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January 22, 2021
Volume 17, Issue 11
Ducks inconsistent down south
Winter anglers finding fish
Pressure moving birds to unusual spots By Nate Skinner
For Lone Star Outdoor News Duck hunters in southern portions of the state are experiencing everything from barn-burner shoots to empty skies. In coastal bays, back marshes, inland ponds and cattle tanks, the birds haven’t been predictable. Capt. Todd Grubert said duck hunting out of Port Mansfield along the Lower Laguna Madre has been hit or miss, depending on the day. “It seems like the days following the arrival of a cold front have produced the best hunts,” Grubert said. “Each front tends to bring us a new influx of birds.” Grubert has been mostly seeing puddle ducks like pintail, teal, shovelers and wigeon. “We are encountering very few diver ducks, especially redheads,” he elaborated. “There just aren’t large numbers of redheads crashing into the decoys like we usually have. We’ve seen a few big rafts of them on the east side of the bay, but for the most part they just aren’t around, at least not in big groups.” Ryan Welch duck hunted out of Port Mansfield for two days recently, and had two morning hunts that were completely different from one another. “The first morning was overcast, with a moderate southerly breeze and kind of warm,” he explained. “We only harvested two ducks during that hunt. Most of the birds that we saw were pintail, and they all were landing in open water in the middle of the bay. They didn’t want to fly along the bank where we were set up on.” On the second morning hunt, his group changed tactics and hunted a back marsh slough rather than a main bay shoreline. “A front had blown in overnight, and the skies were clear, the temperature was much
The hybrid striper action on Lake Conroe has been steady in areas where there are swarms of bait holding in 20-40 feet. Photo by Michael Richardson.
By Nate Skinner
For Lone Star Outdoor News Freshwater anglers willing to bundle up and hit the water are finding enough fish to produce some fillets for the dinner table. Crappie have been the staple on Lavon, Fork and Palestine lakes, and white bass are starting to move northward up creeks and the Trinity River on Lake Livingston. The sandies also are on the move along the Colorado River on the north end of Lake LBJ. Hybrid stripers are schooling in deep water on Lake Conroe. Guide Greg Nechamkin has been targeting
crappie on Lake Lavon and Lake Fork, where he’s been experiencing varied results, depending on the weather. “Since the last major cold front, the crappie have begun staging in fairly deep water on both lakes,” the guide said. “Most of the fish are hanging down in water depths of 35 to 40 feet.” The action has been better on warmer days that fall in between cold fronts. “Right after a front passes, the dip in water temperature has been shutting the bite down,” Nechamkim said. “Once the water begins to warm up, the fish are back to feeding aggressively.” Targeting deep timber has been the key on Fork. “On Lavon, the trick has been finding the Please turn to page 17
Some duck dogs on the lower Texas coast have been enjoying long sits in the blind waiting on birds to decoy. When the ducks do come in, hunters have reported mostly puddle ducks and not divers. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.
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End of season dove By Craig Nyhus
Finding places to hunt dove during the late season can be difficult. The birds group up, and not many outfitters are running dove hunts in January. Mark Katzfey, of Katzfey Ranches in George West, though, has been running hunts and remains busy. “We’ve had a lot of hunters,” he said. “And the birds are really cooperating.”
Katzfey has been hunting both sesame and sunflower fields. “Over the sunflowers, it’s been about half whitewings and half mourning dove,” he said. “The sesame fields have been 100-percent mourning dove.” The outfitter said the weather has mostly cooperated, and plenty of hunters have bagged their limits of birds. “We had one group of
15 hunters from Georgia,” Katzfey said. “They had a great time.” With the last day of the season being Jan. 23 in the South Zone, Katzfey has been pleasantly surprised. “I’m really happy how things turned out this year,” he said. “I thought COVID was really going to hurt us, but it turned out to be one of the best years we’ve had.” Near Pleasanton, Jim Wheeler spent time look-
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Crappie, white bass, hybrids cooperating
Good numbers of mourning dove have been found during the second split of the dove season in South Texas. Photo by Lone Star Outdoor News.
HUNTING
FISHING
Processors busted (P. 4)
Best specks (P. 8)
Hunters lose spoiled meat.
Successful trip for trio.
From first hunt to full-time (P. 4)
40-pound limit (P. 8)
LSON Foundation hunters buy ranches.
After cool-down, other events fail to follow.
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Two Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation hunting families buy ranches First-timers to property owners By Craig Nyhus
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On Jan. 9, Texas game wardens conducting a compliance inspection at a deer processing facility found numerous white-tailed deer carcasses, trimmings, and deer quarters that were unfit for human consumption. The investigation, at Hooves and Horns Meat Processing in Iowa Park, revealed meat that had been in the building for a few months. The coolers were seized and locked, and the owners were instructed not to allow any meat to leave the facility. Game wardens and a Texas Health and Human Services inspector determined the carcasses unfit for human consumption. In total, 80 white-tailed deer carcasses, 13 bags of trimmed venison and three 120-quart ice chests of deer quarters were transported to a landfill for disposal. Multiple citations are expected. Also, on Dec. 18, 2020, game wardens conducted a compliance inspection at a deer processing facility in Wise County. The routine compliance inspection of Backyard Taxidermy and Deer Processing, in Decatur, resulted in wardens finding spoiled deer in coolers. According to a TPWD press release, an investigation of the facility revealed deer in varying stages of decay. A city of Decatur health inspector was consulted and deer with abnormal discoloration or rancid smell was discarded. The release said the majority of the deer were quartered and stored in trash bags, which restricted air flow. Some tubs contained multiple deer that had been boned out. A total of 22 deer were found not fit for human consumption. Citations were issued for each deer and for failure to maintain a cold storage log. All customers whose harvest was affected were identified and contacted.
When formed in 2012, the Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation’s goals were to create hunters for a lifetime and, hopefully, see the day when someone who began with the foundation actually bought a hunting ranch. Over the last few years, it has happened — twice. Mark Bennett’s two sons, Ethan and Cooper, shot their first deer with the foundation in 2014, and now help out on the family’s 200acre Twin Oaks Ranch near Leona in Leon County. We started out leasing property,” Bennett said. “At our last lease, I Please turn to page 13
Mark Bennett’s sons shot their first deer with Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation. Now, they hunt on their own ranch in Leon County, called Twin Oaks Ranch. Photos from Mark Bennett.
Red-headed buck for Raymondville hunter
New officers at Park Cities Quail Coalition Lone Star Outdoor News
By Tony Vindell
For Lone Star Outdoor News
Virginia Torres shot this buck with unusual coloring on his head while hunting in Willacy County. Photo by Frank Torres.
Red-headed critters do exist, though not as plentiful as their counterparts. There are redheaded ducks, woodpeckers, rabbits, snakes, red-colored foxes, and so on. But a red-headed white-tailed deer buck? That is what a Raymondville hunter discovered after she bagged a buck just as the 2020-21 general gun deer season was nearing its end in the South Texas plains. “I got me a wild one,” Virginia Torres said. “It has a red head.” Indeed. The grayish-colored buck had a carrot, or ginger-top as if it had been painted with a brush. Its horns were thick and high and it appeared to be an older deer. Torres said she went to her deer blind at the family-owned ranch in western Willacy County on the morning of Jan. 9. She saw several does and a “nubby” feeding around the feeder that quickly disappeared after a bobcat showed up. As she looked out the east window of the blind, Torres saw a buck running in a farm field and said to herself, “Come this way.” Seconds later, she turned toward where the deer and bobcat were seen earlier and noticed a set of antlers by the fence of another property. The deer stepped out and it was in the middle of a sendero. Torres gave a grunt and the buck Please turn to page 13
Park Cities Quail Coalition announced a new slate of officers for 2021 at the Dallas-based quail conservation organization. Current Vice President Raymond Morrow was elected as president. Morrow follows PCQC co-founder Joe Crafton, who has served as president since PCQC’s creation in 2006. During those years, the organization grew from a startup chapter of Quail Unlimited to the creation of a separate 501(c)(3) and the formation of the 11 chapters of Quail Coalition. Crafton helped make PCQC a model organization that raised more than $12 million for quail research and education in less than 15 years of operation. Crafton was recently elected as the President of the Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation, effective Feb. 1. He will also remain on the board of Quail Coalition. John Wagner was elected to serve as vice president. Wagner has served on the Board of Direc-
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tors since 2016 and has been in the role of treasurer since 2016. Wyatt Abernethy was elected to serve as Treasurer. He has served on the Board of Directors as a director since 2019. Matt Perry-Miller will continue in his role as secretary. He has served on the Board of Directors since 2008 in various roles. Jay Stine remains as executive director, where he has served since 2011. The full Board of Directors is: Wyatt Abernethy, Joe Crafton, Pete Delkus, Dick McCallum, Raymond Morrow, Matt PerryMiller, Peter Stovall and John Wagner.
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Wood ducks, mallards on the Trinity River By Robert Sloan
For Lone Star Outdoor News This has not been a stellar duck hunting season, especially along the coastal flats and marshes. What started out as a promising season fizzled to few birds. But that is not the situation in Central Texas on the Trinity River and small lakes and ponds near Madisonville. “Our hunting has been steady,” said Kyle Scott, who runs guided duck hunts at King of Green Outfitters, about 15 miles north of Madisonville in Leon County. “The key to staying on the birds is to move around a lot. I’m hunting on the Trinity River and I also
have private lakes and ponds.” Scott has been putting his hunters on a variety of ducks that include mallards, pintail, gadwall and teal. He also runs river bottom hunts for wood ducks. “When I’m set up on a lake or pond we have been getting some good hunts for gadwall and teal,” he said. “On some days we’ll also get some greenheads and pintail. The combination of wood duck and mallard hunts are best in the river bottoms.” On the lakes, Scott uses blinds. But on the river he’ll usually have the hunters standing in the water or on land and leaning up against trees. Please turn to page 18
NRA files bankruptcy Plans to reincorporate in Texas Lone Star Outdoor News In what may be a preemptive move in light of litigation in New York, the National Rifle Association filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy Jan. 14 and said it would eventually reincorporate in Texas. In August 2020, New York’s attorney general sued the organization alleging fraudulent use of the NRA’s funds by its executives. Texas officials, including Gov. Greg Abbott, welcomed the announcement. “Welcome to Texas — a state that safeguards the 2nd Amendment,” Abbott tweeted. Pending litigation is stayed, or paused, when Chap. 11 bankruptcy proceedings are filed. The New York attorney general’s case may now be battled in a Dallas bankruptcy
court instead of a civil court in New York. Although bankruptcy proceedings were filed, NRA said it wasn’t bankrupt, citing assets between $100 and $500 million, with similar liabilities. NRA CEO and Executive Director Wayne LaPierre said in a statement, “The plan can be summed up quite simply. We are DUMPING New York, and we are pursuing plans to reincorporate in Texas.” The NRA said the decision is part of its strategic plan, called Project Freedom, and said all memberships and programs remain intact with no impacts. The NRA said it would seek to reincorporate in Texas, pending court approval. However, moving the state of incorporation doesn’t mean the organization’s headquarters will come to Texas. Despite being incorporated in New York, NRA’s headquarters are in Fairfax, Virginia.
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cooler, and the wind was blowing out of the north,” Welch said. “We were covered up with green-winged teal early, and then had shot opportunities at spoonies and wigeon later in the morning. It was a much better shoot.” The Blast & Cast Men’s Ministries held their annual Rockport Duck Hunt event, and the organization’s Executive Director, Brodie Cooper, said the hunting was tough overall. “It was clear the ducks were extremely wary from the immense hunting pressure that they’ve been under this season,” Cooper said. “The redheads stayed rafted up in the middle of the bay, even in rough water, all day long.” The best hunting occurred during the last legal hour of shooting light in the evenings. “We would have decent flights of redheads right before sunset,” he said. Also, the groups had to hunt areas that typically don’t get hunted in order to get ducks to commit to their decoys. “They just didn’t want to fly in areas that we normally hunt, I guess because they had been pressured too much in those spots,” Cooper said. “We had to scout other areas to be successful. The best decoying action took place along deep shorelines with rocky banks, because no one else was hunting those locations.”
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Waterfowl Program leader, Kevin Kraai, said the absence of mass numbers of redheads in the Lower Laguna Madre and the finicky behavior they are exhibiting around Rockport and other coastal areas is likely directly related to pressure. “We are finding that these birds do not like pressure from humans, whether it’s hunting pressure, or simply just boat traffic,” Kraai explained. “We are seeing them concentrate in areas where they never have before to get away from people.” Hunting guide Drew Garcia said his duck hunts over ponds and cattle tanks in portions of southwest Texas have been excellent lately. “The amount of water in southwest Texas is far and few between right now, so if there’s a pond or tank on a property, it is usually holding ducks,” Garcia said. “Scouting has been key, and most of the time we are going in on a pond that had anywhere from 50 to 200 ducks on it the evening before.” Garcia’s hunts have been filled with mostly gadwall and wigeon. “Pintail and teal have been filling the straps as well,” he said. “We’ve also been seeing a lot more cinnamon teal than we normally do.”
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noon of Jan. 9, they weren’t sure the hunt would be productive. Then, for about 45 minutes, things changed, as the mourning dove piled in, easily fooled by the spinning-wing decoy. Shooting his .410, Wheeler had an off day, but his friend managed a limit. Josh Crumpton, of Spoke Hollow Outfitters, hunted near San Marcos before the Central Zone late season closed Jan. 14. He reported the dove are exposed and he witnessed a bunch of hawks working the dove over.
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FISHING Wahoo, some yellowfins hitting offshore By Madison Scarborough For Lone Star Outdoor News Tisha Strickland and Matt Monclova show a yellowfin tuna caught while fishing offshore out of Galveston. Photo from Capt. Jeff Naylor.
Capt. Derrick Greene and Capt. Dave Dion are based in Galveston and run offshore guided trips together. Both took Charles Dash and a few others 189 miles offshore the night of Jan. 13 and found a bunch of yellowfin tuna busting near one of the rigs. The group caught 10 tuna
throughout the night. Greene said the group used freestyle jigs, Halco lures, dead squid and chunks of blackfin tuna. Dash, of Magnolia, got to check off one of his bucket list species during that trip. “I’ve always wanted to catch a big yellowfin tuna, and when it happened, it was absolutely amazing,” he said. When the sun came up the next morning, the group de-
cided to go back 50 miles inshore and everyone caught a wahoo. Shortly after the action ended, the waves picked up and the group headed back into Galveston. Hunter Saha guides trips out of Matagorda, but on the morning of Jan. 17, he went out with a few buddies to catch some snapper. They left Matagorda at 7:45 a.m., and once they arrived at their spot
had a four-man limit of snapper within 30 minutes. “They are still biting good, and when one fish starts biting, the other snapper get fired up and will usually follow the boat,” Saha said. He said the snapper can get finicky, and when that happens, he switches to smaller weights paired with lighter leaders. Dead bait and lures fished Please turn to page 18
On a three-day trip, Aaron Wilhite, left, landed his personal best speckled trout, measuring 28.5 inches and weighing 8.5 pounds; Landon Enderson, middle, caught an 8-pounder on the same trip, his best; and Evan Wilhite, right, landed his best, a 5-pounder. Photos by Landon Enderson and Aaron Wilhite.
Trip for personal best specks
Three anglers accomplish goal By Nate Skinner
For Lone Star Outdoor News Aaron Wilhite and his 13-yearold son, Evan, recently made a three-day fishing trip along the Lower Laguna Madre with their friend, Landon Enderson. The three anglers ran out of Port Mansfield with guide Capt. Nathan Beabout, and each of them had one main goal — to land their personal best speckled trout. They ended up enjoying what most trophy trout anglers would consider as a rare, lifetime experience. Wilhite brought his personal best speck to hand on day one before besting it again on the last day. His son landed his best trout on the first day as well, before landing a fish of equal caliber two days later. Finally, Enderson landed his top trout on the third and final day.
According to Wilhite, the first day of the trip started off as a grind. “The weather was pretty nice and the wind was light, but the trout just weren’t feeding early in the morning,” he explained. “We caught quite a few redfish during our first wade, before moving to a different area.” At the second spot, the group got out of the boat in knee-deep water over a muddy bottom littered with seagrass. “I was starting to get frustrated because the grass in this area was tall, and I kept getting my lure hung up on it,” Wilhite said. “I was throwing a slow-sinking twitch bait and thinking about switching to a top-water. Just as I had the thought to switch lures, I felt the thump.” At first he wasn’t sure whether he had hooked a trout or a redfish. As the fish began to tire and get closer, she made a roll along the surface and he realized it was
a big trout. “My personal best at the time was 26 inches long, and immediately I could see that this fish was going to top that,” Wilhite said. “I started shaking and got super nervous, and I actually missed her with the net on my first try. Finally, I was able to get her in the net, and I was ecstatic. She measured 29.5 inches and weighed 7.75 pounds.” After posing for a few photos, Wilhite released the sow trout. Soon after that, Enderson caught and released a speck in the 7-pound range. Wilhite’s son was next to get in on the action, and landed his personal best trout which measured 25 inches and almost 5 pounds. The second day of the trip brought stronger breezes from the north and a higher barometric pressure. “We caught some solid fish, but you could tell the big girls just weren’t real aggressive,” Enderson
said. “We didn’t catch any fish over about 6 pounds on day two.” Day three proved to be the best day of the trip. They started out by wading a shallow flat with seagrass and sand pockets. Once they waded into water that was little over knee deep and about 100 yards from the boat, the action picked up. “It was kind of windy, and I was focused on chunking my lure into sand pockets ahead of me when I heard a whistle,” Wilhite said. The whistle came from Enderson, who was hooked up with a heavy fish. “He hollered at me that he was fighting a big fish, so I started making my way towards him,” Wilhite said. Enderson netted the fish as Wilhite approached him, and he instantly knew that this fish was going to be his new personal best. “I had caught a 30-inch trout before but she only weighed 7 pounds,” Enderson said. “It was
clear from the time I landed this fish that it was much heavier.” The speck weighed 8 pounds, and Enderson was pumped. He took some photos with the trout before letting her go and celebrating. The anglers quickly went back to wade-fishing, and just a few minutes later, Wilhite was hooked up. “I knew it was a good trout, but I didn’t think it was larger than the one I had caught on the first day of the trip,” he said. “To be honest, I wasn’t near as excited as I was when I was fighting the fish on day one, but once I got her in the net, I could tell she was a lot bigger than I thought. The trout ended up measuring 28.5 inches and weighed 8.5 pounds. She was the fattest trout I had ever seen.” His son struck luck one more time before the day ended, landing another speck in the 5-pound class, tying his best.
A strong start Big bass limits temper with colder water temps By Craig Nyhus
Lone Star Outdoor News On Jan. 4 at the Phoenix Bass Fishing League tournament on Sam Rayburn Reservoir, some thought Derek Mundy set the tone for what would be a host of giant bass limits at events starting the new year. Mundy, of Broaddus, brought in a five-bass limit weighing a staggering 40 pounds, 10 ounces to win the event, earning $7,000. In winning the event by nearly 12 pounds, Mundy relied on a big crankbait and football jig, catching his fish in less than an hour.
Limits at other events were still good, but nothing like Mundy’s day. At the Bass Champs season opener on Sam Rayburn, the team of Josh Rodgers, of Beaumont, and Casey Burleigh, of Orange, used deep-diving crankbaits to top 291 teams with 26.69 pounds to win $20,000, and four other teams topped 20 pounds. The team of Travis Moore and Norman Land brought in a 13.44-pound largemouth, caught in deep water on a Carolina rig, for the biggest fish of the event. A foggy morning and delayed launch, along with starting temperatures in the lower 30s may have played a role in the size of bag limits. Some anglers were predicting big limits when the Bass Champs event came
to Falcon Lake on Jan. 16. Local anglers had been landing big fish, some posting five-fish catches around 35 pounds prior to the event, although many said the low water conditions had the bass scattered across the border reservoir. Cold conditions dropping water temperatures into the 50s the week before the event dimmed the hopes that the fish would be moving shallow in big numbers to spawn, leaving anglers hoping they could land a fish on the reservoir known for its lack of bites when water temperatures drop. Mike Coon, of Kerrville, and Wes Graham, of Emory, topped the field with 27.88 pounds, the only team of the 105 teams entered to top 20 pounds.
Travis Moore caught a 13.44-pound largemouth while fishing in the Bass Champs opener on Sam Rayburn. Photo from TPWD.
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Lone Star Outdoor News Richard M. Hart was all about fishing, and teaching others to fish. He fished several times each week, and helped raise the money for the building at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center, named the Hart-Morris Conservation Center. He was featured in Lone Star Outdoor News for catching 24 bass topping 10 pounds. He caught a then world record Dolly Varden in Alaska in 1996. And he took pro angler and former Bassmaster Classic champion, Alton Jones, on his first fishing trip in a bass boat when Jones was 6 years old. Hart was inducted into Texas’ Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in 2006 and the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in 2010. He died in 2016. Hart also believed in the Fish Art Contest, which announced a national award to honor an exemplary educator, called the Richard M. Hart Educator Richard M. Hart of the Year Award. According to Wildlife Forever, which administers the program, the award will recognize an educator who participates in the Fish Art Contest and actively strives to expose youth to nature and the joys of fishing. “Mr. Hart knew the Fish Art Contest was an excellent way to reach kids that might be unfamiliar with fishing,” said Zoe Ann Stinchcomb of the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center. “His goal was always to get folks, especially kids, outside fishing. It makes perfect sense to honor teachers who are doing just that with the Richard M. Hart Award.” The winning educator will receive a gift card for $1,000 to use for supplies for their classroom and a $900 stipend to facilitate outdoor learning for their school.
Lake Fork tackle maker, angler dies Mark Pack, the founder of Lake Fork Trophy Bait and Tackle Company, died Jan. 9 after a month-long battle with COVID-19. He was 59. Pack’s company is known for its tungsten weights and the Structure Guard weedguard, which is attached to the hook below the barb by a small plastic band, allowing a jig to slip through heavy cover. Pack competed for 10 seasons on the FLW Tour (2000-09). He won the 2008 event at Beaver Lake. He qualified and fished in the 2000 Bassmaster Classic. —Staff report
TEXAS SALTWATER FISHING REPORT SABINE LAKE: 54-55 degrees. Speckled trout are good on jigs and soft plastics over sand holes and over mud shell bottoms. BOLIVAR: 60 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are fair to good in the flats on shrimp or croaker. Black drum are good on shrimp. Flounder are good near rocks on mullet. TRINITY BAY: 59-60 degrees. Speckled trout are good on live shrimp under a popping cork. Redfish are good on mullet or soft plastics. EAST GALVESTON BAY: 59 degrees. Speckled trout are good on live shrimp and soft plastics. Redfish are good in the marsh on live mullet and shrimp. WEST GALVESTON BAY: 59 degrees. Redfish and black drum are good near the coves along the south shorelines on shrimp. Speckled trout are good on shrimp under popping corks.
TEXAS CITY: 59 degrees. Redfish and speckled trout are good over mud on shrimp or fresh cut mullet. Black drum are good around the bayou on croaker or crab. FREEPORT: 61 degrees. Redfish and speckled trout are good in the bay on mullet and shrimp. Black drum are good on blue crab around the reefs. EAST MATAGORDA BAY: 61 degrees. Speckled trout are fair on live shrimp under popping cork and soft plastics around reefs. Redfish are good near the shoreline on live mullet and shrimp. WEST MATAGORDA BAY: 61 degrees. Speckled trout are fair to good on live shrimp and cut mullet along the flats or shorelines. Redfish are good in the marshy areas on croaker. PORT O’CONNOR: 63 degrees. Speckled trout are fair along drop-offs and around
the flats on shrimp and croaker. Redfish are good in back bays on shrimp. Flounder are good on croaker or mullet in the shallow grass flats. ROCKPORT: 57 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are good in back lakes and drains on shrimp and croaker. Flounder are fair on mullet around the rocks. Black drum are good around Copano Bay on shrimp.
PORT ARANSAS: 61 degrees. Redfish are good from the north jetties on live shrimp. Speckled trout are fair in the bays on shrimp, mullet and croaker. CORPUS CHRISTI: 60 degrees. Speckled trout are fair to good on shrimp. Black drum and redfish are good underneath the causeway on cut mullet and shrimp. BAFFIN BAY: 52 degrees. Redfish are good in the flats on shrimp and top-waters. Speckled trout are good on shrimp in the shallows. Black drum are good in the channels on shrimp and croaker. PORT MANSFIELD: 65 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are fair over mud and grass on paddle tails and suspending lures, and on live shrimp under a popping cork. SOUTH PADRE: 68 degrees. Redfish are good in the flats on cut bait on bottom rigs. Speckled trout are good in deeper water on shrimp. PORT ISABEL: 68 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are fair around shallow grass flats on shrimp and soft plastics. Black drum are good on shrimp in deeper water. —TPWD
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TEXAS FRESHWATER FISHING REPORT ALAN HENRY: Water clear; 52 degrees; 4.23’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to slow on crankbaits, spinner baits and plastic worms. Crappie are good on jigs. Catfish are fair on live bait, cut bait and stink bait. AMISTAD: Water lightly stained; 57 degrees; 43.29’ low. Largemouth bass are fair near large rocks and in shallow creeks on square-billed crankbaits and Carolina-rigged plastic worms. Catfish are fair on shrimp, chicken livers and stink bait dough balls. ARLINGTON: Water lightly stained; 52 degrees; 2.96’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow. ATHENS: Water lightly stained; 51 degrees; 0.68’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits, suspended jerk baits and red/brown skirted jigs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs tipped with minnows. Catfish are fair on punch bait. AUSTIN: Water clear; 58 degrees; 0.69’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. Catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. B.A. STEINHAGEN: Water stained; 55 degrees; 2.15’ low. Largemouth bass are good on spinner baits and crankbaits. Crappie are fair to good on minnows. Catfish are good on cut and prepared baits. BASTROP: Water clear; 55 degrees. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are slow. BELTON: Water lightly stained; 53 degrees; 0.56’ low. Largemouth bass are fair near steep rocky shorelines, timber and drop-offs on drop shots, finesse jigs and crankbaits. White bass are fair on slabs, jerk baits and swimbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on cut bait and punch bait. BENBROOK: Water lightly stained; 52 degrees; 2.16’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on slow-moving crankbaits, blue/ green jigs and black or plumcolored drop shots. Crappie are fair on minnows. Hybrid striped bass are fair on live bait. White bass are slow. Catfish are fair on punch bait. BOB SANDLIN: Water lightly stained; 50 degrees; 0.51’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits, black/blue skirted jigs, and red drop shots. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on cut bait and punch bait. BROWNWOOD: Water lightly stained; 52 degrees; 2.75’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows in brush piles and timber edges. White bass and hybrids are fair on slabs and trolling swimbaits. Catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. BUCHANAN: Water clear; 54 degrees; 6.63’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on jigs, brush hogs and purple drop shots. Striped bass are good along the river channel on live bait and dead-sticking swimbaits. White bass are fair on silver slabs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Channel catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. Blue catfish are good on cut bait. CADDO: Water stained; 50 degrees; 2.64’ high. Largemouth
bass are fair on jigs, crankbaits, finesse worms and paddle tails. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. CALAVERAS: Water stained; 58-61 degrees. Largemouth bass are fair to good on crankbaits and Carolina-rigged worms. Red drum are slow. Hybrid striped bass are good on lipless crankbaits. Catfish are good on stink bait, chicken livers and cut shad. CANYON LAKE: Water lightly stained; 59 degrees; 5.30’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on suspended jerk baits, Carolina-rigged plastic worms and crankbaits. Striped bass are good on live bait and trolling swimbaits. White bass are fair on white slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are fair on live minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on prepared baits and cut bait. CEDAR CREEK: Water lightly stained; 49 degrees; 0.07’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on jigging spoons, finesse jigs, crankbaits and minnow-like jerk baits. Hybrids and white bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and tube jigs. Catfish are fair on cut bait and live bait. CHOKE CANYON: Water lightly stained; 55-58 degrees; 22.12’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on jigs, plastic worms and crankbaits. White bass are fair on crankbaits. Catfish are good on larger live bait, cut bait and stink bait. CONROE: Water stained; 56 degrees; 0.28’ high. Largemouth bass are good on jigs, spinner baits and buzzbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Hybrids are fair on jigs. Catfish are good on stink bait and cut bait. COOPER: Water stained; 47 degrees; 1.34’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. White bass and hybrids are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on cut bait and punch bait. CORPUS CHRISTI LAKE: Water stained; 56 degrees; 7.27’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on plastic worms and crankbaits. Crappie are good on jigs. Catfish are good on cut bait and cheese bait. EAGLE MOUNTAIN: Water lightly stained; 50 degrees; 1.56’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on cut bait and live bait. FALCON: Water lightly stained north and clear south; 56 degrees; 39.25’ low. Largemouth bass are fair with large fish caught on crankbaits and Carolina-rigged worms. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are excellent on live bait and stink bait. FAYETTE: Water lightly stained; 56 degrees. Largemouth bass are slow. Catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. FORK: Water stained; 53
degrees; 0.81’ low. Largemouth bass are slow to fair on finesse worms. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. GIBBONS CREEK: Water stained; 55 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on light-colored worms and spinner baits. Crappie are good on jigs. Catfish are good on live bait and liver-flavored bait. GRANBURY: Water lightly stained; 53 degrees; 0.02’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on shad crankbaits, suspended jerk baits and red/black flipping jigs. White bass are fair on white or chrome slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows and minnow-tipped jigs. Catfish are fair on cut bait and punch bait. GRANGER: Water lightly stained; 53 degrees; 0.71’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on red Texas-rigged plastic worms, crankbaits and brown/green grubs. Crappie are fair on minnows and tube jigs. White bass are slow. Catfish are fair on cut bait and live bait. GRAPEVINE: Water lightly stained; 52 degrees; 0.27’ high. Largemouth bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow. HOUSTON COUNTY: Water stained; 54 degrees; 0.36’ high. Largemouth bass are good on Carolina-rigged worms and crankbaits. White bass are fair to slow on spoons. Catfish are good on live and cut shad. HUBBARD CREEK: Water stained; 51-53 degrees; 2.31’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on Texas-rigged worms and crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are fair on small crankbaits. Catfish are fair on live and cut shad. JOE POOL: Water lightly stained; 53 degrees; 1.31’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on paddle tails, brown/red football jigs, crankbaits and drop shots. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on prepared baits. LAKE O’ THE PINES: Water stained; 49 degrees; 3.53’ high. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow. LAVON: Water lightly stained; 51 degrees; 0.52’ high. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and road runner jigs. White bass are slow. Catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. LBJ: Water clear; 55 degrees; 0.66’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. White bass are fair on slabs. Catfish are slow. LEWISVILLE: Water lightly stained; 51 degrees; 0.35’ high. Largemouth bass are fair fishing on red/black football jigs, curly-tailed grubs, suspended jerk baits and shad swimbaits. White bass are fair on slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on cut bait and punch bait.
LIVINGSTON: Water lightly stained; 56 degrees; 0.81’ high. Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms and smaller crankbaits. Striped bass are good on shad. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are fair on live bait. MARTIN CREEK: Water stained; 58 degrees; 0.47’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on blue/black skirted jigs, suspended jerk baits, shad crankbaits and white/chartreuse paddle tails. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. MEDINA: Water lightly stained; 57 degrees; 32.16’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to slow on crankbaits. White bass are good on small crankbaits. Striped bass are good on live bait. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on live bait, chicken livers and blood bait. MILLERS CREEK: Water stained; 46 degrees; 0.11’ high. Largemouth bass are fair to slow on jigs, worms and spinner baits. Crappie are good on jigs. Catfish are fair on live, blood and liver prepared baits. NACONICHE: Water lightly stained; 55-59 degrees. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits, spinner baits and jigs. Crappie are fair on jigs. Catfish are good on dough balls, cut and live bait. NASWORTHY: Water stained; 51 degrees. 0.80’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits, plastic worms and spinner baits. Crappie are good on jigs. White bass are fair on small crankbaits. Catfish are fair on live and prepared baits. NAVARRO MILLS: Water lightly stained; 53 degrees; 0.78’ high. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow. O.H. IVIE: Water clear; 49 degrees; 13.26’ low. Largemouth bass are good on Carolinarigged worms and minnows. Crappie are fair on live minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on stink bait, live and cut bait. OAK CREEK: Water lightly stained; 53 degrees; 3.82’ low. Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms, spinner bait and jigs. Crappie are good on jigs. White bass are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on trotlines, nightcrawlers, live bait and cut bait. PALESTINE: Water lightly stained; 51 degrees; 1.10’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on Carolinarigged worms, red/black or orange/green skirted jigs and crawfish-colored crankbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows. Hybrid stripers are slow. White bass are slow. Catfish are fair on prepared baits and cut bait. POSSUM KINGDOM: Water clear; 53 degrees; 0.42’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on plastic worms, crankbaits and spinner baits. Crappie are fair on jigs. White bass are fair on spoons. Striped bass are fair trolling live shad. Catfish are
good on cut bait, live sunfish and stink bait. PROCTOR: Water clear; 54 degrees; 0.46’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits, tubes, suspended jerk baits and purple or black drop shots. Hybrid stripers are fair on live bait. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on cut bait. RAVEN: Water stained; 57 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on Carolina rigs, crankbaits and spinner baits. Sunfish are good on cutworms. RAY HUBBARD: Water lightly stained; 50 degrees; 0.12’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on football jigs, Carolina-rigged plastic worms and deep-diving crankbaits. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are slow. RAY ROBERTS: Water lightly stained; 51 degrees; 0.40’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water lightly stained; 49 degrees; 0.09’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on finesse worms, bladed swimbaits, football jigs and silver/blue crankbaits. White bass and hybrids are fair on slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on cut bait and punch bait. SAM RAYBURN: Water stained; 56 degrees; 2.26’ low. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits and Carolina-rigged weighted worms. Crappie are good in creeks and brush on jigs. Catfish are good on live bait and stink bait. SOMERVILLE: Water lightly stained; 53 degrees; 2.22’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on green/pumpkin craws and football jigs. White bass and hybrids are good on live bait, white and chartreuse slabs and jigging spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on cut bait and punch bait. STILLHOUSE HOLLOW: Water stained; 54 degrees; 1.23’ high. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are slow. White bass are slow. Channel catfish are fair on punch bait. Blue catfish are fair on cut bait or live bait. TAWAKONI: Water lightly stained; 50 degrees; 0.15’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on Texas-rigged soft plastics, shad crankbaits, football jigs and swimbaits. White bass and hybrid stripers are fair on live bait and slabs. Crappie are good on minnows and lightweight jigs. Blue catfish are good on live bait and fresh cut bait. Channel catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. TEXANA: Water lightly stained; 56 degrees; 0.04’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to good on crankbaits, jigs and Carolina-rigged worms. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish
n Saltwater reports Page 9 are good on stink bait, cut bait and live bait. TEXOMA: Water stained; 49 degrees; 1.13’ high. Striped bass are good on slow-moving shad like swim baits and live bait. White bass are fair on slabs and spoons. Largemouth bass are slow fishing soft plastic swimbaits, deep diving crankbaits, bladed spinners, and flutter spoons in 12-25’. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs near boathouses, timber, creek ledges, and brush piles in 1525’. Catfish are fair on fresh cut bait and punch bait. TOLEDO BEND: Mostly clear; 54-56 degrees; 2.33’ low. Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms, jigs and crankbaits. Crappie are good on jigs. Channel and blue catfish are fair on stink bait. TRAVIS: Water clear; 57 degrees; 21.74’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on blue crankbaits, red/orange skirted jigs and drop shots. White bass are fair on slabs and jigging spoons. Striped bass are is good on live bait. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on cut bait and prepared baits. WACO: Water lightly stained; 53 degrees; 0.81’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on brown, black, and red skirted jigs, suspended jerk baits and pearl paddle tail swimbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. WALTER E. LONG: Water lightly stained; 54 degrees. Largemouth bass are fair on purple or black drop shots, shad crankbaits and chartreuse spinner baits. Hybrid stripers are fair on spoons and live shad. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on cut bait and live bait. WHITNEY: Water lightly stained; 52 degrees; 2.42’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on suspended jerk baits, crankbaits, black or purple drop shots and black/red skirted jigs. White bass are fair on jigging spoons and slabs. Stripers are good on live shad. Crappie are good on minnows and lightweight jigs. Catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. WORTH: Water lightly stained; 51 degrees; 2.02’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on cut bait and punch bait. WRIGHT PATMAN: Water stained; 48 degrees; 12.37 high. Largemouth bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow.
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GAME WARDEN BLOTTER SAVING LICENSE MONEY FOR COLLEGE A Shelby County man shot a buck in 2019 while hunting without a license. A game warden followed up and the subject confessed to not buying the license to save money for college. MOM HELPS SON AT ALL COSTS Two Harris County game wardens responded to a poaching complaint and discovered a suspect who had harvested a white-tailed doe without landowner consent. The suspect confessed to poaching and when asked to collect the deer meat, was surprised to find his mother had hidden the illegal deer meat under the couch while the wardens visited with him outside the home. Multiple charges and restitution pending. CRAPPIE FEST GOES TOO FAR An anonymous tip was received about a substantial amount of fish that had been cleaned and dumped at Lake O’ the Pines. An Upshur County game warden and his partner responded and inspected the property where the fish were dumped. They discovered that two out-of-state fishermen were responsible. The two fishermen had been fishing every day for a week and were staying at a motel at the local marina. The investigation revealed 273 crappie, 173 fish over the
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legal state possession limit, were taken, filleted and stored in ice chests and freezers on the property. More than 350 crappie fillets were seized and donated to multiple families. Multiple charges and restitution pending. TURTLES FOR SALE A Bexar County game warden seized a Texas tortoise (a threatened species) that was for sale at a San Antonio pet store. Further investigation revealed the store was also selling Mississippi map turtles and river cooter turtles without a non-
found three turkey feathers and blood stuck to the hitch rack at the rear of the vehicle. When asked about the feathers, they denied killing anything. The men were separated, and wardens were able to get a confession from one of them about killing two turkeys an hour earlier. The hunter who killed the turkeys failed to tag the birds and had hidden the breast under the back seat of the vehicle. The turkey meat was seized and donated to a family in need. Multiple charges and restitution pending.
game dealers license. The Texas tortoise was released back into the wild. Charges pending. GATOR ARROWED, SHOT Three game wardens from Johnson, Ellis and Harris counties and a State Park Police Officer concluded a three-month investigation into an alligator poaching case. In midSeptember, game wardens received a tip about an individual who had poached an alligator somewhere on the Trinity River at night while bow fishing. The subject was identified and found to live in Ellis County.
Two of the wardens questioned the individual at his home and, after some time, he admitted to shooting the alligator. The man also told wardens that it happened on a stretch of the Trinity River near Centerville and his friend had been driving the boat and working the spotlight. Further investigation revealed the friend shot the alligator with a pistol after it had been shot with the bow twice. The head of the alligator, which was buried on his parents’ property, was recovered from the suspect. With information about the additional suspect,
a warden and park police officer questioned the friend who also confessed to poaching the alligator. Multiple charges and civil restitution pending. SHOT AT COYOTE, BUT BACKSTRAP APPEARED IN BACK SEAT A Uvalde County game warden observed a subject shoot from a vehicle on a farm-to-market road. After a short pursuit, the truck pulled over and the warden made contact. At first, the subject said he didn’t shoot but finally admitted to shooting at a coyote. When the warden was retrieving the gun, she noticed a deer backstrap in a plastic bag in the back seat. The man said he got the meat from his uncle. The warden and the man went to the uncle’s house to confirm the story, and after a short visit the man finally admitted to shooting the deer at night from another public road in the area. Multiple charges and restitution pending.
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bought a tractor and was making food plots. I thought, why am I doing this for someone else?” Nearly four years ago, they found and bought the property. “It has a 50-acre hay field and a 14-acre lake, but the rest is heavily wooded,” Bennett said. “I bought a bigger tractor. We have five food plots we seed both spring and fall.” The food plots have taught the family more about how the deer react. “The food plots came in well this year,” Bennett said. “Watching them, you’re wondering why the deer aren’t touching them. Then one day, they are all chewed up.” His sons are now away from home, or close to it. “Ethan (21) is at Texas A&M, and Cooper (17) is a senior in high school,” Bennett said. “They both love the ranch.” Most of the deer harvests have been does. “We had a biologist out, he said what we already knew. We are overrun with does,” Bennett said. “But we’re starting to see some better-looking bucks. We only took one buck this year, but 10 does. “We all love it. I pretty much live here.” Steven Rogers had hunted sparingly before shooting a deer with LSONF in 2014, with his son, Tyler, who shot his first deer on the same trip. “After that, Tyler and I determined we were going to be hunting every year after that,” Rogers said. “We did a combination of deer hunts and upland bird hunts.” Trying to find places to hunt became tiresome, Rogers said. “Three years ago, we decided to try to get and manage our own place,” he said. “We found a place near Crockett.” The father and son went to work on the place they named Seven Dogs Farm. “We have seven dogs between the two families,” Rogers said. “We cleared and planted 15 acres of food plots. We rotate the crops. It’s only 85 acres, but it has two real good hunting areas.” Hogs, as expected, are a problem. “We have taken 35 hogs already,” Rogers said. “We’ve only taken eight deer, one being a mature 8-pointer. But we’re starting to see some pretty good deer for East Texas.” Tyler learned his wife was pregnant while on the foundation hunt.
Rogers’ son, Turner, is 7 years old now,” Rogers said. “We are definitely using and managing the place for the grandkids.” Rogers has four kids now, the newest 10 weeks old. The oldest, though, is itching to shoot a hog. “He got his first pocket knife this year, and his first BB gun last year,” Rogers said. “He took a shot at a hog with his BB gun this year.” The family is glad they got into hunting, leading to buying the property. “It’s been a great experience,” Rogers said.
Tyler Rogers, left, and his father, Steven, after hunting with Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation, bought a piece of hunting property near Crockett, where they hunt with their families. Photo from Steven Rogers.
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stopped. As the buck stopped, she fired a shot with her .270-caliber Ruger, dropping the deer at about 140 yards from the blind. “I looked at my cellphone, and it was 8:52 a.m.’ she said. “I climbed down to check out the deer and, to my surprise, it had a red head.” White-tailed deer have a reddish-brown coat in late spring and summer, but seeing a carrot-top buck during a hunting season is uncommon. “He is gorgeous,” Torres said of the deer. “I am going get it shoulder mounted.” Alan Cain, the White-tailed Deer Program leader with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said deer like the one Torres got aren’t that common. “Typically there is some variation of coat color among deer,” he said. “He does have a noticeable reddish-brown hair color on his forehead but that appears to be his normal winter coat.” Torres also harvested her biggest trophy buck at their lease in Harper. It was thick horn, 10-point buck with a 19-inch spread she bagged on Nov. 14. “I started hunting right after I got married in 1987,” she said. “This has been, by far, the biggest buck I have ever shot.”
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Lorelei Stephens, 4, caught her first fish at Roberts Point Park in Port Aransas while fishing with her Pops. Ford Pulliam, 10, shot his first buck the day after Thanksgiving. The 11-point buck was taken on the Paradise Ranch in Stephens County with a .22250.
Ainsley Cramer, 11, of West Columbia, helped harvest these blue wing teal with her Papa Bowers and the crew, at the Las Hombres Duck Hunting Club in Liverpool.
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Carson Hill, 9, of Midlothian, harvested his first deer on Nov. 27 at their family deer lease in Ranger. He was hunting with his dad, Jeff, and Poppy, Darrell.
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Rat-L-Trap leader dies
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Everett Gill, a plant manager at Bill Lewis Lures for more than 20 years, died Dec. 30.
Texas job at RMEF The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is seeking a regional director for southern Texas.
Classic dates change The Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk and Bassmaster Classic Outdoors Expo, originally scheduled for late March, has been moved to June 11-13 at Lake Ray Roberts and Fort Worth.
Seawall Capital, LLC acquired Kent Water Sports Holdings, LLC and its related entities.
Camfour, a firearms and ammunition distributor, is hiring experienced sales representatives to accelerate its growth in Florida and Texas.
DuVall headed back to USA Shooting Buddy DuVall, the former director of marketing at USA Shooting from 2004-2014, was named chief marketing officer of the organization.
Agency for hearing products
TRUGLO acquired by GSM
Hunting microsite at Plano
DOWN 1. A favorite quail plant 3. A West Texas reservoir 4. A trout species 5. Good snack in the deer blind 6. A shark species (two words) 8. Taxidermy mount without the hide 9. An African game species 12. An archery-only county for deer 15. A moose-hunting destination 16. The fly-fisherman’s wearable tackle box 18. The smallest teal 19. A game bird in Africa (two words) 21. A sea duck 25. A Hill Country river 26. Abilene’s county 27. Type of turkey call 28. A Trans-Pecos county 29. The fly-fisherman’s bobber 30. A night vision brand 32. Some hunters eat this duck organ 35. A plastic worm manufacturer 36. Annoying feature for the wade-fisherman
Sales positions at Camfour
Performance hearing enhancement company AXIL, the maker of SportEar products, retained Chevalier Advertising & Public Relations as its official agency of record.
Kent Water Sports bought
ACROSS 2. A coastal fishing town (two words) 7. An oryx species (two words) 9. The mount with the cape 10. An ATV brand 11. A reel manufacturer 13. The smaller rabbit 14. Wood used for arrow shafts 17. A good crappie lake 20. Former name of Lake LBJ (two words) 22. Popular sheep in New Zealand 23. A shotshell brand 24. Quail egg predators 31. A partridge species 33. A wild sheep species 34. Place to fly-fish for bonefish 36. Fishing line type 37. A Texas bay 38. Carrizo Spring’s county 39. The cooing dove 40. A good hybrid lake
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With key hunting shows going virtual, Plano Synergy launched a new microsite with new products from the Plano Synergy family of brands, including Ameristep, Avian X, Barnett, Bloodsport, Flextone, Halo Optics, Plano and Wildgame Innovations.
GSM Outdoors has acquired TRUGLO, the manufacturer of archery and firearm accessories including fiber optic pin sights.
Maverick Boats acquired Malibu Boats, Inc. completed the acquisition of Maverick Boat Group, Inc.
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Fire-grilled venison backstrap with Texas red wine reduction 1 to 2 lbs. venison backstrap, cleaned of silverskin Olive oil Sea salt and pepper 1 large shallot, peeled and chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 cup of your favorite Texas red wine 1/2 cup venison (or beef) broth 2 heaping tbsps. of prickly pear jelly 4 tbsps. butter, separated Coat backstrap in olive oil and season generously with sea salt and pepper. Set aside at room temperature and prepare your open fire grill. Lay the venison on the hot grill and sear for 4 or 5 minutes before flipping. Grill another 4 to 5 minutes to achieve good grill marks on all sides. Take the venison off the fire and let it rest under a foil tent for at least 10 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare the sauce. On the same open fire, place a cast iron skillet, add 2 tbsps. butter
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and shallot. Sauté until translucent and start to brown. Add garlic and sauté another minute or so, making sure not to burn the garlic. Add the wine and stir for about a minute. Add broth and simmer, reducing by half. Stir in jelly until melted. When the sauce reaches a thickness to your liking, take off the heat and melt in the rest of your butter. Slice venison and serve. —Kristin Parma, Anxious Hunter Blog Photo by Joseph Richards
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Jan 28
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Houston
Dallas
2021 A.M. P.M. SUN MOON Jan/Feb Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets
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12:25 6:36 1:07 7:18 1:50 8:03 2:36 8:49 3:24 9:38 4:15 10:29 5:08 11:22 6:02 ----6:57 12:44 7:52 1:40 8:47 2:35 9:42 3:30 10:36 4:24 11:31 5:18 ----- 6:11
07:15 07:15 07:14 07:14 07:13 07:13 07:12 07:12 07:11 07:11 07:10 07:10 07:09 07:08 07:08
05:48 05:49 05:50 05:51 05:52 05:53 05:54 05:55 05:56 05:57 05:57 05:58 05:59 06:00 06:01
1:00p 1:55a 1:37p 2:50a 2:18p 3:46a 3:05p 4:43a 3:58p 5:39a 4:56p 6:32a 5:58p 7:21a 7:03p 8:06a 8:07p 8:46a 9:11p 9:23a 10:15p 9:58a 11:18p 10:32a NoMoon 11:07a 12:23a 11:44a 1:30a 12:26p
12:09 6:20 12:49 7:01 1:31 7:44 2:16 8:29 3:03 9:17 3:53 10:07 4:46 11:00 5:41 11:55 6:37 12:24 7:33 1:21 8:29 2:16 9:23 3:11 10:17 4:05 11:10 4:57 ----- 5:50
12:31 6:42 1:13 7:24 1:56 8:08 2:42 8:55 3:30 9:44 4:21 10:35 5:14 11:27 6:08 ----7:03 12:50 7:58 1:46 8:53 2:41 9:48 3:35 10:42 4:30 11:36 5:23 12:03 6:17
07:27 07:26 07:26 07:25 07:25 07:24 07:24 07:23 07:22 07:22 07:21 07:20 07:20 07:19 07:18
05:48 05:49 05:50 05:51 05:52 05:53 05:54 05:55 05:56 05:57 05:58 05:59 06:00 06:01 06:02
1:01p 2:05a 1:36p 3:02a 2:17p 3:59a 3:03p 4:57a 3:56p 5:53a 4:55p 6:46a 5:58p 7:34a 7:04p 8:18a 8:10p 8:56a 9:15p 9:32a 10:21p 10:05a 11:26p 10:37a NoMoon 11:10a 12:33a 11:46a 1:41a 12:26p
San Antonio
Amarillo
2021 A.M. P.M. SUN MOON Jan/Feb Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets
2021 A.M. P.M. SUN MOON Jan/Feb Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets
22 Fri 23 Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31 Sun 01 Mon 02 Tue 03 Wed 04 Thu 05 Fri
22 Fri 23 Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31 Sun 01 Mon 02 Tue 03 Wed 04 Thu 05 Fri
12:16 6:27 12:56 7:08 1:38 7:50 2:22 8:35 3:10 9:23 4:00 10:14 4:53 11:07 5:48 ----6:44 12:31 7:40 1:27 8:35 2:23 9:30 3:18 10:24 4:11 11:17 5:04 ----- 5:56
12:38 6:49 1:19 7:31 2:03 8:15 2:48 9:01 3:37 9:50 4:28 10:41 5:20 11:34 6:15 12:01 7:10 12:57 8:05 1:52 9:00 2:47 9:54 3:42 10:49 4:36 11:43 5:30 12:10 6:24
07:26 07:26 07:26 07:25 07:25 07:25 07:24 07:24 07:23 07:23 07:22 07:21 07:21 07:20 07:20
06:02 06:03 06:04 06:04 06:05 06:06 06:07 06:08 06:09 06:10 06:11 06:11 06:12 06:13 06:14
1:14p 2:07a 1:50p 3:02a 2:32p 3:58a 3:19p 4:55a 4:12p 5:50a 5:10p 6:43a 6:13p 7:33a 7:17p 8:18a 8:21p 8:58a 9:25p 9:35a 10:28p 10:10a 11:31p 10:45a NoMoon 11:20a 12:36a 11:58a 1:42a 12:40p
12:29 6:40 1:09 7:21 1:51 8:04 2:36 8:49 3:23 9:37 4:14 10:27 5:07 11:20 6:01 ----6:57 12:44 7:53 1:41 8:49 2:37 9:43 3:31 10:37 4:25 11:30 5:17 12:00 6:10
12:51 1:33 2:16 3:02 3:50 4:41 5:34 6:28 7:23 8:18 9:13 10:08 11:02 11:57 12:24
7:02 7:44 8:28 9:15 10:04 10:55 11:48 12:15 1:10 2:06 3:01 3:56 4:50 5:44 6:37
07:52 07:51 07:51 07:50 07:50 07:49 07:48 07:48 07:47 07:46 07:46 07:45 07:44 07:43 07:42
06:03 06:04 06:05 06:06 06:08 06:09 06:10 06:11 06:12 06:13 06:14 06:15 06:16 06:17 06:18
1:17p 2:30a 1:51p 3:28a 2:31p 4:26a 3:17p 5:25a 4:10p 6:21a 5:09p 7:13a 6:13p 8:01a 7:20p 8:44a 8:28p 9:21a 9:35p 9:55a 10:42p 10:26a 11:49p 10:57a NoMoon 11:29a 12:57a 12:03p 2:07a 12:42p
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 Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 5
Time 5:05 AM 5:44 AM 6:23 AM 7:03 AM 7:42 AM 8:22 AM 12:46 AM 1:36 AM 2:32 AM 3:35 AM 4:52 AM 12:47 AM 1:47 AM 2:48 AM 3:48 AM
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11:08 PM 11:58 PM
0.98H 1.05H
9:26 PM 10:07 PM 10:54 PM 11:48 PM
0.91L 0.83L 0.69L 0.51L
7:20 7:42 8:06 8:35
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1:11 PM 2:00 PM 2:49 PM 3:36 PM 4:19 PM 4:59 PM 5:48 AM 6:43 AM 10:40 PM 10:17 PM 9:34 PM
-0.58L -0.60L -0.63L -0.63L -0.58L -0.49L 0.02L -0.12L 0.06H 0.15H 0.24H
11:18 PM 5:56 PM 6:24 PM 6:51 PM 11:48 AM 12:35 PM 1:35 PM 3:25 PM
Height
0.98L 1.24H 1.16H 1.07H -0.33L 0.02L 0.38L 0.72L
11:21 PM 11:31 PM
0.91L 0.77L
7:16 7:37 7:55 8:11
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0.97H 0.90H 0.86H 0.87H
Time
Height
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Time
10:43 AM 11:32 AM 12:29 PM 1:48 PM 4:33 PM
Height
-0.45L -0.17L 0.17L 0.53L 0.81L
6:34 PM 6:53 PM 7:09 PM 7:19 PM 7:10 PM
1.26H 1.11H 0.98H 0.88H 0.85H
Port O’Connor Date Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 5
Time 7:31 AM 8:08 AM 8:50 AM 9:34 AM 10:18 AM 11:00 AM 11:40 AM 12:35 AM 1:50 AM 3:00 AM 4:22 AM 2:13 AM 3:38 AM 4:49 AM 5:53 AM
Time 10:14 AM 10:56 AM 11:38 AM 12:23 PM 12:23 AM 1:31 AM 2:39 AM 3:44 AM 5:11 AM 7:02 AM 2:57 AM 1:29 AM 7:35 AM 8:28 AM 9:24 AM
Date Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 5
Time 5:26 AM 5:54 AM 6:29 AM 7:08 AM 7:51 AM 8:36 AM 9:21 AM 10:07 AM 12:26 AM 12:45 AM 1:13 AM 1:49 AM 2:29 AM 3:14 AM 4:04 AM
Time 8:50 PM 9:12 PM 9:50 PM 10:42 PM 11:36 PM
Height 0.79H 0.89H 0.94H 0.96H 0.97H
1:35 PM 2:17 PM 2:56 PM 3:37 PM 8:44 AM 10:22 AM 12:16 PM 3:14 PM 8:03 PM
-0.78L -0.77L -0.69L -0.52L 0.60H 0.50H 0.50H 0.61H 0.81H
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Height 0.41H 0.42H 0.42H 0.43H 0.44H 0.44H
11:55 AM 12:38 PM 1:19 PM 5:36 AM 8:13 AM 10:43 AM 3:49 PM 4:37 PM
-0.05L -0.03L 0.03L 0.35H 0.31H 0.31H 0.38H 0.44H
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Time 4:06 PM 4:35 PM 5:11 PM 5:59 PM 7:03 PM 8:11 PM
Height 0.98H 1.05H 1.08H 1.10H 1.11H 1.11H
9:37 AM 10:25 AM 11:11 AM 11:51 AM 12:24 PM 7:25 AM 10:38 AM 3:13 PM
-0.12L -0.04L 0.08L 0.24L 0.44L 0.80H 0.88H 1.04H
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Time 3:12 PM 3:48 PM 4:28 PM 5:10 PM 5:53 PM 6:36 PM 7:14 PM 7:41 PM 7:45 PM 7:20 PM 3:43 AM 5:34 AM 7:59 AM 10:37 AM 12:55 PM
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Time
11:40 PM 4:22 PM 5:10 PM 5:50 PM 6:05 PM
Time
10:53 AM 11:39 AM 12:27 PM 1:19 PM 2:31 PM 5:07 PM
Height
0.71H -0.27L 0.01L 0.31L 0.58L
Height
-0.58L -0.43L -0.22L 0.03L 0.29L 0.51L
Time
11:24 11:25 11:29 11:27
PM PM PM PM
Time
7:40 7:39 7:33 7:33 7:40 7:47
PM PM PM PM PM PM
Height
0.67H 0.65H 0.65H 0.67H
Height
0.68H 0.60H 0.54H 0.51H 0.52H 0.55H
Date Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 5
Time 7:11 AM 7:37 AM 8:06 AM 8:43 AM 9:29 AM 10:19 AM 11:09 AM 1:46 AM 2:59 AM 4:05 AM 1:37 AM 2:53 AM 4:05 AM 5:05 AM 5:58 AM
Time
10:51 PM 1:59 PM 2:40 PM 4:01 PM
Height
Time
Height
0.32H 0.11L 0.21L 0.30L
9:21 PM 8:26 PM 8:07 PM
0.29H 0.29H 0.32H
Height
Time
Height
Port Aransas Time
10:53 PM 2:46 PM 2:11 PM
Height
Time
Height
0.49H 0.28L 0.46L
8:58 PM 7:39 PM
0.45H 0.53H
Height
Time
Height
Nueces Bay Date Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 5
San Luis Pass
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East Matagorda
Freeport Harbor Date Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 5
Time 8:45 AM 9:21 AM 10:03 AM 10:53 AM 11:50 AM 12:47 PM 12:24 AM 1:07 AM 1:16 AM 12:21 AM 5:42 AM 6:10 AM 6:39 AM 7:13 AM 7:54 AM
Date Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 5
Time 4:44 AM 5:25 AM 6:04 AM 6:43 AM 7:23 AM 8:05 AM 8:50 AM 12:02 AM 1:27 AM 2:37 AM 3:48 AM 5:18 AM 12:59 AM 2:02 AM 3:16 AM
Time
5:50 PM 6:10 PM 12:41 PM 12:48 PM
0.78H 0.80H 0.65L 0.84L
11:56 PM
0.65L
6:27 PM 5:58 PM
0.83H 0.89H
Time
Height
6:54 PM 6:38 PM 6:23 PM
0.80H 0.73H 0.74H
South Padre Island Time
8:38 AM 10:55 AM
0.06H -0.04H
5:35 PM 5:59 PM
-0.35L -0.18L
Date Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 5
Time 3:54 AM 4:36 AM 5:21 AM 6:09 AM 6:56 AM 7:43 AM 8:30 AM 9:16 AM 10:03 AM 10:51 AM 12:13 AM 12:30 AM 1:06 AM 1:52 AM 2:46 AM
Time
11:42 AM 12:36 PM 1:41 PM
Height
-0.09L 0.21L 0.53L
Texas Coast Tides
Date Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 5
Date Jan 22 Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 25 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 28 Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Feb 3 Feb 4 Feb 5
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ARKANSAS
Record flathead A Cecil County resident has officially been recognized by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources as the first state record holder for the invasive flathead catfish. Joshua Dixon caught the 57-pound, 50inch long flathead catfish on Dec. 27, 2020 fishing near the Lapidum Boat Ramp on the Susquehanna River. The 34-year-old angler was fishing from shore with a plastic swimbait, and said it took nearly 30 minutes to pull in the flathead. —MDNR
NORTH DAKOTA
More hen houses on the way Delta Waterfowl is set to more than double the size of its fleet of mallard-producing Hen House nesting structures in North Dakota, thanks to a $105,000 grant from the North Dakota Outdoor Heritage Fund. The grant will fund the construction and installation of 600 new nesting structures in the heart of the prairie pothole region during the next three years. Delta will cover 10 years of maintenance on the new fleet. —Delta Waterfowl
NEBRASKA
CRP incentives The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is offering additional incentives to landowners who sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program. Agricultural producers and private landowners can enroll in the CRP general sign-up through Feb. 12, or continuous CRP practices until Oct. 1. The program administered by the USDA’s Farm Service Agency provides annual rental payments for land devoted to conservation. Expanding grassland habitat in agricultural landscapes is a large component part of the Game and Parks’ Berggren Plan to improve pheasant hunting. A variety of additional financial incentives are being offered within eight priority areas of the state to encourage landowner participation in CRP.
Archery deer harvest setting records With nearly a month left in Arkansas’s archery deer season, hunters have checked 214,022 deer during the 2020-21 deer hunting season. That’s more deer than any season since the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission began keeping harvest records in 1938. The previous record harvest was 213,487 deer, set in the 2012-13 season. With the exception of last year, Arkansas hunters have harvested more than 200,000 deer annually since that season. During the 2019-20 deer hunting season the harvest dipped to 188,151. —AGFC
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shad,” Nechamkin said. “The crappie have been concentrating near balls of shad along the bottom.” Even when the fishing has been tough on colder days, Nechamkin is landing some decent-sized crappie. “We’ve been catching them up to 2 pounds on Lavon, and the majority of the fish on Fork have been at least a pound and a half or larger,” he elaborated. “Various colored jigs have been working, but minnows seem to be producing a more consistent bite because you can just let the bait hang in the strike zone without moving it a whole lot. With the cool water temperatures, the fish are responding better to slow retrieves.” On Lake LBJ, guide Jess Rotherham said there has been a lot of white bass schooling in 35 feet of water or so, chasing baitfish. “There are a ton of white bass along the north end of LBJ and up the Colorado River arm,” he said. “Most of the sandies have been in the 14- to 16-inch range.” A vertical jigging approach has been working best when targeting white bass on LBJ. Guide Michael Richardson said the white bass are starting to migrate towards the north end of Lake Livingston, and the hybrid striper action has been pretty consistent on Lake Conroe. “Recent rains have dirtied up the water a little bit on Livingston,” Richardson said.
“The runoff from these rains has put the white bass into a pre-spawn transition and they are beginning to move up the creeks and the Trinity River.” Off-colored water has made the sandies more difficult to catch, and the weather will ultimately decide how great the fishing will be. “If we don’t get any more rain, the white bass bite could be on fire over the coming weeks, as the water clears up.” Richardson said.“If wet weather continues, targeting them could become more difficult.” On Lake Conroe, Richardson has been finding plenty of hybrid stripers in various water depths from 20-40 feet. “The hybrids are concentrating wherever the baitfish are located,” he said. “They are suspended in open water and chasing big swarms of bait.” Most of the hybrids are in the 4- to 6-pound range. “Dead-sticking soft plastics has been the best presentation for catching the hybrids,” Richardson said. “White and chartreuse has been the most productive color combination.” Lake Palestine guide Mark Standridge said crappie have been suspended along timber in 24-35 feet of water. “There’s been a ton of crappie hanging out around the 28-foot depth mark, and black and chartreuse jigs have been the ticket,” he said.
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in 50-60 feet of water were producing a constant snapper bite, Saha said. Capt. Jeff Naylor has been doing a lot of offshore trips recently, and said winter wahoo season is on. “I head out about 130 to 150 miles from Freeport if I’m in search of wahoo,” Naylor said. He said the bite for some people is slow, while the bite for others has been phenomenal. Naylor also has been catching yellowfin tuna that are around 90-100 pounds. For the tuna, he has been running about 120 miles offshore, and warns that even though he has
been catching large tuna, he hasn’t seen a lot of them. “I usually run my overnight trips for tuna and then run my wahoo trips in the morning and daytime,” Naylor said. Mark Brackin also fishes out from Freeport, and is currently focused on catching wahoo for the Winter Wahoo Championships. The tournament started Jan. 1 and will go until the last day of March.” Brackin’s first couple of trips have been hit or miss, Mark Brackin caught this wahoo but on Jan. 9, his group while fishing with Marcus Cato. caught seven wahoo, catch- Photo by Marcus Cato. ing most of their fish in the morning hours.
“I’ve got hunters coming in from all over the place,” he said. “Some like the open water hunts on the lakes, and others like river bottom hunts for nothing but woodies and mallards. The river hunts are more of a traditional type of hunting. Those are very popular.” Scott said one of the most important things he does is to keep his box blinds brushed up. “I’m always brushing up the blinds,” he said. “Every time I hunt from the blinds I’ll bring in more brush. As we get further into the season the birds become more skittish. And I do a lot of scouting. That’s the only way to stay on the birds, especially this late in the season.” When it comes to decoys, Scott prefers a mix of them on the ponds and lakes. In the mix will be mallards, pin-
tail, gadwall and teal. But on the river bottom hunts, he’s using mostly mallards. What he doesn’t use are spinningwing decoys. “I think the ducks are wary of the electronic decoys,” he said. “More often than not they tend to flare from them. Where I hunt it’s best just to put out a couple dozen decoys and do some good calling. That works on most ducks. The exception is a wood duck. You never know what they are going to do. The key with woodies is to know where they have been the day before a hunt. All my wood duck hunts are in the morning. I don’t do any afternoon hunts at all. That’s a good way to move ducks out, and they usually don’t come back. It’s always a good idea to let them rest.”
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