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October 9, 2020

Researchers say 3X more red snapper

Volume 17, Issue 4

A moonlit archery opener

Congress funded a two-year study to determine the number of red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by Lone Star Outdoor News.

Preliminary study provides surprising estimates Lone Star Outdoor News On Oct. 1, the preliminary results of what has been called “The Great Red Snapper Count” were presented to congress, and as expected by many, revealed that there are far more red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico than the current system of federal stock assessments estimates. Led by the Harte Research Institute, the “Great Red Snapper Count” was funded by a $10 million congressional appropriation championed by Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus member Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) that enlisted multiple scientists across more than a dozen research institutions to take a closer look at red snapper abundance in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the course of two years, using new technologies and by sampling previously unsampled areas, the preliminary results indicate the population is likely up to three-times larger than currently estimated.

Dustin Masters arrowed this buck during the first few seconds of legal shooting light on opening day in Blanco County. Photo from Dustin Masters.

By Nate Skinner

For Lone Star Outdoor News On the opening morning of the deer archery season, bowhunters were able to slip into their stands during the predawn hours without using a flashlight or head lamp. That’s because it was almost like daylight as a bright, full moon lit up the darkness.

The moon phase kept deer bedded down during the daylight hours in certain locations, while it didn’t seem to affect them too much in other places. Some archers managed to find themselves in the right place at the right time, while others were left frustrated as they encountered little to no activity. Dustin Masters started his

season on a lease in Blanco County, where luck was definitely on his side. He arrowed a 14-inch, 8-point buck during the first few seconds of legal shooting time. “I had been watching this deer since last season, and over the summertime, he had become the bully of the area in which he regularly fed,” Mas-

ters explained. “He ruled the feed pen, and would constantly run off other bucks that tried to visit the feeders.” Masters said the deer had been patterning around his bow blind on a daily basis and, on the days leading up to the opener, he had been showing up well before daylight. “I decided to slip into the

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By Nate Skinner

Dove continue to move across Texas as cooler fall weather is beginning to set in. Areas along the southern portion of Texas are heating up, while Central and North Zone hunters are seeing local birds leave and new ones arrive. The best shoots are taking place over crops. Hunting and fishing guide Capt.

Aaron Cisneros said sunflower fields in the Brownsville area are swarming with whitewings. “We are absolutely loaded up with white-winged dove, and afternoon hunts have been pretty epic,” he said. “The birds are flying in large groups, low over the sunflower stalks.” Houston resident Brandon Skinner traveled south to the Dilley area to hunt with Dilley Dove. Skinner said the sesame, milo, Please turn to page 6

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Hunters pursuing dove after opening weekend are enjoying good shoots in many areas, although mourning dove have moved out of some areas and into others. Photo by Lili Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.

Freshwater Fishing Report . Page 10

HUNTING

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Game Warden Blotter . . . . Page 12

Rejected trophies (P. 4)

Targeting silver kings (P. 8)

Options for selling, converting mounts.

Tarpon popular at South Padre.

Cost of dove ammo (P. 5)

Texoma smallmouth (P. 8)

Increase is less than other gear.

Anglers finding the fish with lures.

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Unwanted trophies

Early season teal, and what’s next?

What to do with collections By Craig Nyhus

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On the morning of Sept. 14, collegiate shooter Allyn Willis joined her friends and family on a teal hunt in northwest Texas. The three-time USAYESS (USA Youth Education in Shooting Sports) national champion is well-acquainted with dove and duck hunting, but this was her first teal-specific hunt. When she headed out to the field, it didn’t take long for her to pick up on the birds’ flight patterns, noticing they were flying fast and low to the ground. With a good number of birds in the area, she bagged her limit quickly. Willis also participated in four dove hunts that weekend where the birds flew frequently, and Tim Willis enjoyed watching his daughter limit out every time. Her dad first realized that Allyn was a “naturally great shooter” when she was in middle school. After Willis joined the Elm Fork Shooting Team in Dallas, her father became the coach. Over the past five years, he has been able to watch a girl go from “never pulling a trigger on a gun” to finding her life’s passion for this sport. Tim likes to tell the story of his daughter’s first sandhill crane hunt in South Texas, where she was the only girl among the hunters that weekend. When she headed out to the field at sunrise, the guide pulled aside Mr.

Hunters accumulate memories and mementos from their lifetime of adventures, and often those include a room full, or a house full, of trophies. Then, as conditions change, usually after their hunting career is over, those trophies are either passed down or moved on. John Estes hunted all over the world and had extensive trophies at his home and law office in Dallas, where lawyers attending mediations would ask him questions about all of the hunts. Before he died earlier this year, Estes told Lone Star Outdoor News he sadly didn’t know what to do with them all. “My kids don’t want them,” he said. “They mean nothing to them — I might as well put them out on the front lawn.” When considering what to do with a collection of trophies, including full-size mounts, many people don’t know where to turn. Some, like Lacy Harber in Sherman and Rick Warren in Austin, built their own museum. Others used to donate trophies to conservation-minded charities, but that trend has trickled away in recent years, as many don’t have the room to store and later sell them. In Texas, many people call the top seller of trophies and other items acquired on hunting trips, John Brommell, who owns The Corner Shoppe in Austin and Taxidermy King, an auction company. “When people get to a certain age, they want to downsize,” Brommell said. “If it’s downsizing, illness or death, we liquidate the trophies and Mounts, hides and other items obtained on hunts occasionally have to be sold, donated or converted to other types of mounts when people downsize or die. Photos by Nolan Conley. other things for them.” Brommell said there aren’t many states, but I’m pretty much it here at a bring the highest value. Some can be other options in Texas. large scale,” he said. sold across the U.S., while others, like “There are some companies in other Brommell said the unusual trophies lions and leopards, can only be sold

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Allyn Willis, a national champion shooter and avid hunter, shot a limit of teal during the early teal season. Photo by Pierce Wilson.

Sky’s the limit for collegiate shooter By Madison Scarborough For Lone Star Outdoor News

Patience needed for pronghorn By Lili Sams

Lone Star Outdoor News Garrett Love, of Weatherford, was hunting near Dalhart with a few buddies. The group was able to fill all three of their pronghorn tags, although the animals didn’t make it easy for them. Love had hunted the same property with Darrin Packett of Alpha West Outfitters last season, recalling seeing more than 200 pronghorn in one day. “Last year you could pick and choose with low pressure,” he said. “We saw a bunch of goats this year, but not as many. This year was a grind, a roller coaster of mental highs and lows.” Love said the pronghorn were Garrett Love harvested this pronghorn on the last day of his hunt. Photo from Garrett Love.

“super sketchy” this year, making it a chore to get within 1,000 yards before they sensed danger and bolted. John Rodgers, who was hunting with the group, was able to creep up on top of a knoll for a 300-yard shot and become the first one of the group to fill his tag. The following hours were spent glassing from the roof of Love’s Polaris Ranger. They would see a group of animals, try to make a stalk and before they could get close enough, the group would run. “You got to go straight to them,” Love said. “They are a lot less sketchy than if you try to circle or flank them.”

Rodgers took Kale Rokus to sit near an irrigation pivot in the field where the group had tried to make a stalk earlier that afternoon. The pronghorn didn’t see it coming when Rokus pulled the trigger on his first pronghorn at only 75 yards. On the last day of the hunt, Love spotted a group with a shooter. He got into position and as soon as he was about to pull the trigger, the pronghorn spooked and ran across the road to land where they couldn’t hunt. Disappointed, they drove on, passing the herd on the other side of the fence. “It was like the goat was staring right into my eyes on the other Please turn to page 20

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Dove ammo still a bargain By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News As hunters headed out for this year’s dove season, many looked through their bins for old shotshells that might keep them from a trip to the store to buy a case or two. One box, more than 20 years old, told the story. The price tag on the box of 12 gauge dove and quail loads was $3.69. A trip to Academy this fall showed preseason sales prices of a similar load sold for as low as $5.49 a box for the com- An old box of 12-gauge shells indicates the price of dove loads about pany’s Monarch brand. While 20 years ago. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News. that’s an increase of about 36 percent, it pales in comparison with the rise in cost of over the same time period other equipment used on the dove weekend, including shotguns, vehicles and clothing. In 2000, a Ford F150 4WD cost less than $24,000 (now $45,000 and up) and wellequipped, powerful utility vehicles were less than $10,000 (now $20,000 and up). And, with current ammunition demands, the prices of ammo for handguns, rifles and heavy shotgun loads has risen at similar levels. What has kept the cost of dove loads comparatively low? Fiocchi representative Mark Sidelinger said there are several reasons. “One, the efficiency of making low base shotshell ammunition, and with lead specifically,” he said. “The machinery has paid itself off for years. The volume that is made over a year, millions and millions of rounds, has helped keep the prices down. And on the performance side, it’s been basically perfected for a long time.” Sidelinger said many manufacturers, including Fiocchi, now make their own hulls and primers from raw materials, increasing efficiency. And then there is competition. “You have several major manufacturers and the house brands major retailers have,” he said. “It helps drive down the price point.”

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and peanut fields were swarming with mourning dove. “The birds flew a little later than I expected, and they didn’t really get going until about an hour after sunrise,” Skinner said. “Once they started flying, it was on, and I was able to harvest my limit.” Cassy Sunderland made an afternoon dove hunt at the Trinity Ranch near Batesville, where she said the action started slowly, but then became fast and furious as the sun sank lower into the sky. “The birds were not flying very well at all during the afternoon hours over the sunflower field at the ranch,” she said. “We decided to hunt near a tank closer to sunset, and the last hour of legal shooting light was excellent. Mourning dove poured in over the tank from all directions. They must have been new birds that just arrived, because there was no pattern to their flight path.” In south central Texas, Bronson Vaughan said the birds have been pretty spotty around Runge and Paw- Cassy Sunderland swings on some incoming dove coming in nee. over a tank on the Trinity Ranch near Batesville, during the “We haven’t been seeing many last few legal minutes before sunset. Photo by Nate Skinner, birds visit tanks for water in the for Lone Star Outdoor News. mornings or in the evenings,” he said. “There’s been a few birds hitting pastures and fields with dove weed, but the most birds that I’ve noticed lately have been on power lines adjacent to fields with crops.” New Braunfels-area dove hunter Candace Maldonado said she’s been harvesting limits over patches of sunflowers. “It hasn’t just been lights out, but we’ve been able to bag our limits over a couple of hours each time that I’ve hunted,” Maldonado said. Guide Mike Wyatt, of First Shot Outfitters, said a lot of their local mourning dove in Coleman County got pushed out by recent cold fronts. “The whitewings really saved our hunts when the mourning dove left,” Wyatt said. “Some new mourning dove have started showing up, and shoots have continued to be pretty good. Most of our hunts are taking place over sunflowers, milo and wheat.”

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stand about two hours before legal shooting time in hopes that I would beat him there and not run him off,” he said. “I had hand corned an area about 14 yards in front of the blind and sure enough, he showed up and started eating that corn about 30 minutes before legal shooting time.” Masters could tell it was his target buck, as he could see his antlers light up in the moonlight. “At one point I heard him jump into the feed pen and I lost sight of him,” he said. “He finally came out and after watching him and trying to sit completely still for almost 30 minutes, I was beginning to get anxious. I checked my phone and saw that I had just one minute until legal shooting time.” When legal shooting time came, Masters drew his bow and arrowed the buck. “He ran about 90 yards away in a pasture to my left and piled up,” Masters said. “My plan worked, and I couldn’t ask for a better opening day.” In Shackelford County, ranch manager Wade Montgomery said the deer near Albany moved pretty well during opening weekend. “Middle-class bucks visited the feeders in bachelor groups, and we even had a few buck fights going on,” Montgomery said. “Our large, mature bucks that we had our eye out for didn’t really come to the feeders. The best hunts seemed to occur during the afternoon and evening hours.” Montgomery had one hunter take a buck on opening day, and that was John Peterson. Peterson’s main frame 10-point measured 140-1/8 inches, and he harvested it with his grandfather’s recurve.

Lane Moczygemba hunted his family ranch near the Wilson and Karnes County line on opening weekend, where he said the deer exhibited spooky behavior. “The mornings were almost dead still and very quiet,” he said. “I saw a decent amount of activity, but the deer didn’t spend much time at the feeders like they had been prior to the season. They just kind of passed through and seemed to be in a weird mood.” In Bastrop County where Kevin Burke was hunting, the deer only seemed to move for a short window of time during the early afternoon hours. “Opening weekend was pretty slow and uneventful for me,” Burke said. John McClain had a similar experience on opening weekend in East Texas. He and his wife hunted together in Trinity County and never saw a deer. “It was pretty clear they were moving almost exclusively at night,” he said. Bryan Maley experienced the same frustrations on his property in Gonzales County. “There was just nothing happening during the daytime hours,” he said. But down south in La Salle County, Cooper Wallis was fortunate enough to arrow his largest buck to date on opening morning while bowhunting on the 46 Ranch. “I watched the buck hang out about 80 yards away for about an hour, before he finally came into bow range,” Wallis said. “When he came to a stop at 26 yards, I took a shot while he was quartering away.” Wallis said the blood trail to his deer went 40 yards before he found the 160-inch buck.

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FISHING

A tarpon rodeo out of South Padre Island By Robert Sloan

For Lone Star Outdoor News While hunters are out chasing game birds and deer, a growing number of fishermen target tarpon along South Padre Island during October and November. What was once the best kept secret in the world of tarpon fishing, the run of silver

kings along the South Texas coast has bumped its way up into a world-class sportfishing alternative for both conventional anglers and fly-fishermen. “About 5 years ago, a small group of us had the fall run of tarpon all to ourselves,” said longtime tarpon guide Capt.

Tim O’Brien. “That’s definitely not the case anymore. But we seem to have plenty of tarpon here and the fall run is attracting lots of anglers. These fish have migrated here from the Mississippi River Delta. They begin that movement in March and April and end up here for much of the summer and early Please turn to page 15

By Nate Skinner

An angler fights a tarpon with his fly rod near South Padre Island. Photo from Capt. Tim O’Brien.

Bull reds thick in the surf, slots in estuaries

For Lone Star Outdoor News If there was one color to describe coastal fall fishing, it would be red. That’s because redfish are typically lurking in a variety of areas across Texas bays, marshes, passes and beachfronts, where they are aggressively feeding. The year 2020 may be like no other, but the redfish don’t seem to mind. They have fallen, full force, into their standard fall patterns, and anglers are taking advantage. Bull reds are schooling in the surf, while slot reds are staging in a number of locations inside estuaries. Tides were well above normal since the beginning of the month, which has allowed slot reds to concentrate in flooded areas that normally don’t have much water, if any. On main bay shorelines, they can be found right up against the bank, and in back lakes they are feeding in flooded grass and in the furthest reaches of the marsh. Kayak angler Ruben Rodriguez has been paddling around marshes in the Freeport area, where he said high tides have pushed redfish back into areas he normally cannot get to. “We have been able to fish stretches of the marsh that are usually too shallow for us to move around in with our kayaks,” Rodriguez said. “Most of the fish have been schooling together, and they have been ranging anywhere from about 20 to 24 inches.” Rodriguez said the best action has come from chunking a shrimp imitation lure underneath a popping cork. “The tide has been so high that you can hear fish crashing bait way back in the flooded grass where you can’t see them,” he explained. Rodriguez said some consistent bull red action has been taking place along the Galveston beachfront in the surf.

Mikael Lerma lands a quality red while drifting over a grass flat with sand pockets near Port Mansfield. Photo by Martin Carrasco.

“I have some friends that caught several bull reds off of the rock groins out in front of the Galveston seawall,” he said. Freeport guide Capt. Mike Segall said bull

redfish have been easy to catch about a mile off of the beach front in water depths of 23-30 feet. “I’ve been focusing on stretches of water

loaded with pelicans and baitfish,” he said. “We’ve been catching 20 to 30 of these brutes a day. The bite is really consistent.” Segall has been anchoring and then Please turn to page 15

Smallmouth on Texoma The lousier the weather, the better By Craig Nyhus

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Smallmouth bass have been difficult to catch on artificial lures at Lake Texoma, but tournament anglers are beginning to figure them out. Photo by Lone Star Outdoor News.

Mike Casanova, in winning the co-angler division of the American Bass Anglers regional championship, landed several smallmouth bass. He attributed it to the first “major” cold front to come through the area. “The air temps dropped 15 to 20 degrees the week of the tournament,” he said. “Leading up to

it, guys were catching good numbers, and a lot of them, about 30 to 40 percent, were smallmouth.” Casanova had experience catching smallies in Arizona before moving to Texas, but hadn’t experienced good smallmouth fishing during his previous trips to Texoma. On the first day of the tournament, his boater had a big fish on his line. “We thought it was a striper until it jumped right in front of the boat,” Casanova said. “Then it went under the boat and came unbuttoned.”

The next day, three of his fish were smallies. “We cranked steep banks with boulders,” he said. Casanova said Texoma fished similar to the Arizona lakes he cut his teeth on, with the best luck coming in the cooler months. And he was aware of the saying at Texoma that the smallmouth were hard to catch on lures. “They are easier with live bait, and that’s anywhere,” Casanova said. “You can use similar-looking lures and they won’t touch it. Their senses are heightened. When there is a lot of food in the Please turn to page 22

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Top-water bass bonanza on Toledo Bend By Robert Sloan

For Lone Star Outdoor News The water temperature on Toledo Bend Reservoir has dropped more than 10 degrees over the past few weeks, and with that cooldown factor, bass are on the feed up shallow and blasting top-water lures. A few of the best lures that have produced some nice catches over the past couple of weeks are the Whopper Plopper, Spro frog and the Heddon Tiny Torpedo. Guide Darrell Lyons has been fishing on Toledo for more than 31 years. He said the surface water temperature came down almost 6 degrees when our first good cold front moved through East Texas on Sept. 28. Since that time he says the top-water bite has been excellent. “The water temperature has been falling for the past Top-water lures have been producting largemouths on Toledo Bend few weeks, and that got bass Reservoir. Photo by Robert Sloan, for Lone Star Outdoor News. on this lake keying on shad,” Lyons said. “We’re fishing top-water baits on extended shallow has been fishing the lake for 20 years. “During the fall top-water bite one of points, hay grass, brush and grass along the shoreline. All that stuff is holding lots my favorite lures is a Spro Frog,” he said. of shad and that’s what the bass are feed- “That’s got a hollow body and is easy to ing on. Once we have a few more nights fish in the pads, where the bigger bass will with temperatures falling into the lower be feeding on bream. I’ll also be fishing a 50s, the shad pattern will really take off. V&M Bayou Bullfrog. That’s a good swimAnd it should be consistent until the water ming frog. Two of the best colors are black temperature falls into the lower 60s. The or white.” Gleason said the bite isn’t just early and top-water bite is usually pretty dependable late in the day. through the end of November.” “The good thing about this time of year Lyons will be fishing shallow brush in the creeks for the next month or so. But is that with falling water temperatures, the he said if you prefer to fish top-water plugs top-water bite can be good all day long, over brush, he recommends fishing the far especially on cloudy and windy days,” he upper end of the lake where there is lots of said. “That’s a combination that will keep them active all day.” buck brush. Gleason said as the nights become lon“Some of my favorite lures are the Ribbit Frog, Whopper Plopper and a Tiny Torpe- ger the water temperature will fall faster, do,” Lyons said. “A chrome and blue Tiny and that will increase the daytime bite. “I’ll be fishing the pads and creek chanTorpedo is an all-time favorite on Toledo Bend. But I’ve been doing really well with nels a lot,” Gleason said. “A frog works a 110 Whopper Plopper. That’s a lure that really well in the pads. A couple of other has a lot of tail action, like a panicked giz- baits that will work in the creeks are a Super Spook and a Yellow Magic popper. zard shad or bluegill.” Professional bass tournament angler That small popper is like a 2-inch threadfin Darold Gleason lives on Toledo Bend and shad.”

Texan wins Elite event After weighing in more than 18 pounds on the final day, Temple resident Frank Talley won the NOCO Bassmaster Elite tournament at Alabama’s Lake Guntersville with a four-day total of 64 pounds, 3 ounces, earning $100,000. Talley said he had dreamed of winning a top-level professional bass tournament his entire life, but with three small children at home, he kept that dream in his back pocket for two decades in favor of coaching youth sports teams, fishing local tournaments and being a good husband and dad. Frank Talley At age 45, the second-year Elite Series pro known as “Frank the Tank” saw his dream come true. Beginning the final round in sixth place, Talley intended to make the same run upriver from the launch site at Goose Pond Colony that he had been making all week. But he said a “gut feeling” caused him to stop on a small stretch of eelgrass before he reached his trusty spot — and the almost-immediate payoff was a 5-pound largemouth that put him in the lead to stay. “It just looked right,” Talley said of the spot. “On the first cast, I caught a 10-incher. Then about six casts later, I caught that 5-pounder. I fished the entire length of that bank and ended up catching a limit there, which included the second big fish I caught, about a 4-pounder.” Talley primarily used 1/2-ounce Strike King Thunder Cricket in green pumpkin with a Rage Swimmer trailer, and also threw a Sexy Frog. —B.A.S.S.

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TEXAS FRESHWATER FISHING REPORT ALAN HENRY: Water clear; 77 degrees; 2.61’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters, plastic worms, spinner baits and crankbait. Crappie are good on jigs. Catfish are fair on live bait, cut bait and stink bait. AMISTAD: Water lightly stained; 82 degrees; 45.11’ low. Largemouth bass are good on Carolina-rigged worms, crankbaits and top-waters. Catfish are fair on shrimp, chicken livers and stink bait. ARLINGTON: Water lightly stained; 77 degrees; 3.26’ low. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits, jerk baits and finesse plastic worms. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on prepared baits. ATHENS: Water lightly stained; 81 degrees; 0.49’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on shad-colored crankbaits and Texas-rigged plastic worms. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on prepared baits. AUSTIN: Water lightly stained; 83 degrees; 0.72’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits, jigs and finesse worms. Catfish are fair on punch bait. BASTROP: Water lightly stained; 79 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on jigs, small crankbaits, brown or green craws and drop shots. Crappie are good on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are good on cut bait and live bait. BELTON: Water lightly stained; 77 degrees; 0.73’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on swimbaits, crankbaits and Carolina-rigged plastic worms. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid stripers are good on live bait. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on cut bait and punch bait. BOB SANDLIN: Water slightly stained; 81 degrees; 0.42’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on drop shots, crankbaits and Texas-rigged plastic worms. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on live bait and punch bait. BRAUNIG: Water lightly stained; 78 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters and jigs. Red drum are fair on live bait. Catfish are good on live bait, cut bait and cheese bait. BROWNWOOD: Water lightly stained; 78 degrees; 1.47’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass and hybrids are fair on live bait and slabs. Catfish are good on punch bait and live bait. BUCHANAN: Water slightly stained; 78-81 degrees; 2.58’ low. Largemouth bass are good on blue or purple finesse worms, white skirted jigs and crankbaits. Striped bass are fair along the river channel on live bait. White bass are good on slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are good on minnows. Channel catfish are fair on punch bait. CADDO: Water lightly stained; 78 degrees; 0.52’ high. Largemouth bass are good on plastic frogs, poppers and skirted jigs. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are fair on prepared

baits and nightcrawlers. CALAVERAS: Water stained; 83-84 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters, jigs and worms. Red drum are fair on live bait. Catfish are good on stink bait, chicken liver and cut shad. CANYON LAKE: Water lightly stained; 81 degrees; 3.34 low. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits, shaky heads and Texas-rigged worms. Striped bass are good on live bait or swimbaits. White bass are good on slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are fair on live minnows. Catfish are good on prepared baits and cut bait. CEDAR CREEK: Water lightly stained; 77 degrees; 0.10’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-water plugs, jerk baits, black or purple plastic worms and crankbaits. Hybrids and white bass are fair to good on slabs and live bait. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows. CHOKE CANYON: Water lightly stained; 82-84 degrees; 20.82’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to good on top-waters, crankbaits and plastic worms. Catfish are fair on live bait and cheese bait. CONROE: Water stained; 76 degrees; 1.34’ low. Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms, spinner baits and top-waters. Crappie are fair on suspended minnows. Catfish are good on cut bait, live bait and dough balls. COOPER: Water clear; 77-81degrees; 2.71’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on drop shots, crankbaits and skirted jigs. White bass and hybrids are good on live bait, slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on cut bait and prepared baits. CORPUS CHRISTI: Water stained; 84 degrees; 5.87’ low. Largemouth bass are good on brighter shaded worms, jigs and top-waters. Crappie are good on white jigs. Catfish are good on cut bait and cheese bait. EAGLE MOUNTAIN: Water lightly stained; 79 degrees; 1.01’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on finesse worms and crankbaits. White bass are good on slabs. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on fresh cut bait and punch bait. FALCON: Water lightly stained north and clear south; 84 degrees; 37.12’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on large plastic worms, creature baits and square-billed crankbaits. Crappie are excellent over brush piles on minnows. FAYETTE: Water lightly stained; 81 degrees. Largemouth bass are fair on Texas-rigged worms, drop shots and spinner baits. Catfish are good on punch bait. FORK: Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 1.66’ low. Largemouth bass are good on finesse worms and jigs. White and yellow bass are fair

on slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on punch bait. GIBBONS CREEK: Water stained; 77 degrees. Largemouth bass are fair to good on soft plastics. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on live bait. GRANBURY: Water slightly stained; 77 degrees; 0.09’ low. Largemouth bass are good on shad-colored or white crankbaits, spinner baits and Texas-rigged plastic worms. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are fair on slabs, jigging spoons and swimbaits. Catfish are good on earthworms and prepared baits. GRANGER: Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 1.02’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on spinner baits, Texas-rigged plastic worms and crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs tipped with minnows. White bass are fair on slabs. Catfish are good on cut bait and live bait. GRAPEVINE: Water lightly stained; 78 degrees; 0.12’ low. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits, craws, and finesse worms. White bass are good on slabs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on prepared baits. HOUSTON COUNTY: Water stained; 76 degrees; 0.06’ low. Largemouth bass are good on lighter-colored plastic worms. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on shad and dough balls. HUBBARD CREEK: Water stained; 78 degrees; 1.13’ low. Largemouth bass are good on dark-colored soft plastics. Crappie are good on jigs. Catfish are fair on live and cut shad. JOE POOL: Water lightly stained; 79 degrees; 0.47’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on wacky worms, crankbaits and spinner baits. Crappie are good beneath bridges and structure on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on prepared baits. LAKE O’ THE PINES: Water lightly stained; 78 degrees; 0.11’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to good on shaky heads, football jigs and crankbaits. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows. Catfish are good on trotlines with cut bait or live bait. LAVON: Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.81’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on creature baits, wacky worms and crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass are good on slabs and swimbaits. Catfish are good on prepared baits. LBJ: Water slightly stained; 82 degrees; 0.65’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on plastic worms, spinner baits and silver spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows. White bass are fair on slabs and jigging spoons. Catfish are good on punch bait.

LEWISVILLE: Water lightly stained; 79 degrees; 0.06’ high. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits, plastic worms or creatures and bladed jigs. White bass are excellent on slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on live bait and prepared baits. LIVINGSTON: Water lightly stained; 78 degrees; 0.06’ high. Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms, jigs and crankbaits. Striped bass are good on live shad. Crappie are good on jigs. Catfish are fair on live bait and stink bait. MARTIN CREEK: Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 1.67’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits, swimbaits and Texas-rigged worms. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on punch bait. MEDINA: Water lightly stained; 83 degrees; 25.01’ low. Largemouth bass are good on jigs and crankbaits. Striped bass are good on shad. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on live bait, chicken liver and blood bait. NACONICHE: Water slightly stained; 79 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters and plastic worms. Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows. Catfish are good on dough balls, cut and live bait. NASWORTHY: Water stained; 78 degrees. 1.02’ low. Largemouth bass are good on soft plastic worms, crankbaits and top-waters. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on live and prepared baits. NAVARRO MILLS: Water lightly stained; 81 degrees; 0.04’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on finesse worms and jigs. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on prepared baits and live bait. White bass are fair on slabs and jigging spoons. O.C. FISHER: Water stained; 78 degrees; 40.75’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on Texas-rigged plastic worms and top-waters. Catfish are fair on stink bait, live and cut bait. O.H. IVIE: Water clear; 76 degrees; 12.32’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters, plastic worms, crankbaits and jigs. Crappie are good on jigs. Catfish are good on stink bait, live and cut bait. PALESTINE: Water clear; 81 degrees; 0.26’ high. Largemouth bass are good on Texas-rigged plastic worms, swimbaits and crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs tipped with minnows. Hybrid stripers are fair on live bait. White bass are good on slabs and jigging spoons. Catfish are good on punch bait and live minnows. POSSUM KINGDOM: Water clear; 77 degrees; 0.11’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on soft plastic worms, crankbanks and spinner baits. Striped bass are slow. Crappie are

good on jigs. Catfish are good on cut shad. PROCTOR: Water stained; 78 degrees; 0.19’ high. Largemouth bass are good on plum and purple Texas-rigged worms, jigs and crankbaits. Hybrid stripers are fair on live bait and slabs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on prepared baits and cut bait. RAY HUBBARD: Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 0.67’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on wacky worms, crankbaits and football jigs. White bass are good on chrome slabs and white jigging spoons. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on punch bait. RAY ROBERTS: Water lightly stained; 77 degrees; 0.09’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on Carolina-rigged worms, crankbaits and white spinner baits. White bass are fair on slabs. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on punch bait. RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water lightly stained; 77-81 degrees; 0.23’ low. Largemouth bass are good on swimbaits, crankbaits, jerk baits and finesse worms. White bass and hybrids are fair on slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs tipped with minnows. Catfish are good on punch bait and live perch. SAM RAYBURN: Water stained; 78 degrees; 3.26’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters, spinner baits and plastic worms. Crappie are good on jigs. Catfish are good on live bait and stink bait. SOMERVILLE: Water lightly stained; 81 degrees; 1.70’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on plastic worms, shad-colored crankbaits and spinner baits. White bass and hybrids are fair on slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are fair on live minnows. Catfish are good on live bait and punch bait. STILLHOUSE HOLLOW: Water stained; 77 degrees; 3.27’ high. Largemouth bass are good on jigs and Texas-rigged soft plastic craws. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are good on slabs and jigs. Catfish are good on punch bait. TAWAKONI: Water lightly stained; 78-81 degrees; 1.10’ low. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits, jigs and swimbaits. White bass and hybrid stripers are good on live bait and slabs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are excellent on punch bait and cut bait. TEXANA: Water stained; 81 degrees; 0.00’ low. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits, plastic worms, jigs and buzzbaits. Crappie are excellent on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on stink bait, cut bait and live bait. TEXOMA: Water lightly stained; 76 degrees; 2.22’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on Texas-rigged plastic worms and crankbaits. Striped bass

n Saltwater reports Page 22 and white bass are good on live bait and top-waters when fish are near the surface. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on cut bait. TOLEDO BEND: Water stained; 76-77 degrees; 3.51’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters and wacky rigs. Crappie are excellent on jigs and shiners. Channel catfish are fair on stink bait. TRAVIS: Water lightly stained; 83 degrees; 18.89’ low. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits, skirted jigs, and spinner baits. White bass are fair on swim jigs and slabs. Striped bass are good on live bait and heavy jigging spoons. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows. Catfish are good on live bait and prepared baits. TWIN BUTTES: Water stained; 80 degrees; 11.19’ low. Largemouth bass are good on live and plastic worms, minnows and jigs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on live and prepared baits. WACO: Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 0.02’ high. Largemouth bass are good on finesse worms, swimbaits and drop-shot plastic worms. Crappie are good on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are good on punch bait. WALTER E. LONG: Water lightly stained; 80 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on tubes, swimbaits, and jigs. Hybrid stripers are good on live shad. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on cut bait and prepared baits. WHITNEY: Water stained; 79-82 degrees; 0.24’ low. Largemouth bass are good on purple or black plastic worms, crankbaits and silver spoons. White bass are excellent on spoons and slabs. Striped bass are good trolling swimbaits. Crappie are good on jigs tipped with minnows. Catfish are fair on punch bait. WRIGHT PATMAN: Water stained; 80 degrees; 1.50’ high. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits, spinner baits and finesse worms. White bass are good on jigging spoons and slabs. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on punch bait and earthworms.

—TPWD

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GAME WARDEN BLOTTER SPOTLIGHTING WITH PERMISSION, BUT NO LICENSE After receiving reports of night road hunting in Kimble County, game wardens conducting nighttime observation heard the first of multiple gunshots and observed individuals spotlighting. With the use of night vision goggles, the wardens located the individuals. The wardens made contact with 11 individuals located on a ranch off County Road 313, and learned the individuals had permission to be on the property. The individuals were all from out of state and all admitted to hunting. No one in the group possessed a valid Texas hunting license. The individuals shot several jackrabbits, raccoons and other nongame animals. The wardens issued 11 citations for hunting nongame animals without a valid Texas hunting license. THEY DIDN’T RUN FAR After a short pursuit, an Edwards County game warden apprehended two individuals for shooting a white-tailed deer off of Highway 55. The weapons were seized and civil restitution and multiple criminal charges were filed. AXIS POACHER NABBED In Edwards County, while working with local landowners, a game war-

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fall. As the water temperature drops below 75 degrees, they will migrate south to Tampico and Veracruz, Mexico. That’s around 340 miles from South Padre Island.” O’Brien said the tarpon fishing is good now, and will continue through October and maybe into November. It all depends how many cold fronts play through and how long the water temperature will hold in the 70s. The magic water temperature for tarpon is about 75 degrees. “My personal best tarpon weighed 180 pounds,” O’Brien said. “I caught that on a fly rod with a rabbit zonker fly while fishing the Port Mansfield jetties. One of the heaviest tarpon caught here weighed 212 pounds. It was caught on a Whistler fly off of Boca Chica Beach, on the south side of the Padre Island jetties.” O’Brien’s charters include catching tarpon on both fly and conventional tackle. “On my best day here we caught 17 tarpon,” he said. O’Brien said most of the tarpon can be found along the jetties, in the surf and offshore. “We can ease along the beach and see rolling tarpon, and sight cast to them,” he said. “You can do the same thing along the jetties out of Port O’Connor, Port Mansfield and the South Padre Island jetties.”

With conventional tackle, O’Brien rigs up with 9- to 14-inch hogies on swimbaitstyle jigs. “A D.O.A. Bait Buster deep runner is another good lure,” he said. “We’ll be fishing them on 30-pound test Power Pro braided line, with a 2- to 3-foot, 60- to 100-pound test leader. When we’re fly fishing we will use 10 to 12 weight rods. A lot of the time we’ll target rolling fish. That’s usually when the lure or fly needs to be fished about 10 feet in front of the tarpon.” Live baits also can be used for tarpon. One option is to free-line croaker, pinfish and live shrimp, or fish them under a cork. “Tarpon feed heavily on sardines, pogies and glass minnows,” O’Brien said. “I’m not a live bait guy, but that is a very good way to catch them. On the other hand, it’s tough to beat sight-casting these fish with a fly. We have some big tarpon out here, but for the most part they weigh from 60 to 80 pounds.” O’Brien has caught tarpon in all places they swim. Each year he competes in the annual Gold Cup Tarpon Fly Fishing tournament held out of Islamorada, Florida. But he adds that South Padre has worldclass tarpon fishing, and provides a good opportunity to catching some of them.

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chumming the water with cut herring and sardines in the areas where he’s targeting the bulls. Cut bait on the bottom has produced the most strikes. On Galveston Bay, Capt. Ryan Battistoni said the back lakes and marshes within the Galveston Bay complex are loaded with redfish right now because of the high tides. “The best way to catch them is to work lures right along the edges of flooded grass,” Battistoni said. “Some of the redfish are almost impossible to catch because they are able to swim through the grass on the shorelines right now where it’s normally dry.” In Matagorda, Capt. Kendall Kersh said the redfish have been swarming in back lakes off of the Intracoastal Waterway. Scented baits rigged under a popping cork and worked along the bank has been his go-to presentation. Rockport and Aransas area guide, Capt. Jay Nichols, said the back lakes are full of water and redfish with the high tides, and that the fish are willing to eat both natural and artificial bait presentations. Port Mansfield angler Mikael Lerma has been chasing redfish up shallow early in the mornings with top-waters, spoons and soft plastics, and then moving out deeper later in the day and catching them on scented soft plastics rigged under a popping cork.

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“A lot of the reds have been lurking in new areas that are flooded right now with the high tides,” Lerma said. “I’ve been primarily fishing in Peyton’s Bay, and the fish have been up in about a foot and a half of water early in the mornings, busting bait. They have been somewhat scattered instead of in pods, and I think that’s because of how high our tides have been.” Lerma has been wading when chasing the red in the shallows, but around noon, he’s been making drifts over grass flats with sand pockets in 2.5 to 4 feet of water. Most of the redfish he’s been catching up shallow have been lower slot-sized fish, and the ones he’s been finding during the midday hours out in deeper water have been 27 inches and longer.

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Willis, asking him if Allyn could shoot. He politely nodded yes and then watched his daughter bag a crane limit before anyone else took their first shot. As Willis just left for her freshman year of college, Tim said he can’t wait to watch her new journey unfold. No doubt this year has been different, but the Rams Clay Target Team at Angelo State University is navigating their way through the global pandemic. The team has been doing “virtual competitions.” “Willis would be an asset to any shooting team,” said her current coach at Angelo State, Neal Kurtis. Being a female in a male-dominated sport has encouraged Willis to be the best that she can be, owning her spot. There will always be stereotypes, but “you just have to get out there and give it your all,” Willis said.

Majoring in Animal Science with a minor in Range and Wildlife, Willis said she “hopes to further her knowledge of breeding, bird flight paths, ranching and much more.” Her dream job is to own a mixed game and waterfowl outfitter on a piece of land with cattle. Another goal is to gain more exposure in the world of exotic hunting. Willis went on her first aoudad hunt in March and came close to having a few perfect shots. Her time spent in Gale in Borden County hunting the aoudad gave her a new dream. She is planning her next big adventure to try and accomplish the Four North American Wild Sheep in archery. This feat would include the dall, stone, Rocky Mountain bighorn and desert bighorn sheep.

Allyn Willis holds the 2018 National Championship High All Around trophy at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio. Photo by Reagan Robertson.

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Counting snapper Continued from page 1

“This study really highlights the importance of managing a fishery based more on fishery-independent sampling, or what we actually see in the water today, versus trying to manage a fishery based on a lot of assumptions in complex mathematical models that rely predominantly on the past,” said Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation Senior Director of Fisheries Policy, Chris Horton. HRI told Lone Star Outdoor News the results are preliminary and more information, including the specific findings and data for the study, will be provided once the final analysis is complete. They are expected to be incorporated in a 2021 interim Gulf red snapper stock assessment. According to the American Sportfishing Association, over a two-year period, 21 scientists used a comprehensive suite of methods on high relief areas, like natural and artificial structures, and low relief areas, such as sand or mud bottom, to arrive at the absolute abundance estimate. Approximately two-thirds of the Gulf red snapper population was found to inhabit these low relief areas, which have not been historically sampled.

“The Great Red Snapper Count results validate what the recreational fishing community has long said — that there are a lot more red snapper in the Gulf than have been reflected in recent stock assessments,” said Kellie Ralston, ASA’s Southeast Fisheries Policy director. ASA is urging NOAA Fisheries to fully integrate the Great Red Snapper Count findings in this analysis to develop new catch estimates. The Coastal Conservation Association was less diplomatic, saying NOAA doesn’t count snapper very well. The organization said the preliminary results show instead of the 36 million red snapper NOAA believed were in the population, there are more like 100-plus million red snapper out there. With a 6.5-pound average size, that would equate to roughly 700 million pounds of snapper swimming in the Gulf. The current total allowable catch for commercial harvesters and recreational anglers is roughly 15 million pounds per year.

DESCEND Act clears the House In an effort to protect red snapper and other reef fish, the U.S. House of Representatives passed without objection H.R. 5126, Direct Enhancement of Snapper Conservation and the Economy through Novel Devices Act of 2020 (DESCEND Act). The bill requires recreational (including charter boats) and commercial fishermen to have on board a venting tool or descending device that is rigged and ready for use while fishing for reef fish in Gulf of Mexico federal waters. The bill was supported by many recreational fishing and boating conservation organizations. —Staff report

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Last

New

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Houston

Dallas

2020 A.M. P.M. SUN MOON Oct Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets

09 Fri 10 Sat 11 Sun 12 Mon 13 Tue 14 Wed 15 Thu 16 Fri 17 Sat 18 Sun 19 Mon 20 Tue 21 Wed 22 Thu 23 Fri

09 Fri 10 Sat 11 Sun 12 Mon 13 Tue 14 Wed 15 Thu

11:55 5:42 12:25 6:36 1:14 7:28 2:05 8:19 2:54 9:07 3:41 9:54 4:29 10:42

----- 6:09 12:49 7:03 1:42 7:56 2:32 8:46 3:21 9:34 4:08 10:21 4:55 11:08

07:25 07:26 07:27 07:28 07:28 07:29 07:30

16 Fri

5:18 11:31

5:45

07:31 06:52 7:11a

17 Sat 18 Sun 19 Mon 20 Tue 21 Wed 22 Thu 23 Fri

6:12 ----7:11 12:56 8:14 1:59 9:20 3:05 10:26 4:11 11:29 5:14 12:02 6:13

6:39 12:53 7:39 1:25 8:44 2:29 9:50 3:35 10:56 4:41 11:57 5:43 12:26 6:40

11:49 5:36 12:19 6:30 1:08 7:22 1:59 8:13 2:48 9:02 3:35 9:49 4:23 10:36 5:12 11:26 6:06 ----7:05 12:51 8:08 1:54 9:14 2:59 10:20 4:05 11:23 5:09 ----- 6:07

----12:43 1:36 2:27 3:15 4:02 4:49 5:39 6:33 7:33 8:38 9:44 10:50 11:52 12:20

6:03 6:57 7:50 8:40 9:28 10:15 11:02 11:52 12:47 1:19 2:23 3:29 4:35 5:37 6:34

07:18 07:18 07:19 07:20 07:20 07:21 07:22 07:22 07:23 07:24 07:24 07:25 07:26 07:26 07:27

06:57 06:56 06:55 06:54 06:53 06:51 06:50 06:49 06:48 06:47 06:46 06:45 06:44 06:43 06:42

NoMoon 2:08p 12:31a 2:59p 1:30a 3:47p 2:34a 4:32p 3:40a 5:13p 4:48a 5:51p 5:55a 6:28p 7:04a 7:06p 8:13a 7:46p 9:24a 8:30p 10:34a 9:18p 11:43a 10:11p 12:47p 11:09p 1:45p NoMoon 2:35p 12:08a

11:58

07:31 07:32 07:33 07:34 07:34 07:35 07:36

07:01 07:00 06:59 06:57 06:56 06:55 06:54 06:51 06:50 06:49 06:48 06:47 06:46 06:45

NoMoon 12:29a 1:29a 2:34a 3:42a 4:51a 6:01a

2:22p 3:13p 4:00p 4:43p 5:22p 5:59p 6:34p 7:10p

8:22a 7:48p 9:34a 8:30p 10:47a 9:17p 11:57a 10:10p 1:01p 11:07p 1:59p NoMoon 2:48p 12:07a

San Antonio 2020 Oct

A.M. P.M. SUN MOON Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets

09 Fri 10 Sat 11 Sun 12 Mon 13 Tue 14 Wed 15 Thu 16 Fri 17 Sat 18 Sun 19 Mon 20 Tue 21 Wed 22 Thu 23 Fri

----- 5:49 12:32 6:42 1:21 7:35 2:12 8:25 3:01 9:14 3:48 10:01 4:35 10:48 5:25 11:38 6:19 ----7:17 1:03 8:21 2:06 9:27 3:12 10:33 4:18 11:35 5:21 12:09 6:19

12:02 6:15 12:56 7:10 1:49 8:02 2:39 8:53 3:27 9:41 4:14 10:28 5:02 11:15 5:51 12:05 6:46 13:00 7:46 1:32 8:50 2:36 9:57 3:42 11:02 4:48 ----- 5:50 12:33 6:47

07:30 07:31 07:31 07:32 07:32 07:33 07:34 07:34 07:35 07:36 07:36 07:37 07:38 07:38 07:39

07:10 07:09 07:07 07:06 07:05 07:04 07:03 07:02 07:01 07:00 06:59 06:58 06:57 06:56 06:55

NoMoon 2:19p 12:45a 3:11p 1:44a 3:59p 2:48a 4:44p 3:54a 5:25p 5:01a 6:04p 6:09a 6:41p 7:16a 7:19p 8:25a 7:59p 9:36a 8:43p 10:47a 9:32p 11:55a 10:25p 12:59p 11:23p 1:57p NoMoon 2:47p 12:22a

Amarillo

2020 A.M. P.M. SUN MOON Oct Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets

09 Fri 10 Sat 11 Sun 12 Mon 13 Tue 14 Wed 15 Thu 16 Fri 17 Sat 18 Sun 19 Mon 20 Tue 21 Wed 22 Thu 23 Fri

----- 6:02 12:45 6:56 1:34 7:48 2:25 8:39 3:14 9:27 4:01 10:15 4:49 11:02 5:38 11:52 6:32 ----7:31 1:17 8:34 2:19 9:40 3:25 10:46 4:31 11:49 5:34 12:22 6:33

12:15 1:09 2:02 2:53 3:41 4:28 5:15 6:05 6:59 7:59 9:04 10:10 11:16 ----12:46

6:29 7:23 8:16 9:06 9:54 10:41 11:28 12:18 13:13 1:45 2:49 3:55 5:01 6:03 7:00

07:47 07:48 07:49 07:49 07:50 07:51 07:52 07:53 07:54 07:55 07:55 07:56 07:57 07:58 07:59

07:20 07:18 07:17 07:16 07:14 07:13 07:12 07:10 07:09 07:08 07:07 07:05 07:04 07:03 07:02

NoMoon 2:49p 12:43a 3:40p 1:44a 4:26p 2:49a 5:08p 3:59a 5:46p 5:10a 6:21p 6:21a 6:55p 7:33a 7:29p 8:46a 8:06p 10:00a 8:46p 11:14a 9:32p 12:25p 10:24p 1:29p 11:20p 2:27p NoMoon 3:15p 12:21a

Legend: Major=2 hours. Minor=1 hour. Times centered on the major-minor window. For other locations, subtract 1 minute per 12 miles east of a location, and add 1 minute per 12 miles west of a location.

Sabine Pass, north Date Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Time 3:36 PM 12:58 AM 1:36 AM 2:03 AM 2:25 AM 2:47 AM 3:08 AM 3:29 AM 3:51 AM 4:13 AM 4:33 AM 12:52 AM 2:08 AM 2:50 PM 3:59 PM

High Island Height 0.34L 1.91H 1.94H 1.95H 1.93H 1.90H 1.87H 1.84H 1.83H 1.82 1.82H 1.58L 1.72L 0.02L 0.18L

Time 4:40 PM 5:44 PM 7:51 AM 7:53 AM 8:21 AM 8:57 AM 9:38 AM 10:21 AM 11:07 AM 11:56 AM 4:50 AM 4:50 AM 11:56 PM

Height 0.32L 0.30L 1.52L 1.33L 1.06L 0.74L 0.41L 0.12L -0.09L -0.20L 1.80H 1.77H 2.01H

Time

11:02 AM 12:53 PM 2:08 PM 3:15 PM 4:19 PM 5:22 PM 6:28 PM 7:39 PM 12:49 PM 1:47 PM

Height

1.58H 1.70H 1.85H 2.00H 2.11H 2.18H 2.20H 2.16H -0.21L -0.12L

Time

Height

6:43 PM 7:39 PM 8:32 PM 9:22 PM 10:12 PM 11:02 PM 11:54 PM

0.30L 0.35L 0.47L 0.65L 0.88L 1.14L 1.38L

8:58 PM 10:28 PM

2.10H 2.05H

Galveston Bay entrance, north jetty Time 2:48 PM 12:39 AM 1:16 AM 1:48 AM 2:18 AM 2:45 AM 3:11 AM 3:34 AM 3:55 AM 4:11 AM 12:25 AM 12:03 PM 1:02 PM 2:13 PM 3:39 PM

Height 0.50L 2.53H 2.58H 2.58H 2.52H 2.43H 2.31H 2.18H 2.07H 1.99H 1.67L -0.06L 0.07L 0.25L 0.44L

Time 3:57 PM 5:07 PM 8:58 AM 8:48 AM 8:41 AM 8:51 AM 9:17 AM 9:51 AM 10:30 AM 4:23 AM 8:45 PM 10:16 PM 11:37 PM

Height 0.47L 0.45L 1.67L 1.58L 1.37L 1.04L 0.68L 0.33L 0.07L 1.95H 2.80H 2.73H 2.67H

Time

11:15 AM 12:52 PM 2:04 PM 3:11 PM 4:15 PM 5:18 PM 6:21 PM 11:14 AM

Height

1.72H 1.93H 2.18H 2.44H 2.66H 2.83H 2.90H -0.06L

Time

Height

6:17 PM 7:23 PM 8:24 PM 9:21 PM 10:15 PM 11:12 PM

0.44L 0.48L 0.59L 0.78L 1.04L 1.36L

7:28 PM

2.87H

Time 2:34 PM 12:31 AM 1:17 AM 1:53 AM 2:23 AM 2:48 AM 3:10 AM 3:28 AM 3:43 AM 3:52 AM 1:42 AM 12:10 PM 1:08 PM 2:17 PM 3:36 PM

Height 0.39L 2.17H 2.20H 2.20H 2.13H 2.02H 1.87H 1.72H 1.60H 1.53H 1.50 0.03L 0.07L 0.17L 0.32L

Time

Height

3:46 PM 5:02 PM 6:15 PM 9:08 AM 8:55 AM 9:03 AM 9:25 AM 9:57 AM 10:35 AM 3:44 AM 9:07 PM 10:32 PM 11:51 PM

0.37L 0.36L 0.38L 1.47L 1.32L 1.07L 0.78L 0.49L 0.24L 1.53H 2.40H 2.35H 2.29H

Height 0.81H 0.83H 0.83H 0.80H 0.71H 0.60H 0.47H 0.32L 0.47L -0.09L -0.17L 0.83H 0.88H 0.89H 0.87H

Time 5:34 PM 6:50 PM 7:57 PM 9:00 PM 10:03 PM 11:29 AM 11:15 AM 4:31 AM 3:25 AM 11:21 PM

Height -0.04L -0.06L -0.06L -0.03L 0.05L 0.54L 0.38L 0.42H 0.49H 0.78H

2:39 3:41 4:55 6:12

-0.19L -0.18L -0.14L -0.09L

Height 0.80H 0.80H 0.81H 0.83H 0.15L 0.20L 0.29L 0.42L 0.55L 0.21L 0.77H 0.81H 0.82H 0.79H 0.75H

Time 9:48 PM 10:56 PM 11:53 PM

Height 0.24L 0.19L 0.15L

4:03 5:33 9:26 7:13 6:26

0.82H 0.79H 0.52H 0.50H 0.57H

Time

12:12 PM 1:41 PM 2:57 PM 4:08 PM 5:18 PM 6:30 PM 11:19 AM

Height

Time

Height

1.58H 1.75H 1.94H 2.13H 2.28H 2.38H 0.09L

7:22 PM 8:28 PM 9:33 PM 10:41 PM 11:59 PM

0.45L 0.58L 0.78L 1.03L 1.28L

7:46 PM

2.41H

Height

Time

Height

Port Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Date Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Time 5:13 AM 5:48 AM 6:25 AM 6:59 AM 7:20 AM 7:21 AM 6:51 AM 12:06 AM 1:07 AM 1:02 PM 1:47 PM 1:39 AM 3:31 AM 4:21 AM 5:00 AM

Time 8:17 AM 9:37 AM 12:56 PM 2:42 PM 12:43 AM 1:30 AM 2:16 AM 3:05 AM 4:05 AM 3:46 PM 3:51 AM 4:54 AM 5:50 AM 6:56 AM 8:13 AM

Date Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Time 1:34 AM 2:26 AM 3:09 AM 3:36 AM 3:45 AM 3:44 AM 3:41 AM 3:45 AM 3:56 AM 12:27 AM 1:56 AM 12:51 PM 1:49 PM 2:54 PM 1:01 AM

Time 7:35 PM 8:44 PM 10:08 PM 11:15 PM 2:03 PM 7:16 AM 7:18 AM 7:25 AM 7:36 AM 7:46 AM 7:45 AM

Height 0.43L 0.45L 0.45L 0.46L 1.39L 1.67H 1.62H 1.59H 1.56H 1.55H 1.55H

5:32 PM 6:46 PM 7:58 PM

0.17L 0.24L 0.33L

Height 1.65H 1.67H 1.66H 1.61H 1.54H 1.46H 1.40H 1.37H 1.37H 1.19L 1.34L 0.15L 0.18L 0.26L 1.75H

Time 3:42 PM 4:50 PM 6:03 PM 7:13 PM 9:12 AM 9:16 AM 9:30 AM 9:57 AM 10:32 AM 4:11 AM 4:25 AM 10:22 PM 11:53 PM

Height 0.46L 0.45L 0.46L 0.48L 1.31L 1.17L 0.97L 0.73L 0.51L 1.38H 1.41H 1.79H 1.79H

4:09 PM

0.37L

Height 0.41H 0.41H 0.40H 0.37H 0.32H 0.28H 0.28H 0.30H 0.28L 0.34L -0.04L 0.44H 0.46H 0.46H 0.45H

Time 5:59 PM 7:16 PM 8:18 PM 9:23 AM 9:21 AM 9:59 AM 10:46 AM 11:33 AM 4:03 AM 4:06 AM

Height 0.06L 0.05L 0.04L 0.36L 0.32L 0.25L 0.18L 0.10L 0.33H 0.36H

2:30 3:29 4:47 6:14

-0.04L -0.02L 0.01L 0.03L

Height 1.07H 1.10H 1.09H 1.03H 0.91H 0.79H 0.76H 0.78H 0.82H 0.88H 0.89L -0.25L -0.24L 1.17H 1.13H

Time 3:00 PM 4:10 PM 5:37 PM 6:49 PM 8:32 AM 8:25 AM 8:25 AM 8:50 AM 9:39 AM 10:37 AM 3:27 AM 10:10 PM

Height 0.01L 0.02L 0.04L 0.07L 0.85L 0.72L 0.53L 0.32L 0.11L -0.06L 0.95H 1.17H

2:25 PM 3:32 PM

-0.16L -0.04L

Height 2.00H 2.04H 2.03H 1.96H 1.83H 1.68H 1.54H 1.47H 1.46H 1.51H 0.15L 0.09L 0.12L 0.23L 2.12H

Time 2:38 PM 3:45 PM 4:56 PM 6:06 PM 7:12 PM 8:16 AM 8:21 AM 8:49 AM 9:27 AM 10:12 AM 8:19 PM 10:07 PM 11:34 PM

Height 0.44L 0.44L 0.45L 0.49L 0.59L 1.45L 1.18L 0.87L 0.56L 0.31L 2.16H 2.18H 2.17H

3:05 PM

0.38L

Time

4:13 1:57 2:07 2:22 2:43 3:10 3:43

Height

PM PM PM PM PM PM PM

1.43H 1.23L 1.01L 0.75L 0.49L 0.28L 0.16L

Time

Height

12:27 PM 1:55 PM 3:18 PM 4:34 PM 5:48 PM 11:13 AM 11:59 AM

1.42H 1.48H 1.55H 1.63H 1.70H 0.32L 0.19L

Time

5:33 PM 6:47 PM 8:05 PM 9:16 PM 10:23 PM 11:42 PM

Time

Height

1.48H 1.54H 1.62H 1.72H 1.79H 1.83H

Height

8:15 PM 9:12 PM 10:09 PM 11:12 PM

0.54L 0.65L 0.81L 0.99L

7:04 PM 8:34 PM

1.75H 1.77H

Date Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Time 5:17 AM 5:49 AM 6:23 AM 6:49 AM 6:47 AM 4:55 AM 4:04 AM 3:59 AM 12:39 AM 1:29 AM 1:43 PM 12:44 AM 2:35 AM 3:32 AM 4:15 AM

PM PM PM PM

Time

11:45 AM 1:54 PM 3:21 PM 4:31 PM 5:39 PM 12:17 PM 1:00 PM

Height

0.37H 0.37H 0.38H 0.39H 0.39H 0.04L -0.01L

Time

Height

9:13 PM 10:05 PM 10:57 PM 11:48 PM

0.06L 0.09L 0.14L 0.21L

7:04 PM 11:06 PM

0.39H 0.41H

Port Aransas

PM PM PM PM

Time

1:29 PM 5:09 PM 11:43 AM 12:20 PM

0.55H 0.54H 0.20L 0.04L

11:05 PM

0.17L

8:06 PM 9:50 PM

0.61H 0.71H

Nueces Bay Date Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

San Luis Pass

Height 1.77H 1.78H 1.78 1.76H 1.72H 0.52L 0.66L 0.85L 1.09L 1.33L 1.53L 0.13L 1.84H 1.86H 1.84H

East Matagorda

Freeport Harbor Date Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Time 6:47 AM 7:32 AM 7:50 AM 7:31 AM 7:21 AM 12:10 AM 1:03 AM 1:53 AM 2:40 AM 3:28 AM 5:44 AM 4:28 PM 1:16 AM 4:57 AM 5:28 AM

Date Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Time 2:53 AM 3:43 AM 4:27 AM 5:08 AM 5:44 AM 3:02 AM 2:11 AM 2:27 AM 2:49 AM 3:11 AM 12:51 AM 12:32 PM 1:27 PM 12:16 AM 2:00 AM

Time

11:44 AM 1:05 PM 2:21 PM 3:35 PM 4:50 PM 6:24 PM 11:35 AM

Height

0.92H 0.97H 1.02H 1.07H 1.10H 1.12H -0.19L

Time

Height

7:48 PM 8:42 PM 9:37 PM 10:38 PM 11:44 PM

0.14L 0.24L 0.40L 0.57L 0.74L

8:32 PM

1.15H

Time

Height

South Padre Island

PM PM AM AM AM

5:04 PM 6:23 PM 7:42 PM 9:01 PM 10:17 PM

0.18L 0.17L 0.17L 0.17L 0.16L

Time

12:30 PM 1:39 PM 2:40 PM

Height

0.49L 0.38L 0.28L

Time

7:41 PM 9:34 PM 11:17 PM

Height

0.75H 0.74H 0.73H

Date Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Time 1:15 AM 2:08 AM 2:51 AM 3:20 AM 3:27 AM 3:11 AM 2:54 AM 2:47 AM 2:45 AM 2:39 AM 11:01 AM 11:56 AM 12:54 PM 1:57 PM 12:39 AM

Time

12:57 PM 2:31 PM 3:56 PM 5:16 PM 6:40 PM

Height

1.71H 1.82H 1.95H 2.06H 2.13H

8:16 PM 9:21 PM 10:32 PM 11:56 PM

0.75L 0.96L 1.21L 1.45L

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Remington no more By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News Most seasoned hunters remember their first shotgun. And there’s a pretty good chance it was a Remington 870. Frequently the next shotgun was a semi-automatic, and usually it was the Remington 1100. The shotguns, ammunition and other products may continue, but the company is a thing of the past. After years of quality-control issues and other problems, Remington filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2017 and attempted a reorganization, but the 204-year-old company filed for bankruptcy protection again in July. After a competitive bidding process, seven companies purchased portions of Remington Outdoor Co. holdings, and the Bankruptcy Court approved the sale on Sept. 29. The sales will generate $155 million, all to be applied to Remington’s debt, estimated to be as much as $500 million. If there is a resurgence of the age-old shotguns, it will be up to investment company Roundhill Group LLC. Roundhill purchased Remington firearm brands, with the exception of Marlin, for $13 million. A nonfirearms company, Roundhill announced it plans on keeping the Remington plant in Ilion, N.Y. open and to have firearms being manufactured there again as soon as possible. Sturm, Ruger & Co. purchased Marlin for $30 million. The once-popular, 150-yearold lever-action rifle brand will now ostensibly by renewed by its new owner. Ruger announced it would begin the process of relocating the Marlin assets to existing Ruger manufacturing facilities. “The important thing for consumers, retailers and distributors to know at this point in time is that the Marlin brand and its great products will live on,” said Ruger President Chris Killoy. “The brand aligns perfectly with ours and the Marlin product portfolio will help us widen our already diverse product offerings.”

Vista Outdoors, which already owns Federal and Blackhawk ammunition, purchased Remington’s Lonoke, Arkansas-based ammunitions business and other IP assets for $81.4 million. “With our deep expertise and resources, we can transform Remington’s ammunition and accessories businesses to create a more efficient, profitable and sustainable operation,” said Vista Chief Executive Officer Chris Metz. “At the same time, we will protect hundreds of jobs, support wildlife and habitat conservation and ensure that hunting and shooting sports enthusiasts can continue to purchase their favorite ammunition and accessories.” Sierra Bullets bought Barnes ammunition for $30.5 million. Founded in 1932 and headquartered in Mona, Utah, Barnes is an industry-leader in manufacturing lead-free, all-copper bullets. “Barnes is a leader in lead-free, all copper bullets, with a rich history of product innovation and strong brand awareness among the core enthusiast, yet it has untapped goto-market potential,” said John Walbrecht, Clarus (Sierra Bullets’ parent company) president. Other brands were sold for lesser, undisclosed amounts. JJE Capital Holdings LLC, the parent of Palmetto State Armory, bought the DPMS, H&R (Harrington & Richardson, a singleshot rifle and shotgun brand), Stormlake (a handgun barrel manufacturing brand), AAC (a suppressor manufacturer) and Parker brands (the Parker Bros. shotgun line that began in 1867 but was phased out by Remington in 1942). Franklin Armory Holdings bought the Bushmaster brand. Once a popular line of AR-15s, the brand was essentially stripped of production in recent years. Sportsman’s Warehouse Inc. bought the Tapco brands (makers of AR-rifle accessories).

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side of the fence, knowing that he was safe, saying “‘not today, sir,’” he said. Love had come to the conclusion that this hunt might end in an empty tag. Later in the afternoon, his luck changed. He spotted a buck bedded down in the middle of a field. He crept his way toward him and the 20 mph wind blew straight into his face. At 750 yards, the buck stood up. Love knew if he wanted to get this buck, he would need to act fast. He moved to within 500 yards, laid prone and dialed in for the shot. The shoulder hit was dead on. Love’s buck was 65 inches Olivia Boyce, a native of San Antonio who currently lives in New York, bagged her first pronghorn on her family’s ranch near Amarillo. Photo with a kicker. “The 6.5-284 did her job,” from William Boyce. Love said of the 500 yard Boyce’s cousin, George Boyce, has guided shot with a 20 mph crosswind. “These goats as a professional hunter in Africa and ofweren’t letting us get very close. It was like fered to try to get Boyce on a buck. ice skating uphill at times.” “George is like a brother to me,” Boyce Olivia Boyce, a native of San Antonio, said. “It was really special honoring his taltook her first pronghorn on the opening ent of guiding and our family and ranch.” day of the season on her family’s ranch near The pair found a lone buck grazing in one Amarillo. of the pastures on the ranch. They “leopard Although Boyce currently lives in New crawled,” as Boyce’s cousin called it, over York City, she made her way to her home 100 yards until Boyce was able to make a state of Texas to quarantine. 70-yard shot. She had hunted deer before but never on The pronghorn regular season began Oct. the family ranch and decided to take advan3 and ends Oct. 11. tage of the pronghorn season.

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TEXAS SALTWATER FISHING REPORT SABINE LAKE: 87-88 degrees. Redfish are fair on crankbaits close to the rocks. Bull reds are fair from the jetty on jigs. BOLIVAR: 81 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are fair in Rollover Bay on shrimp behind a popping cork. Redfish are good in the grassy areas on shrimp. TRINITY BAY: 80-82 degrees. Speckled trout are fair to good under the birds, and redfish are good around the grass flats on shrimp. Flounder are good on mullet around rocks.

EAST GALVESTON BAY: 80-82 degrees. Bull redfish are good at the jetties on fresh live bait. Speckled trout are fair to good along the beachfront on shrimp. WEST GALVESTON BAY: 81-82 degrees. Bull redfish are good along the jetties on fresh shad. Speckled trout and redfish are good on shell reefs around the ICW and San Luis Pass on shrimp under a popping cork and top-waters. TEXAS CITY: 81-82 degrees. Bull redfish are fair to good on fresh cut mullet. Redfish and speckled trout are good along the shoreline on shrimp under a popping cork or soft plastics. Flounder are good on mud minnows around the rocks. Black drum are good on blue crab around deep structure or vegetation. FREEPORT: 79-81 degrees. Redfish are good around the jetties on shrimp. Speckled trout are good around San Luis Pass on shrimp and soft plastics. EAST MATAGORDA BAY: 82 degrees. Redfish are good for anglers wading mid-bay reefs on live shrimp. Speckled trout are good on soft plastics and live shrimp. WEST MATAGORDA BAY: 82 degrees. Redfish

are good along the north shoreline or around Crab Lake on live shrimp or mullet. Speckled trout are good on soft plastics in the grass flats. PORT O’CONNOR: 80-81 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are excellent on live shrimp and top-waters. Black drum are good on crab around deep water and around grass beds. Flounder are good on live mullet around the rocks. ROCKPORT: 81-82 degrees. Redfish and speckled trout are good on spoons, top-waters and D.O.A. PORT ARANSAS: 81-82 degrees. Bull redfish are fair to good on shrimp and mullet. Speckled trout and redfish are good near the North Jetty and Redfish Bay on shrimp and mullet. Black drum are good on crab. CORPUS CHRISTI: 81 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are good on shrimp behind popping corks and crankbaits. BAFFIN BAY: 90-91 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are fair to good on top-waters, shrimp and mullet. Black drum are good on blue crab. PORT MANSFIELD: 80-81 degrees. Speckled

trout and redfish are good on top-waters, willow tails and shrimp under a popping cork. SOUTH PADRE: 82-83 degrees. Redfish and speckled trout are good on scented plastics. Black drum are good on blue crab. PORT ISABEL: 83 degrees. Redfish are good on shrimp along grass edges. Speckled trout are fair to good on shrimp under a popping cork.

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within Texas. For example, a recent advertisement for The Corner Shoppe indicated 150 deer mounts were for sale for less than $200 each. “Prices can range from $50 for a whitetail mount to several thousand for things like lions and leopards,” he said. “A polar bear can bring up to $20,000.” Who are the buyers? “It’s usually restaurants, bars and people who are filling out their collection,” Brommell said. “We’re always busy.” Brommell sells collections in two ways, at the shop or through auctions. “We either buy the stuff from them, or with large collections, have an auction,” he said. “We also carry or auction things like bronzes, wood carvings, hundreds of hides, antlers and skulls from all over the world, and furniture.” Jo Baird of B&B Taxidermy in Houston said of the hundreds of trophy rooms they have designed and built, a few have been taken down. “The kids don’t have anywhere to put

them,” she said. “And it seems most people want the trophies to be their own. We will store them for awhile, but usually suggest the people do an auction.” Gary Broach, at Rhodes Bros. Taxidermy in Kerrville, said not to look for a big payday when selling trophies in most cases, though. “It’s kind of like Pawn Stars,” he said. “When the animals have no sentimental value to the buyer, they don’t bring a lot.” Both Baird and Broach said a newer trend is converting shoulder mounts into either European mounts or horn mounts, using artificial skulls and plates covered with leather or even the hide from the animal. “The horn mounts are becoming more popular,” Baird said. Another reason some family members don’t want to keep dad or granddad’s trophies is in the eyes, Baird said. “People in our showroom sometimes ask, ‘”Doesn’t it feel like they are watching you all day?”’ she said. “I tell them, ‘Not to me.”’

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lake, I’m amazed we catch any of them on lures.” He said the smallmouth are tougher to pattern than the largemouth bass. “You can’t say you’ve found a good area and go back the next day,” he said. “They move around a lot. But when the smallmouth are on, you’ll catch them if you’re doing the right thing. The next day, the same thing is a waste of time.” Brian Hughes has fished a lot of tournaments, and has fished Texoma multiple times for smallmouth. Determined to figure them out on artificials, he finally threw in the towel. Now, more often than not, though, he has used live bait. “You can catch them on lures, but Texoma is different from the northern lakes,” he said. “People think small, finesse lures, but the striper guides toss big threadfin shad and catch a lot of fish. I’ll throw just about anything that looks like a threadfin, it just doesn’t work.” Both Casanova and Hughes said the upcoming shad spawn will move the stripers, largemouth and smallmouth into the shallows. “They will be working them over,” Hughes said. “But if you get into the stripers, the smallmouth will move off, so you might as well move, too.”

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