Game Warden Blotter

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WIFE GOES ALONG WITH abandoning ship. All were safely BOTCHED PLAN recovered by the Morning Star. No Henderson County game wardens were conducting an inspection on WARDENS ASSIST 5-YEAR-OLD WHO FELL INTO WELL injuries were reported. a local processor when they came DRUNK ROAD HUNTING across a license that did not have an archery endorsement. During the inspection, wardens found out the deer was harvested the same day the license was purchased, but the license was bought by the individual later in the evening. The wardens visited the man and Starr County dispatch received a 911 call about a child who had fallen into a well on a ranch. Multiple law enforcement agencies, including game wardens, were dispatched to the scene. When they arrived, they saw the child, a 5-year-old boy, was stuck in the well facing upward with his hands above his head. The boy’s hands were secured and stabilized, and game wardens utilized their emergency air tanks to supply fresh oxygen to the child until larger tanks were available. The boy was rescued around 10:30 p.m. and was flown to the McAllen Medical Center responsive and alert with no visible injuries. A Cass County game warden was on patrol when a vehicle stopped twice near a large pasture and stick what appeared to be a rifle out of the window. While following the vehicle, the subject was driving erratically on the county road. When the vehicle stopped again, learned that the deer was har- the warden conducted a traffic vested under the license of another stop. The warden approached the individual. After further question- vehicle and saw an AR-15 rifle in ing, it was discovered that the man the passenger’s seat. The weapon asked his wife to go buy a hunting rifle was used and was able to write found to be in possession of under- 8. Four crewmen were taken to a was secured, and the driver was license the same day he harvested down the license plate number sized and over the daily bag limit of hospital with minor injuries. The checked for warrants. The warden the deer so he could use her tag to and get a good description of the sheepshead. incident occurred about 8 p.m. on noticed the thermal scope was still harvest another buck. After denying vehicle. The wardens and sheriff’s the ship channel side of the south on, so they asked the driver about the incident, the wardens used office called a local constable who WARDENS’ BEST FRIEND jetty. hunting and told him that they had cell phone photos to put together lives in the same neighborhood for Game wardens have a new K9 part- seen him stick the rifle out of the a timeline proving the deer was some back up. The constable found ner. Tito, a Jagdterrier, is currently FISHING VESSEL SINKS, window. The driver then admitted harvested before the license was the vehicle and the wardens trav- being trained for Police Search and CREW RESCUED to hunting the field for hogs and purchased by his wife. To support eled to the scene. The individual Rescue, which includes tracking, The Coast Guard and a good admitted to being intoxicated. The the false claims that his wife had admitted to shooting the buck off lead area searches, collapsed Samaritan vessel rescued five driver was arrested and charged harvested the deer, the man had out of his vehicle with a crossbow structures and evidence article people from a fishing vessel after with hunting without landowner her pose for photos with the deer, from the public roadway. Multiple recovery. Once certified, K9 Tito will the vessel began taking on water consent and hunting from a motor which wardens found on the phone. charges were filed. become the department’s second approximately 180 miles of Sabine vehicle. Cases pending. wildlife detection K9. Pass. The Miss Lena, a 69-foot vesDUMPING BUCKET OF SHEEPSHEAD sel, sent a radio beacon alert and CROSSBOW ROAD HUNTING Texas game wardens assigned to COAST GUARD VESSEL RUNS the Coast Guard launched heliTwo Trinity County game wardens San Patricio and Nueces County INTO JETTY copter and aircraft crews. Another REPORT ILLEGAL HUNTING AND received a call from the local sher- observed a person dump a bucket A 29-foot Coast Guard vessel, while fishing vessel, Morning Star, was FISHING ACTIVITY FOR A iff’s office about an individual who of fish as the wardens patrolled responding to a search-and-rescue 15 miles away and came to assist. REWARD OF UP TO $1,000. had just shot a buck in a yard from the Aransas Channel. After a quick case, ran up onto the rocks of the The aircraft crew deployed a life CALL OPERATION GAME THIEF AT a vehicle. The landowner thought a fisheries inspection, the person was south jetty in Port Aransas on Dec. raft as the five crewmembers were (800) 792-4263

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of December to bring their processing inventory down to a manageable level, according to associate Johnathan Myers.

“We processed 5,000 animals in a twoweek period,” Myers said. “It was like all of the hunters showed up at one time. We have never had that many wild game processing orders come in all at once.”

Myers said many of Kuby’s customers have been working remotely from their ranches and leases since deer season began.

“We are seeing folks who typically bring us two or three deer per season bring us four to six this year,” he said.

Kuby’s has developed a plan to handle the larger-than-normal amount of processing orders for the remainder of the season.

“We will remain open for deer drop-offs for the rest of this season,” he said.

Cinnamon Creek Ranch, located in Roanoke, also has received higher than normal wild game processing orders this season. Office Manager Theresa Yardley said they are open and accepting deer, but their turnaround on most processing requests is averaging about eight weeks.

“We have definitely had more deer dropped off this year than we’ve ever had before,” Yardley said. “People seem to be spending more time hunting this year than they have in the past.”

Yardley also said they’ve had a lot of hunters show up with deer this month that had been turned away from other processors.

“We are glad to take on more processing orders, we just want the public to understand that it is taking us longer than normal to get them completed,” she said.

Klein Smokehaus, in Boerne, also has been nearing their capacity for processing orders. Sales associate Alli Duecker said they are open and accepting deer on the weekends, but they have been staying closed during the weekdays in order to keep up with orders.

“We are taking in hundreds of orders during the weekends, so we are trying to push them through as fast as we can while we retain the quality we are known for,” Duecker said. “That’s why we are not accepting orders on most weekdays at this time.”

Duecker said for the most part, they have been able to begin accepting deer by most Thursdays and Fridays of each week.

“Anyone who wants us to process their deer should just give us a call before heading over,” she said.

According to Duecker, this is the first time in the 15 years of ownership the current owners have had to turn away deer.

“Some of our regular customers that we don’t normally see until late in the season have already dropped off deer to us several times,” she said. “During October when bow season and MLD season opened, we fulfilled as many orders as we normally do throughout the entire regular season.”

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anything else.

“At least according to all the guides. And according to my sales,” he noted. “Most fish are being caught in the 10- to 15-foot range, off long points or on the edges of ridges and rocky irregularities.”

Bendele said a few Carolina-rigged fish were reported over the weekend.

“Put a super fluke on that C-rig and drag it in the same areas that you are throwing the deep-diving crankbait,” he said.

While overall fishing is spotty, the size of the fish caught has been good.

“The fish that we are catching are absolutely the fattest and meanest bastards you are going to catch anywhere,” Bendele said. “I have never seen the overall fish population so healthy.”

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was really surprised that he didn’t bust me. He was about 15 yards from me when I got the shot. The arrow went in just behind the shoulder but didn’t exit the other side. He turned to run and broke off the arrow in the brush. I could see him running for about 80 yards and then lost sight of him. I sat there for a few minutes, then went after him. He was easy to find. I walked at a normal pace and just followed the blood. He ran about 115 yards.”

Sherman said he had no idea a buck that size was in the small area of brush stretched out along a creek. The rest of the cattle ranch is mainly open fields with coastal hay and weeds.

“That deer had the body weight of a mature South Texas buck,” he said. “In that area he was feeding mainly on mesquite beans, acorns and deer corn. On the hoof I guess he weighed about 150 pounds. He had eight points, with a 19 3/4inch spread. He was definitely in the rut.”

Sherman was hunting with his 15-year-old son, Ethan. The teenage hunter was on a stand with his bow about 300 yards from where his father was set up.

“We are really into deer hunting, especially with a bow,” Sherman said. “Ethan shot his first deer when he was 6 years old. He’s still working on his first bow kill. He likes to hunt deer, and it gets him out of the house and into the outdoors.”

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