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October 12, 2018
Volume 15, Issue 4
Garza, Texas Ranger
Staterecord tarpon possible Man lands fish during son’s bachelor party By Craig Nyhus
Lone Star Outdoor News Greg Heine took his son and friends fishing the Intracoastal Canal out of Port O’Connor for his son’s bachelor party on Oct. 5. He landed what may become the Texas state-record tarpon. “We were fishing for bull reds,” the Thrall resident said. “He hit a big piece of cut bait.” The fight took about 15 minutes before the big tarpon was at the boat. “We got him on the boat and did some quick photos and measurements,” Heine said. “That’s when we knew he was really big.” Just how big, though, they didn’t know. “There was a guide close by, and he was in shock,” Heine
A day on the boat with Capt. Roy Garza is sure to be filled with plenty of laughs, but the Port Mansfield fishing guide is also a law enforcement veteran and, since 2016, is a Texas Ranger. Photo by Erich Schlegel, for Lone Star Outdoor News.
Guide catches fish, crooks By Craig Nyhus
Lone Star Outdoor News
Photo from Greg Heine
Raul ‘Roy’ Garza has fished all of his life, but an advertisement while
caught his eye while in college at Pan-American University in Edinburg in the early 1990s and eventually led to him becoming a Texas Ranger in 2016. “I saw an ad for a police academy,” he said. “I grew up in a neigh-
borhood with a lake and fished every day. On weekends we would go to the Old Causeway Pier or go surf- or wade-fishing. I thought the academy was on South Padre Island, but it turned out it was in Weslaco. I was already enrolled, so I
went anyway.” That was in 1992, and he has fished, guided and worked in law enforcement ever since. “I started in the city of San Juan,” he said. “I bought my first two fishing boats in my five years working
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Panhandle pronghorn season ends with good results Candace Tyler shot her first pronghorn while hunting with her husband, Morgan, near Miami in Roberts County prior to the season closing on Oct. 7. “We didn’t get out there until Thursday (Oct. 4),” Morgan said. “I had scouted earlier in the week and I saw a few good bucks, but we saw several groups of does without a buck with them, so I figure those bucks got shot.”
Candace made her 240-yard shot using a 6.5 Creedmore. “It was her first pronghorn, so that was pretty cool,” Morgan said. The area the Tyler’s hunted was in the experimental area established by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and they Candace Tyler took the buck to a mandatory check statook her first tion. pronghorn toward “The area doesn’t have a huge number the end of the of pronghorn,” Tyler said. “But we saw a short season in the Texas Panhandecent number.” Please turn to page 21
dle. Photo from Morgan Tyler.
Freshwater Fishing Report . Page 10
HUNTING
FISHING
Game Warden Blotter . . . . Page 12
Worth the wait (P. 4)
Variety of species down south (P. 8)
First buck with crossbow.
Drum, snook, but trout small.
Wet start in Valley (P. 6)
Tournament on the jetties (P. 9)
Archery hunters having trouble getting to fields.
Family event evolves.
Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . Page 16 Sun, Moon & Tides . . . . . Page 18 Products . . . . . . . . . . Page 19 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . Page 24 Outdoor Datebook . . . . . Page 26
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