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LoneOStar Outdoor News
January 22, 2021
National award named for Texas angler
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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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