Lone Star Outdoor News Feb 8, 2019

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February 8, 2019

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Tying the knot Many coastal hunters saw fewer redheads this season. Photo by Lone Star Outdoor News.

Redheads tough to pin down Scaup numbers up along coast

By Robert Sloan

For Lone Star Outdoor News Each season hunters head to the middle and lower Texas coast to duck hunt, and the number one bird on their harvest list is a redhead. Thousands of these ducks provide entertainment for hunters, tending to be easy to decoy.

But this season something strange happened — the bulk of the redheads that migrate down the Central Flyway didn’t show up where they normally winter.

Game Warden Oscar Castaneda, who works in Willacy County on the lower Texas coast, said most of the hunters he checked during the first split of the season had few if any redheads.

“The first half of the season I checked a lot of hunters and the

Sarah Varden and her husband, Troy Fieseler, went on the same Brazilian fishing trip with Capt. Peacock three years ago, and they returned to the remote jungle river to be married on Jan. 30. Photo from Capt. Peacock.

Couple weds on Brazilian fishing trip

By Craig Nyhus

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Texan Sarah Varden and Troy Fieseler had quite the destination wedding. They traveled to Brazil with each of their parents, and a total of 23 family members and friends to combine the wedding

with a fishing trip for peacock bass.

The couple met three years ago while on a fishing trip with Capt. Peacock Yachts & Expeditions. Sarah went with her father

and Troy with his parents and brother.

“I had met him briefly at a Dallas Safari Club convention, but we didn’t stay in touch until after the fishing trip,” Sarah said.

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Memorable day for young anglers

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By Nate Skinner

The Sabine Lake estuary receives freshwater runoff from the Neches River on its northwestern perimeter. For months this system and its surrounding watersheds have been plagued by significant runoff from fall and winter Brothers Hodgin Fisher, 7, left and Finley, 9, enjoyed a good fishing day on the Neches River, just north of Sabine Lake. Photos from Capt. Randy Foreman.

floods, resulting in poor fishing. This lull in the action ceased when two young anglers found plenty of redfish and a few flounder along the Neches River, just north of the lake.

Beaumont residents Finley and Hodgin Fisher spent a day on the water with their dad, Ed, under the Please turn to page 13

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HUNTING

FISHING

Game Warden Blotter . . . . Page 12

Great hog hunt (P. 4)

Big brown (P. 8)

Pigs keep coming for hunter.

Grapevine fly-angler lands 32-inch brown trout.

Hunting cabins (P. 4)

Catch-and-release initiative (P. 9)

Texas company building maintenance-free lodging.

Promotes best methods.

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From hunting blinds to cabins Texas company builds low-maintenance lodging

By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News At a January hunting convention, Mark Bogart of MB Ranch King introduced the company’s new hunting cabins, called MBRK Cabins.

The builder of Ranch King blinds said the launch of the models he has been working on for 18 months was a big hit.

“There was an incredible amount of interest,” Bogart said. “The DSC show opened my eyes —

people are hungry for quality. I’ve been to several ranches already, designing cabins for them.”

The idea for a cabin came when Bogart was able to make a wood-grain metal.

“When I figured that out, we could give the wood appearance with no maintenance,” he said. “We were planning on building a lodge at our ranch near Hico, and had the plans. We built one of these cabins and my wife fell in love with it. Now we’re going to put about seven of the cabins out there.”

Bogart said the advantage of the MBRK Cabins is the maintenance-free aspect, and the woodgrain metal comes with a 20-year warranty.

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The MBRK cabin on display at the DSC convention drew a lot of attention. The cabins are made from a wood-grain metal that eliminates routine maintenance. Photo from MB Ranch King.

It’s about the hunt, not just the harvest

By Lili Sams

Lone Star Outdoor News Friends Karrie Kolesar and Kamille Martin have known each other for almost three years. They met through the Dallas Safari Club, where they work.

“I’ve worked here for nearly three years and I’ve never been hunting,” Kolesar said. “The only opportunity I’ve had was to go on a dove hunt with DSC. It was a little intimidating because there was nowhere to learn about dove hunting before the hunt. I wanted to be able to learn and feel comfortable before I went out and did it.”

When Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation found out about this, the two friends jumped at the opportunity to introduce them to hunting.

The young women have volunteered for several years at the LSONF Wild Game Supper at the Beretta Gallery and have gotten to know the board members.

“There were people going on hunting trips all around us,” Martin said. “We aren’t the type of people to just flat out ask someone to take us hunting.”

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Karrie Kolesar went on her first deer hunt with the Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.

Epic hog shoot while deer hunting

By Robert Sloan

For Lone Star Outdoor News Zach Lee was sitting in his blind on a 3,300-acre deer lease north of Hondo when things got a little crazy. It was an evening hunt and he was about to have the pig hunt of a lifetime.

“The feeder went off and nothing happened,” Lee said.

“A lot of times when the corn starts flying, Hill Country deer move in pretty fast.

I sat there and saw nothing for about 30-minutes, then a group of pigs came in from the surrounding brush and went straight to the feeder.

I counted 10, and decided it was time to shoot.

Lee shot one hog, and then

Zach Lee, of Nacogdoches, had a memorable hog hunt recently near Hondo. Photo from Zach Lee.

a second, followed by an approach and shots to finish the two hogs.

“I headed back to the blind to wait for my ride to camp,” he said. “I had been back in the blind for about 10 minutes and another group of pigs came out.”

That wasn’t too surprising since the hunters on this lease

had been seeing a good number of pigs for the past few months. What was surprising is they had not been seeing very many hogs on this lease prior to the 2018-19 deer season. But wild hogs can show up at any time, and once they find a good source of food, they often don’t leave.

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Javelina hunt sparks hunting passion

By Lili Sams

Lone Star Outdoor News The first big game animal Kristin Parma harvested when she moved from Oregon to Texas was a javelina.

In late January, Parma shared her knowledge of Texas’ native collared peccary with four young women. Parma was the “huntmaster” on a Texas Youth Hunter Program guided trip.

She, along with four guides, introduced young women to the The Texas Youth Program provides opportunities for youth to participate in hunting activities across the native species.

“Javelina sometimes state. Photo by Kristin Parma. gets a bad rep,” Parma said. “It’s hard to get people excited about the species when they don’t know anything about ana Moreno, this trip was her first introduction to hunting. them.”

Moreno, 14, from San Antonio, has wanted to The hunt took place on a 20,000-acre ranch near Eagle Pass. The girls, ages 12-16, came with their fa- hunt since she saw the movie “The Hunger Games” thers from all over the state to hunt and learn about when she was 10 years old. She was inspired by the idea of hunting, skinning and eating the animal harjavelina.

The focus of the weekend was to educate the girls vested and begged her father to find a way to take about the species, improve their familiarity with her.

Her father, Michael, who doesn’t hunt, learned shooting and enjoy time outdoors. about the TYHP through friends. The all-girls jave“I believe you shouldn’t hunt anything you don’t lina hunt sounded like the perfect introduction to know anything about,” Parma said.

Downtime between hunts was filled with activi- hunting for his daughter.

Viviana was ecstatic about the opportunity. ties like games with animal facts, animal species cha“Since the other girls had hunted before, I was a rades and a landscape painting session. Parma even brought in the skull of her first javelina for the girls little nervous,” she said. “But I made friends right away and they were really nice and encouraging.” to inspect.

Moreno, her father and a guide set out early in the Most of the girls had hunted before, but for Vivimorning. Deer covered up the road not long after

Mark Cavanaugh bagged his nilgai at the King Ranch while hunting with his friend, Mike Simmons. Photo from Mark Cavanaugh.

Hunting after volunteering Pair heads to Valley for nilgai hunt

By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News Mark Cavanaugh, of Midlothian, and Mike Simmons, of Waxahachie, spend the week of the Dallas Safari Club convention volunteering each year.

This year, they planned a hunt to take after the work was done.

“Last summer, Mike said he wanted to try to get a bull nilgai,” Cavanaugh said. “I tagged along to try to get a cow.”

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numbers of redheads they had was very low,” he said. “Last year, we had thousands of redheads here. You could throw a rock and hit them. But that definitely was not the case this season. The numbers of redheads I saw in the second half picked up a little bit, but not by much. I’d say that overall this past season was slow for coastal duck hunters.”

Hunters in Port O’Connor saw the same phenomenon. James Prince, who runs a duck-hunting lodge, said the numbers of ducks his hunters brought in this season were off by about 70 percent on the bays of POC. “We didn’t have the big rafts of redheads like we usually do, until the last two weeks of the season,” Prince said. “But we did have lots of bluebills, more than I’ve ever seen here. Toward the end of the season, the numbers of redheads began to improve with some of the better hunts being on Espiritu and San Antonio bays.”

Not all hunts were that slow along the coast. Rockport-based guide Blake Muirhead said his hunters had lots of limit hunts with wigeon and teal filling most duck straps.

“The slower hunts were north of us, but the best hunts with swarms of ducks were in the Aransas Bay system, with great hunts throughout the season around Mud Island and South Bay,” Muirhead said. “On the next to last day of the season, we had 34 ducks, mostly wigeon with a few pintails.

It was an unusual season. We didn’t’ have nearly as many redheads as we normally have. The big rafts of the them were more isolated, and not nearly as widespread as in past seasons.”

The redheads did show up, but they were rafted up in areas of bays that were not heavily hunted, according to Shawn Oldenburger, the small game program director

with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

He said the Gulf Coast midwinter survey report shows that Texas had 817,306 redheads on the middle and lower Texas coast.

The report also showed 442,475 scaup.

The lack of redheads where they are normally found left a whole lot of hunters scratching their heads throughout the season. So, the big question is this — are redhead numbers declining? Yes, but not by much. According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife surveys, the redhead population in 2017 was right around 1.10 million. But in 2018 they had decreased by 10 percent to a million birds. However, they are 38 percent above the long-term average.

North America’s spring duck population has declined, but most species remain above long-term averages, according to the 2018 Waterfowl Population Status Report.

The annual survey, conducted jointly by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Canadian Wildlife Service since 1955, puts the breeding duck population at 41.19 million, a 13 percent decrease over the 2017 population of 47.27 million, but still 17 percent above the long-term average. Overall, the 2018 survey marks the lowest total breeding duck population estimate since 2010.

The Central Flyway receives most of its waterfowl from the prairies as well as from the Western Boreal Forest and Arctic, with large numbers of ducks coming from Saskatchewan, eastern Alberta, North and South Dakota, and eastern Montana. In southern Saskatchewan, a slow spring thaw and average to below-average runoff limited seasonal wetland habitat for breeding waterfowl in many areas.

Total duck numbers in southern Saskatchewan were down 30 percent from the 2017 estimate, but remained 6 percent above the long-term average.

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group of pigs came out, he shot another one at about 75 yards. He continued to sit in the blind. The light was fading fast and he could hardly see when more pigs showed up.

“I’m was sitting there thinking about all those pigs,” he said. “I look up and there’s another dozen or so heading to the feeder. I could barely see. I picked up the spotlight, held it in one hand and made a shot with my lever action 30.30 rifle, with no scope, in my other hand.”

When it was all said and done, Lee had five hogs. The heaviest of the bunch was a boar that weighed 282 pounds, and had 4-inch tusks.

“That was a huge boar,” said Lee, who is 6 feet 9 inches tall. “Back at camp when we strung it up for photos that big pig was as long as I am tall. I’ve been hunting pigs for about 10 years. I live about 30 miles from Nacogdoches out in the country and can shoot them off my front porch. I’ve had some good pig hunts, but nothing like the one I had that evening at the Hondo ranch.”

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had the opportunity to go with them. Kolesar, who was raised on the East Coast, didn’t know anyone who hunted until she moved to Texas and got a job in the hunting industry.

Arriving at the ranch Friday afternoon, the girls were eager to get prepared for the hunt.

Ranch owner Steve Hudson and LSONF board member David Sweet coached the pair on proper form and handling of the rifles they would be using for the rest of the weekend.

“I had shot guns before at the DSC safety event, but never felt comfortable until now,” Kolesar said.

After firing off a few shots at the shooting range, the women were ready for their first sit in a deer blind.

Even though they had never hunted, the pair was prepared in the clothing department. Martin came bearing a trash bag full of her brother’s hunting clothes, and there were plenty of Kamille Martin, left, and Karrie Kolesar spent a few slow days in the deer other clothes to go around. blind, as the deer weren’t moving on the West Texas ranch. Photos by Each woman had her own Lili Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News. guide. Sweet took Martin, and they instantly bonded over their admiration of their alma mater, after no action near the blind, the tactic changed to walking and hoping to spot Baylor University. Hudson took Kolesar.

Neither team saw much action, other and stalk a deer.

Kolesar watched two bucks bolt out of than seeing a three-legged coyote.

A chilly Saturday morning kept the deer a bedding area, with no opportunity to bedded down. The hunters came in from shoot.

The guides were in disbelief, disappointthe field for a breakfast feast including homemade cinnamon rolls. After chat- ed that they couldn’t get either young ting around the campfire, Hudson took woman a chance at a deer.

As they packed up to leave the ranch, the the friends around the ranch to run the smiles on the new hunters’ faces showed trapline.

At each stop along the way, Hudson they had a great time.

“We had such a great experience,” Marshared a different fact or technique for setting the snares. Trapping is part of the tin said. “It was nice to get to know evranch’s predator control and management eryone in a different setting, and I look program. They caught a coyote and three forward to going out next time and experiencing what happens after the harvest.” raccoons.

They may not have shot a deer, but they “I learned so many things that I had never thought about or considered before,” learned about how to hunt them.

Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation is Martin said. “It makes you realize how a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that much goes into all of it.”

For the afternoon hunt, they switched seeks to create hunters and fishermen for up the guides. Sweet and Kolesar saw a a lifetime, by creating opportunities for young buck chasing a doe with two fawns. those, of any age, who have the passion The rest of the hunting party got to enjoy but lack the opportunity. LSONF prides a beautiful sunset. The deer were just not itself in giving people the whole hunting camp experience. The campfire, good food, moving.

Stories were shared as the fajitas sizzled sharing stories, exploring the ranch, is all on the grill. After dinner, Hudson turned part of it. The harvest is a bonus.

For more information or to donate, call off the lights around camp and pointed out visible constellations as the sky was (214) 361-2276 or visit lsonews.com/lsonfoundation. clear and the stars were bright that night.

They hoped that with another change of guides, the ladies’ luck would change, but

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FISHING

Texas flyangler lands big brown

White bass run moving up

Stephen Seaton, of Grapevine, landed this big brown trout on the White River in Arkansas. Photo from Stephen Seaton.

After several tries, gets big trout

By Craig Nyhus

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The white bass run is gaining momentum and is moving north. Devin Pawlik went on her first white bass fishing trip with her husband, Wesley, and friends Christi Yosko and Matt Ebrom on the Frio River above Choke Canyon Reservoir. The group found the action to be fast and furious while trolling several areas along the Frio. According to reports, other anglers have taken notice and the crowds have hit the river. Photo by Matt Ebrom.

—Nate Skinner

Stephen Seaton represents several companies in the fly-fishing industry, but for the past six years, his sights have remained on something else on each trip to Arkansas’ White River — landing a big female brown trout, also called a hen.

In late January, the Grapevine resident fished with Chad Johnson of CJ’s White River Outfitters and his friend and musician, Grant Braudrick, known in the Dallas area as Ole G. On the two-day trip, fishing wasn’t exactly stellar, although the group was fishing for big fish, not numerous bites on the large flies.

“I’ve been trying to get a big fish there,” Seaton said. “The day was total sunshine and blue skies — the opposite of what you want for a streamer-fishing day.”

Seaton was fishing from a boat at midday when his luck changed.

We had been slinging casts all day with heavy stuff,” he said. “We were ripping and stripping all day and we had boated one good 22-inch male brown.”

Seaton was giving the flies a long stall, or pause, in the water.

“Then, at my first movement, I got a strike and set the hook,” he said. “I immediately knew it was different. I was using a 10-weight.

Scott rod and said ‘This one feels serious.’”

For a while, the fish was in charge.

“It was all hand-to-hand combat,” Seaton said. “When the fish came to the surface, it looked enormous.”

“The fish ran under the boat and I struggled to keep the bend in the rod,” Seaton said.

“Then she ran for the dock and I had to keep a low pressure on it.”

Seaton wasn’t worried about equipment failure, though.

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Winter patterns persist in Seadrift, Rockport

By Nate Skinner

For Lone Star Outdoor News Speckled trout and redfish are feeding shallow during warm periods between recent cold fronts.

The middle Texas coast is littered with shallow flats containing seagrass beds and sand pockets that hold clear water, even in the midst of varying conditions. These skinny stretches of water cool down quickly during cold spells, but rebound just as rapidly as air temperatures rise.

Anglers reacting to how fish respond

to these changes are staying hookedup.

“Prefront conditions have been producing the most bites lately,” Seadrift Capt. Nathan Beabout said.

“One of my best outings on the water recently occurred on the day before a strong cold front passed through the middle Texas coast. We found hoards of keeper trout, as well as several lower slot reds along kneedeep flats in the back lakes inside of Matagorda Peninsula. A decent number of the trout were chunky, 3

1/2 pounders and two weighed more than 5 pounds.”

Beabout said the fish have been staging in deeper water on cooler days that immediately follow the passage of a frontal system.

“When water temperatures fall, the best action has been taking place in about waist-deep water in the mouths of drains or along the edges of guts and drop-offs,” he said.

Fishing windblown reefs in San Antonio Bay also has paid off.

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This trout, caught by Capt. Nathan Beabout, came from a shallow flat in San Antonio Bay on a warm day between cold fronts. Photo from Nathan Beabout.

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Initiative shows best catch-andrelease practices

An effort to advance the role of recreational anglers to be leaders of fisheries conservation focuses on promoting the best catch-and-release practices.

“ReleaSense will be an evolving program providing a series of instructional videos and information regarding fish survival, using the best science available,” said Greg Stunz, director of the Center for Sportfishing Research.

The ReleaSense initiative was created

by Shimano, the Coastal Conservation Association, and the Harte Research Institute.

The initiative aims to provide a platform for anglers, industry, and resources managers to share information regarding the best catch-and-release practices, seeking to maximize fish survival rates of released fish, ensuring healthy and sustainable populations of harvestable fish.

“Anglers are the backbone of fisheries

Alan Haynes, the former president of The Sportster, Inc., retail store in Tyler, will be inducted into the Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame.

“There are few people who have made as big of an impact on Texas fishing as Alan Haynes,” said Dan Kessler, TFF Hall of Fame committee chair. “For more than 45 years, he has demonstrated through his professional work and personal contributions to our community a commitment to promoting fishing and the conservation of our natural resources.”

Haynes served as chair of the Nation’s Best Sports Buying Groups fishing tackle buying committee representing 650 participating stores nationwide, was an advisory board member for Fishing Tackle Retailer magazine and was a recipient of the National Leadership Award as Independent Sporting Goods Retailer of the Year by the Sporting Goods Dealer magazine.

Haynes also was a cofounder of the Tyler Woods and Waters Club, now called the East Texas Woods and Waters Foundation. In addition to helping to develop the Tyler Nature Center, the foundation has opened public fishing access in the Neches River, provides youth and family fishing access to Tyler-area urban fishing lakes, and recently installed a handicapped accessible fishing pier at Tyler’s Faulkner Park.

The induction ceremony will be held in May at the Toyota Bassmaster Texas Fest.

—TFFHOF

conservation,” said Quentin Hall of the center. “History has shown that anglerbased conservation efforts like catch-andrelease can benefit many fisheries.”

Research by HRI indicates that sportfish species respond differently to certain factors like hooking location, fight time and handling methods that can impact post-release survival.

One multi-year study involved test fishing for large adult red drum, and found circle hooks are less likely to lodge in soft tissue deep in the throat when compared to similar J-style hooks. The study encouraged the use of large circle hooks configured with short leaders and fixed weights to reduce deep hooking.

At ReleaSense.org, the videos and information show the best methods for releasing both shallow and deep-water species, including red snapper, sharks and billfish, and scientifically proven steps to help increase fish survival.

Giant bass with history Fish related to other lunkers Lone Star Outdoor News On Jan. 26, Zach Sypert was fishing with a friend, who suggested giving Martin Creek Lake in Tarrant County a try.

Going without a bite until the last stop of the day, Sypert was throwing a jerkbait when he felt pressure and set the hook.

What he landed was a lake-record 14.57-pound largemouth.

The fish was turned in to the ShareLunker program, where genetic testing was conducted and compared with other lunkers.

In Feb. 2017, Marine Creek produced its first ShareLunker, a 13.07-pound bass caught by Ryder Wicker. Sypert’s fish was confirmed to be the full sibling to the 2017 fish, stocked from the same group

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Tips for releasing fish and increasing survival rates are part of a combined effort by HRI, CCA and Shimano. Photo by Lone Star Outdoor News.

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of selectively bred largemouths 13 years ago.

Testing also revealed Sypert’s bass is the daughter of another lunker, a 14.48-pound bass caught by Edward Reid from Lake Conroe in 2006.

Fly Fish Texas Expo The Fly Fish Texas Expo is back for the 19th year on Feb. 16 at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center.

Fly Fish Texas Expo will feature more than a dozen classes and demonstrations geared toward everyone from the beginner fly-fisher to the experienced angler, all taught by professional guides, instructors and competitors. For those just getting started in the art of fly-fishing, classes include fly-fishing 101, all-day casting instruction, beginning fly-tying classes and caring for fly-fishing equipment. Loaner equipment will be available .

More than 2,000 rainbow trout will be stocked on-site for the event in Lake Zebco, the 1.2 acre fishing pond; in the ponds located along the 0.8 mile wetlands trail; and in the 1.5 acre fly-fishing pond.

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TEXAS FRESHWATER FISHING REPORT ALAN HENRY: Water clear main lake, stained up the river; 42-51 degrees; 5.15’ low. Black bass are slow. Crappie are slow to fair on live minnows. Catfish are fair on cut and live bait.

AMISTAD: Water murky; 58-62 degrees; 24.16’ low. Black bass are good on slabs, crankbaits and soft plastic worms. Striped bass are fair on slabs, crankbaits and grubs. White bass are fair on slabs and crankbaits. Catfish are fair on shrimp, nightcrawlers, chicken livers and cheese bait.

ARROWHEAD: Water stained; 44-53 degrees; 0.01’ high.

Black bass are slow. Crappie are fair on live minnows. Catfish are fair to good on cut bait and nightcrawlers.

ATHENS: Water clear; 48-51 degrees; 0.48’ high. Black bass are good on bladed jigs, Texas-rigged craws and lipless crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

AUSTIN: Water lightly stained; 48-57 degrees; 0.52’ low. Black bass are slow. Sunfish are slow.

Catfish are fair on cut and live baitfish.

BASTROP: Water stained; 56-60 degrees. Black bass are fair on lipless crankbaits and chartreuse jigs. Crappie are slow.

Channel and blue catfish are fair on stink bait and liver.

BELTON: Water murky; 54-58 degrees; 7.48’ high. Black bass are slow. White bass are slow.

Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow.

BENBROOK: Water stained; 4650 degrees; 0.71’ high. Black bass are slow. Crappie are slow.

White bass are fair on slabs.

Catfish are good on trotlines.

BOB SANDLIN: Water lightly stained; 48-51 degrees; 0.32’ high. Black bass are fair on bladed jigs, shaky-head worms and black and blue jigs on docks.

Crappie are good on minnows.

White bass are fair on slabs.

Catfish are fair on trotlines.

BONHAM: Water stained; 4549 degrees; 0.05’ low. Black bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are slow.

BRAUNIG: Water murky. Black bass are good on crankbaits and dark soft plastic worms in the reeds and near the dam. Striped bass are good on liver and shad at Dead Tree Point, and downrigging silver and gold spoons and marble spinners near the dam. Redfish are slow. Channel catfish are good on liver, shrimp, cheese bait and cut bait near the spillway.

BRIDGEPORT: Water lightly stained; 46–49 degrees: 0.07’ high. Black bass are fair on suspending jerkbaits, shaky-head worms and shallow crankbaits.

Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass are fair on slabs. Hybrid striper are fair on slabs. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

BROWNWOOD: Water murky; 52-56 degrees; 0.28’ high.

Black bass are good on chartreuse jigs, crankbaits and watermelon worms in 10-25 feet.

Hybrid striper are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows over brush piles in 10-25 feet. Channel catfish are good on stink bait, minnows and frozen shrimp in 10-20 feet.

BUCHANAN: Water murky; 53-57 degrees; 1.87’ low. Black bass are good on watermelon/red curltail grubs on jigheads, black hair jigs, and suspending crankbaits along ledges in 10-20 feet.

Striped bass are fair drifting live shad, and jigging Spoiler Shad in 25-40 feet. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow.

CADDO: Water lightly stained; 48-52 degrees; 1.92’ high.

Black bass are good on Texasrigged creature baits, spinner baits and bladed jigs. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows.

Catfish are fair on trotlines and prepared bait.

CALAVERAS: Water murky.

Black bass are good on dark soft plastic worms, spinner baits, and crankbaits near the dam.

Striped bass are slow. Redfish are slow. Channel and blue catfish are fair on liver, shrimp and cheese bait near the railroad trestle.

CANYON LAKE: Water murky; 55-59 degrees; 1.26’ high.

Black bass are good on pumpkin worms, Texas-rigged worms and tubes on jigheads in stickups in 6-15 feet. Striped bass are fair jigging Pirk Minnows and trolling Shad Raps on downriggers over humps in the lower end of the lake. White bass are fair on blade baits along main lake bluffs. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow.

CEDAR CREEK: Water lightly stained; 46-49 degrees, 0.01’ low. Black bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on trotlines and prepared bait. White bass are fair on slabs. Hybrid striper are good on slabs.

CHOKE CANYON: Water murky; 57-61 degrees; 13.98’ low. Black bass are good on watermelon crankbaits, lipless crankbaits and pumpkinseed worms. White bass are fair on Li’l Fishies. Crappie are fair on minnows. Drum are fair on live worms. Catfish are slow.

COLEMAN: Water murky; 5660 degrees; 0.02’ low. Black bass are fair on watermelon and dark red soft plastics, lipless crankbaits and crankbaits.

Hybrid striper are fair on chartreuse striper jigs.

Crappie are good on minnows and white tube jigs. Channel catfish are slow.

COLETO CREEK: Water stained; 55 degrees in the main lake, 87 degrees at the hot water discharge, 67-71 degrees in main lake; 0.36’ high. Black bass are fair on soft plastics and spinner baits. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are fair on shrimp and minnows.

CONROE: Water murky; 55-59 degrees; 0.52’ high. Black bass are good on chartreuse soft plastics, crankbaits and spinner baits. Striped bass are fair on chartreuse striper jigs. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are fair on liver and nightcrawlers.

COOPER: Water stained; 48-51 degrees; 0.18’ high. Black bass

are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Hybrid striper and white bass are fair on slabs.

CORPUS CHRISTI LAKE: Water off-color; 57-65 degrees; 0.27’ high. Black bass are fair on Texas rigs, shaky heads and jigs.

White bass are fair to good on slabs. Crappie are fair on live minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair to good on nightcrawlers and live shad.

EAGLE MOUNTAIN: Water lightly stained; 46-50 degrees; 0.27’ high. Black bass are fair on shaky-head worms, Ned rigs and bladed jigs. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are slow.

FAIRFIELD: Water lightly stained. Black bass are fair on Texas-rigged creature baits, bladed jigs and weightless stick worms. No report on other species.

FALCON: Water murky; 56-60 degrees; 25.54’ low. Black bass are good on pumpkinseed soft plastics and spinner baits.

Striped bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are good on shrimp and cut bait.

FAYETTE: Water murky. Black bass are fair on Carolina-rigged soft plastics and lipless crankbaits. Channel and blue catfish are slow.

FORK: Water lightly stained; 46-49 degrees; 0.22’ low.

Black bass are fair on bladed jigs and single Colorado-blade spinner baits. White and yellow bass are fair on slabs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs near bridges. Catfish are fair on trotlines and prepared bait.

FT. PHANTOM HILL: Water stained; 43-51 degrees; 0.61’ high. Black bass are slow.

Crappie are slow to fair on live minnows around deeper structure. Catfish are good on live and cut bait.

GIBBONS CREEK: Water murky. Black bass are fair on pumpkinseed soft plastic worms, crankbaits and lipless crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on live bait and chicken livers.

GRANBURY: Water murky; 52-56 degrees; 0.09’ low.

Black bass are good on chartreuse soft plastics, spinner baits and lipless crankbaits. Striped bass are fair on silver spoons. White bass are fair on silver spoons. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on frozen shrimp and stink bait.

GRANGER: Water murky; 5155 degrees; 0.35’ high. Black bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Yellow catfish are slow.

GRAPEVINE: Water stained; 46-48 degrees; 0.90’ high.

Black bass are slow. White bass and hybrid bass are good on minnows. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

HOUSTON COUNTY: Water murky; 54-58 degrees; 0.45’ high. Black bass are fair on black/red soft plastic worms in 8-15 feet, and on jig and pigs around stumps. White bass are slow. Crappie are good on live

minnows and jigs near piers at the dam in 35 feet. Channel and blue catfish are good on juglines and in creek channels.

HUBBARD CREEK: Water stained; 43-48 degrees; 0.14’ high. Black bass are slow to fair on jigs and shaky heads. Crappie are fair on live minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair to good on live and cut bait.

JOE POOL: Water stained to muddy; 46-49 degrees; 0.30’ low. Black bass are slow. White bass are good on slabs. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are fair on trotlines and prepared bait.

LAKE O’ THE PINES: Water lightly stained; 49-52 degrees: 4.03’ high. Black bass are fair on bladed jigs, lipless crankbaits and spinner baits. White bass are good on slabs and minnows.

Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on trotlines and prepared bait.

LAVON: Water stained to muddy; 47-50 degrees: 0.19’ high. Black bass are slow.

White bass are fair on slabs and minnows.

Crappie are fair on minnows.

Catfish are good on trotlines.

LBJ: Water murky; 54-58 degrees; 4.59’ low.

Black bass are fair to good on green/pumpkin tubes and black/blue jigs around docks.

Striped bass are fair on white striper jigs. White bass are fair on Spoiler Shads. Crappie are fair on minnows in brush piles under heated docks. Channel catfish are fair on minnows and nightcrawlers.

LEWISVILLE: Water stained; 46-48 degrees; 0.45’ high.

Black bass are fair on Ned-rig worms, suspending jerkbaits and shaky-head worms. White bass are fair on slabs. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on trotlines.

LIVINGSTON: Water stained; 55-59 degrees; 0.46’ high.

Black bass are fair on green/ pumpkin spinner baits and crankbaits. Striped bass are fair on lipless crankbaits and slabs.

White bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows. Blue catfish are good on trotlines baited with shad.

MACKENZIE: Water stained; 47-52 degrees; 78.47’ low.

Black bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on nightcrawlers.

MARTIN CREEK: Water lightly stained; 75-81 degrees; 0.09’ high. Black bass are fair on Texas-rigged craws, swim jigs and spinner baits. Crappie are good on minnows and white jigs.

White bass are fair on slabs.

Catfish are good on trotlines.

MONTICELLO: Water stained; 46-49 degrees; 2.33’ low. Black bass are fair on bladed jigs, lipless crankbaits and Texas-rigged creature baits. Crappie are good on minnows and chartreuse jigs.

Catfish are good on trotlines.

NASWORTHY: Water stained; 42-49 degrees; 0.65’ low. Black bass are slow. No reports on crappie. Catfish are fair to good on live bait and nightcrawlers.

NAVARRO MILLS: Water murky;

53-57 degrees; 1.96’ high.

Black bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow.

Catfish are slow.

O.H. IVIE: Water stained; 44-52 degrees; 16.89’ low.

Black bass are slow to fair on shaky heads, Texas rigs and jigs.

Crappie are fair on live minnows.

Catfish are fair on cut and live bait.

OAK CREEK: Water stained; 4350 degrees; 0.31’ high. Black bass are slow. Crappie are fair on live minnows. Catfish are fair on live and cut bait.

PALESTINE: Water lightly stained; 46-50 degrees; 0.55’ high. Black bass are good on shaky-head worms, green/pumpkin jigs and bladed jigs. Crappie are good on minnows and white jigs. Hybrid striper are good on minnows. White bass are good on slabs. Catfish are fair on trotlines and prepared bait.

POSSUM KINGDOM: Water fairly clear; 47-53 degrees; 0.02’ low. Black bass are slow.

White bass are fair to good on slabs. Striped bass are fair on live shad. Catfish are fair on live and cut bait.

PROCTOR: Water murky; 56-60 degrees; 0.24’ high. Black bass are fair on pumpkinseed spinner baits and soft plastics. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and white tube jigs.

Channel and blue catfish are good on frozen shad and shrimp.

RAY HUBBARD: Water lightly stained; 46-49 degrees; 0.04’ low. Black bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid striper are fair on slabs. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

RAY ROBERTS: Water stained: 45-48 degrees; 0.15’ high.

Black bass are fair on Carolinarigged worms, bladed jigs and lipless crankbaits. White bass are fair on minnows. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on trotlines.

RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water lightly stained; 46-49 degrees; 0.14’ high. Black bass are fair on bladed jigs, shaky-head worms and Texas-rigged creature baits. White bass are fair on slabs. Hybrid striper are fair on slabs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs Catfish are good on trotlines.

SAM RAYBURN: Water stained; 57-61 degrees; 10.45’ high.

Black bass are fair on watermelon/red and watermelon/gold soft plastics, crankbaits and lipless crankbaits. White bass are fair on live minnows and chartreuse spoons. Crappie are slow. Bream are fair on worms. Catfish are fair on stink bait, frozen shrimp and liver.

SOMERVILLE: Water murky; 57-61 degrees; 7.18’ high.

Black bass are slow. Hybrid striper are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow.

SPENCE: 36.42’ low. Black bass are slow. No report on crappie. Catfish are fair on cut bait and nightcrawlers.

STAMFORD: Water stained to muddy; 52-63 degrees; 0.77’

n Saltwater reports Page 11 high. Black bass are slow.

Crappie are slow to fair on live minnows. White bass are fair on slabs. Blue catfish are fair on cut and live bait.

STILLHOUSE: Water murky; 5660 degrees; 8.73’ high. Black bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow.

TAWAKONI: Water stained to muddy; 47-50 degrees; 0.35’ high. Black bass are good on bladed jigs, Texas-rigged craws and spinner baits. White bass are good on slabs and minnows.

Hybrid bass are good on slabs.

Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on trotlines and prepared bait.

TEXANA: Water stained; 53-63 degrees; 0.25’ low. Black bass are slow to fair on Texas rigs and jigs. Crappie are fair on live minnows. Catfish are fair to good on nightcrawlers and cut bait.

TEXOMA: Water stained to muddy; 45-48 degrees; 1.08’ high. Black bass are good on umbrella rigs, shaky-head worms and suspending jerkbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and white jigs. Striped bass are good on slabs. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

TOLEDO BEND: Water stained; 56-60 degrees; 0.77’ high.

Black bass are fair on watermelon/red soft plastics, spinner baits and crankbaits. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow.

Crappie are fair on minnows over brush piles. Bream are slow.

Channel and blue catfish are fair on chicken livers and dough bait.

Yellow catfish are slow.

TRAVIS: Water murky; 53-57 degrees; 1.19’ high. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are slow.

White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow.

WALTER E. LONG: Water murky.

Black bass are slow. Hybrid striper are fair on silver striper jigs in coves. White bass are fair on minnows. Crappie are good on red wigglers. Channel and blue catfish are good on nightcrawlers.

WEATHERFORD: Water stained; 46-49 degrees; 0.22’ low. Black bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on trotlines.

WHITNEY: Water murky; 54-58 degrees; 0.22’ high. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are slow.

White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are slow.

WRIGHT PATMAN: Water stained; 48-57 degrees; 10.92 high. Black bass are fair on Texas-rigged creature baits, spinner baits and bladed jigs.

Crappie are good on minnows.

Catfish are fair on trotlines.

­—TPWD

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TEXAS SALTWATER FISHING REPORT NORTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good on the Louisiana shoreline on top-waters and Corkies.

Flounder are fair on jigs tipped with shrimp around marsh drains. Redfish are good in the marsh on scented plastics.

SOUTH SABINE: Sheepshead, redfish and black drum are good at the jetty on live shrimp. Trout are fair to good around Blue Buck Point on soft plastics.

BOLIVAR: Trout are fair to good on the south shoreline on soft plastics and plugs. Black drum and redfish are good at Rollover Pass.

TRINITY BAY: Redfish are fair around the spillway on shrimp. The upper end of the bay remains fresh.

EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are good on the

south shoreline on Soft–Dines, MirrOlures and soft plastics. Whiting and sand trout are good on the edge of the Intracoastal on fresh shrimp.

WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to good for drifters working shell on soft plastics. Trout, sheepshead, redfish and black drum are good at the jetty on shrimp and croaker.

TEXAS CITY: Redfish are fair to good in Moses Lake on shrimp. Trout and black drum are good on the reefs on live shrimp.

FREEPORT: Trout are fair at San Luis Pass on live bait. Sand trout, trout, redfish and sheepshead are good on live shrimp on the reefs in Christmas Bay and at the jetties. Bull redfish are good just off the beach on sardines.

EAST MATAGORDA BAY: Trout are fair to good over deep shell on scented plastics, Bass Assassins and Down South Lures. Redfish are fair to good at the mouth of Boggy on crabs and mullet. Redfish are fair over deep shell on shrimp.

WEST MATAGORDA BAY: Redfish are fair to good on the edge of Oyster Lake on shrimp and crabs.

Black drum and redfish are fair to good at the jetty

Bass Pro Tour’s inaugural event

BFL at Toledo Bend

Jordan Lee won the inaugural Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour championship on Florida’s Kissimmee Chain of Lakes.

After finding an area of clean water on the north end of Lake Garcia in the final period, the Alabama pro put together a flurry of 2- and 3-pounders in the final two hours winding a vibrating jig through grass and hydrilla, adding over 32 pounds to his total.

Lee finished with 55 pounds, 1 ounce, followed by Oklahoma’s Edwin Evers with 44 pounds, 3 ounces.

Lorena native Alton Jones Jr. finished fourth with 23 pounds, 3 ounces, Jeff Sprague, of Point, ended in eighth with 18 pounds, 9 ounces and Takahiro Omori, of Emory, finished 10th with 12 pounds, 11 ounces.

The tour’s next event will be held at Lake Conroe, Feb. 12-19.

—MLF

Cody Pitt, of Many, Louisiana, caught five bass weighing 24 pounds, 5 ounces, to win the FLW Bass Fishing League tournament and $6,349 on Toledo Bend Reservoir. Pitt caught his fish targeting prespawn bass back in a creek channel before heading out to the main lake, using a powder blue crankbait.

Jeffrey Grubbs, of Goodrich, finished third with 19 pounds, 13 ounces, winning $1,782, and Albert Collins, of Nacogdoches, finished fifth with 19 pounds, 1 ounce, winning $1,070.

—FLW Fishing

on crabs.

PORT O’CONNOR: Trout and redfish are fair on soft plastics over sand and grass near Grass Island.

Trout, black drum and redfish are good at the jetty on mullet.

ROCKPORT: Trout are fair to good in Morris-Cummings Cut on free-lined shrimp. Black drum are good in the Lydia Ann Channel on crabs. Redfish are fair to good in the holes along the Estes Flats on mullet and crabs.

PORT ARANSAS: Redfish are fair to good at East Flats on gold spoons and small top-waters. Black drum are good in the Shrimpboat Channel on crabs and finger mullet. Redfish, trout and sheepshead

are fair to good at the jetty on shrimp.

CORPUS CHRISTI: Trout are fair to good on the edge of the spoils on scented plastics and live shrimp. Black drum and redfish are fair to good in the Packery Channel on crabs.

BAFFIN BAY: Trout are fair to good over sand and grass on Bass Assassins, Gamblers and Corkies.

Black drum are good in the Land Cut on crabs.

Trout are fair to good in the Land Cut on D.O.A. shrimp.

PORT MANSFIELD: Trout are fair to good on Corkies and MirrOdines around sand and grass. Redfish are fair to good while drifting potholes. Black drum and redfish are good on crabs at East Cut. SOUTH PADRE: Trout are fair to good around the spoil islands channel edges on D.O.A. Shrimp and Down South Lures. Black drum and redfish are fair at the jetty on shrimp.

PORT ISABEL: Trout are fair to good at on the ledges on artificial shrimp and scented plastics.

Redfish are fair to good at Holly Beach on D.O.A. Shrimp and live shrimp.

—TPWD

Lake lowering extended at LBJ, Marble Falls The Lower Colorado River Authority is extending the ongoing drawdowns of lakes LBJ and Marble Falls by three weeks to assist area residents recovering from recent historic flooding.

The refill is set to begin March 18, about 11 weeks after the drawdowns began.

The lowerings are extended to provide more time for residents to remove debris and repair docks, retaining walls and other structures damaged by major flooding along the Colorado and Llano rivers in October 2018.

Lake Marble Falls has been lowered 7 feet, and Lake LBJ is down about 4 feet. Both lakes are expected to be back within their normal operating ranges by March 22.

Crab trap removal Each February for 17 years, volunteers spend 10 days on the water along the Texas coastline searching the bays for abandoned crab traps. To date, they’ve hauled off more than 35,000 derelict traps.

Between Feb. 15-24, Texas coastal waters will be closed to crabbing with wire mesh crab traps to facilitate the annual volunteer crab trap cleanup. Any traps left in bays — including traps tied to docks — will be assumed abandoned and considered litter under state law. This allows volunteers to legally remove any crab traps they find.

—TPWD

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GAME WARDEN BLOTTER WHY WON’T HE DROP? On the night of Dec. 28, 2018 San Augustine County game wardens deployed a white-tailed deer decoy setup to catch wouldbe road hunters near the Banister Wildlife Management Area and the Angelina National Forrest. At about 10:45 p.m. the wardens observed a pickup truck drive past the decoy and come to a stop. The truck turned around and returned at a slow rate of speed. As the pickup approached the decoy, one of the wardens observed a red beam of light that appeared to be a laser. The pickup pulled alongside the decoy and fired a shot. A warden approached the vehicle and before he could finish announcing his presence the road hunters fired a second shot at the decoy. Charges were filed for various hunting-related violations at the San Augustine County Jail.

THROWING THEM BACK — SORT OF Game wardens came across two men fishing in Matagorda Bay. When asked if they had caught anything, one man said, “Yes, but I threw them back because they were too small.” After being asked a few more times about having any fish, the gentleman finally said, “Yes, the ones I kept are in that bucket.” Three undersized red drum, one undersized sheepshead and one undersized black drum were in the bucket. Citations and civil restitution are pending, and the fish were donated to a needy family.

MULTIPLE ILLEGAL DEER While investigating a road-hunting complaint, a Houston County game warden seized an antlerless deer taken after the doe days had ended. He also identified three additional deer that could be

NOT VERY NEIGHBORLY A Cass County landowner reported people hunting illegally.

Game wardens were shown ATV trails made on the property by the neighboring landowner. The neighbor admitted riding around on the adjacent property. He also admitted that his son had been hunting hogs without permission.

The son admitted to hunting without landowner consent. Charges are pending.

TRESPASSER FINALLY CAUGHT Collin County game wardens received reports of a person hunting deer on Corps of Engineers property without consent. After several attempts to catch the hunter in the act, the wardens found the subject early one morning on the property. The man was escorted off the property and a warrant was filed for his arrest, which was later executed.

GETTING STUCK, TWICE Late one night, four subjects

illegal. After being located, the suspect admitted killing a large buck with a rifle, killing a doe with a rifle and shooting another illegal buck and doe.

The deer were seized and citations were issued.

got stuck on a Red River County rural road and phoned a friend to pick them up. On their way back home, they noticed a white-tailed doe standing in a field. Both the passenger and driver exited the vehicle and killed the doe with a .22 rifle. Appropriate charges were filed, and civil restitution is pending.

ROAD HUNTERS FOUND Three subjects shot a white-tailed buck from the roadway in Red River County. When they returned to the area to load the deer, the group got spooked and an investigation ensued. Confessions were obtained and cases and civil restitution are pending.

ARMADILLO TORTURER BEHIND BARS A hog hunter found and tortured an armadillo and then posted video of the event online. Game wardens worked to secure videos, evidence, statements and a warrant for his arrest for animal

cruelty and placed the young man in jail. The man had a pending charge for felony burglary. He will spend six years in jail.

ONE ILLEGAL HUNTER MISSED, ANOTHER CAUGHT After road hunters were reported next to the White Oak Creek Wildlife Management Area, a Titus County game warden responded.

Although the road hunters weren’t located, the warden caught a coyote hunter illegally hunting the WMA. CAN’T TAG DEER IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE A Department of Public Safety trooper reported a buck taken illegally in Freestone County. The Trooper had stopped an ATV for operating on a public road and the operator said he had been hunted and killed a deer. At the subject’s camp, an undersized buck head was found. The carcass had been quartered and stored inside an ice chest. The subject said the deer

was killed in the morning and wasn’t tagged because he didn’t know what county he was in.

LANDOWNER GETS PLATES, TURNS IN POACHERS A landowner observed someone hunting from a public road, got a license plate and reported it to a Freestone County game warden.

The two occupants of the vehicle were located and admitted to shooting at a hog from a public road.

SQUIRREL HUNTERS COULDN’T PASS UP DEER A caller reported observing two persons shoot a deer from the road at night and provided first names and an address to a Polk County game warden. When wardens arrived at the residence, they observed blood in the bed of the subject’s truck. The man claimed they had been squirrel hunting and were on their way home when they saw the deer. They went to the house and got a .22 rifle and returned, but it was his buddy who shot the deer. Neither subject had a hunting license or hunter’s education. Charges and civil restitution are pending.

REPORT ILLEGAL HUNTING AND FISHING ACTIVITY FOR A REWARD OF UP TO $1,000.

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guidance of Capt. Randy Foreman. According to Foreman, the majority of their efforts were focused in 1.5-2.5 feet of water over shell humps and flats located near the edges of the energy ditch on the Neches River.

Both 9-year-old Finley and 7-year-old Hodgin enjoyed battles with lower slot reds, undersized redfish, and a handful of flounder throughout the entire day. All of these fish fell victim to a live shrimp rigged under a popping cork.

“We pretty much caught fish nonstop for about five hours,” Foreman said.

“They weren’t all keepers, but the boys were having a great time. Plus, they were improving their rod and reel handling skills with each hookup.”

In the morning, the group quickly found some birds working over schools of pogies.

“Our first three casts all produced bites from redfish,” Foreman said.

When the bird activity died off, Foreman moved around to different humps and flats that he knew would be holding fish during the heart of winter. Each stop rendered a few bites.

Later in the day as the water warmed up, schools of pogies began to concentrate along the surface over deeper water in the middle of the ditch they were fishing. Foreman used his trolling motor to position his boat within casting range of the schools of nervous baitfish.

As soon as the young anglers’ baits hit the water amongst the swarming pogies, their corks were yanked under the surface and their rods doubled. One landed a redfish while the other reeled in a flounder.

“The action we experienced is a typical pattern on the Neches River this time of year,” Foreman said. “Redfish stack up in the river after strong cold fronts drain the surrounding marshes. The best activity takes place during the days immedi-

extremely clear this time of year, and the fish tend to congregate in streaky, dirtier stretches,” Beabout said. “The windward edges of shallow shell have been holding some off-colored water due to wave action created from surface chop. These areas are an excellent option for finding a consistent bite when they aren’t too rough or too dirty from strong winds.”

Favorite lure colors have been pumpkinseed and dirty tequila.

Farther south in Rockport, Capt. Jay Nichols is encountering similar patterns.

“Schools of reds have been stacking up in guts that drain flats adjacent to deeper water during the cold conditions that we are experiencing after a front hits,” he said. “The most aggressive action is occurring later in the day and into the afternoon hours when the sun gets higher in the sky and heats up the water.”

Nichols is seeing plenty of trout in the

20- to 25-inch range feeding alongside schools of upper slot reds along clear flats in 2 to 3 feet of water.

“Soft plastics are outfishing natural baits right now because these fish are in more of a reaction strike mode,” he added. “A bait simply laying along the bottom isn’t drawing very many hits.”

Nichols said relatively new guts were created in Aransas Bay behind Mud Island, and along the Lydia Ann Channel near Port Aransas by Hurricane Harvey. These guts have been additional prime locations to find action during cold spells.

“Small schools of black drum are also starting to show up in the back lakes,” he said. “Most of these pods of drum consist of anywhere from five to 20 fish, and the best approach for targeting them has been sight-casting with jigs tipped with Fishbites or freshly peeled, dead shrimp.”

Higdon Fisher also landed this flounder on his fishing trip on the Neches River near Sabine Lake.

Photo from Randy Foreman.

ately following the passage of a frontal system.”

The youngsters’ father claimed that the best part about their trip was watching his two sons become more confident and independent with their fishing gear as the day progressed.

“Capt. Randy was extremely patient with the boys,” Ed Fisher said. “He did an excellent job of teaching them how to work the popping cork setup in a way that would coax a strike. By the end of the day, they were both fishing completely on their own. From casting to setting the hook and fighting a fish, they were able to do it all.”

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Clark Laney Davis, 19, took her first doe with a .243.

She made the 125-yard shot on the Las Alicias Ranch near San Manuel.

Brian Hopkins caught this 10.56-pound largemouth in a Richland Chambers Bass Club tournament in November of 2018. He was using a crankbait in 15 feet of water.

Steve Hudson, of Dallas, bagged his elk in Colorado.The elk had 330 inches of antler.

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Tyler Dusek,19, shot this deer in McMullen County.

Dylan Riggs Busse, 7, of Harlingen, shows off his buck harvested in South Texas. The 8.5-year-old buck had an abnormal growth on his right side.

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One fisherman dead, another still missing at Belton Lone Star Outdoor News One Fort Hood soldier drowned and another is missing following a fishing outing on Jan. 21.

Three soldiers headed out to fish in canoes. According to reports, one of the canoes capsized. In attempt to rescue the canoer, another capsized.

One canoer made it back to shore.

The body of Staff Sgt. Kelton Spahler, 25, was recovered later that day. Searches for the other missing canoer, Scott Weinhold, continue.

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Hunting javelina Continued from page 5

Sphaler’s wife posted about the tragedy on Facebook and said her husband died doing the second thing he loved the most in this world, fishing.

Sphaler, of Cross City, Florida, joined the Army in December 2013 and was assigned to Fort Hood’s 4th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, at the time of his death.

He deployed to Bahrain from September 2015 to June 2016.

Weinhold, 24, is married and has been assigned to Fort Hood since March.

Nilgai in the brush Continued from page 5

The pair headed to the King Ranch and started their hunt on the west side of the ranch.

“The nilgai were running, the deer were running,” Cavanaugh said. “There were five Border Patrol helicopters in the air.”

Simmons, who missed the bulk of the convention this year as he was in Houston donating stem cells for his brother’s leukemia treatment, said it was quite the adventure for his first hunting trip to The Valley.

“Everything we saw, even the cows, was running,” he said. “There were trucks buzzing around and sirens blaring.”

That afternoon, on the east side of the ranch, they had better luck. Simmons took his bull, shooting from his knees and using shooting sticks, in a stand of live oak trees.

“Our guide had unbelievable eyes,” Simmons said. “He could see the bulls in the shadows of the trees and I couldn’t see them at all. It was fun to put the stalk on him.”

After the three men dragged the bull to

a place where it could be loaded on the truck, the group moved on and saw two more of the large antelope.

“The guide offered me a chance at a smaller bull for the cow price,” Cavanaugh said. “I made a good shot at 275 yards.”

Cavanaugh became interested in shooting in 2013, after Chris Kyle’s book, “American Sniper,” came out.

“Then I joined DSC and John Patterson, one of the board members, invited me to shoot sporting clays,” he said. “I showed up at Elm Fork without a shotgun — I didn’t own one.”

After taking Orvis’ wingshooting program, now Cavanaugh competes in sporting clays and has won both trophies and shotguns.

Bird hunting came next, and then his black lab, Bear, to hunt with him.

“Now I have a safe full of guns,” he said.

Viviana Moreno, 14, shot this javelina during her first hunt. She was excited to share the moment with her father, Michael, who captured the whole hunt on video. Photo by Briana Miles.

Nuptials and peacock bass Continued from page 1

Adelaide Henry learns how to skin and butcher the javelina she harvested. Photo

by Briana Miles.

On the beach and next to Capt. Peacock’s new yacht, the Rio Negro Queen, Troy Fieseler and Sarah Varden celebrate their marriage. Photo from Capt. Peacock.

The avid hunting and fishing couple left for their South American adventure and returned to Capt. Peacock, where they were wed on Jan. 30.

“It was the first wedding on the new Rio Negro Queen,” said Leonardo Leao, Capt.

Peacock’s president, whose daughter, Faveliza Praciano, handled all of the wedding planning.

The new yacht has the size and amenities to hold a destination wedding, without forgetting about the fishing.

“We caught about 200 fish total,” Sarah said. “My largest was 15 pounds, Troy’s largest was 13 pounds, and Troy’s dad, Terry, beat us all with a 21-pounder.”

The couple will settle in Wyoming upon their return, where Troy is a habitat biologist with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

they got into the blind.

Far off in the distance, a few javelina emerged from the brush.

“They looked like little tumbleweeds,” Moreno said.

Once she spotted them, Moreno couldn’t sit still. The group got down from the blind and decided to try to sneak up on the peccary.

When they got close, they picked out a female in the group and Moreno made her shot. She turned around with a huge smile when the javelina hit the ground.

Her father had captured the whole hunt on video.

“I was just so excited,” she said. “I’ve waited a long time to go hunting, I knew I was gonna love it and I did.”

After taking their animals, the girls were taught how to skin them properly and prepare the meat.

“That was my favorite part,” Moreno said. “They didn’t smell as bad as I thought. Not as bad as a goat; I’m used to that smell.”

The Morenos took the meat to the processor and are waiting to get it back and plan on making tamales.

“I didn’t want to leave,” she said. “I cried a little when we were taking pictures at the end of the hunt.”

It’s experiences like Moreno’s that keep people like Parma passionate about introducing people to the outdoors.

Parma hopes to continue the girls’ javelina hunt. Next year, she plans to teach them how to cook the javelina.

“I think it tastes best when made into tamales,” she said.

Parma works for the Texas Wildlife Association and has been guiding hunts with the Texas Youth Hunter Program for four years. She became a huntmaster for the program last spring.

Parma’s husband, Adam, grew up hunting through the TYHP program.

The Texas Youth Hunter Program is a program sponsored by the TWA and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

It was established to provide opportunities for youth to participate in hunting activities while learning about the role landowners and hunters play in wildlife conservation. They offer more than 200 hunts each year.

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TEXAS SUN, MOON AND TIDES Moon Phases

First

Full

Last

New

Feb 12

Feb 19

Feb 12

Feb 19

Solunar Sun times Moon times

Houston

Dallas

2019 A.M. P.M. SUN MOON Feb Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets

2019 A.M. P.M. SUN MOON Feb Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets

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

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

7:54 8:41 9:28 10:16 11:05 11:54 12:18

15 Fri 16 Sat 17 Sun 18 Mon 19 Tue 20 Wed 21 Thu 22 Fri

7:48 1:38 8:35 2:25 9:23 3:12 10:10 3:59 10:59 4:47 11:49 5:36 12:12 6:26 1:03 7:18 1:57 8:12 2:53 9:08 3:50 10:05 4:49 11:03 5:48 ----6:47 12:34 7:46 1:33

8:09 1:59 8:56 2:46 9:44 3:33 10:33 4:22 11:23 5:11 ----- 6:02 12:40 6:54 1:33 7:48 2:28 8:43 3:24 9:40 4:21 10:36 5:18 11:33 6:16 12:02 7:14 1:00 8:11 1:58

07:06 07:05 07:05 07:04 07:03 07:02 07:01 07:00 07:00 06:59 06:58 06:57 06:56 06:55 06:54

06:03 06:04 06:05 06:06 06:06 06:07 06:08 06:09 06:10 06:10 06:11 06:12 06:13 06:14 06:14

9:28a 9:33p 9:59a 10:26p 10:30a 11:21p 11:04a NoMoon 11:40a 12:17a 12:22p 1:16a 1:10p 2:18a 2:04p 3:21a 3:06p 4:23a 4:13p 5:23a 5:23p 6:18a 6:34p 7:08a 7:43p 7:54a 8:49p 8:35a 9:54p 9:14a

1:44 2:31 3:18 4:05 4:53 5:41 6:32

8:15 9:02 9:50 10:39 11:29 ----12:46

2:05 2:52 3:39 4:27 5:17 6:07 7:00

07:16 07:15 07:15 07:14 07:13 07:12 07:11

1:09 7:24

1:39

7:54

07:10 06:11 2:04p

3:33a

2:03 2:58 3:56 4:54 5:54 6:53 7:51

2:34 3:30 4:27 5:24 6:22 7:20 8:17

8:49 9:45 10:42 11:39 12:08 1:06 2:04

07:09 07:08 07:07 07:06 07:05 07:04 07:03

4:36a 5:35a 6:30a 7:19a 8:02a 8:42a 9:19a

8:18 9:14 10:11 11:09 ----12:39 1:39

06:04 06:05 06:06 06:07 06:08 06:09 06:10 06:12 06:13 06:14 06:15 06:15 06:16 06:17

9:35a 9:39p 10:04a 10:33p 10:35a 11:29p 11:07a NoMoon 11:42a 12:27a 12:23p 1:27a 1:09p 2:30a 3:05p 4:13p 5:24p 6:36p 7:47p 8:55p 10:01p

San Antonio 2019 Feb

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

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

8:01 1:50 8:48 2:37 9:35 3:24 10:23 4:12 11:11 4:59 ----- 5:48 12:25 6:39 1:16 7:31 2:09 8:25 3:05 9:21 4:02 10:18 5:01 11:16 6:00 ----7:00 12:46 7:58 1:45

8:22 9:09 9:57 10:45 11:35 12:01 12:53 1:46 2:40 3:36 4:33 5:31 6:28 7:26 8:24

2:11 2:58 3:46 4:34 5:23 6:14 7:06 8:00 8:56 9:52 10:49 11:45 12:14 1:13 2:11

07:18 07:17 07:16 07:16 07:15 07:14 07:13 07:12 07:12 07:11 07:10 07:09 07:08 07:07 07:06

06:16 06:17 06:18 06:19 06:19 06:20 06:21 06:22 06:23 06:23 06:24 06:25 06:26 06:26 06:27

9:40a 9:46p 10:11a 10:39p 10:43a 11:33p 11:17a NoMoon 11:54a 12:30a 12:36p 1:29a 1:23p 2:30a 2:18p 3:33a 3:20p 4:35a 4:27p 5:35a 5:37p 6:30a 6:48p 7:21a 7:56p 8:06a 9:03p 8:47a 10:07p 9:27a

Amarillo

2019 A.M. P.M. SUN MOON Feb Minor Major Minor Major Rises Sets Rises Sets

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

8:14 2:04 9:01 2:51 9:49 3:38 10:36 4:25 11:25 5:13 ----- 6:02 12:38 6:52 1:29 7:44 2:23 8:38 3:19 9:34 4:16 10:31 5:15 11:29 6:14 12:00 7:13 1:00 8:12 1:59

8:35 9:22 10:10 10:59 11:49 12:15 1:06 1:59 2:54 3:50 4:47 5:44 6:42 7:40 8:37

2:25 3:12 3:59 4:48 5:37 6:28 7:20 8:14 9:09 10:05 11:02 11:59 12:28 1:26 2:24

07:40 07:39 07:38 07:37 07:36 07:35 07:34 07:33 07:32 07:31 07:30 07:29 07:28 07:27 07:25

06:21 06:22 06:23 06:24 06:25 06:26 06:27 06:28 06:29 06:30 06:31 06:32 06:33 06:34 06:35

9:56a 9:59p 10:25a 10:55p 10:54a 11:52p 11:25a NoMoon 11:59a 12:51a 12:39p 1:52a 1:25p 2:56a 2:19p 4:00a 3:20p 5:03a 4:29p 6:02a 5:41p 6:55a 6:54p 7:43a 8:06p 8:25a 9:16p 9:04a 10:23p 9:39a

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 Feb 8 Feb 9 Feb 10 Feb 11 Feb 12 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb 16 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb 19 Feb 20 Feb 21 Feb 22

Time 4:16 AM 12:15 AM 1:06 AM 1:59 AM 2:53 AM 3:48 AM 4:42 AM 5:36 AM 6:30 AM 7:22 AM 12:40 AM 1:46 AM 2:51 AM 3:59 AM 5:11 AM

Rollover Pass Height 0.90H 0.45L 0.31L 0.15L -0.04L -0.24L -0.45L -0.64L -0.80L -0.89L 1.36H 1.42H 1.44H 1.40H 1.32H

Time 11:25 AM 5:20 AM 6:42 AM 8:29 AM 10:24 AM 11:56 AM 1:00 PM 1:50 PM 2:33 PM 3:12 PM 8:14 AM 9:05 AM 9:55 AM 10:44 AM 11:35 AM

Height -0.11L 0.83H 0.79H 0.80H 0.90H 1.05H 1.20H 1.31H 1.39H 1.41H -0.90L -0.82L -0.63L -0.36L -0.04L

Time 6:37 PM 12:02 PM 12:43 PM 1:33 PM 2:39 PM 4:04 PM 5:28 PM 6:27 PM 7:11 PM 7:53 PM 3:49 PM 4:25 PM 5:00 PM 5:34 PM 6:08 PM

Height 0.99H 0.09L 0.31L 0.53L 0.73L 0.89L 0.99L 1.03L 1.02L 0.95L 1.40H 1.36H 1.31H 1.25H 1.19H

Time

Height

6:57 PM 7:12 PM 7:21 PM 7:31 PM 7:57 PM 8:55 PM 10:15 PM 11:31 PM

0.95H 0.92H 0.91H 0.94H 0.99H 1.06H 1.15H 1.26H

8:37 PM 9:24 PM 10:14 PM 11:08 PM

0.84L 0.68L 0.50L 0.31L

Galveston Bay entrance, north jetty Time 4:11 AM 5:27 AM 12:26 AM 1:20 AM 2:14 AM 3:10 AM 4:07 AM 5:04 AM 6:01 AM 6:56 AM 12:11 AM 1:25 AM 2:38 AM 3:53 AM 5:14 AM

Height 0.98H 0.85H 0.37L 0.14L -0.11L -0.37L -0.63L -0.87L -1.06L -1.17L 1.59H 1.65H 1.65H 1.58H 1.47H

Time 10:43 AM 11:15 AM 7:09 AM 9:05 AM 10:59 AM 12:29 PM 1:32 PM 2:19 PM 3:01 PM 3:39 PM 7:50 AM 8:43 AM 9:35 AM 10:27 AM 11:19 AM

Height -0.23L 0.03L 0.79H 0.84H 1.01H 1.25H 1.45H 1.59H 1.66H 1.65H -1.18L -1.05 -0.80L -0.44L -0.01L

Time 6:45 PM 7:04 PM 11:51 AM 12:33 PM 1:32 PM 3:25 PM

Height 1.10H 1.05H 0.33L 0.64L 0.94L 1.18L

Time 11:33 PM

Height 0.56L

7:16 7:15 6:44 5:30

1.01H 1.00H 1.06H 1.19H

7:03 7:26 4:13 4:46 5:16 5:45 6:12

1.41L 1.34L 1.58H 1.49H 1.39H 1.30H 1.24H

10:46 PM

1.48H

8:03 PM 8:48 PM 9:41 PM 10:38 PM 11:40 PM

1.20L 0.99L 0.73L 0.46L 0.19L

Height 0.58L 0.45L 0.30L 0.14L -0.04L -0.22L -0.39L -0.56L -0.71L -0.82L -0.86L 1.07H 1.13H 1.16H 1.16H

Time 4:12 AM 5:12 AM 6:26 AM 9:13 AM 11:16 AM 12:26 PM 1:26 PM 2:18 PM 3:02 PM 3:40 PM 4:14 PM 8:49 AM 9:44 AM 10:43 AM 11:47 AM

Height 0.73H 0.68H 0.65H 0.69H 0.86H 1.05H 1.23H 1.37H 1.46H 1.48H 1.45H -0.80L -0.63L -0.37L -0.05L

Time 11:18 AM 12:04 PM 12:59 PM 2:12 PM 4:11 PM

Height -0.09L 0.12L 0.33L 0.55L 0.73L

Time 6:16 PM 6:29 PM 6:48 PM 7:08 PM 7:20 PM

Height 0.93H 0.87H 0.81H 0.77H 0.75H

10:11 PM 4:44 PM 5:11 PM 5:33 PM 5:51 PM

0.92L 1.34H 1.20H 1.05H 0.91H

10:26 PM 10:51 PM 11:24 PM

0.81L 0.65L 0.43L

Height 0.16L 0.24L 0.39L 0.29L 0.19L 0.09L -0.01L -0.09L -0.16L -0.21L -0.21L 0.84H 0.79H 0.70H 0.46L

Time 9:48 PM 9:14 PM 7:57 AM 7:45 PM 7:19 PM 7:13 PM 7:43 PM 8:35 PM 9:37 PM 11:02 PM

Height 0.55H 0.52H 0.42H 0.55H 0.62H 0.70H 0.79H 0.85H 0.88H 0.88H

11:53 AM 12:36 PM 1:16 PM 5:29 AM

-0.17L -0.07L 0.06L 0.60H

Height 0.04H 0.03H -0.16L -0.25L -0.33L -0.40L -0.46L -0.50L -0.52L 0.37H 0.36H 0.33H 0.29H 0.23H 0.17H

Time 4:53 PM 6:34 AM 2:16 PM 10:16 PM 9:57 PM 9:45 PM 10:13 PM 11:03 PM

Height -0.22L -0.08L -0.04H 0.13H 0.20H 0.27H 0.33H 0.36H

1:12 2:09 3:02 3:50 4:32 5:10

-0.52L -0.50L -0.43L -0.34L -0.21L -0.08L

PM PM PM PM PM PM PM

PM PM PM PM

Time 12:11 AM 12:41 AM 1:11 AM 1:43 AM 2:19 AM 3:02 AM 3:55 AM 4:56 AM 5:59 AM 6:58 AM 7:54 AM 1:17 AM 2:27 AM 3:37 AM 4:47 AM

Port O’Connor Date Feb 8 Feb 9 Feb 10 Feb 11 Feb 12 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb 16 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb 19 Feb 20 Feb 21 Feb 22

Time 1:09 PM 1:21 PM 3:32 AM 4:13 AM 5:02 AM 5:57 AM 6:58 AM 8:03 AM 9:09 AM 10:11 AM 11:05 AM 12:55 AM 2:26 AM 3:48 AM 12:21 AM

Time 12:49 AM 12:42 AM 6:56 AM 7:21 AM 7:58 AM 8:52 AM 9:58 AM 11:06 AM 12:10 PM 12:28 AM 2:48 AM 4:19 AM 5:50 AM 7:19 AM 8:48 AM

Date Feb 8 Feb 9 Feb 10 Feb 11 Feb 12 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb 16 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb 19 Feb 20 Feb 21 Feb 22

Time 12:38 AM 1:11 AM 1:49 AM 2:30 AM 3:14 AM 4:02 AM 4:55 AM 5:51 AM 6:48 AM 7:43 AM 12:22 AM 1:37 AM 2:48 AM 3:57 AM 5:10 AM

Time 7:22 AM 8:42 AM 10:12 AM 12:02 PM 11:28 PM 11:52 PM 8:02 PM 8:38 PM 9:17 PM 9:49 PM 3:32 AM 4:40 AM 5:50 AM 7:02 AM 8:22 AM

Height 0.55H 0.48H 0.43H 0.43H 0.69H 0.73H 0.83H 0.91H 0.94H 0.93H 0.94H 0.95H 0.92H 0.86H 0.79H

Time 2:44 PM 3:12 PM 3:41 PM 4:04 PM

Height -0.21L -0.06L 0.13L 0.33L

Time 10:25 PM 10:34 PM 10:49 PM 11:07 PM

Height 0.68H 0.66H 0.65H 0.66H

12:34 PM 1:22 PM 2:10 PM 2:58 PM 3:51 PM

-0.65L -0.57L -0.42L -0.22L 0.03L

9:58 9:48 9:43 9:41 9:39

PM PM PM PM PM

0.87H 0.79H 0.71H 0.64H 0.61H

Height 0.41L 0.31L 0.18L 0.04L -0.11L -0.25L -0.39L -0.49L -0.58L -0.62L 0.82H 0.86H 0.87H 0.86H 0.81H

Time 4:18 AM 5:22 AM 6:53 AM 10:30 AM 12:53 PM 2:32 PM 3:22 PM 4:02 PM 4:33 PM 4:57 PM 8:37 AM 9:31 AM 10:25 AM 11:21 AM 12:22 PM

Height 0.50H 0.44H 0.39H 0.43H 0.57H 0.72H 0.84H 0.92H 0.94H 0.92H -0.62L -0.55L -0.42L -0.23L 0.01L

Time 11:41 AM 12:21 PM 1:05 PM 1:56 PM 5:27 PM

Height -0.12L 0.03L 0.20L 0.39L 0.55L

Time 7:09 PM 7:19 PM 7:29 PM 7:39 PM 7:48 PM

Height 0.58H 0.56H 0.54H 0.55H 0.57H

9:54 5:13 5:27 5:41 5:57 6:14

PM PM PM PM PM PM

0.76L 0.87H 0.80H 0.73H 0.68H 0.64H

10:10 10:31 11:02 11:46

PM PM PM PM

0.71L 0.62L 0.48L 0.32L

Date Feb 8 Feb 9 Feb 10 Feb 11 Feb 12 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb 16 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb 19 Feb 20 Feb 21 Feb 22

Time 5:00 AM 5:25 AM 5:52 AM 6:28 AM 7:13 AM 8:06 AM 9:02 AM 9:59 AM 10:53 AM 11:45 AM 12:55 AM 1:20 AM 1:49 AM 2:27 AM 3:12 AM

Height 0.51L 0.38L 0.23L 0.07L -0.09L -0.24L -0.39L -0.51L -0.60L -0.65L 0.88L 0.83L 0.72L 0.57L 0.39L

Time 7:22 AM 8:42 AM 10:12 AM 12:02 PM 11:28 PM 11:52 PM 8:02 PM 8:38 PM 9:17 PM 9:49 PM 3:32 AM 4:40 AM 5:50 AM 7:02 AM 8:22 AM

Height 0.55H 0.48H 0.43H 0.43H 0.69H 0.73H 0.83H 0.91H 0.94H 0.93H 0.94H 0.95H 0.92H 0.86H 0.79H

Time 2:44 PM 3:12 PM 3:41 PM 4:04 PM

Height -0.21L -0.06L 0.13L 0.33L

Time 10:25 PM 10:34 PM 10:49 PM 11:07 PM

Height 0.68H 0.66H 0.65H 0.66H

12:34 PM 1:22 PM 2:10 PM 2:58 PM 3:51 PM

-0.65L -0.57L -0.42L -0.22L 0.03L

9:58 9:48 9:43 9:41 9:39

PM PM PM PM PM

0.87H 0.79H 0.71H 0.64H 0.61H

Height 0.86H 0.66L 0.54L 0.41L 0.29L 0.16L 0.03L -0.09L -0.18L -0.23L -0.22L 1.13H 1.13H 1.10H 1.04H

Time 11:24 AM 4:19 AM 5:47 AM 10:03 AM 3:08 PM 3:31 PM 4:09 PM 4:55 PM 5:49 PM 11:27 PM

Height 0.28L 0.81H 0.75H 0.74H 0.88H 1.01H 1.10H 1.15H 1.15H 1.10H

Time 5:40 PM 11:57 AM 12:19 PM 12:31 PM

Height 0.82H 0.41L 0.55L 0.70L

Time

Height

6:06 PM 6:28 PM 6:30 PM

0.80H 0.79H 0.80H

9:01 AM 9:59 AM 10:56 AM 11:51 AM

-0.15L -0.03L 0.13L 0.32L

4:18 PM 4:29 PM 4:52 PM

0.80H 0.78H 0.79H

7:54 PM 10:57 PM 11:52 PM

0.73L 0.57L 0.40L

Height 0.93H 0.84H 0.52L 0.28L 0.03L -0.23L -0.48L -0.69L -0.84L -0.92L -0.89L -0.76L 1.17H 1.12H 1.06H

Time 10:42 AM 11:15 AM 5:58 AM 8:16 AM 10:52 AM 12:39 PM 1:44 PM 2:38 PM 3:25 PM 4:07 PM 4:41 PM 5:04 PM 9:22 AM 10:14 AM 11:06 AM

Height 0.11L 0.28L 0.78H 0.79H 0.91H 1.10H 1.27H 1.41H 1.49H 1.49H 1.41H 1.27H -0.53L -0.22L 0.12L

Time 6:24 PM 6:17 PM 11:55 AM 12:49 PM 2:47 PM

Height 0.99H 0.92H 0.46L 0.66L 0.86L

Time 11:55 PM

Height 0.72L

6:07 PM 5:50 PM 5:01 PM

0.86H 0.83H 0.87H

9:28 5:17 5:22 5:23

1.04L 1.11H 0.96H 0.87H

9:54 PM 10:33 PM 11:20 PM

0.81L 0.53L 0.25L

Port Aransas Time

Height

Time

Height

1:24 PM

0.34L

8:27 PM

0.52H

10:08 PM 1:54 PM

0.48H 0.21L

8:56 PM

0.42H

Height

Time

Height

Nueces Bay Date Feb 8 Feb 9 Feb 10 Feb 11 Feb 12 Feb 13 Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb 16 Feb 17 Feb 18 Feb 19 Feb 20 Feb 21 Feb 22

San Luis Pass

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East Matagorda

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Hunting cabins from Texas Continued from page 4

>> Several models of the MBRK cabins vary in size, and the cabins can be customized to fit the needs of customers. Photo from MB Ranch King.

BRUISER GUN CASE: Browning’s hard case is made with high-density polyethylene double-wall construction and foam inserts that keep guns separated and protected. The case also features a tongue and groove lid with O-ring seal to provide weather-resistance and corrosion-inhibiting Zerust inserts to help protect firearms from rust. The case’s recessed wheels will ensure easy mobility to and from a traveling hunter’s destination. The airline-approved 38x14x5-inch case costs about $210.

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SPARTACUS MAXIMUS REEL: This low-profile metal baitcasting reel

by KastKing offers the drag pressure needed to handle saltwater monsters. It has a tough, all-aluminum alloy zero-flex body and frame; a machined aero-grade aluminum spool; and anti-corrosion stainless steel main shaft and components.

The reel also offers one-way instant stop anti-reverse for solid hooksets, a 6.3:1 ratio with strong brass gears, and a high performance centrifugal brake to prevents backlash.

The reel costs about $100.

NEKO KNIFE: NRS’s compact, sleek knife with its comfortable rubber grip offers both smooth and serrated cutting edges, and comes in either blunt- or pointed-tip models. The friction-release sheath attaches firmly to an angler’s backpack to secure the 5.75-inch-long knife until it is needed.

A handy little bonus is its integrated bottle opener. Available in a black or green handle, it costs about $50.

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es and more care,” he said. “With most cabins, they have to be taken care of each year and the owners are only going out on weekends — they don’t want to spend all of their time on maintenance.”

The new cabins are built on I-beams with steel floors.

“There’s no wood to rot, no termites and no rodents,” Bogart said. “You can leave it and when you return, it will be in the same shape as when you left — and you don’t have to seal anything.”

No OSB board is used in construction, and the inside walls and ceiling are insulated with spray foam.

“We finished out the inside very nice,” Bogart said. “And we can customize the cabin to each person’s needs. We use licensed plumbers and electricians to do their type of work, and we use higher-end appliances, showers and water heaters.”

Sizes of the cabins, shown at mbrkcabins.com, range from 12- to 16-feet wide and up to 52-feet long. The Muley design

has 496 square feet, and The Elk, The Bighorn and The Grizzly models reach up to more than 700 square feet.

“We can put two together to double the width or we can tie them together at angles,” Bogart said. “And some people want one cabin where they cook with casitas off to the sides where they can sleep at their own place.”

Prices start at $37,000 and move up from there.

“We’re working on one at about $150,000,” Bogart said.

The company plans to sell 100-200 cabins per year, and Bogart purchased a 60,000-square-foot building in Comanche where the cabins will be built.

“We have been in the higher-end of deer blinds for 15 years,” he said. “The cabins fit right in with our customers.

We’re not going to be the cheapest, but the interest has been great.”

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>> MONTEFELTRO SILVER FEATHERWEIGHT SHOTGUN: Benelli’s light, quick-handling upland shotgun is available in 12- and 20-gauge models. This gun offers all the functional advantages of a semi-auto in a shotgun that’s easy to carry all day. Slim and balanced, it offers a singlepiece, engraved nickel-plated alloy receiver and a walnut stock and forend. The blued barrels are tipped with a red-bar front sight. Features include a shortened forend and magazine and carbon-fiber rib to reduce weight and provide a quick swing to drop fast-flushing birds plus an “Inertia Driven” operating system to provide consistent cycling with no adjustments needed.

The shotgun comes standard with five extended Crio chokes, choke wrench, and a shim kit to adjust drop and cast. The MSRP is $1,999.

WANDERER JACKET: Hunters can wear Heybo Outdoors’ light jacket alone during mildweather hunts or as a layering piece on colder days. Made from a stretchy polyester, it features mesh panels plus UPF 30 protection shields. The jacket wicks moisture and dries quickly to keep hunters comfortable and dry throughout the hunt. Available in sizes small through 3X large, the jacket costs about $55. It comes in Realtree Timber camo.

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Director of sales position

Gunwerks, LLC acquired Revic Optics, a Cody, Wyoming-based manufacturer of smart optics.

VP position at RMEF The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is seeking a vice president of development.

Promotion at SIG John Brasseur was promoted to vice president, product management at SIG SAUER, Inc.

Cole joins Blue Heron

American Outdoor Brands Corporation is seeking candidates for the director of sales - dealer and distributor.

Daren Cole, the former global marketing director with Navico, has become a partner and general manager with Blue Heron Communications in Norman, Oklahoma.

Adams named marketing director

Sales agency appointment

RubLine Marketing hired Bo Adams as marketing director for its portfolio of brands.

Promotion at Legacy Sports Legacy Sports promoted of Andy McCormick to executive vice president of sales and marketing.

Don Hansen & Company has become the the sales agency for American Buffalo Knife & Tool for 10 Midwestern states.

Hornady customer honored Bill Hicks & Co., Ltd., a distributor of wholesale sporting goods, received the 2018 Customer of the Year award from Hornady.

FOR THE TABLE Puzzle by Craig Nyhus, Lone Star Outdoor News

*email LSON your favorite recipe to news@lonestaroutdoornews.com.

Venison black bean soup Venison black bean soup 1/2 lb. venison cubes 1 pint dry black beans 3 qts. water 1/4 lb. salt pork 1 carrot, sliced 2 onions, chopped 1 tbsp. salt 3 cloves 1/8 tsp. mace 1/4 tsp. red pepper 3 hard-boiled eggs, sliced 1 lemon, thinly sliced and seeded 1/2 cup sherry

Soak the beans overnight in 1 qt. of water. The next morning, pour the water and beans into a large soup kettle and add 2 qts. water, salt pork, venison, carrots, onions, salt and spices. Cover and simmer for 3 to 4 hours.

Remove the meat and put the soup through a sieve, or blend in a blender until smooth. Add meat back to soup mixture. Serve hot garnished with hard-boiled eggs and lemon slices. Add the sherry just before serving.

—NaDeFa

Mullet spread 3 cups flaked smoked mullet meat 2 (8-ounce) packages light cream cheese, softened 3 tbsps. lemon juice 2 tbsps. grated onion 2 tbsps. milk 1 tsp. hot pepper sauce 3 tbsps. chopped parsley Paprika

Crackers to serve with spread Sea salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste Combine the cream cheese, lemon juice, grated onion, milk and hot pepper sauce; whip until smooth and fluffy. Stir in fish and parsley. Form into a ball and sprinkle with paprika. Cover and chill for 1 hour. Serve with crackers.

—Florida Dept. of Agriculture

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Photo from Stephen Seaton

alloy mono and 2 feet of 20-pound fluorocarbon,” he said. “I knew my knots were good, and the hook was buried.”

When the fish got to the boat, anxiety hit a peak when the first stab with the net failed. Finally, though, the fish was landed.

“Everyone was freaking out, then,” Seaton said.

“We idled to shore to measure and photograph the fish.”

There was only one problem. No one had a tape measure.

“We used a piece of monofilament and marked that and measured it later,” Seaton said. “We kept the fish fresh and, after that came the best part, when we released her and watched her swim off.”

The big brown measured at 32 inches and weighed an estimated 12 pounds.

“She was postspawn, she probably weighed 15 pounds before dumping her eggs,” Seaton said.

The catch topped off a great year for the fly-angler.

“I’ve landed my biggest tarpon, bass, redfish, black drum and now brown trout in the last year,” Seaton said. “And we’re headed to Louisiana to fly-fish for bull reds next month.”

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JB’s Ginger Snap Nov. 10, 2005 – Jan. 23, 2019 Joe Bob Shirley had pointing dogs growing up with his father, until 13 years ago when he got Ginger, his first German shorthaired pointer.

“Ginger was the switch, and she was a great all-around bird dog,” Shirley said. “She ran big like a pointer and had a great desire to retrieve.”

Outfitters marveled at Ginger’s ability to keep up with the running dogs. And when it came time to get the bird, Ginger shined.

“Pointers get a little selfish sometimes and just want to get back out there,” Shirley said. “Ginger brought the bird back to your hand. She was a great retriever all her life.”

On a Texas Panhandle pheasant hunt when Ginger was 2 or 3 years old, she showed her retrieving ability.

“She watched a wounded bird go down, and it ran to the end of a field a half-mile away,” Shirley said. “She got it and brought it back the whole way to my hand.”

Ginger loved the water, so much so that getting her out of a swimming pool was a task in itself.

“She would swim in a tank or a pool all day long,” Shirley said.

Ginger also had an affinity for critters not on the hunting list.

“She couldn’t resist a porcupine,” Shirley said. “She had four encounters, and each one worse than the one before.

That’s when I knew my wife was a keeper — she held the dog while I pulled out a mouthful of porcupine quills.”

Another critter was on the more smelly side.

“She had two skunk encounters,” Shirley said. “Once we were pheasant hunting near Spearman, and it was cold.

She pointed in the CRP, and when I got near I saw the black-and-white critter — but it was too late. She launched at it. She had to shiver in the barn after her special skunk bath.”

Shirley said Ginger’s personality was her best asset.

“She was gentle and loved to be petted,” he said. “But when she got to the field, she flipped the switch and it was all about the hunting.”

Ginger has left something behind, though, her son named Luke.

“We bred her and she had eight males,” Shirley said.

Photo from Joe Bob Shirley

“We kept Luke. He is all out of sorts this week; he’s been howling and acting up – it’s been a tough week for both of us. I took him to the lease to get away for the weekend and my wife helped clean up areas to remove a lot of Ginger’s scent.”

Luke is now 9 years old, and Shirley already is looking for a backyard buddy for him.

“We want another liver and white-colored one like Ginger,” he said.

For now, Luke has the run of the house.

“They were both semi-house dogs,” Shirley said. “When I’m not around, they get more run of the house. Luke is becoming a house dog since my wife feels so sorry for him.”

Ginger had a final quail hunt during the 2017-2018 season, and then retired until old age finally took its toll.

“She will be missed,” Shirley said.

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State-record longnose gar David Confair caught a 17.9-pound longnose gar to set the state record. The fish was caught Jan. 23 above the Brookview Bridge along Marshyhope Creek.

Confair and a friend were fishing for blue catfish when he landed the fish. His record surpassed the previous state record of 17 pounds, caught in the Potomac River in 2011.

—MDNR

ILLINOIS

Deer harvest totals Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 151,577 deer during all 2018-19 archery and firearm seasons, which concluded on Jan. 20. The total preliminary deer harvest for all seasons compares with a total harvest for all seasons of 147,695 deer in 2017-18.

During the 2018-19 deer seasons, hunters took 45 percent does and 55 percent males.

WYOMING JORDEN MAHLER, OF RICHMOND, TRAVELED TO ST. LINA, ALBERTA, CANADA WHERE HE BAGGED THIS 14-POINT WHITETAILED BUCK. HE USED HIS .308 BROWNING X-BOLT WHILE HUNTING WITH TAGGED OUT HUNTING ENTERPRISES.

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—IDNR

Game and Fish director retires Wyoming Game and Fish Director Scott Talbott announced his retirement after 34 years of service with the agency.

Talbott’s led the department’s efforts on large carnivore recovery that contributed to the delisting of two species — wolves and grizzly bears. Wolves have returned to state management and since held two hunting seasons. The recovery of grizzly bears returned the species to state management for the first two-thirds of 2018 before a federal judge ruled to relist the species.

Talbott also led Wyoming’s efforts on sage grouse conservation, pushing for collaboration through efforts to work side-by-side with a broad base of stakeholders to keep the bird from being listed.

—WGFD

SOUTH DAKOTA

World-record Rocky Mountain bighorn A bighorn ram arrowed last fall was certified as the largest hunter-killed Rocky Mountain bighorn with both the Pope and Young Club and the Boone and Crockett Club.

Clayton Miller’s ram was shot on Oct. 30, 2018 in Pennington County, and had a final score of 209 1/8 inches, surpassing the world record ram shot by Todd Kirk in 1998 by nearly 10 inches.

—Boone & Crockett Club

OKLAHOMA

Shooting complex at Panhandle State A state-of-the-art shooting sports complex for Oklahoma Panhandle State University in Goodwell is under construction.

OPSU President Tim Faltyn announced the centerpiece building at the complex would be named the John D. Groendyke Wildlife Conservation Center, honoring the longtime member of the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission who made a donation to cap a fundraising campaign for the building.

—OPSU

Quail study results A six-year cooperative study of quail on two western Oklahoma wildlife management areas confirmed that weather and habitat influence sizable fluctuations in the number of birds each year.

The report, “Research Summary: Evaluation of Northern Bobwhite and Scaled Quail in Western Oklahoma,” was released by the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station in the Division of Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources at Oklahoma State University.

Due to concerns about declining quail populations, the study between OSU and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Con-

servation was established in 2011 on the Packsaddle and Beaver River Wildlife Management Areas.

Tell Judkins, ODFC upland game biologist, pointed out some notable findings: • Surface water helps to concentrate quail but does not help to increase the number of quail • Quail survival is affected more by extreme cold (near 0 degrees) than by extreme heat (near 100 degrees) as long as shrubs were available for loafing and shade during the hot weather.

• About one in five bobwhite nests contained eggs from two different hens, which could indicate a survival strategy of mixing genetics in a single clutch • Strip disking did not show much benefit on Beaver River WMA due to the amount of open ground and forbs favored by quail already present.

—ODFC

NORTH DAKOTA

Free food plot seeds for pheasant Landowners interested in planting wildlife food plots for pheasants may sign up to receive free seed from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department for the 2019 growing season.

Rather than a more traditional corn or sunflower food plot, the seed mix provides increased plant diversity, including flowering plants from spring through fall, which will attract insects, the major diet component of pheasant chicks. Additionally, the mix will provide needed cover during spring and summer, as well as a winter food source.

—NDGF

ARIZONA

Pronghorn herd moved due to development A total of 45 of an estimated 100 pronghorn that have roamed the Glassford Hill area near Prescott Valley were captured and moved to other locations.

“Our mission at Game and Fish is to conserve and protect all of Arizona’s wildlife,” said Erin Butler, terrestrial wildlife program manager for the department’s regional office in Kingman. “With a four-lane, divided highway to the north, an encroaching subdivision to the east, another housing community under construction to the west, and more development to the south, this particular herd needs our help.”

—AZGFD

NEBRASKA

New outdoor business comes to Sidney Highby Outdoors launched its online outdoor gear business in Sidney, with products in the hunting, firearms and shooting, fishing and marine, knives and tools, camping and optics categories.

Future plans include additional merchandise categories as well as retail locations and catalog operations.

The company is made up of all former Cabela’s employees.

—Highby Outdoors

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Bernhardt nominated to head Interior President Donald Trump announced his nomination of Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt to take over the department officially.

Bernhardt is an avid sportsman with experience managing fish and wildlife resources from both a federal and state level. He was confirmed as deputy secretary in July 2017.

—Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation

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FEBRUARY 21

Wild Sheep Foundation The Sheep Show Reno-Sparks Convention Center (406) 404-8750 wildsheepfoundation.org Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Victoria Big Game Banquet Victoria Community Center Dome (361) 649-4751 rmef.org Coastal Conservation Association Brazos Valley Banquet Brazos Center, Bryan (979) 220-1738 ccatexas.org

FEBRUARY 9

DSC Texas Panhandle Chapter Banquet Amarillo Civic Center (806) 433-5766 panhandledsc.com National Wild Turkey Federation Houston Banquet Houston Distributing Company (281) 543-0185 nwtf.org

FEBRUARY 9-10

Lone Star Predator Calling Classic Hoffpauir Ranch & Supply, Lampasas (512) 748-2810 hoffpauirexpo.com/predator-contest

FEBRUARY 13

Dallas Woods and Waters Conservation Club Monthly Meeting Cafe De France dwwcc.org

The Wildlife Society Texas Chapter Annual Meeting La Torretta Lake Resort and Spa Montgomery (252) 541-5116 Coastal Conservation Association Corpus Christi Banquet American Bank Center (361) 882-5199 ccatexas.org Dallas Safari Club Monthly Meeting DoubleTree Campbell Centre (972) 980-9800 biggame.org

FEBRUARY 21-24

Austin RV Expo Austin Convention Center (512) 366-7135 austinrvexpo.com

FEBRUARY 22-24

Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited Troutfest Texas Lazy L&L Campgrounds grtu.org/troutfest

FEBRUARY 23

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Texas Hill Country Banquet Georgetown Community Center (512) 914-4007 rmef.org Ducks Unlimited Kerrville Banquet Hill Country Shooting Sports Center (830) 377-2838 ducks.org/Texas

MARCH 1-3

Friends of Padre 24th Annual Billy Sandier Big Shell Beach Clean Up Malaquite Pavilion friendsofpadre.com

Exotic Wildlife Association Annual Membership Meeting YO Ranch Hotel and Conference Center (830) 315- 7761 myewa.org

FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 2

MARCH 2

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Ranching and Wildlife Expo NRG Center, East End, Second Floor rodeohouston.com

Lubbock Sportsman’s Club Hunters Banquet Lubbock Memorial Civic Center (806) 789-2441 lubbocksportsman.com

FEBRUARY 28

Delta Waterfowl Collin County Banquet Noahs Event Center, Plano (469) 363-1622 deltawaterfowl.org

Cinnamon Creek Archery 2019 CCR Mud Run Cinnamon Creek Ranch 214-734-5783 cinnamoncreekranch.com

Ducks Unlimited Granbury Dinner Pecan Plantation County Club (817) 219-5246 ducks.org

Texas Dove Hunters Association Shooting for Scholarships Sporting Clays National Shooting Complex, San Antonio (210) 764-1189 texasdovehunters.com

MARCH 1

National Wild Turkey Federation Smith County Banquet Tyler Rose Garden nwtf.org

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Hill Country Banquet Gillespie County Fairgrounds (830) 864-5400 rmef.org

National Wild Turkey Federation Highland Lakes Banquet Lakeside Pavilion, Marble Falls (830) 693-7520 nwtf.org

MARCH 9

Tarrant Regional Water District TRWD Flyfest Clear Fork Trinity River Fishing Area, Ft. Worth trwdflyfest.com

Ducks Unlimited Conroe Dinner Montgomery County Fairgrounds (936) 537-1561 ducks.org

MARCH 23-24

Great Outdoors Expo 3rd Annual Expo Civic Center, Lubbock 806-253-1322 goetx.com

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1. The white grouse [PTARMIGAN] 3. Check this before duck-hunting trip [WIND] 4. A West Texas lake [SPENCE] 5. A fishing rod manufacturer [WATERLOO] 6. A shotgun manufacturer [FAUSTI] 7. Cuero High School's football team name [GOBBLERS] 9. Greek goddess of the hunt [ARTEMIS] 10. Largest National Park in Texas (two words) [BIGBEND] 11. Feathers from this bird are used to make flies [PHEASANT] 12. Jewelry to a duck hunter [BAND] 13. A rangefinder manufacturer [BUSHNELL] 18. A salmon species [CHINOOK] 19. A favorite baitfish for bass [BLUEGILL] 20. Texas' highest peak [GUADALUPE] 21. A shotshell manufacturer [FIOCCHI] 22. Legislation approving Conservation Reserve Program (two words) [FARMBILL] 25. Used to call in wigeon [WHISTLE] 28. Also called a dogfish [BOWFIN]

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