around the state band thousands of dove every year to trace migration patterns and harvest rates, but they are running into a prob-lem — people aren’t call-ing in bands from har-vested birds.

“On average, Texas

bands between 2,200 to 2,600 mourning dove a year, and we want to band about 1,800 whitewings a year,” said Dr. Bret Collier, research scientist of wildlife pop-ulation ecology at Texas A&M University. “It helps us identify infor-mation to better man-age the dove popula-tion.”

Collier said the recov-

ery rate of banded dove is only about 2 to 4 per-cent, but he thinks the number could be higher if more people reported the bands they shot. Since a sizeable percent-age of the nationwide dove harvest occurs here in Texas, it makes the information obtained from banding all the LOOK FOR JEWELRY: A small number of dove bands are reported, and offi cials stress

that hunters don’t often look for and report the bands. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News. See BANDED, Page 14

Trading birdies for bass

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❘❚ HUNTING

How to grow big hybrid bluegill.Page 8

Small ponds, big fi sh

Changes apply in West Texas.Page 4

What does CWD mean for hunters?

Kingfi sh action turning on along coast.Page 9

King’s ransom

❘❚ FISHING Golf course ponds hold untapped

potential, if you can gain permission

By John KeithLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Maybe joining a country club has more benefi ts than one would think.

Patrick Stack lives in the Stonebridge Ranch community in McKinney, where he said he enjoys spectacular bass fi shing on the mul-tiple golf course ponds.

“There is a bunch of good fi sh in there,” he said. “A lot of these fi sh have never seen a bait, so you can really get in there and just wreck them.”

Stack often fi shes in the late after-noon or at night, so he doesn’t disturb any of the golfers.

“It’s a delicate dance with the golf-ers, so that’s why we go fi sh at night after the course closes,” he said. “If

See GOLF COURSE, Page 18

SLICES AND HOOKS: Though the locations are rare, anglers who can fi nd golf courses willing

to allow fi shing can often fi nd excellent bass action. Photo by John Keith, LSON.

Cruising anchored ships

See ANCHORED, Page 18

TROLLING AROUND SHIPS: Lots of game fi sh congregate near ships anchored close to the Texas coast, offering easy access for small boats. Photo by Erich Schlegel, for LSON.

Kingfi sh, ling hanging ontemporary structure

Applications due soon, but read the rules.Page 4

Texas Special Permit Hunts

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HUNTING

Outdoor expos coming soonEvents offer vendors,

celebritiesBy John KeithLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Passing time in the offseason will be a little easier for hunters over the next few months with the help of several hunting expos.

Deer Fest will be held at the MPEC Exhibit Hall in Wichita Falls August 4, beginning at 9 a.m. The entry fee is $5, and kids under 5 get in free.

“One hundred percent of what we make goes back to kids who can’t afford personal hygiene items and clothes in North Texas,” said Deer Fest originator Dawn Thompson. “We’ve stepped it up this year. There are tons of vendor booths and a live and silent auction.”

“Duck Dynasty” stars Si, Jep, and Jessica Robertson will be at the event selling Duck Commander items, and the crew from The History Channel’s “Mudcats” will make an appearance.

“We also have some signed memorabilia from “Swamp People,” included with a 3-day alligator hunt (not with the TV show),” Thompson said.

Other attractions include a 3-D archery trailer, the Texas Junior Anglers Catch Tank, and the Wall of Shame from Operation Game Thief.

The Texas Deer Association will hold their annual convention Aug. 9-11 at the JW Marriott

in San Antonio. The event is open to the public, but patrons must sign up for a TDA membership upon arrival.

The Texas Trophy Hunters Association is hav-ing their 36th Hunters Extravaganza in three

Texas cities this August.The event comes to Houston’s Reliant Center

August 3-5, Fort Worth’s Will Rogers Center August 17-19, and San Antonio’s Alamodome August 24-26. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for

kids ages 13 to 17, and free for kids under 12 and active military.

“Not only is it the granddaddy of all hunt-ing shows, but it’s the hunter’s supermarket,” said Courtney Stolte, director of the event. “It’s

Few changes to mule deer hunts due to CWD fi nding Check stations to be established, processing must be on ranch

By Craig NyhusLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Now that CWD has been found in far West Texas, what does it mean for mule deer hunters?

Mandatory check stations will be set up in the Containment Zone, likely in Cornudas and Van Horn, although the rules will be fi nalized after the August meeting of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.

In the adjacent High- Risk Zone other check stations are planned, although taking the deer for test-ing will be voluntary.

Otherwise, no changes are expected in mule deer hunting — with one exception. The pro-

cessing of the deer will have to be done on the ranch.

Dr. Dan McBride, a veteri-narian who was on the CWD Advisory Board that provides advise to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, provided the reason for the regulations.

“CWD can spread from the car-cass,” he said. “We didn’t want a mule deer carcass traveling from West Texas to the Hill Country and being dumped in the pasture after the deer was processed. We know that deer killed in the area have been taken back to other areas in previous years.”

At the check stations, hunters will be required to bring the ani-mal’s head to the designated loca-

tions, said Sean Gray, TPWD’s mule deer program leader.

McBride said the approach taken was sane and sensible.

“The advisory board made sure the response wouldn’t be to go crazy and try to kill all the deer,” he said.

Counties affected by the pro-posed rules include El Paso, and portions of Hudspeth, Culberson and Reeves.

Proposed Texas Animal Health Commission rules apply to the non-indigenous species of cervid species of Texas under its jurisdic-tion, including moose, red deer, elk and sika. TPWD’s proposals will regulate white-tailed deer and mule deer.

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Special Permit Hunts worth the effort

By Craig NyhusLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Studying all of the Special Permit Hunt catego-ries and locations can be a little daunting at fi rst. But with some time and effort — and a little luck — hunts can be won.

With 20 categories for adults, eight for youth, and dozens of locations to choose where to apply, information is the key.

So what should you look for?Some areas allow baiting, others don’t. Some

hunts are from designated blinds, while others are by compartment. Some areas don’t allow ATVs while others almost require them. Most areas have standby hunts if the winner doesn’t show, but some don’t.

And some areas are just better than others.“When I get the book, I look at the odds of being

selected and I look at the success rates from past years,” said Hal Jacobs, of Troup. “I want to get drawn for a decent hunt.”

Past success rates don’t always matter, though, Jacobs said.

“I’ve been on a few with low success rates and had great hunts,” he said.

Jacobs has been to Mason Mountain, Matagorda Island, Rock Springs and Sabine Bottom.

“I killed a 135-inch 10-pointer at Mason Mountain, and Matagorda Island has real good deer,” he said. “But after dark the mosquitoes will carry you away. At Sabine Bottoms, I never saw a deer. You’re prob-ably wasting your preference points to apply there.”

Jacobs, who hunts with his dad, uncle and a friend, has the best luck being chosen for archery

Information key to choosing application sites

See PERMITS, Page 6

VENDOR VARIETY: Hunting expos not only have fun things to do and interesting people to meet, but plenty of exhibits and vendors for the public to learn about products and services. Photo by Courtney Stolte.

See EXPOS, Page 19

LUCK OF THE DRAW: Wade West took this whitetail at the Matador Wildlife Management Area after a Special Permit Hunt in the fall of 2011. Photo by TPWD.

Map by TPWD.


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(512) 263-1888ANDREW ZIEGLER of Georgetown took this mature, opening day 8-point buck

on a ranch in Burnet County last season. The ranch owner wanted the buck

taken for management purposes because they estimated it at 5.5 years old and

the buck still had an 8-point frame. He was 18.5-inches wide and scored 124

B&C; Andrew was very happy with the deer, according to his dad, Vince.

Do-it-yourselfBringing trophies

home unaided can save money, time

By Conor HarrisonLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

This is the fi nal of a 3-part series on getting tro-phies from a foreign country to your trophy room. This article is for the do-it-yourself types.

Former Dallas Safari Club President Richard Cheatham is a veteran of many for-eign hunts.

He had gone the usual route of using ship-ping companies, import/export businesses and jumping through hoops to get his tro-phies home. On a recent trip, he took the advice of another club member and decided to do it himself.

“I just thought, more out of curiosity about the process and saving money, that I would try it,” he said. “There is an online process (through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) but I did it with hard copies. It was pretty straightforward.”

On a recent trip to Namibia, Cheatham took common plains game. He did not take any ani-mals listed on the CITES list, for which extra permitting and fees are necessary.

“I used a taxidermist in Namibia,” Cheatham said. “My outfi tter shipped the ani-mals and copies of the permits to the taxider-mist. When that was fi nished, the taxidermist sent them to a Namibian shipping company. They contacted me with a letter and I received an estimate of the charges.

“I was still on the fence about whether to use an import company, but I decided to do it myself.”

Cheatham had the animals shipped directly through Delta Cargo without the use of a ship-ping company.

“I got copies of the forms (a 3-177 declara-tion form and the applicable animal import form from USFWS) before the animals were shipped,” he said. “Delta Cargo received the

animals here in Dallas and notifi ed me they were here.”

Delta imposes a penalty if it takes lon-ger than fi ve days to pick up cargo, so hunt-ers should be available the week the animals arrive.

“The forms required the correct Latin names of the animals, whether the shipment con-tains trophies, horns, mounts or skulls — it’s very important to get the actual description of what it is. Make sure you have all of the proper numbers of items, countries of origin abbre-viations correct and all shipping numbers cor-rect.

“Once you have all of the correct paperwork fi lled out, the toughest thing is fi nding the USFWS offi ce on the west side of DFW.”

Cheatham went to Delta Cargo and picked up the original copies of all paperwork before going to the USFWS offi ce.

“I replaced the copies with the original forms,” Cheatham said. “USFWS walked through, checked everything and signed off on it. Then I went to the customs offi ce and they quickly signed off. Then I went back to Delta Cargo to deliver the clearance papers from customs and USFWS.

“From start to fi nish, it took about two hours.”

The only out-of-pocket money Cheatham spent was a $50 fee from Delta Cargo. If he would have used an import company, he would have spent at least $500 for various charges.


hunts, where the odds of being drawn are much better.

“But my success rate for the Gun Either Sex category is bad; I have yet to be drawn for one in 14 years. You can get drawn for an archery hunt every year — and I’ve never been on a bad one except for Sabine Bottoms.”

Kelly Edmiston, a program specialist with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department since 1999, offered a few additional tips.

“Make sure you are only making one appli-cation per category,” he said. “We try to level the load, so, for example, there are fi ve alliga-tor hunts. You can only apply for one so pick the one that suits your preference.”

If you apply for more than one hunt in each category, your applications are disqual-ifi ed, and you don’t get your money back.

And you may never know. One hunter realized he had been applying for multiple hunts in the same category for years.

In choosing, study the book, Edmiston said. The book, now available online, is mailed to those who have applied before or can be picked up at TPWD offi ces.

“There are at least three years of statistics available online,” he said. “You can look at the dates available, the areas, the success rates and the number of permits available.

“You also can look at the number of people accepted and how many paid hunters showed up. And it shows the number of standby posi-tions that were able to hunt and how many people showed up to try to get them.”

Preference points are tougher to under-stand, but applying each year does increase your odds of success, albeit only slightly for the most popular hunts.

“Because you’re limited to one application per category, you accrue points in that cate-gory. If you weren’t selected last year, you get a point. Apply this year and your application will be submitted twice.”

James Howard, of Colleyville, has been on numerous Special Permit Hunts with his son and a friend with a son the same age.

“We went to Kerrville several times — it’s great for youngsters,” he said. “And

we’ve been to Inks Lake, Mason Mountain, Matador and Mineral Wells State Park. Our success rate was in the 60 percent range and we only got skunked a few times. All of our hunts were positive.”

And Ken Bacon, of Spring, despite being slowed down by a stroke, is still applying for the hunts with success.

“Last season, my nephew and I were drawn for nine hunts,” he said. “One was a private lands hunt where I shot a 9-pointer. I just picked up the mount from the taxidermist.”

Some hunt sites are extremely popular.“The pronghorn hunts offered at the

Rita Blanca Grasslands are very popular,” Edmiston said. “We have eight to 10 permits and we’ll have 4,000 people try to get them.

“But you’re only out $3 to try.”Areas that have active management of the

wildlife and the habitat are most popular.“At the Chaparral, Kerr, Matador and

Gus Engeling WMAs, we’ll have 3,000 to 3,400 applications for about 50 permits,” Edmiston said.

When he gets the book, Howard tries for variety.

“We try to pick something different each year and look at the percentages to get a bet-ter shot at winning — and we look for pretty areas,” he said.

It has worked. For 10 years, the group of four averaged two to three hunts per year.

And there is an added benefi t, Howard said.“I believe the hunting really helped keep

our boys out of trouble.”

PermitsContinued From Page 4

MORE INFO ■ FEES: $3 per application, except guided private hunts, which are $10 per application. If selected, additional fees may apply. Most areas offering two days of hunting over three days have a fee of $80, while the four- to fi ve-day hunts are $130. All youth hunts are free.

■ DEADLINES: August 9: Archery-only, crossbow, pronghorn, private lands.September 6: All gun and youth deer categories.


College Station man receives national 4-H award Federal Premium Ammunition recently announced the recipient of the second annual Bill

Stevens 4-H Leadership Award. Dr. Ronald Howard Jr., from College Station, was honored and received the award June 19

during the 2012 National 4-H Shooting Sports Invitational in Grand Island, Neb.Howard’s academic and professional career included time at Cornell University in New York,

Purdue University in Indiana, and Texas A&M. He worked both as a professor and extension agent, teaching students how fi sh and wildlife management are interwoven with hunting, fi sh-ing, trapping and the shooting sports. His support and advancement of the 4-H Shooting Sports Program has been hugely successful.

Howard helped spearhead New York’s early efforts in 1980 and anchored the program on the East Coast in its early days. He served on the National 4-H Shooting Sports Committee, including terms as chair, and was a driving force in the creation of the Wildlife and Hunting Skills disciplines. Howard also led the Texas Shooting Sports Project, the largest state shooting sports program in the country.

— Staff report

Desert sheep hunt sells for $90,000The Texas Bighorn Society held their annual fundraiser July 13-14 in Fort Worth.The highlight of the 2012 Roundup was a live auction featuring a 10-day desert bighorn

sheep hunt in the El Carmen Mountains.The hunt sold for $90,000.“This was out biggest attendance ever and probably the highest money-making effort for

helping this great animal survive and thrive in Texas,” said the TBS’ Facebook page. “We can build a lot of water guzzlers and fund some great conservation efforts with that kind of money.”

— Staff report


FISHING

SIMPLE SETUP: Brian Lockwood has caught everything from redfi sh to tuna and wahoo from his Jet Ski, on runs up to 60 miles offshore. Photo by Brian Lockwood.

Big fi sh, small vessel


There is a group of anglers along the Texas coast that get some strange looks when they show up at the boat docks to head offshore.

It isn’t because of the way they are dressed or the fi shing gear they have — it’s the per-sonal watercraft they are sitting on when they head out to fi ght big fi sh up to 60 miles offshore.

“It’s kind of like a kayak, but a little more stable, and a lot faster,” said Johnny Lai of Friendswood. “It’s pretty fun for the younger guys.”

Lai goes anywhere from 4 to 15 miles out of Freeport, and said he has landed four spe-cies of fi sh he had never caught before since going out on his Jet Ski. Keeping bait alive with the limited space is a problem, so Lai usually uses dead bait.

He said there is a defi nite learning curve for beginners.

“There’s a lot of trial and error with the rig setup,” he said. “You have to secure your gear with something really strong, because it will fall out — every-thing is going to take a beating.”

Lai was fi rst introduced to the idea of fi shing offshore on a Jet

Ski from posts made by other users on Texas-based fi shing forums.

“I saw where people were doing it online; there’s one guy in particular who posts about it a lot,” Lai said. “After I went out once, I was hooked.”

Brian Lockwood, of Poquoson, Va., who often goes by the name of “Jet Ski Brian,” is one of the online posters Lai referenced. Several Texans con-tacted Lockwood for advice before heading out into the Gulf.

“I have helped many indi-viduals get into Jet Ski fi shing,” Lockwood said.

“It’s a cross between kayaking and boating,” he said.

Lockwood has gone up to 60 miles off the coast and caught ling weighing up to 70 pounds from his Jet Ski. He said landing fi sh this size is not as hard as it may sound.

“It’s actually easier to deal with big fi sh by myself on my Jet Ski than on a boat, because I’m already right there at the water and I just pull it up,” he said.

People are not always pre-pared to see Lockwood fi shing from his Jet Ski so far offshore.

“I defi nitely do get the strange looks,” he said. “They’re like, ‘what the hell is a Jet Ski doing

out here?’”There are important precau-

tions to take if someone wants to make an offshore run on a personal watercraft.

“You really need to be in decent shape, and storage is going to be limited,” he said. “The common mistake I’ve dealt with is people trying to overdo it, with just putting too much on — you have to try and even out the weight down low.”

Some anglers who fi sh from their personal watercrafts are content to stay in the bay sys-tems and catch fi sh, without making the runs offshore.

“I’ve caught a few more fi sh off the Jet Ski than the boat,” said Mike Walker of Houston, who fi shes out of Eagle Point. “The waves don’t hit you and make a lot of noise, and the fi sh will get a little closer than they will to a boat.”

Walker said he was pleasantly surprised when he fi rst took his Jet Ski fi shing.

“It’s a lot more comfortable than I thought it would be, and it’s just kind of an easy and quick setup,” he said. “It’s not hard to balance on, but it is a bit of a wet ride.

“I have a real good time on it; it’s just a blast going out there.”

Hardy anglers blast offshore

Under starry skiesBig bass biting at nightBy Conor HarrisonLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Austin tournament angler Robby Crabb fi nds the summer heat in Texas tough.

But he still needs to get his bass-fi shing fi x, so Crabb heads to Lake Austin after the sun goes down in search of big bass.

“The fi shing has been a little streaky this year,” Crabb said. “Lake Austin is full of grass this year, which has made it tough to fi sh. But we had a lot of nights the past two years where we were catching 25 to 30 pounds a night.”

Crabb said besides the obvious advantage of escaping the heat, bass fi shing at night brings bass into the shallows searching for food.

“We have been keying on inside grass lines that are very shallow — around a foot deep,” he said. “We also target docks and bulkheads with a Texas-rigged plastic or a fl uke. “

Lake Fork guide James Henderson said it is easier for the casual angler to fi nd fi sh at night, especially on a lake with as much pressure as Fork.

“The daytime bite is iffy,” Henderson said. “You have to move to fi nd structure and search for bait. At night, it doesn’t take much effort to go down a shoreline and throw a spinner bait. And the heat is awful during the day.”

Henderson said boating traffi c at night can get hectic, and precautions must be taken to be safe, but the bass are there and hungry.

“Normally, the late-evening feed extend-ing from the late afternoon to midnight is good,” he said. “But I’ve caught my biggest fi sh between 2 and 3 a.m.”

For lures, Henderson likes throwing tradi-tional dark colors with big spinner baits to cover a lot of water.

“On a dark night, I will sometimes throw a 10-inch worm with a lot of vibration,” he said. “There are occasions when daytime colors also work. Around docks with lights, colors like watermelon and pumpkinseed produce better. Those lights really bring the fi sh in.”

Crabb likes a fl ipping pattern at night.“Darker shades of greens and blues

work well,” he said. “I love the color of Okeechobee craw fl ipping on a 3/8 weight, real shallow. I like to send long casts into the shallows.”

Crabb said around dock lights, he prefers a swimbait or even a fl y jig.

“Punching through the grass would prob-ably work if you could do it,” he said.

Choke Canyon angler Tony Brown said he tar-gets shallow structure after the sun goes down.

“I like throwing something with a lot of vibration and bouncing it off of structure, like logs,” he said. “Something to get the attention of the fi sh. They will hear that splash and then sense the vibrations. I’ve caught some nice fi sh during the nighttime.”

Guide James Henderson, (214) 864-2469

Panfi sh on steroidsHybrid bluegill top choice

for small pondsBy Craig NyhusLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

Those with a small pond wonder-ing what fi sh to stock should con-sider the hybrid bluegill, according to biologists, landowners and especially fi shermen.

Jimmy Williams of Whitesboro stocked them recently, and couldn’t be happier about it.

“We put them in a pond about nine months ago,” he said. “The pond is a little more than one acre and we put

in 500 hybrid bluegill and 500 chan-nel catfi sh.”

The fast-growing fi sh are already hand-sized — and biting.

“Our 4-year-old son Hunter is hav-ing a blast,” Williams said. “If you toss the line in, you’re going to get a bite.”

The hybrid bluegill is a cross between a female green sunfi sh and a male bluegill, said Wes Fleming, a biologist at Pond King in Gainesville.

Stocking the hybrid bluegill pro-

See PANFISH, Page 19

WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT: Oklahoma angler Scott Brooks caught this big 8-pound, 14-ounce bass on Lake Fork while night fi shing with guide James Henderson. Photo by James Henderson.

BIG BLUE: The hybrid bluegill can be distinguished from regular bluegill by a yellow margin along the pelvic and anal fi ns. It also has a larger mouth than a bluegill sunfi sh. Photo by Bob Lusk.


All hail the kingsBy Conor HarrisonLONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS

South Padre Island Capt. Daniel Cole was com-ing back from a successful day of trolling for kingfi sh when Lone Star Outdoor News caught him on his cell phone.

“I’m headed back in now and it is on,” Cole said. “We limited out today. They’re here — thick!”

The kingfi sh bite turned on late this year, but anglers all along the coast are seeing the fi sh in good numbers.

“We are catching them up to 10 miles out,” Coles said. “They’ve really turned on the past few days. I’ve caught four limits in four days. Everyone out there was lim-iting out today.”

Cole said he trolls with both artifi cials and live bait, but the artifi cials are work-ing better. He also said troll-ing around ships has been

working, along with mark-ing schools of baitfi sh and targeting hungry kings around the schools.

“The bait is following the clear water that has been pushing in,” he said. “As long as the weather stays mild, the bite will continue to be good. The biggest enemy right now is really windy, choppy weather. But the bite should be good through September or October.”

Kauffman angler Mike Smith recently spent nine days fi shing out of Rockport and Port O’Connor, and he reported spotty success for kingfi sh.

“The weather got rough and the kings moved in closer to shore,” Smith said. “I saw two kings caught right off the Packery jetties. They were

slapping baitfi sh pretty close. We trolled for kings that day and had three hookups before we headed farther offshore for ling and snapper.”

Smith said his boat was trolling with ribbonfi sh.

After the fi rst offshore trip, Smith again went out to rigs off Port O’Connor dur-ing a day with bad weather and did not fi nd success.

“We trolled around the rigs and couldn’t fi nd a king, which we couldn’t believe,” he said.

Closer to shore, party boats are having success fol-lowing shrimp boats.

“The kings are moving in, fi nally,” said Scott Harrison at Fisherman’s Wharf in Port Aransas. “Shrimping season opened and the kings are pretty close to shore — not to the jetties yet, but pretty close.”

Ribbonfi sh were putting the kings in the boat.

Other reports from the Galveston area said the fi shing for kingfi sh has not been as steady as in years past, but some boats were still hav-ing success.

Capt. Daniel Cole, (956) 299-0492

Kingfi sh action fi nally on

GRIN OF A KING: Kingfi sh have shown up in big numbers up and down the coast. Anglers are catching them troll-ing with ribbonfi sh and artifi cials. Photo by Erich Schlegel, for LSON.


ALAN HENRY: Water lightly stained; 82–89 degrees; 6.98’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters early, midday switch-ing to shaky heads, Texas rigs, jigs and drop-shot rigs.

AMISTAD: Water clear; 84–88 degrees; 25.30’ low. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon crankbaits, spinner baits and soft plastics. Channel and blue catfi sh are good on nightcrawlers, liver and shrimp over baited holes.

ARROWHEAD: Water off-color; 83–88 degrees; 9.01’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters, Texas rigs and lipless crankbaits. White bass are good on slabs and spinner baits. Catfi sh are fair to good on prepared bait.

BASTROP: Water stained; 87–91 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits and char-treuse soft plastics.

BELTON: Water clear; 84–88 degrees; 0.89’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters early and late. Hybrid striper are good on live shad early. White bass are excellent on white riversides. Crappie are good on minnows in 30 feet. Channel and blue catfi sh to 4 pounds are good on summer sausage. Yellow catfi sh are good on live perch and goldfi sh.

BOB SANDLIN: Water lightly stained; 85–90 degrees; 3.32’ low. Largemouth bass are good on medium crankbaits. Deep-water brush piles are best later in the day using football jigs. Crappie are good on live minnows and jigs over brush piles and mid– to deep–water stickups. Catfi sh are fair to good on trotlines or juglines with soap and nightcrawlers.

BRAUNIG: Water clear. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits and watermelon soft plastics near the dam. Striped bass are good on liver, shad and gold spoons along shorelines. Channel catfi sh are good on shrimp, cut bait and nightcrawlers.

BROWNWOOD: Water clear; 84–88 degrees; 11.71’ low. Largemouth bass are good on chartreuse/white spinner baits and soft plastic worms over brush piles in 15–25 feet. Crappie are good on minnows and chartreuse tube jigs. Channel catfi sh are good on trotlines baited with cut bait and shrimp.

BUCHANAN: Water murky; 84–88 degrees; 23.78’ low. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon

fl ukes, poppers and 5” plastic worms in Silver Creek in 5–15 feet early. White bass are good on minnows and lipless crankbaits around structure. Crappie are good on chartreuse tube jigs and live minnows. Channel catfi sh are good on liver, nightcrawlers and bloodbait. Yellow and blue catfi sh are very good on perch upriver.

CADDO: Water stained; 85–90 degrees; 0.03’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters early, later switching to Texas-rigged soft plastics in green pumpkin later in the day. White bass and yellow bass are good on slabs.

CALAVERAS: Water clear. Largemouth bass are good on char-treuse spinner baits, crankbaits, and soft plastics near the jetty. Channel and blue catfi sh are excel-lent on live bait, shrimp, and shad.

CANYON LAKE: Water stained; 83–87 degrees; 5.16’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on wa-termelon fl ukes and top-waters, and watermelon/blue fl ake soft plastic worms over brush piles. Smallmouth bass are good on watermelon jigs and white grubs. Crappie are good on minnows and white tube jigs. Yellow and blue catfi sh are good on perch upriver.

CHOKE CANYON: Water clear; 85–88 degrees; 13.71’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on wa-termelon soft plastics and lipless crankbaits early and late. Chan-nel and blue catfi sh are good on stinkbait. Yellow catfi sh are good on live perch and goldfi sh.

COLEMAN: Water lightly stained; 83–87 degrees; 16.64’ low. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon soft plastic worms and chartreuse top-waters. Channel catfi sh are good on trotlines baited with live perch and nightcrawlers.

CONROE: Water fairly clear; 84–88 degrees; 2.05’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on chartreuse soft plastics and lipless crankbaits. Striped bass are good on minnows.

COOPER: Water lightly stained; 84–90 degrees; 1.92’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters early. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid striper are fair to good on artifi cial and live shad over main lake humps. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait and cut bait.

FAYETTE: Water stained. Largemouth bass are fair on spinner baits and small lipless

crankbaits. Channel and blue catfi sh are good on minnows and cut bait over baited holes.

FORK: Water clear; 85–90 degrees; 2.45’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters along main lake points in early morn-ing. Flutter spoon, Carolina rigs and football jigs are producing as well. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs over brush piles and around bridge columns. Cat-fi sh are good on prepared bait.

GIBBONS CREEK: Water clear. Largemouth bass are good on chartreuse crankbaits and lipless crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and pink tube jigs.

GRANGER: Water clear; 88–92 de-grees; 0.33’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on lipless crankbaits and watermelon soft plastics. Crappie are good on minnows and char-treuse tube jigs in 10–15 feet. Blue catfi sh are good on juglines baited with perch and shad.

GRAPEVINE: Water clear; 85–89 degrees; 2.75’ low. Largemouth bass are good on Texas-rigged green pumpkin fi nesse worms and shaky heads around fl oating docks — fi sh being caught from deeper brush piles as well. Top-waters along main lake points are good early (best bite is in 4–8 feet). Catfi sh are fair to good on nightcrawlers and cut shad.

GREENBELT: Water stained; 84–89 degrees; 37.65’ low. Largemouth bass are good on buzzbaits early, midday switching to Carolina rigs, drop-shot rigs and jigs. Crappie are fair to good on minnows and jigs over brush piles.

HUBBARD CREEK: 84–90 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.

LAKE O' THE PINES: Water lightly stained; 85–90 degrees; 0.01’ low. Largemouth bass are good on green pumpkin Carolina-rigged soft plastics and medium-running crankbaits along main lake points. Crappie are fair to good on minnows and jigs.

LAVON: Water lightly stained; 86–91 degrees; 2.70’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to good on Texas-rigged worms — crankbaits are also productive around riprap.

Crappie are good on minnows and jigs around bridge columns.

LBJ: Water clear; 86–90 degrees; 0.49’ low. Largemouth bass are good on chartreuse jigs and shallow-running crankbaits early, and on watermelon tubes and Texas-rigged soft plastics along shorelines. Channel catfi sh are very good on nightcrawlers, stinkbait and live bait.

LEWISVILLE: Water clear; 85–89 degrees; 2.05’ low. Largemouth bass are slow to fair on fi nesse presentations in 10–15 feet along main lake points — key on larger rock along main lake points for best results. Larger isolated rock is best. Hybrid striper are good on slabs and artifi cial shad. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait.

LIVINGSTON: Water fairly clear; 84–88 degrees; 0.10’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on spinner baits and crankbaits. Striped bass are fair on crankbaits and lipless crankbaits. White bass are good on slabs, troll tubes, and pet spoons. Blue catfi sh are good on shad.

MARTIN CREEK: Water fairly clear; 85–90 degrees; 4.39’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on green pumpkin Carolina-rigged worms in deeper water. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait and minnows.

NAVARRO MILLS: Water stained; 84–88 degrees; 0.22’ low. Largemouth bass are good on chartreuse lipless crankbaits and soft plastic worms near the dam. White bass are good on spinner baits, slabs and silver spoons. Crappie are good on minnows and chartreuse tube jigs around structure. Channel catfi sh are good on shrimp and stinkbait.

O.H. IVIE: Water stained; 84–91 degrees; 41.55’ low. Largemouth bass are good on lipless crankbaits and buzzbaits early and late, mid-day switching to Texas rigs, shaky heads, Carolina rigs and drop-shot rigs. Crappie are fair to good on live minnows. White bass are good on slabs and spinner baits. Catfi sh are fair to good on nightcrawlers and prepared bait.

OAK CREEK: Water stained; 83–89 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; 85–89

degrees; 0.45’ low. Largemouth bass are good on fi nesse jigs and Texas-rigged soft plastics in hematoma near shallow cover and docks — best bite is later in the day near thicker cover. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait.

POSSUM KINGDOM: Water fairly clear; 83–90 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; 88–92 degrees; 1.90’ low. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits. Striped bass are good on live shad. White bass are good on live shad and small spinner baits. Channel and blue catfi sh are good on trotlines and juglines baited with liver and cut shad.

RAY HUBBARD: Water clear; 85–89 degrees; 1.16’ low. Largemouth bass are good on watermelon soft plastics and foot-ball jigs along deeper brush piles. Medium-diving crankbaits along riprap points are catching fi sh. Crappie are good on minnows and spinner baits. White bass are good on humps in 17–23 feet with hybrids mixed in. Catfi sh are good on prepared baits.

RAY ROBERTS: Water clear; 85–89 degrees; 0.97’ low. Largemouth bass are good on 12” plastic worms fi shed near deep drop-offs in 20-25’. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs on COE brush piles. White bass are excellent on clear crankbaits around schooling fi sh. Good success on 1 oz. slabs working around humps and points in 28–32’, after the schooling action is over. Catfi sh are good on punch bait over baited holes.

RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water clear; 86–90 degrees; 1.20’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on green pumpkin fi nesse worms on shaky heads around docks. Slow presen-tation is best. Carolina-rigged soft plastics and black/blue football jigs around deep brush piles have also been effective. White bass are good on slabs and live shad. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfi sh are good on prepared bait and nightcrawlers.

SAM RAYBURN: Water lightly stained; 84–88 degrees; 0.93’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on minnows and watermelon lipless crankbaits. White bass are good on minnows and soft plastics. Bream are good on nightcrawlers. Catfi sh are good on trotlines baited with live bait, shrimp and liver.

SOMERVILLE: Water murky; 86–90 degrees; 0.33’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters and shallow-running crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and blue tube jigs.

TAWAKONI: Water stained; 81–90 degrees; 1.29’ low. Largemouth bass are slow on Texas-rigged black/blue soft plastics and black/blue fl ipping jigs around docks — best bite has been farther back in the creeks. Larger profi le jigs producing better. 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.

TEXOMA: Water clear; 84–89 degrees; 0.77’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on medium-running crankbaits along main lake points and also on smaller jigs and Carolina rigs in 8–12 feet. Some fi sh are being caught early on top-waters. Catfi sh are good on nightcrawlers and cut bait.

TOLEDO BEND: Water stained; 82–86 degrees; 2.40’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on watermelon top-waters and shallow-running crankbaits along shorelines. Bream are good on crickets and nightcrawlers off docks. Channel and blue catfi sh are good on trotlines baited with live bait, stinkbait, and shrimp in 25–30 feet.

TRAVIS: Water stained; 87–91 degrees; 40.82’ low. Largemouth bass are good on small spin-ner baits and shallow-running crankbaits. White bass are good on minnows and soft plastics.

WRIGHT PATMAN: Water stained; 85–90 degrees; 0.47’ low. Largemouth bass are good on Texas-rigged worms, medium-running crankbaits and soft swimbaits along main lake points. Catfi sh are good on cut shad and prepared bait.

—TPWD

TEXAS FRESHWATER FISHING REPORTShallow runners

FALCON INTERNATIONAL RESERVOIR — Good bass are being found shallow at Falcon, according to area anglers.

“Fish were biting on white 3/4-ounce spinner baits in the hardwood off of the main river channel, from 2 to 12 feet of water,” said John Post of San Antonio, who recently caught bass up to 8 pounds with this technique. He also said the fi sh seemed spread out through the hardwood rather than holding tight.

He found that fl ipping jigs into the wood is not nearly as effective as the spinner baits have been. Other anglers have reported success with shallow-running crankbaits and watermelon-pat-

terned soft plastic crawdads.

Try, try againLAKE GILMER — The baitfi sh have been more active than the bass, said Chuck Goodson of

Longview, who reported clear water and water temperatures in the upper 80s.“No top-water bite — I had several short, tentative strikes with a dark blue chatterbait

across the hydrilla,” he said. “A few fi sh have also been brought in utilizing the slow-rolling technique with swimbaits.”

Throwing the book at them, Goodson also tried a white chatterbait, watermelon-patterned fl uke, a top-water frog and Texas-rigged worms; none with much success.

Punching through padsLAKE RAVEN — Area anglers are reporting good panfi sh action

on mealworms and crickets.“They were aggressive on the bite,” said Ric Lancaster of Spring,

who fi shed the Walker County lake recently. “They were big.”Lancaster’s best luck came under lily pads, fi shing his bait around

6-feet deep. Other anglers described the lily pads and hydrilla as too thick to easily fi sh from the bank in many areas, so a canoe or kayak may help fi nd more fi sh.

Largemouth bass are being caught along the edge of grass or with frogs thrown across lily pads.— John Keith

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Anglers heading to Galveston should pre-pare to battle vegetation on the beaches and fl oating just offshore.

“There’s not much of a way to deal with it when it’s really bad,” said angler Ron Russell of Liberty. “It’ll load up on you and you abso-lutely can’t fi sh.”

Russell said he is accustomed to high levels of sargassum coming in this time of year, and he tries to deal with it the best he can.

“I don’t consider it just really bad right now, but you’ll have a little bit of trouble fi sh-ing in close,” he said. “There’s just not much you can do for it.”

One thing anglers targeting bull reds or sharks from shore can do is get the rods as high in the air as possible to keep the lines above the grass. Wading farther out into the surf to cast can also help avoid the grass.

“A lot of times, I’ll walk out into the surf instead of staying back on the beach,” Russell said. “It seems if you get offshore a couple of hundred feet, it won’t be nearly as bad.”

Once a fi sh is hooked, the sargassum becomes an even bigger factor.

“If you get a bull red on there, and then all that seaweed piles on — there’s almost no reeling it in,” Russell said. “Sometimes I’ll just have to set the drag real tight and walk up the beach away from the water to pull it in.”

Kenney Lewis, of Mayfl ower, Ark., recently found himself struggling with the grass along the beach.

“It didn’t necessarily affect the fi shing, but it made it more diffi cult,” he said. “It was very annoying to have to get it off your line, because once it builds up enough, it’ll make your line go downstream with the current.”

Lewis said the grass wasn’t the worst he’s ever had to deal with, but it certainly made trying to fi sh more of a hassle.

“Sometimes you can’t even keep a bait out

there long enough to get a bite,” he said. “It’s more diffi cult to fi sh because the seaweed slides down and covers up your bait.”

A good thing about the grass is its ability to hide bait, which Lewis believes can help attract the redfi sh and shark he likes to target.

“I’ve caught a lot of fi sh with seaweed around before,” he said. “If the fi sh are biting, they’ll still fi nd your bait, even if it’s a strug-gle keeping it out there.”

According to Bill Balboa, Texas Parks and Wildlife biologist for the Galveston Bay com-plex, the vegetation people see washing up on the shore is actually not considered sea-weed.

“What you’re seeing in the surf is not a sea grass, it’s a free-fl oating plant called sargas-sum — even though most people tend to just refer to it as seaweed,” he said.

Southeastern winds and currents push the plant onto the beaches during this time of year.

“It happens every spring because of the winds and the ocean currents,” Balboa said. “Chunks of this stuff will break off and fl oat around in the Gulf of Mexico and be pushed up on the beach throughout the summer. It is troublesome, but it does have a purpose it serves out there.

“It provides habitat and protection for a lot of different things.”

PILED UP: Sargassum, a free-fl oating aquatic plant, can be a headache for anglers this time of year. Photo by John Keith.

Sargassum a hassle


WARDENS RESCUE BROKEN-DOWN BOAT, OCCUPANTS FROM

ONCOMING BARGEOn the Aransas Channel, San

Patricio Game Wardens Albert Flores, Nichole Spatz and Lerrin Williams observed a boat in apparent distress. The boat was in the middle of the channel with a barge bearing down on it, and the people in the boat were frantically trying to get the wardens’ attention. The wardens responded by tying on to the disabled vessel and towing it out of the barge’s path with only moments to spare. The barge captain hailed the wardens on the VHF radio and said that he would not have been able to stop in time to avoid a collision.

EARLY MORNING NETTERS NABBEDAfter 3 a.m., two subjects were

caught using gill nets in prohib-ited waters by Liberty County Game Wardens Randy Button and Adam Broll. The subjects were target-ing alligator gar in the Trinity River with intent to sell the meat while disregarding the daily bag limit of one gar per person. Both subjects were issued multiple citations and 1,400-feet of gill net were recovered from the river.

MAN CAUGHT USING REDFISH AS BAITNueces County Game Warden

Saul Aguilar answered a call regard-ing the use of redfi sh as bait by a fi sherman on the Cole Park Pier. At the pier, Aguilar observed an individ-ual, matching the description given by the caller, who began acting ner-vous. Aguilar had the man reel in his lines, at which time he observed one of the lines baited with a head-less 15-inch redfi sh. A citation was issued. The man admitted that he knew it was illegal to use game fi sh as bait.

STOLEN VEHICLE FOUND NEAR RIVERKarnes County Game Warden

Chad Moore received a call from the Karnes County Sheriff’s Offi ce con-cerning a truck that was in the river. It was late and the information was that it had been there for quite some time. The next morning, Moore and Sgt. Kevin Ficke from the Sheriff’s Offi ce took a boat ride with a local landowner to search for the vehicle. The truck was nowhere to be found in the river. Upon further investiga-tion, Moore located the truck stuck against three trees facing toward the river on a 45-degree angle. The vehicle was pulled out with a tractor. The truck was confi rmed stolen out of Lake Jackson.

DOUBLE-TROUBLE FOR DRINKING MINORSUvalde County Game Warden

Henry Lutz and Frio County Game Warden John Palacios were patrol-ling the Frio River in Uvalde County, observing tubers and kayakers for littering, water safety and alcohol violations. The wardens contacted several minors observed drinking alcohol. One of the minors told the wardens that he and several others in the group had been issued citations for minor in possession of alcohol by

Uvalde County Game Warden Javier Fuentes the previous day. He also said that he had just gotten out of jail a few hours ago as he was arrested by the warden the previous day for failure to identify after he lied to him about his name and date of birth. He said he was about to lie again but thought better of it. All received a citation for minor in possession of alcohol; for many, the second citation in as many days.

FAMILY ROAD HUNTING AFFAIRUvalde County Game Warden

Henry Lutz received a call about a suspicious vehicle on a county road. Lutz located an older model Suburban and observed it from a dis-tance. The rear cargo doors on the Suburban were wide open, and three juveniles were standing in the open door as it moved slowly down the road, apparently looking for animals to kill. The Suburban stopped and everyone got out. One man and one juvenile climbed a fence and entered private property to retrieve an arma-dillo. Another one of the juveniles walked down the road in front of the Suburban and climbed another fence to hunt. Lutz made contact with the occupants of the vehicle and located three armadillos and a jackrabbit in

the back of the vehicle. The suspects were using pellet guns to hunt ani-mals from the road, and one of the adult males was on probation and could not possess a fi rearm. In the vehicle were two adult males, one adult female and four children. They claimed they were looking for meat for the BBQ pit. Charges of hunt-ing from public road and no hunting license were fi led.

WARDENS RESCUE FIVE YOUNGSTERS While Stephens County Game

Warden Clif Westbrook and Shackelford County Game Warden Shea Guinn were patrolling Hubbard Creek Lake, Westbrook received a 911 call reporting a capsized alu-minum boat and fi ve young people in the water. At the scene, the war-dens rescued all fi ve, ages 14 to 19, from the water. No personal fl otation devices were being worn by any of the youngsters. One was taken to the emergency room by EMS and kept overnight in the Stephens County Memorial Hospital. The other four had no injuries.

BUSY DAY ON RIVER FOR WARDENSWhile checking fi shing spots

around the Colorado River, Travis County Game Warden Braxton

Harris found two men swimming in the river spearing catfi sh. Citations were issued and three 15-pound catfi sh were taken and donated to other legal fi shermen. While check-ing a different spot on the river, Harris found an individual with two felony warrants. The subject was transported and booked into the Travis County Jail.

BRIDGE SHOOTING FUN LOSES LUSTERReeves County Game Warden

Jared Self responded to a “shots fi red from a bridge” call. With the assistance of two deputies, four men, one woman, two rifl es and some 9mm casings were observed. After some conversation, two 9mm pistols were taken from the brush. Appropriate charges fi led.

TOUGH TO BEAT THIS BWI RAPWhile patrolling Clear Lake, Waller

County Game Warden Kevin Glass and Cadet Game Warden Henny Volschenk stopped a boat for a water safety inspection shortly after midnight. The operator of the boat had some slurred speech and was unsteady. He was asked if he would feel safe driving kids in a car and he answered yes. The operator was asked to recite the alphabet from the letters A–Z. Despite claiming to have a college degree, the man could not get past the letter H. The man said, “I should rethink driving those kids, actually.” After not being able to count backward correctly, having trouble locating his nose with his eyes closed, having diffi culties clapping, and not understanding the instructions at all on one other test, the wardens took the operator to shore for the walk and turn and one leg stand. When he tried to raise one leg, the man would start to fall over. He was then arrested for boat-ing while intoxicated.

GAME WARDEN BLOTTER

Wood County Game Warden Derek Spitzer was notifi ed by the Wood County Sheriff’s Offi ce of a boat with an unconscious person aboard going in circles on Lake Fork near the Highway 154 pub-lic boat ramp. A fi sherman had reported the boat to the Sheriff’s Offi ce. Spitzer responded to the scene and noticed the boat trav-

eling in circles approximately 200 yards from the boat ramp. Spitzer boarded the caller’s boat. The caller was able to position his boat alongside the moving vessel, which allowed Spitzer to jump aboard and shut it down. Spitzer moved the unconscious man from the driver’s side seat and transported him back to the boat ramp where paramedics

and the Quitman Fire Department were waiting. The subject’s blood sugar levels had fallen below nor-mal causing him to go into a diabetic seizure. The subject was given an IV by the paramedics and recovered within fi ve minutes. The subject was transported to the East Texas Medical Center in Quitman for evaluation and follow-up care.

WARDEN JUMPS ON MOVING BOAT TO RESCUE UNCONSCIOUS MAN



more important. Colored bands have

been suggested to bet-ter catch a hunter’s eye, but Collier doesn’t believe the color of the band would affect the rate of response.

“If you have a dove in your hand and you can’t see a silver band, it’s probably not going to help if it’s red or green,” he said.

Hunters always need to check the legs of the birds they har-vest for bands, but many dove hunters don’t, Collier said.

“We want all hunt-ers to check birds for leg bands, and you should report it because you’re help-ing the management of the species,” he said. “The more who report bands, the better data we have, and the bet-ter we can manage the species.”

U n fo r t u n a t e l y, some hunters simply don’t check for bands, or don’t care to report them.

“I don’t check the birds we shoot or any-thing,” said Delta County guide Stephen Welch. “Last year we killed 1,300 or 1,400 birds, and there was only one banded that I know of.”

Welch isn’t ruling out the possibility that more were shot that

were never noticed.“There is a chance

someone took a banded one home and cleaned it,” he said. “I wonder if we do kill any others that we just throw in the pile.”

It may be a cultural reason that hunters don’t check or call in bands, Welch said.

“It’s not the same feeling like when you shoot a banded duck,” he said. “You’re not going to wear a little dove band necklace out in the fi eld.”

Another outfi tter in South Texas who wished to remain anonymous said his hunters have killed banded birds, but they did not call the numbers on the band, highlighting the dif-

ferences between waterfowlers and dove hunters.

“I found out after the fact,” he said,” but I just don’t want to mess with that stuff.”

Aaron Barnes, of Paris, shot a banded dove, but didn’t realize it until he was double checking how short he was of his limit later in the day.

“I had the dove laying there, and it just kind of caught my eye,” Barnes said. “When you see it, it’s tiny; it’s smaller than the diameter of a pen-cil — there’s just not much to it.

“Anytime from here on I’ll be looking at every one of them.”

The lack of response from hunters creates a problem for biologists, said Mike Frisbie, tech-nical programs coor-dinator for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department small games program.

“What we need is a good rate of return, because that tells us several things about the population,” he said. “Waterfowl banding has a higher rate of return than we get with dove hunters, because they don’t have the same cul-ture. Dove banding is a recent thing we’ve started in the last six years, while water-fowl has a history of banding for decades.”

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ABOUT TO BE BANDED: Researchers catch dove in traps such as this one, where detailed information is recorded before the bird is banded and released. Photo by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

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NORTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good under birds and pods of shad on soft plastics. Redfi sh are good in the cuts and drains leading to the marsh on shrimp and scented plastics.

SOUTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good while drifting the reefs on live shrimp and top-waters. Drift-ers have worked slicks and pods of shad. Trout are good at the jetty on live bait and top-waters.

BOLIVAR: Trout are good on the south shoreline on soft plastics. Black drum, sand trout and redfi sh are good at Rollover Pass.

TRINITY BAY: Trout are good for drifters working wells and shell pads on shrimp, croakers and soft plastics. Redfi sh are good

on live bait around the reefs and at the spillway.

EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are good for drifters working deep shell on limetreuse and plum plastics. Whiting and sand trout are good in the edge of the Intracoastal on fresh shrimp. Trout are good in the Ship Chan-nel on croakers and plastics.

WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to good over reefs on live bait. Sheepshead, redfi sh and black drum are good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs. Offshore is good for tarpon, kingfi sh and ling.

TEXAS CITY: Trout are fair to good on the reefs on live shrimp and croakers. Trout are good on the edge of the Ship Channel

on croakers and shrimp.

FREEPORT: Trout are good at San Luis Pass on shrimp and lipless crankbaits. Sand trout and sheepshead are good on live shrimp on the reefs in Christmas Bay. Trout, Span-ish mackerel and sand trout are good at the jetties on soft plastics and shrimp fi shed on the bottom. Offshore is good for kingfi sh, ling and dorado.

EAST MATAGORDA BAY: Trout are fair for drifters on live shrimp over humps and scattered shell. Redfi sh are fair to good on the edge of the Intracoastal on crabs and mullet. Trout are fair on top-waters on the shorelines early.

WEST MATAGORDA BAY: Trout

are fair on sand and grass humps on soft plastics and top-waters. Redfi sh are fair on top-waters and live shrimp in Oyster Lake and Crab Lake.

PORT O'CONNOR: Trout and redfi sh are fair on top-waters and live bait over sand, grass and shell in San Antonio Bay. Trout are fair to good in the surf and at the jetty on croak-ers and top-waters.

ROCKPORT: Trout are fair to good in the guts and channels on free-lined shrimp. Trout are fair over grass while drifting with live shrimp. Redfi sh are good on shrimp and mullet on the Estes Flats.

PORT ARANSAS: Trout, redfi sh and sheepshead are fair to

good at the jetty on shrimp and croakers. Trout are fair to good in the surf on top-waters, piggies and croakers. Offshore is good for kingfi sh and dorado around shrimp boats.

CORPUS CHRISTI: Trout are fair to good on the edge of the spoils on soft plastics and live shrimp. Redfi sh are good in the potholes on shrimp, croakers and piggy perch.

BAFFIN BAY: Trout are good on top-waters around rocks and grass. Trout are fair to good on the King Ranch shoreline on croakers, top-waters and soft plastics. Redfi sh are good along the grassy spoils.

PORT MANSFIELD: Trout are good on top-waters around

sand and grass. Redfi sh are fair to good while drifting pot holes and on live bait and scented plastics. Offshore is good for red snapper in state waters and kingfi sh around shrimp boats. Tarpon have been showing on the beachfront.

SOUTH PADRE: Redfi sh and trout are good in South Bay and Mexiquita Flats on shrimp and scented plastics under rat-tling corks. Tarpon are showing at the jetty.

PORT ISABEL: Trout and redfi sh are fair to good on the fl ats on live shrimp and scented plastics. Redfi sh are good on scented plastics and small top-waters while casting to the shallows.

— TPWD

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“The weather has been pretty terrible lately, so looking for active birds and bait has been diffi cult,” said Chris Roberts, of Galveston. “Instead, I’ve been taking advantage of the outgoing tide and have been fi shing locations that provide good staging areas for feeding trout.”

Roberts has been having luck using this technique after 7 p.m., with pink soft plastics under a popping cork. Bites have also come from black and chartreuse twitchbaits.

So-so in the baySEADRIFT — The action in San Antonio Bay

has slowed down a little bit, but each boat is still pulling in between 15 and 20 trout a trip, said Capt. Chris Martin.

“We’ve been working areas with 2- to 3-feet of soft shell,” he said. “Concentrate casting to the end of the reef or the curves near area reefs.”

Martin said the bite has been early, and fi zzles out around 9 a.m.

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the fi sh away, according to Bruce Kraatz of Kraatz Boat & Bait Camp.

“Daytime is slow, but it’s really picking up at night,” he said. “It’s awful hot and with Baffi n Bay being so shallow, it just heats up real fast.”

Anglers have found success fi shing under lights, with many people using dead shrimp rigged to sink to the bottom. The early morning bite has also had some success, with bone and silver top-waters producing action before the sun gets high.

“They’re catching quite a few trout, and quite a few reds, almost all at nighttime,” Kraatz added.

To contact Kraatz Boat & Bait Camp, call (361) 297-5717.— John Keith

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you’re on the course dur-ing the day and the course is open, somebody will come down and ask you to leave.”

For residents and mem-bers to fi sh on the course, Stonebridge requires a yearly fee to sign up for the fi shing rights. The Stonebridge Ranch resi-dent handbook warns anglers that the ponds are monitored, and that they can be checked by their driver’s license to see if they’ve paid their fee.

According to Stack, the fee is well worth it.

“I’ve caught a 9.2-pound bass and a 7.14 on the same day,” he said.

However, many golf courses are not so will-ing to let anglers onto the course, and do their best to keep people from fi sh-ing them.

Rodney Schliep of Dallas grew up playing a cat and mouse game with employees of the Kingwood Country Club, north of Houston, when he was about 12 years old.

“We were actually golf-ing down there one day and we noticed all the fi sh, so we started sneak-ing out there fi shing,” he said. “Then they caught us a couple of times, so we’d just go out at night.”

The fi shing was simply too good to not risk get-ting caught, according to Schliep.

“Oh, my gosh — you just can’t imagine. There were certain ponds no one ever touched, and it was

like the fi sh were starv-ing,” he said. “We would absolutely fi gure out every way possible to get to those ponds.”

To try and gain per-mission, Schliep and his friends would collect golf balls on the course and give them to the pro shop for the right to fi sh. Sometimes the strategy worked and sometimes it didn’t.

“One time they sent a state trooper out to tell us to leave, and while he was screaming at us I hooked into a big bass,” Schliep said. “The trooper came over, lipped the fi sh and handed it to me — I think he ended up being more excited about the fi sh than I was.”

The fi shing ban on golf courses mostly comes from the pro shop want-ing to keep the golfers from being interfered with by anglers.

“There is a liabil-ity standpoint, plus the chance of interfering with golfers,” said Jessie Ely, an employee at Ratliff Ranch Golf Links in Odessa, which doesn’t allow fi sh-ing. “Interfering with the players on the course would probably be the main problem.”

Schliep had a simple rea-son for taking the chance of getting caught on the course.

“We were just young and dumb, not thinking about snakes or anything,” he said. “We just wanted to go out and fi sh.”

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“When I can’t run 30-50 miles off of Port Aransas, I end up at the ships,” he said. “It is the best Plan B in the Gulf. We target kingfi sh and most of the ships are within nine miles of the jetty.

“It really opens it up to a lot of boats.”

Pennington said along with great fi shing, target-ing ships is an easy way to get people offshore.

“It is a great way to expose people to offshore fi shing,” he said. “There is no 2- to 3-hour run to the fi shing grounds.”

Pennington trolls with a

number of baits, including artifi cials and live bait.

“We either troll with a variety of baits or freeline cigar minnows, ribbonfi sh or sardines down the side of the big boat,” he said.

Ships stay anchored off the Texas coast year-round, although there is no set schedule for when various ships will be there or for how long.

“I’ve fi shed multiple days around the same ship,” Pennington said. “We have been catching kings, ling and every so often there are reports of sailfi sh. But the sailfi sh action seems to only happen when an infl ux of the blue water from Mexico comes close.

“There is just something magical about being off-

shore.”A company that keys on

ships this time of year is Bill Busters along the mid-coast. According to Freda Greene, a longtime fi rst mate and wife of Capt. Reese Greene, the boats key in on anchored ships and shrimp boats this time of year for a variety of species, including ling, kingfi sh and sharks.

“We generally look on our radar and fi nd boats that are either anchored or shrimp boats that are mov-ing,” Greene said. “But a trick is to stick around the boats when they start to cull their catch. That is the best time.

“You can get right on the fi sh.”

Greene said if a boat has

been anchored for a long time, the fi shing will be tougher, but kings and ling can still be caught.

Greene said if nothing has bitten a line within 5 or 10 minutes, pack up and head to the next anchored boat.

“Right now, we are tar-geting kings,” she said.

According to Christina Bujaucius, public relations head for the Galveston Port Authority, there is no law about how close fi sh-ing boats can troll next to anchored ships. There is also no set schedule for the time ships are anchored offshore, but many ports have ships coming in and out every day, providing additional angling oppor-tunities.

AnchoredContinued From Page 1

ANCHORED UP: When trolling doesn t work, freelining live bait near ships can provide great action for kingfi sh, ling and other game fi sh. Photo by Erich Schlegel, for LSON.


vides several benefi ts, but land-owners should be aware of some potential pitfalls.

“The hybrid bluegill grow faster; a condition called ‘hybrid vigor,’” Fleming said. “And they can get to 2 pounds.”

One-year-old fish can reach 8 inches in length, and the fish reach sexual maturity at 5 inches.

They have a larger mouth than most sunfish and they feed aggressively.

“And they respond quickly to commercial fish food, mak-ing them easy targets for youngsters and adults from the bank or dock,” Fleming said.

Williams couldn’t agree more.“We feed every two or three

days, and the fish are following us as we approach the pond in the four-wheeler,” he said.

Small ponds are best for the fish.“The best application is to stock

them in ponds an acre or less,” Fleming said. “And the only other fish in the pond should be catfish.”

Why not bass or crappie?“The hybrids do spawn, but

they produce far more males than females (up to 90 percent males),” he said. “So they aren’t good as a for-age fish.”

The good news, though, is the hybrids don’t tend to overpopulate like other bluegill.

And mixing with other bluegill species isn’t recommended, said Bob Lusk a fisheries biologist and owner of Pond King magazine.

“If people intend to stock hybrid bluegills, stock them as a stand-alone species and not with other species of fish,” he said. “That’s because they can reproduce, but

only with other species. When that happens, the next genera-tion won’t exhibit hybrid vigor.”

The hybrids are aggressive pred-ators, Lusk said.

“Since their mouths are larger, they can outcompete other blue-gills,” he said. “But, since bluegills can (and do) reproduce prolifi-cally, bluegills, over the long term, can outcompete them via sheer numbers.”

Even in a small pond only mixed with only catfish, the hybrids won’t last forever.

“You have to restock them occasionally, because they pro-duce mostly males,” Fleming said.

The fun they provide is well worth the investment, Williams said.

“It’s the best money I ever spent.”

PanfishContinued From Page 8

everything you need in a one-stop shop.”The Hunters Extravaganza will boast

some different attractions than years past.“We have some new things and new

faces,” said Hal Gahm, the senior vice presi-dent of sales and operations.

All locations will have a youth archery shooting range, a rock wall, Joe Martin’s Snakes of Texas and the Texas Junior Angler’s Catch Fish Tank. San Antonio and Houston will have the Operation Game Thief’s Wall of Shame, a laser shot and paintball trailer and a bubble runner, which allows kids to climb inside a big, plastic ball and run across water.

There will also be some celebrity appear-ances, including “Trophy Hunters” TV host Matt Hughes, Larry Weishuhn, and Jase Robertson of “Duck Dynasty.”

The Texas Hunting and Outdoor Classic will be taking place in San Antonio September 15 and 16 at the Freeman Coliseum and Grounds.

ExposContinued From Page 4

Hobie Mirage Pro Angler 12 wins ICAST Best in Show

The Hobie Mirage Pro Angler 12 by Hobie Cat was voted by buyers and media as the ICAST 2012 best product in both the Boat category and the overall “Best of Show.”

The new lightweight, more com-pact, Pro Angler 12 is the most versatile fi shing boat the company has ever designed.

This 12-foot boat sports a 500-pound weight capacity and is packed full of “must-have” features that kayak anglers demand. From lakes to rivers to open ocean, this boat has no boundaries — stand and fi sh with incredible stability, securely store six rods (four horizon-tally, two vertically), and access your tackle with ease.

Integrated dual-steering controls for left- or right-handed acces-sibility while underway. Vantage seating provides ultimate comfort and adjustability in a lightweight, easily removable form, along with Boa® sys-tem lumbar support technology. The “Lowrance Ready” installation system makes adding a fi sh-fi nder a breeze.

— Staff report

Olympic shooting, archery on TV

Shooting and archery enthusi-asts will have the chance to view the competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, assuming they get the cable network. Whether watch-ing to see Texan Glenn Eller compete in Double Trap or hoping Kim Rhode can medal in her fi fth consecutive Olympics, most of the competition will be shown on NBC Sports Network.

The TV schedule is as follows (subject to change per NBC):

Shooting:July 28: 10mm Air Rifl e 5 a.m., NBCSN July 29: Women’s Skeet

12:30 p.m., NBCSNJuly 30: Air rifl e

3:30 p.m., NBCSNJuly 31: Men’s Skeet Final

3:30 p.m., NBCSNAug 2: Men’s Double Trap

3:45 p.m., NBCSNAug 3: Men’s 50m Prone Rifl e

8 a.m., NBCSNAug. 4: Women’s Trap Final

3:30 p.m., NBCSNAug. 5: Men’s Pistol Final

10:50 a.m., NBCSNAug. 6: Men’s Trap Final

1 p.m., MSNBCArchery:July 28: Men’s Team Final

4:45 p.m., NBCSNJuly 29: Individual competition

2:45 p.m., NBCSNJuly 30: Men’s individual

12:45 p.m., NBCSNJuly 31: Men’s individual

4 p.m., MSNBCAug. 1: Men’s individual

1:15 p.m., NBCSNAug. 2: Women’s Final

1:20 p.m., NBCSNAug. 3: Men’s Final

10:15 a.m., NBCSN— nbcolympics.com

CORRECTION In the 7/13 issue of LSON, incor-rect dates were given for the 2012 North and Central Zone Texas dove seasons. The correct dates are shown below.

Dove: North and Central Zones: Sept. 1– Oct. 24 and Dec. 22-Jan. 6.South Zone: Sept. 21-Oct. 24 and Dec. 22-Jan. 6.Daily bag limit: 15 mourning, white-winged or white-tipped doves in the aggregate, to include no more than two white-tipped doves.Shooting hours: Thirty minutes before sunrise to sunset.

Special White-winged Dove Area: Sept. 1-2, 8-9; Sept. 21-Oct. 28 and Dec. 22-Jan. 18.



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FOR THE TABLEOUTDOOR PUZZLER | By Wilbur “Wib” Lundeen Solution on Page 25

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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1 pound catfi sh fi llets 1 1/2 cups coarse ground mustard 1/4 cup bourbon whiskey Ground pecans, or pecan meal, enough to coat the fi llets

Add whiskey to the mustard to thin and fl avor to your preferences.

Rinse the fi llets in cold water and

pat dry. Coat the fi llets with the mus-tard mix and roll in ground pecans or pecan meal. Be sure the fi llets are thoroughly coated. Place in a greased, shallow baking dish. Bake at 400 degress for about 20 min-utes, or until fi sh is white and fl aky. Serve with hush puppies and salad.

— easyfi shrecipes.com

1 1/2 pounds venison steaks1/2 cup Italian breadcrumbs1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese2 eggs1/4 cup water1/2 cup fl our1/4 cup olive oil1 1/2 cups spaghetti sauceSliced mozzarella cheeseCooked noodlesGarlic saltPepper

Pound steaks to tenderize. Season to taste with garlic salt and pepper. In a bowl, combine

the breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese. In another bowl, beat the eggs and water together. Place the fl our in another bowl. Dip the meat into the fl our, then into the eggs. Then press each side into the crumb mixture. Place on a baking dish and refrigerate for 20 minutes. Heat the oil in a large skillet and brown the meat. Place in a greased baking dish and cover with the sauce, then cover with mozzarella cheese. Bake at 350 degrees or 30 minutes. Serve over noodles.

— backwoodsbound.com

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July 26Texas Coast TidesSabine Pass, jettyDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time HeightJuly 27 12:44 AM 2.2H 2:47 AM 2.2L 7:31 AM 2.3H 4:40 PM -0.6LJuly 28 1:55 AM 2.5H 5:39 PM -0.9LJuly 29 2:42 AM 2.6H 6:36 PM -1.0LJuly 30 3:21 AM 2.7H 7:57 AM 2.4L 10:54 AM 2.5H 7:29 PM -1.0LJuly 31 3:56 AM 2.6H 8:28 AM 2.3L 12:11 PM 2.5H 8:20 PM -0.9LAug 01 4:27 AM 2.5H 9:05 AM 2.1L 1:21 PM 2.4H 9:07 PM -0.7LAug 02 4:56 AM 2.4H 9:47 AM 1.8L 2:29 PM 2.3H 9:51 PM -0.3LAug 03 5:22 AM 2.3H 10:34 AM 1.6L 3:37 PM 2.2H 10:31 PM 0.1LAug 04 5:46 AM 2.2H 11:23 AM 1.3L 4:49 PM 2.0H 11:09 PM 0.5LAug 05 6:08 AM 2.2H 12:15 PM 1.0L 6:09 PM 1.9H 11:43 PM 1.0LAug 06 6:28 AM 2.1H 1:07 PM 0.8L 7:41 PM 1.8HAug 07 12:12 AM 1.4L 6:45 AM 2.1H 2:01 PM 0.5L 9:30 PM 1.8HAug 08 12:32 AM 1.7L 6:57 AM 2.1H 2:55 PM 0.4LAug 09 6:54 AM 2.1H 3:49 PM 0.2LAug 10 3:51 AM 2.3H 4:40 PM 0.1L

Galveston Bay entrance, south jettyDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time HeightJuly 27 1:31 AM 1.7H 3:13 AM 1.7L 8:18 AM 1.8H 5:06 PM -0.5LJuly 28 2:42 AM 2.0H 6:05 PM -0.7LJuly 29 3:29 AM 2.1H 7:02 PM -0.8LJuly 30 4:08 AM 2.1H 8:23 AM 1.9L 11:41 AM 2.0H 7:55 PM -0.8LJuly 31 4:43 AM 2.1H 8:54 AM 1.8L 12:58 PM 2.0H 8:46 PM -0.7LAug 01 5:14 AM 2.0H 9:31 AM 1.7L 2:08 PM 1.9H 9:33 PM -0.5LAug 02 5:43 AM 1.9H 10:13 AM 1.5L 3:16 PM 1.8H 10:17 PM -0.3LAug 03 6:09 AM 1.9H 11:00 AM 1.3L 4:24 PM 1.7H 10:57 PM 0.1LAug 04 6:33 AM 1.8H 11:49 AM 1.0L 5:36 PM 1.6H 11:35 PM 0.4LAug 05 6:55 AM 1.7H 12:41 PM 0.8L 6:56 PM 1.5HAug 06 12:09 AM 0.8L 7:15 AM 1.7H 1:33 PM 0.6L 8:28 PM 1.4 HAug 07 12:38 AM 1.1L 7:32 AM 1.7H 2:27 PM 0.4L 10:17 PM 1.5 HAug 08 12:58 AM 1.4L 7:44 AM 1.7H 3:21 PM 0.3LAug 09 7:41 AM 1.7H 4:15 PM 0.2L 4:38 AM 1.8HAug 10 5:06 PM 0.1L

San Luis PassDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time Height July 27 2:01 AM 1.1H 4:09 AM 1.0L 8:48 AM 1.1H 6:02 PM -0.3LJuly 28 3:12 AM 1.2H 7:01 PM -0.4LJuly 29 3:59 AM 1.3H 7:58 PM -0.5LJuly 30 4:38 AM 1.3H 9:19 AM 1.1L 12:11 PM 1.2H 8:51 PM -0.5LJuly 31 5:13 AM 1.3H 9:50 AM 1.1L 1:28 PM 1.2H 9:42 PM -0.4LAug 01 5:44 AM 1.2H 10:27 AM 1.0L 2:38 PM 1.2H 10:29 PM -0.3LAug 02 6:13 AM 1.2H 11:09 AM 0.9L 3:46 PM 1.1H 11:13 PM -0.2LAug 03 6:39 AM 1.1H 11:56 AM 0.8L 4:54 PM 1.0H 11:53 PM 0.0LAug 04 7:03 AM 1.1H 12:45 PM 0.6L 6:06 PM 1.0HAug 05 12:31 AM 0.2L 7:25 AM 1.0H 1:37 PM 0.5L 7:26 PM 0.9HAug 06 1:05 AM 0.5L 7:45 AM 1.0H 2:29 PM 0.4L 8:58 PM 0.9HAug 07 1:34 AM 0.7L 8:02 AM 1.0H 3:23 PM 0.3L 10:47 PM 0.9HAug 08 1:54 AM 0.8L 8:14 AM 1.0H 4:17 PM 0.2LAug 09 8:11 AM 1.0H 5:11 PM 0.1LAug 10 5:08 AM 1.1H 6:02 PM 0.0L

Freeport HarborDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time HeightJuly 27 12:44 AM 1.5H 5:01 PM -0.3LJuly 28 2:06 AM 1.7H 6:02 PM -0.5LJuly 29 3:07 AM 1.8H 7:03 PM -0.6LJuly 30 3:56 AM 1.9H 8:00 PM -0.6LJuly 31 4:37 AM 1.9H 8:54 PM -0.5LAug 01 5:12 AM 1.8H 11:24 AM 1.2L 1:41 PM 1.3H 9:45 PM -0.4LAug 02 5:40 AM 1.7H 11:39 AM 1.1L 2:59 PM 1.3H 10:32 PM -0.2LAug 03 6:02 AM 1.5H 12:02 PM 1.0L 4:12 PM 1.2H 11:16 PM 0.1LAug 04 6:20 AM 1.4H 12:28 PM 0.8L 5:25 PM 1.2H 11:58 PM 0.4LAug 05 6:35 AM 1.3H 12:59 PM 0.6L 6:41 PM 1.2HAug 06 12:40 AM 0.6L 6:48 AM 1.2H 1:35 PM 0.5L 8:05 PM 1.2 HAug 07 1:25 AM 0.9L 6:59 AM 1.2H 2:15 PM 0.3L 9:45 PM 1.2 HAug 08 2:43 AM 1.1L 7:02 AM 1.2H 3:02 PM 0.2LAug 09 12:03 AM 1.3H 3:55 PM 0.1LAug 10 1:52 AM 1.5H 4:52 PM 0.1L

South Padre IslandDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time HeightJuly 27 2:20 AM 1.2H 4:42 PM -0.6LJuly 28 3:22 AM 1.4H 5:43 PM -0.8LJuly 29 4:09 AM 1.5H 6:43 PM -0.9LJuly 30 4:50 AM 1.5H 7:40 PM -0.9LJuly 31 5:23 AM 1.5H 8:33 PM -0.8LAug 01 5:46 AM 1.4H 9:23 PM -0.6LAug 02 6:02 AM 1.3H 10:15 AM 1.1L 1:45 PM 1.2H 10:10 PM -0.3LAug 03 6:12 AM 1.2H 10:46 AM 1.0L 3:13 PM 1.2H 10:54 PM -0.1LAug 04 6:17 AM 1.1H 11:25 AM 0.8L 4:36 PM 1.1H 11:36 PM 0.2LAug 05 6:20 AM 1.1H 12:08 PM 0.6L 6:02 PM 1.0HAug 06 12:15 AM 0.5L 6:20 AM 1.0H 12:54 PM 0.4L 7:41 PM 1.0 HAug 07 12:51 AM 0.7L 6:15 AM 1.0H 1:43 PM 0.2L 9:48 PM 1.0HAug 08 1:20 AM 0.9L 6:02 AM 1.1H 2:36 PM 0.1LAug 09 5:32 AM 1.1H 3:33 PM 0.1LAug 10 4:05 AM 1.3H 4:31 PM 0.0L

Port O’ConnorDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time HeightJuly 27 8:15 AM 0.6H 7:25 PM -0.3LJuly 28 8:37 AM 0.7H 8:29 PM -0.4LJuly 29 9:17 AM 0.7H 9:34 PM -0.4LJuly 30 10:06 AM 0.7H 10:36 PM -0.4LJuly 31 10:58 AM 0.7H 11:33 PM -0.4LAug 01 11:45 AM 0.6HAug 02 12:23 AM -0.3L 11:48 AM 0.5HAug 03 1:04 AM -0.2L 10:38 AM 0.4HAug 04 1:34 AM -0.1L 10:21 AM 0.4H 3:03 PM 0.3L 5:13 PM 0.3HAug 05 1:52 AM 0.1L 9:17 AM 0.4H 3:39 PM 0.2L 8:34 PM 0.2HAug 06 1:53 AM 0.2L 8:31 AM 0.4H 4:16 PM 0.1LAug 07 7:57 AM 0.4H 4:52 PM 0.0LAug 08 7:42 AM 0.5H 5:29 PM 0.0LAug 09 7:50 AM 0.6H 6:11 PM -0.1LAug 10 8:01 AM 0.6H 7:00 PM -0.1L

RockportDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time HeightJuly 27 10:13 AM 0.2H 8:47 PM -0.2LJuly 28 10:58 AM 0.3H 9:44 PM -0.2LJuly 29 11:53 AM 0.3H 10:41 PM -0.2LJuly 30 12:53 PM 0.3H 11:36 PM -0.2LJuly 31 1:54 PM 0.3HAug 01 12:26 AM -0.1L 2:54 PM 0.2HAug 02 1:09 AM -0.1L 3:55 PM 0.2HAug 03 1:42 AM -0.1L 5:04 PM 0.2HAug 04 2:03 AM 0.0L 6:36 PM 0.1HAug 05 2:11 AM 0.0L 9:03 AM 0.1H 3:12 PM 0.1L 8:55 PM 0.1HAug 06 1:54 AM 0.1L 8:43 AM 0.2H 4:35 PM 0.0LAug 07 8:44 AM 0.2H 5:35 PM 0.0LAug 08 9:01 AM 0.2H 6:28 PM 0.0LAug 09 9:31 AM 0.2H 7:19 PM 0.0LAug 10 10:12 AM 0.3H 8:11 PM 0.0L

Houston2012 A.M. P.M. SUN MOONJul-Aug Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets27 Fri 12:37 6:51 1:06 7:20 06:37 08:16 3:13p 1:10a 28 Sat 1:31 7:46 2:01 8:15 06:37 08:16 4:18p 2:02a 29 Sun 2:25 8:40 2:55 9:10 06:38 08:15 5:19p 2:59a 30 Mon 3:18 9:33 3:48 10:03 06:39 08:15 6:14p 4:01a 31 Tue 4:12 10:26 4:41 10:55 06:39 08:14 7:05p 5:05a 01 Wed > 5:05 11:19 5:33 11:46 06:40 08:13 7:49p 6:10a 02 Thu > 5:58 ----- 6:24 12:11 06:40 08:13 8:29p 7:13a 03 Fri F 6:51 12:39 7:15 1:03 06:41 08:12 9:06p 8:14a 04 Sat > 7:43 1:31 8:06 1:54 06:42 08:11 9:40p 9:13a 05 Sun > 8:34 2:23 8:56 2:45 06:42 08:10 10:14p 10:10a 06 Mon 9:24 3:13 9:47 3:36 06:43 08:09 10:48p 11:05a 07 Tue 10:14 4:03 10:36 4:25 06:43 08:09 11:23p 12:00p 08 Wed 11:02 4:51 11:25 5:14 06:44 08:08 NoMoon 12:54p 09 Thu Q 11:50 5:38 ----- 6:01 06:45 08:07 NoMoon 1:47p 10 Fri 12:12 6:24 12:36 6:48 06:45 08:06 12:41a 2:40p 11 Sat 12:58 7:10 1:22 7:34 06:46 08:05 1:24a 3:31p 12 Sun 1:42 7:55 2:07 8:19 06:46 08:04 2:11a 4:21p 13 Mon 2:27 8:39 2:52 9:04 06:47 08:03 3:02a 5:08p 14 Tue 3:11 9:24 3:36 9:49 06:48 08:02 3:56a 5:52p 15 Wed > 3:56 10:08 4:21 10:33 06:48 08:01 4:52a 6:34p

Port Aransas, H. Caldwell PierDate Time Height Time Height Time Height Time HeightJuly 27 2:02 AM 1.7H 4:50 PM -0.3LJuly 28 2:57 AM 1.9H 5:49 PM -0.5LJuly 29 3:42 AM 2.0H 6:47 PM -0.6LJuly 30 4:22 AM 2.0H 7:42 PM -0.7LJuly 31 4:56 AM 1.9H 8:34 PM -0.7LAug 01 5:25 AM 1.7H 9:23 PM -0.6LAug 02 5:47 AM 1.5H 10:46 AM 1.2L 1:52 PM 1.3H 10:09 PM -0.4LAug 03 6:04 AM 1.4H 11:07 AM 1.0L 3:19 PM 1.2H 10:52 PM -0.1LAug 04 6:17 AM 1.3H 11:37 AM 0.8L 4:41 PM 1.2H 11:34 PM 0.2LAug 05 6:25 AM 1.2H 12:13 PM 0.6L 6:05 PM 1.2HAug 06 12:16 AM 0.6L 6:27 AM 1.2H 12:53 PM 0.5L 7:42 PM 1.2HAug 07 12:58 AM 0.9L 6:22 AM 1.2H 1:39 PM 0.4L 9:43 PM 1.3HAug 08 1:45 AM 1.2L 6:03 AM 1.3H 2:30 PM 0.3LAug 09 12:29 AM 1.4H 3:27 PM 0.2LAug 10 2:19 AM 1.6H 4:28 PM 0.1L

San Antonio2012 A.M. P.M. SUN MOONJul-Aug Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets27 Fri 12:49 7:04 1:18 7:33 06:50 08:28 3:26p 1:24a 28 Sat 1:43 7:58 2:13 8:28 06:51 08:28 4:30p 2:16a 29 Sun 2:37 8:52 3:07 9:22 06:51 08:27 5:31p 3:13a 30 Mon 3:31 9:46 4:01 10:16 06:52 08:26 6:27p 4:15a 31 Tue 4:25 10:39 4:53 11:08 06:52 08:26 7:17p 5:19a 01 Wed > 5:18 11:32 5:45 11:59 06:53 08:25 8:02p 6:23a 02 Thu > 6:11 12:00 6:36 12:24 06:53 08:24 8:42p 7:26a 03 Fri F 7:03 12:51 7:28 1:15 06:54 08:24 9:18p 8:27a 04 Sat > 7:55 1:44 8:18 2:07 06:55 08:23 9:53p 9:26a 05 Sun > 8:47 2:35 9:09 2:58 06:55 08:22 10:27p 10:22a 06 Mon 9:37 3:26 9:59 3:48 06:56 08:21 11:01p 11:18a 07 Tue 10:26 4:15 10:49 4:38 06:56 08:21 11:36p 12:12p 08 Wed 11:15 5:03 11:37 5:26 06:57 08:20 NoMoon 1:06p 09 Thu Q ----- 5:51 12:02 6:14 06:58 08:19 12:14a 2:00p 10 Fri 12:25 6:37 12:49 7:01 06:58 08:18 12:54a 2:52p 11 Sat 1:10 7:22 1:34 7:47 06:59 08:17 1:38a 3:44p 12 Sun 1:55 8:07 2:20 8:32 06:59 08:16 2:25a 4:33p 13 Mon 2:39 8:52 3:04 9:17 07:00 08:15 3:15a 5:20p 14 Tue 3:24 9:36 3:49 10:01 07:01 08:14 4:09a 6:05p 15 Wed > 4:08 10:21 4:33 10:46 07:01 08:14 5:06a 6:46p

Amarillo2012 A.M. P.M. SUN MOONJul-Aug Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets27 Fri 1:03 7:17 1:32 7:46 06:52 08:53 3:52p 1:26a 28 Sat 1:57 8:12 2:26 8:41 06:53 08:52 4:57p 2:17a 29 Sun 2:50 9:06 3:21 9:36 06:53 08:52 5:58p 3:14a 30 Mon 3:44 9:59 4:14 10:29 06:54 08:51 6:53p 4:15a 31 Tue 4:38 10:52 5:07 11:21 06:55 08:50 7:41p 5:21a 01 Wed > 5:31 11:45 5:59 ----- 06:56 08:49 8:24p 6:27a 02 Thu > 6:24 12:13 6:50 12:37 06:56 08:48 9:01p 7:33a 03 Fri F 7:17 1:05 7:41 1:29 06:57 08:47 9:34p 8:37a 04 Sat > 8:09 1:57 8:32 2:20 06:58 08:46 10:06p 9:39a 05 Sun > 9:00 2:49 9:22 3:11 06:59 08:46 10:37p 10:38a 06 Mon 9:50 3:39 10:13 4:01 06:59 08:45 11:09p 11:36a 07 Tue 10:40 4:29 11:02 4:51 07:00 08:44 11:42p 12:33p 08 Wed 11:28 5:17 11:51 5:40 07:01 08:43 NoMoon 1:30p 09 Thu Q ----- 6:04 12:16 6:27 07:02 08:42 12:18a 2:25p 10 Fri 12:38 6:50 1:02 7:14 07:03 08:41 12:56a 3:19p 11 Sat 1:24 7:36 1:48 8:00 07:03 08:39 1:39a 4:11p 12 Sun 2:08 8:21 2:33 8:45 07:04 08:38 2:25a 5:00p 13 Mon 2:53 9:05 3:18 9:30 07:05 08:37 3:16a 5:47p 14 Tue 3:37 9:50 4:02 10:14 07:06 08:36 4:11a 6:30p 15 Wed > 4:22 10:34 4:47 10:59 07:06 08:35 5:09a 7:09p

Dallas2012 A.M. P.M. SUN MOONJul-Aug Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets27 Fri 12:42 6:57 1:11 7:26 06:36 08:28 3:26p 1:10a 28 Sat 1:36 7:51 2:06 8:21 06:37 08:27 4:31p 2:01a 29 Sun 2:30 8:45 3:00 9:15 06:38 08:27 5:31p 2:58a 30 Mon 3:24 9:39 3:54 10:09 06:38 08:26 6:27p 4:00a 31 Tue 4:18 10:32 4:46 11:01 06:39 08:25 7:16p 5:04a 01 Wed > 5:11 11:25 5:38 11:52 06:40 08:24 7:59p 6:10a 02 Thu > 6:04 ----- 6:29 12:17 06:40 08:24 8:38p 7:15a 03 Fri F 6:56 12:44 7:21 1:08 06:41 08:23 9:13p 8:18a 04 Sat > 7:48 1:37 8:11 2:00 06:42 08:22 9:46p 9:18a 05 Sun > 8:40 2:28 9:02 2:51 06:42 08:21 10:18p 10:16a 06 Mon 9:30 3:19 9:52 3:41 06:43 08:20 10:50p 11:13a 07 Tue 10:19 4:08 10:42 4:31 06:44 08:19 11:25p 12:09p 08 Wed 11:08 4:56 11:30 5:19 06:45 08:18 NoMoon 1:05p 09 Thu Q 11:55 5:44 ----- 6:07 06:45 08:17 NoMoon 1:59p 10 Fri 12:18 6:30 12:42 6:54 06:46 08:16 12:40a 2:53p 11 Sat 1:03 7:15 1:27 7:40 06:47 08:15 1:23a 3:44p 12 Sun 1:48 8:00 2:13 8:25 06:47 08:14 2:10a 4:34p 13 Mon 2:32 8:45 2:57 9:10 06:48 08:13 3:00a 5:20p 14 Tue 3:17 9:29 3:42 9:54 06:49 08:12 3:55a 6:04p 15 Wed > 4:01 10:14 4:26 10:39 06:49 08:11 4:52a 6:44p

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ACROSS1. Camo slip-ons for a bow

4. Cranking a lure in too fast 8. A type fl y lure10. This discards a fi red shell11. A very valuable fur bearer12. Game resting places13. Term for the leader on

a fl y rod17. Oil gun parts to prevent this

19. A bird dog’s duty20. Angler’s term for a very

small bass22. Regulations for hunting

and fi shing24. These are used for bait

at times26. The wild Dall27. Large appendage on the

muley

28. A breed of retriever29. An appendage on a

turkey's foot31. Deer can rotate these

to sense danger33. Brings catch into the

boat34. Stream fi shermen

wear ________37. The trapper’s interest38. Device on a reel to

tire a fi sh39. A method of fi shing40. A very good fi rewood42. The male turkey43. To pull back the

bowstring45. Gun part that propels

the ammo46. Develop before hunt-

ing trip47. Hunters give this TLC48. Month does usually

have young

DOWN1. Small panfi sh at

times used for bait 2. To move up slowly

on game 3. A breed of gundog 4. This prevents easy

removal of an arrow

5. Cause of many wild-life deaths

6. Pack catch in this to take home

7. Hunter’s quarry, big and small

9. A habitat for some fi sh

14. A breed of setter15. A duck species16. The formation fl yers18. Name for the wild

boar21. Term for tree roots

underwater23. Angler’s name for a

really large bass24. Young elk25. Some game’s teeth

reveal this26. A species of fi sh28. Of the trout family30. Part of the fi shing

gear32. Hunting and fi shing law33. A game bird35. Whitetails will hide

in these type areas36. A wildfowl migratory

route41. To construct a fl y lure42. To treat a hide44. The male Dall


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PHIL GATTON, left, stands next to Rockport guide Scott Jones as he holds Phil’s solid trout. The trout was caught on a wade-fi shing trip to the coast recently.

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PETE SEROKA of Leakey took this 20-pound mahi mahi off of Sebastian Inlet, Fla. in June. The fi sh was caught 15 miles offshore.

RYAN NELSON, 11, of Boerne caught this 20-inch speckled trout, his fi rst, while fi shing with his dad and a friend, Rick Fischer, on June 7 near the Old Aransas Lighthouse. Ryan caught the fi sh on live shrimp fi shed under a popping cork.

Crandall angler ALLEN COUSINS caught this crevalle jack while fi shing in Port O' Connor. The fi ght lasted more than an hour on light tackle.

NATALIE KING, 13, of Joshua shot her fi rst deer on Jan. 14 in San Saba County.

Dallas angler KIAN YANK, 11, recently traveled to Galveston with his mom and caught his fi rst fi sh in a canal near Pelican Road.

CAROLYN USREY, left, was all smiles Christmas Day when her mom, Lora Weems, took her hunting. Caro-lyn used mom’s .257 Roberts and harvested this spike buck at 80 yards. It was her fi rst deer ever.


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Dallas Safari ClubMonthly Meeting(972) 980-9800biggame.org

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