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Groom’s cake surprises husband

Volume 16, Issue 14

Walking the banks for white bass Although cooler water temperatures slowed the white bass run in some parts of the state, anglers are finding fish by walking the creek banks and casting slow-moving lures. Photo

by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.

By Craig Nyhus

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Dom Sanchez poses with his bow after being surprised by his new wife, Droxine, with a replica cake of a deer he hunted last year during their wedding. Photo by Michael Cory, Western Meadow Productions.

Full-size replica of his big buck

By Lili Sams

Lone Star Outdoor News Typically after a hunt, you take photos, butcher the meat and then take the deer to the taxidermist. For a buck of a lifetime, Droxine San-

chez took it one step further for her future husband, Dom. She commissioned an almost life-sized replica groom’s cake of the buck and surprised her husband with it at their leap day wedding.

The couple met eight years ago through friends. Dom introduced Droxine to hunting for the first time after they

started dating and she was hooked. Ever since her African safari a few years back, the couple have been hunting together.

“Couples that hunt together, stay together,” Dom joked.

A seasoned hunter, Dom rarely gets buck fever, but during a hunt on the Buck Horn Ranch last year, he got

goosebumps when he saw a deer the ranch employees had named “Thor.”

He booked another trip to the ranch the following weekend to pursue the buck.

“It was the first time he had that feeling of a kid,” Droxine said.

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At Denton Creek above Lake Grapevine, anglers are finding male white bass staging in the downstream areas closer to the lake.

Bank walkers are finding fish, fishing slowly in deep-water pools with a 1/16-ounce jig and small shad-colored plastic.

While the cool fronts might have delayed the run, the snakes are out, according to Fishin’aholic on the Texas Fishing Forum, who also posted a YouTube video while landing several keepersized males.

Other creek walkers advised to wear pants and long sleeves, as the briars and the poison ivy also had a good winter.

Guide Carey Thorn and his customers have been having good luck from the bank along Rowlett Creek, and he said wearing soccer cleats is key to keep from sliding into the creek.

They’re using a smaller, 1/32-ounce jig head, inline spinners and rooster tails.

On the Navasota River above Lake Limestone, logjams and stumps have made access difficult for boats, while private property keeps the creek walkers at bay. Fishermen with mud boats reported finding some fish. though.

A popular spot during the run each year, the Neches River at Chandler has high water, and anglers reported catching a few sandies near the Highway 31 bridge, but not the run that sees parking problems near the bridge.

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Taxidermist an avid predator hunter

By Nate Skinner

Devine taxidermist Kailum Rooks’ favorite pastime is hunting predators. Photo from Kailum Rooks.

By day, Devine resident Kailum Rooks is a taxidermist. By night, Rooks is an expert predator hunter. He does most of his hunting at nighttime, in pursuit of coyotes, bobcats and other predators and pests.

Growing up in the South Texas town of Moore, it’s no secret why the owner and operator of Lone Dove Taxidermy is passionate about hunting and the outdoors.

“I grew up on a piece of family land that had a portion of the San Miguel Creek running through it, and a variety of wildlife and predators alike traveled the creek on a regular basis,” he said.

At a young age, Rooks regularly went trapping with his dad along the creek bottom.

“This was at the time when furs were selling for decent money, and trapping coons and other critters was a good way to make some cash,” Rooks said. “My dad would call and trap a variety of animals and predators to Please turn to page 17

Freshwater Fishing Report . Page 10

HUNTING

FISHING

Saltwater Fishing Report . . . Page 11

Big East Texas bucks (P. 4)

Warding off stingrays (P. 8)

Father, son bag beauties on small tract.

Product keeps them away.

Snares become jewelry (P. 5)

Big bass bonanza (P. 8)

Bracelets raise money for Zambian people.

Several lunkers landed across state.

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HUNTING

Varying tactics of turkey hunting

Brian Burrows made the 2020 Olympic team in Men’s Trap and Mixed Team Trap. Photo by Miguel Bellido/Lima 2019.

Goal of making Olympic team met New Denton resident headed to Tokyo

By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News Since he was 14 years old, Brian Burrows has dreamed of making it to the Olympics. Now, at 32, he will be heading to Tokyo in late July, representing the United States in Men’s Trap and Mixed Team Trap along with fellow trap shooter Derrick Mein. The two will be the first Men’s trap shooters at the games in 12 years.

Burrows, who recently became a Texan, moving to Denton after living in California, lived through shooting successes, a retirement, a comeback and shooting slumps.

Last year, he won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. It didn’t get him a spot on the Olympic team, but the win and silver medal from teammate Derek Halderman assured the U.S. of two spots in Tokyo.

“Each discipline has to earn their quota spots,” Burrows said. “I won the gold in Lima, but the spot wasn’t mine. I had to earn it at the two Olympic trials events.”

Those events took place last September, in Kerrville, and last week, in Tucson. Burrows had to finish in the top two, which he completed in Tucson, making the dream of going to the Olympics a reality.

Now that the team is determined, a whirlwind schedule follows.

“We’ll go to Colorado for training camp where there will be trainers, sports psychologist, physical therapist and more.”

Burrows also kept busy over the past year after starting a business with his brother, Jon. The business, Iron Wood Axe Throwing in Denton, which takes advantage of the trend toward axe throwing as a hobby, opened in December in Denton.

“I was too busy to hunt this fall,” he said. “But we (Burrows and his girlfriend, Kelsy Beauchman) drew a turkey hunt in April.”

Burrows was glad to hear the Tokyo games are still set, despite COVID-19.

“I have to get flights to get my family to Tokyo at the end of July,” he said. “The flights are cheaper now, so that’s good.”

While many hunters use jake and hen decoys to attract toms, others prefer to call the birds close without them. Photo by Nate Skinner.

By Nate Skinner

For Lone Star Outdoor News There are plenty of hunters who harvest wild turkeys each year, but the number of fanatics who are obsessed with the act and entire process of pursuing long beards is much smaller.

Regardless of their preferred strategies and tactics, many turkey hunters get caught up in the brief moments when they are able to communicate with the wild animal they are after.

Some hunters use decoys and blinds, while others prefer to travel light and carry just a handful of calls. No matter how it’s done, most gobbler-crazed enthusiasts would agree that when a tom calls back in response to some manmade notes with a roaring gobble, the experience is worth it.

Midland resident Justin Bone has been turkey hunting since his early teens. His favorite way to interact with a gobbler is to don camouflage from head to toe, hide in some veg-

etation and entice the bird into coming to look for the hen his calls are intended to imitate.

“I’m not big on using decoys,” Bone said. “That’s not to say that I don’t think they are effective, I just haven’t had much success using them. I do often tote an inexpensive hen decoy along with me, but she usually ends up being used as a backrest or a pillow.”

Bone likes to keep his setup as simple as possible and will set out on foot with nothing but a shotgun and Please turn to page 15

Mind-boggling bucks of East Texas Father, son bag big bucks a season apart

By Robert Sloan

For Lone Star Outdoor News

The buck taken by Tim Baker on his 300-acre low-fenced ranch in East Texas had more than 200 inches of antler. Photo from Tim Baker.

When deer hunting in Texas, you never know what to expect from one hunt to the next.

For Tim Baker and his son, Tim Baker Jr., it all started with the purchase of a 300-acre ranch in East Texas in Anderson County back in 2017. The first big buck they took off their low-fenced ranch was on Nov. 12, 2018. The elder Baker shot a buck that day that had a gross score of 208-7/8. It had 32 scorable points and a 13-inch spread.

The next season, about 700 yards from where Baker had shot his trophy, his son shot a 13-point buck.

It scored 167 6/8 gross and 158 7/8 nontypical, with a 17-1/2 inch in-

side spread. Both of those deer qualified for the Texas Big Game Awards in Region 5.

There was nothing normal about the way these bucks were harvested.

Tim, 63, has been deer hunting in Texas for 50 years.

“I was on a morning hunt and was getting out of my blind when I saw the big buck coming at me on a pipeline,” he said. “He was about 150 yards away. I eased back into the blind and at that time the buck was 120 yards out. I got a steady rest and made the shot as he was walking towards me. The bullet hit him on the left side of the chest, and I could see the blood spot on his left shoulder.

I was shooting a Savage Winchester Magnum with a 180-grain bullet.”

After waiting about 40 minutes, Baker went to find the deer that had ran into the woods.

“But he was nowhere to be found,” he said. “I looked for about Please turn to page 17

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Turning poaching snares into beneficial bracelets Jewelry supports Zambian community

By Julia Bunch

For Lone Star Outdoor News The Luano Game Management Area of Zambia, like many areas in Africa, has a poaching problem. Locals who belong to the Tsoli tribe have difficulty policing organized poaching. And local subsistence farmers often turn to poaching to prevent game animals, such as baboons, from ravaging their crops and livelihoods.

Now a U.S.-based wildlife nonprofit, Shepherds of Wildlife Society, has created a way to tackle many of these issues with one simple bracelet.

By purchasing a bracelet made of wire snares apprehended from the Luano GMA, Shepherds of Wildlife uses the proceeds to support economic development, job creation and educational efforts in the bush.

“In the 1980s, this area was a crown jewel of safari hunting. It had incredible biodiversity,” said Tom Opre, executive director and founder of Shepherds of Wildlife Society. “Eventually, some of the younger population discovered they could make money off selling (poached) bush meat.

And subsistence farmers may put out dozens or hundreds of snares to keep their crops from being eaten by animals. They then take that meat for their families.”

Opre became familiar with the Luano GMA through Makasa Safaris founder Roland Norton.

Opre and Norton met at a conservation workshop in 2016. Shepherds of Wildlife wouldn’t be created until 2018, but the men instantly connected over conservation. Shepherds of Wildlife was founded by like-minded wildlife photographers and videographers with the goal of getting modern western civilization reconnected with nature to preserve wildlife habitats.

After the men met, Norton introduced Opre to the Luano GMA and the Tsoli people. Norton had a desire to help the Tsoli, but he knew that true

economic development — job creation and an alternative protein source to bush meat — was the only way to sustain change.

The Norton family invested in a fish farm for the Tsoli people. The tilapia and catfish farm created jobs and offered an alternative food source to poached meat.

Additionally, the GMA, which is about 3,300 square miles near the borders of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, previously had only six poaching scouts. After the Nortons stepped up recruitment and benefits, 60 scouts now police the area for illegal hunting, forcing many organized poaching gangs out of the area. With the increase in poaching policing, scouts recovered more and more snares, or crude wire fashioned animal traps.

“When I saw the number of snares being taken out of the bush — over 15,000 in three years — I asked what we were doing with them,” Opre said.

“They were being refashioned into rebar-like material and put into cement. “So I thought, wait a second, there’s an opportunity to educate people about these snares and to raise money for the tribe.”

Opre brought some snares back to the U.S. and worked with his daughter, a teenage artist, to create fashionable bracelets. After working out initial supply chain and quality control kinks, production was moved to Zambia. Each bracelet, which are sold on Shepherds of Wildlife’s website for about $50 each, is made in Zambia by Tsoli women.

The proceeds benefit the Indigenous Women’s Empowerment Fund that offers microloans to Tsoli women. These loans of about $50-$150 each can make a big difference in helping women with business plans to open storefronts or launch businesses.

“These snares are effective killers,” Opre said.

“And now we see them turned into something really cool looking and on (the arms of) women along with beautiful bracelets made from game artifacts.”

Funds from the sale of bracelets created from poaching snares are being used to help local Zambian communities. Photos from Tom Opre.

T. Boone Pickens’ custom engraved shotgun was auctioned off during the Park Cities Quail Coalition banquet and sold for $100,000. Photo by Grant Miller Photography.

Quail benefit from PCQ banquet

By Lili Sams

Lone Star Outdoor News Quail enthusiasts packed the Southern Methodist University Indoor Performance Center in Dallas for the 14th Annual Dinner and Auction benefiting the Park Cities Quail Coalition on March 5.

The night started off with a somber standing ovation for the legacy of T. Boone Pickens, conservationist and lover of quail, who passed away last September.

PCQC honored Carl Allen with the 2020 T. Boone Pickens Lifetime Sportsman Award during the event. Allen is the youngest recipient of the award and is a successful entrepreneur, hunter, angler, conservationist and philanthropist. He is currently working on restoring Walker’s Cay in the Bahamas, a legendary fishing mecca.

Allen has supported the organization

with more than $2 million in contributions since its inception. One of his notable donations, a trip in the Bahamas on his fleet of ships sold twice for $375,000 each this year.

“There’s nothing like a wild quail flush; there’s just nothing like it,” Allen said.

Allen noted during his acceptance speech that his relationship with T. Boone Pickens inspired his involvement with quail. His wife, Gigi, bought a quail hunt on Pickens’ Mesa Vista Ranch in the Texas Panhandle, which gave Allen the opportunity to share memories and learn about quail from Pickens.

PCQC’s live auction brought in another record-shattering night for quail, raising approximately $2 million. Notably, a rare opportunity to purchase a 20-gauge Beretta shotgun from T. Boone Pickens’ private collection was auctioned for $100,000.

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West Texas sportsmen raise money for conservation

By Lili Sams

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Lubbock Sportsmen’s Club President Tim Gafford, right, presents a hunt to veteran Nick Perales. Photo by Lili Sams.

Sportsmen and women packed the room of the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center on March 7. More than 500 people came out to support the Lubbock Sportsmen’s Club, an affiliate chapter of the Dallas Safari Club.

At its “Hunter’s Banquet and Auction” the live auction featured several worldwide hunts, fishing trips, bronze sculptures and more. Following the live auction, the club set a fundraising record with raffle ticket sales of more than $124,000, which created a buzz in the room hoping you were holding the lucky ticket for the wall of guns and more.

President Tim Gafford presented Nick Perales with a hunt for his service in the military courtesy of Sheep Dog Impact Assistance Project, which helps get veterans and first responders involved in outdoor adventures and disaster response missions to prevent suicide.

In 2019, the club donated more than $90,200 to various organizations that promote their mission such as the Texas Bighorn Society, Lubbock 4H Shooting, Conservation Force as well as a sponsorship for local schools outdoor education programs through the Outdoors Tomorrow Foundation.

The Lubbock Sportsmen’s Club mission is to conserve wildlife and wilderness lands, educate youth and the general public and to promote the rights of hunters in the West Texas area and worldwide.

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wanted to do something special for her future husband. Specialized and unique groom’s cakes are a tradition that has been growing in popularity.

“What can you do for a man who has everything?” Droxine asked. “I knew it had to be something with the deer,” she said.

She commissioned a custom, almost lifesized replica of “Thor” for Dom’s groom’s cake. And she knew the perfect person for the job, friend Dusty Sinclair of Sugarbelle Sweets.

Sinclair is passionate about two things: the outdoors and making delicious art. She started Sugarbelle Sweets, where she creates custom baked goods based in Corpus Christi, in 2004.

Months of planning went into the 130-pound groom’s cake. A mix of chocolate cake, with antlers made from rice crispy treats and modeling chocolate, went in to create this massive replica.

After getting the mount back from the taxidermist, Droxine snuck the mount out of their house without Dom knowing so Sinclair could study to make the most realistic replica.

When the cake was ready for transport, Sinclair carefully strategized a plan to get it from her in-home bakery.

“It wouldn’t fit into my car,” Sinclair said. “I even downgraded the size of his antlers a bit to fit. So I actually got a new car because of this cake, it was a good excuse to upgrade and to make room for future projects.”

Dom was taken by surprise when they unveiled the groom’s cake during the couple’s Feb. 29 wedding. The setup at the wedding even had the taxidermy mount and photos of the buck.

“He appreciated the gesture so much,” Droxine said. “We will always remember that moment and we are so glad everyone got to experience it with us.”

Dom exclusively hunts with a bow and is known on social media as “Bowhunter Sanchez”. They posed with his bow as if he was going to cut into the cake by shooting the arrow.

When it came time to really slice the cake, the couple showed they were true hunters.

“We cut out and ate the backstrap first,” Droxine said.

Sinclair said that due to her location, she receives more requests for fish-themed cakes. She has booked 12 weddings this year so far and as her business grows, Sinclair hopes to bake more exotics and fullsize fish replicas.

“I’m hoping to turn the business into more extravagant cakes making my art and passion for hunting and fishing edible,” Sinclair said.

Droxine said she was amazed by Sinclair’s work.

“It was an epic wedding,” she said.

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Stingray proof your fishing New repellent for wade-fishermen

By Robert Sloan

For Lone Star Outdoor News

Sooner or later, most all persons wadefishing along the Texas coast will encounter a stingray. The creatures, with their ultimate camouflage, blend into sand and mud as though they are invisible.

Now, avoiding a stingray may have become a little easier.

Eddie Vasquez, a Texas angler along the South Texas coast and a middle school science teacher, has come up with a device he claims will move stingrays away from anglers. It’s a simple-looking device involving three magnet-sized discs of the nonmagnetic rare earth material, Samarium.

“Our product transmits an electrical signal that stingrays can detect without causing them harm,” Vasquez said.

He first discovered this device while doing a science project with his students via

a PBS NOVA program that demonstrates how the Ray-Pel technology works.

“It all began in my classroom,” Vasquez said. “I was showing my students a PBS NOVA program about the periodic table.

I became very interested in the video as I learned about a technology that repelled sharks due to their electrical sensing organ, ampullae of Lorenzini, which I knew stingrays also had. By the end of the video, I knew I needed to find a way to utilize that technology to make for a better fishing experience. “ After years of patience and determination, Vasquez introduced the first-ever stingray repellent, the RAY-dar from RayPel. “Scientists believe that this organ, ampullae of Lorenzini, is used for hunting —

These small devices attached to submerged wading boots may help to keep stingrays away. Photos from Eddie Vasquez and Robert Sloan.

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Waiting for the big bass Fish starting to move shallower Lone Star Outdoor News Reports of big largemouths get bass anglers excited, especially when they see tournament limits topping 40 pounds and read about multiple double-digit bass being caught.

On most Texas lakes, though, each year the excitement seems to come a hair too early, but the lack of big bass in early to mid-March is not a reason for concern, according to anglers and guides.

A recent tournament on Lake Fork saw more than 300 anglers on the lake, and no “overs” (fish above the slot limit of 24 inches) were caught.

“A cold front came through and the big bass went deep and got lockjaw,” one angler said.

But guide Eric Wright said he has been targeting shallow-water bass and some of the bigger fish are coming in.

“The temperatures where I have been fishing range from 54 to 58 degrees,” he said. “The last few weeks I have been watching a lot of fish push up shallow.”

Wright has been fishing in 1 to 5 feet of water, focusing on the warm-

est water next to spawning areas.

“Overall the fishing has been solid for numbers, and the larger fish have started to chew a little better as well,” he said. “On our good days, we are catching around 30 fish.”

Wright has been using a white chatterbait with a white trailer, a 1/8-ounce flashy spin with a white trailer and a V & M Chopstick worm.

On Falcon Lake, guide John Adami said anglers have to make a decision whether to go for numbers with moving baits or go for a day with a few big bites using a flipping technique.

His most recent customer chose the latter.

“He lost two big fish but finally was rewarded with a double-digit bass,” Adami said. “When the wind dies, the bite dies, and when it’s too windy, it’s too hard for many customers to flip.”

At Toledo Bend Reservoir, the forecast for mid-March calls for air temperatures in the high 70s to low 80s, and even bigger crowds of fishermen are expected to migrate to the lake.

Guide Joe Joslin said water temperatures are catching up. He has been fishing shallow with squarebilled crankbaits and weightless Texas-rigged scented stick worms.

Largemouth bass are beginning to move in to spawn on many Texas reservoirs, while anglers wait for warmer water temperatures to trigger the major spawning activity. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.

Spring patterns in Galveston Bay marshes, bayous

By Nate Skinner

For Lone Star Outdoor News The washing-machine effects of springtime are hitting in full force along the Texas coast, and large, fluctuating tides are occurring in accordance with varying conditions and moon phases.

These significant changes in water levels are helping Galveston Bay anglers predict where

the fish will stack up along bayous, marshes, back lakes and the mouths and channels leading into these satellite areas. Flounder are showing up almost everywhere, and redfish and speckled trout also are in the mix.

Capt. Grant Hoisington said the spring flounder run in the Galveston Bay complex has been nothing short of incredible.

“We have been finding flounder in just about every location that we’ve targeted lately,” Hoisington said. “From mud banks along the edges of drains and bayous, to the perimeters of oyster reefs in the marsh, the flatfish are stacked up all over.”

Hoisington said the flounder have been so thick, that he and his clients have even been catching them unintentionally while

pursuing other species.

“We have seen flounder swipe at large surface plugs and have caught them on suspending mullet-imitation lures while trying to coax bites from trophysized trout,” he said. “There’s a bunch of flounder in Galveston Bay to the say the least.”

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New fishing pier coming to South Padre Island

By Tony Vindell

For Lone Star Outdoor News A new fishing pier is under construction on the beach side of South Padre Island, the first public facility in some time erected over the sand and surf along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Construction of the 1,000-foot pier began recently but could take a year or more to complete due to environmental and conservation issues.

Clayton Brashear, a business entrepreneur who owns Clayton’s Beach Bar & Grill, dubbed as the longest beach bar in Texas, is behind the multi-million-dollar project.

The pier is being built to the right of the hangout that has become popular among Winter Texans and spring breakers.

Brashear said he looked at piers in Corpus Christi and in Galveston to get an idea about he wanted, and talked to people in the two cities.

“I was told there are no people down here and why I was doing this,” he said as he stood by the construction site. “I said they are crazy. We have more than a million people coming to the island every year.”

Brasher, who is originally from Brownsville, said he wants a pier so his Winter Texan clientele and people from throughout the Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere in the state and country have something to do when they are on the island.

He said building the pier will take more time than the anticipated and the reason for that is because the work there has to come to a stop during the turtle

annual nesting season.

“I was told to stop with much of the work from March 15 through October,” he said. “We will continue building the pier but not to the extent we started doing it.”

Nearby Port Isabel has a 1,500-foot long pier originally built about 40 years ago.

Piers are popular with fishing enthusiasts because there is no need to get wet, and many of them are open 24/7 with relatively cheap entry fees, ranging from $5 to $12 for the right to fish.

Clayton Brashear is building a new fishing pier on South Padre Island next to his beach bar. Photo by Tony Vindell, for Lone Star Outdoor News.

Controlling cormorants

The double-breasted cormorants’ population has been growing for years, causing issues for fisheries managers. Photo by Joe Richards.

Permits may again become available

By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News Texas landowners who manage their lakes and ponds for fish may soon be able to control doublecrested cormorants once again.

From 2004 to 2015, landowners could obtain permits to take the fish-eating birds from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. However, after a lawsuit was filed, largely by a group of former federal employees, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. vacated the program, saying it failed to address how cormorant management impacted fish populations.

Since that time, a new Environmental Impact Statement was completed in 2017, but it did not address wild and stocked fisheries; although it did include hatcheries and aquaculture and authorized the taking of 51,000 cormorants.

Bob Waldrop, of Tyler Fish Farms in Ben Wheeler, said his business is able to control the birds, somewhat, through the federal permit.

“The original rule gave the states the opportunity to take care of them,” he said. “But the fishing clubs and private landowners were out of luck.”

Waldrop said once a doublebreasted cormorant shows up at your lake, more will follow.

“They triple each day,” he said.

“First, a scout will show up. The next day you’ll have three and the day after you’ll have nine.”

When pond levels drop in summer, the birds can essentially wipe out the forage base in a small pond.

“Managed fisheries really take a hit,” Waldrop said.

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TEXAS FRESHWATER FISHING REPORT ALAN HENRY: Water clear 52-54 degrees; 2.65’ low.

Largemouth bass are good on jigs and spinner baits. Crappie are fair on minnows fishing the pier. Catfish are fair on live bait and stink bait.

AMISTAD: Water lightly stained; 59-61 degrees; 32.45’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters, spinner baits, crankbaits and plastic worms on points. White bass are fair on minnows mainly off drops. Catfish are fair on stink bait and cut bait.

ARROWHEAD: Water stained; 50-54 degrees; 1.69’ low.

Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms and jigs. Crappie are good on live minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on stink bait.

ATHENS: Water lightly stained; 52-54 degrees; 0.75’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on Carolina-rigged worms, jigs, lipless crankbaits and spinner baits. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on cut bait.

B.A. STEINHAGEN: Water stained; 55-57 degrees; 0.58’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters and plastic worms. Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows close to shore.

Catfish are good on cut and prepared bait.

BASTROP: Water stained; 5962 degrees; Largemouth bass are fair in creeks and coves on Carolina-rigged plastics and crankbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Channel and blue catfish are good on cut bait and stink bait.

BOB SANDLIN: Water stained; 52-54 degrees; 0.55’ high.

Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits and spinner baits near creeks. Crappie are fair on light-colored jigs and minnows in deeper water. Catfish are fair on cut bait and blood bait.

BRAUNIG: Water lightly stained; 56-58 degrees; Largemouth bass are good on top-waters, plastic worms, spinner baits and jigs. Striped bass are fair in heated discharge. Red drum are good surface feeding similar to stripers midlake. Catfish are good on live bait and cheese bait.

BROWNWOOD: Lightly stained; 52-55 degrees; 3.70’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits and plastic worms. White bass are fair on minnows. Catfish are slow.

BUCHANAN: Water clear; 54-76 degrees; 4.41’ low.

Largemouth bass are fair on dark jigs and soft plastics and crankbaits. Striped bass are fair in the main lake. White bass are good on minnows and slabs. Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows. Channel catfish are fair on stink bait, live and cut bait.

CADDO: Water stained; 52 degrees; 0.89’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on soft plastics. Crappie are fair on minnows and light jigs. Catfish are fair on stink bait and live bait.

CALAVERAS: Water stained; 57-59 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on jigs and plastic worms in shallower coves

and creeks. Red drum are fair to good on crawfish and tilapia. Hybrid striped bass are fair on spoons, chicken livers and lipless crankbaits. Catfish are good on stink bait, liver and cut shad.

CANYON LAKE: Water clear to lightly stained; 56-57 degrees; 3.07’ low. Largemouth bass are good in creeks and grassy shorelines on crankbaits and drop-shot rigs. Striped bass are on humps on live bait on vertical jigging jigs. Catfish are good on live and cut bait.

CEDAR CREEK: Water stained; 51 degrees, 0.18’ high.

Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms, chatterbaits, spinner baits and jigs in creeks. White bass are good in deeper water. Crappie are good near docks and brush piles.

Catfish are good on fresh cut bait.

CHOKE CANYON: Water lightly stained; 59-61 degrees; 18.24’ low. Largemouth bass are good on jigs, plastic worms and top-waters. White bass up the Frio River on minnows and artificial baits. Crappie are fair on jigs.

CONROE: Water stained; 56-59 degrees; 1.59’ low.

Largemouth bass are good in creeks on soft plastics, spinner baits and jigs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Hybrid striped bass are fair on shad.

Catfish are good on stink bait and cut bait.

COOPER: Water lightly stained; 55 degrees; 1.06’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on Carolina-rigged worms in natural colors, lipless crankbaits and spinner baits in creeks and coves. White bass are good on slabs and live bait in deeper water. Catfish are good on live and cut bait.

CORPUS CHRISTI LAKE: Water lightly stained; 61-62 degrees; 4.01’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters, spinner baits, buzzbaits and plastic worms. White bass are good in the Nueces River on minnows. Crappie are fair on live minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on cut bait and cheese bait.

EAGLE MOUNTAIN: Water stained; 51-52 degrees; 0.20’ high. Largemouth bass are fair fishing docks and submerged structure on spinner baits and plastic worms.

Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs.

Catfish are good on cut bait and punch bait.

FALCON: Water lightly stained; 65-66 degrees; 37.65’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on soft plastic worms, spinner baits and crankbaits among timber and vegetation.

Crappie are slow. Catfish are good on live and prepared baits.

FAYETTE: Water stained.

55-58 degrees; Largemouth bass are fair on plastic worms, creature baits and crankbaits.

Sunfish are fair on worms and

crickets around bank ledges and structure. Catfish are good on stink bait, live bait and cut bait.

FORK: Water lightly stained; 50-52 degrees; 0.08’ low.

Largemouth bass are fair on lipless crankbaits, chatterbaits and bladed jigs. White and yellow bass are fair. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows staging near creeks. Catfish are fair on prepared bait and cut bait in deeper water.

GIBBONS CREEK: Water stained; 55-58 degrees; Largemouth bass are excellent on plastic worms and spinner baits. Crappie are fair on jigs.

Catfish are fair on live bait.

Sunfish are fair on cut worms.

GRANBURY: Water stained; 53 degrees. 0.13’ high.

Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits in creeks and shallow water. Crappie are fair around brush piles and boat docks on minnows and jigs.

Catfish are good on cut bait and live bait.

GRAPEVINE: Water stained; 52 degrees; 2.21’ high.

Largemouth bass are fair on creature baits and squarebilled crankbaits. White bass are fair in deeper water on slabs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs over structure and in creek areas. Catfish are good on live and prepared bait.

HOUSTON COUNTY: Water slightly stained; 57-59 degrees; 0.22’ high. Largemouth bass are fair to good around rocks and boathouses on jigs, soft plastics and red crankbaits. Crappie are good in the creek channels, coves and brush piles on jigs and minnows. Catfish are good on cut shad.

HUBBARD CREEK: Water stained; 56-58 degrees; 2.71’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on plastic worms, spinner baits and jigs. Crappie are good on live minnows. Catfish are fair on live and cut shad.

JOE POOL: Water lightly stained; 55-56 degrees; 0.42’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on Texas rigs and shallow-running crankbaits near structure and creeks. Crappie are slow.

Catfish are good on trotlines.

LAKE O’ THE PINES: Water stained; 52 -56 degrees; 5.52’ high. Largemouth bass are good on vibrating jigs, Carolina rigs and Texas-rigged creature baits.

Crappie are good on jigs and minnows in the creek channel. Catfish are fair on cut bait and blood bait.

LAVON: Water stained; 53 degrees: 0.60’ high.

Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits, lizards and jigs.

Crappie are good on jigs and minnows. White bass are fair in deep water. Catfish are good on prepared baits.

LBJ: Water lightly stained; 57-59 degrees; .83’ low.

Largemouth bass are good in creeks and inlets on watermel-

on and green jigs and worms, spinners, and lipless crankbaits. Crappie are good on jigs around brush and docks.

White bass are fair fishing the river. Catfish are good on stinkbait and cut bait.

LEWISVILLE: Water stained; 52 degrees; 0.61’ high Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits and Texas-rigged plastics. White bass are good on slabs and jigs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs around brush piles. Catfish are good on cut bait.

LIVINGSTON: Water lightly stained; 56-57 degrees; 0.41’ high. Largemouth bass are good in creeks and coves on plastic worms, spinner baits and jigs. Striped bass are fair on live shad. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass are good on spoons. Catfish are fair on live baits.

MEDINA: Water lightly stained; 59-61 degrees; 11.54’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on topwaters and spinner baits.

Crappie are slow.

White bass are fair on spoons and jigs. Catfish are fair on live bait, chicken livers and blood baits.

MILLERS CREEK: Water stained; 50-52 degrees; 1.48’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on soft plastics and crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on live bait and blood bait.

NACONICHE: Water slightly stained; 55-56 degrees; Largemouth bass are good on spinner baits, jigs, crankbaits and creature baits in creeks and coves. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows under bridges. Catfish are good on dough balls, cut and live bait.

NASWORTHY: Water murky; 56 degrees. 0.96’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on plastic worms, spinner baits and jigs.

Crappie are fair under docks and bridges on minnows and jigs. White bass are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on live and prepared bait.

NAVARRO MILLS: Water stained; 56-58 degrees; 33’ high. Largemouth bass are good on pumpkin-colored spinner baits and crankbaits.

Crappie are fair on minnows around the marina. Catfish are good on live bait and punch bait.

O.H. IVIE: Water clear; 55 degrees; 9.79’ low. Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms, crankbaits and minnows in coves and creeks.

Crappie are fair on live minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on stink bait, live and cut bait.

PALESTINE: Water lightly stained; 51 degrees; 1.63’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on soft plastics with a slow presentation. Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows. Hybrid stripers are fair on slabs.

White bass are good on slabs.

Catfish are fair on shad and

chicken livers.

POSSUM KINGDOM: Water clear; 48-49 degrees; 0.04’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on soft plastics. White bass are good on cut shad. Crappie are slow. Striped bass are slow. Catfish are good on cut shad.

PROCTOR: Water stained.

53-55 degrees. 3.10’ low.

Largemouth bass are good on Carolina-rigged plastic worms and jigs in shallow water.

Hybrid stripers are fair trolling jigs over midlake humps.

Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows. Catfish are good on stink bait and cut bait.

RAY HUBBARD: Water clear; 50-51 degrees; 0.01’ low.

Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits and spinner baits. White bass are good on slabs with a small crappie jig.

Catfish are fair on live and cut bait.

RAY ROBERTS: Water stained: 49 degrees; 0.83’ high.

Largemouth bass are fair on worms and spinner baits.

White bass are good on slabs and jigs.

Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows in the marina. Catfish are fair on live bait and prepared bait.

RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water lightly stained; 52 degrees; 0.63’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits, plastic worms and bladed jigs working flats, submerged vegetation and creeks. White bass and hybrids are fair on jigs and slabs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on live bait and cut bait.

SAM RAYBURN: Water stained; 59-61 degrees; 1.00’ high. Largemouth bass are good in shallower structure and creek edges on plastic worms, jigs and spinner baits.

White bass are fair on minnows in creek mouths. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs.

Catfish are good on live bait and stink bait.

SOMERVILLE: Water clear; 59 degrees; 0.03’ high.

Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms, crankbaits and jigs. White bass and hybrids are fair on shad, minnows and jigs. Crappie are slow. Catfish are good on cut shad and stink bait.

SQUAW CREEK: Water stained; 59-61 degrees; 0.81’ low. Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms and crankbaits. Catfish are good on punch bait and cut bait. Crappie are fair on minnows.

STILLHOUSE HOLLOW: Water stained; 55 degrees; 3.29’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits and Carolinarigged soft plastic worms.

Crappie are fair on minnows and light-colored jigs. White bass are fair on small crankbaits and jigs. Catfish are fair on live and cut bait.

TAWAKONI: Water stained; 52 degrees; 0.99’ high.

Largemouth bass are fair on spinner baits, plastic worms

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Catfish are excellent on live bait and cut bait. White bass and hybrid stripers are good on slabs and jigs.

TEXANA: Water stained; 59-61 degrees; 5.79’ low.

Largemouth bass are good on plastic worms and spinner baits. Crappie are fair on jigs.

Catfish are good on stink bait, cut bait and live bait.

TEXOMA: Water stained; 49-52 degrees; 0.13’ high.

Largemouth bass are fair on soft plastics and crankbaits.

Striped bass are good on slabs, shad imitations and live shad.

Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs by boathouses, submerged vegetation and timber.

Catfish are good on cut bait and minnows.

TOLEDO BEND: Water slightly stained; 56-58 degrees; 0.83’ low. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits, spinner baits and jigs. Crappie are fair on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are fair on stink bait.

TYLER: Water stained; 55 degrees; 0.35’ high. Largemouth bass are good on Carolina-rigged creature baits and plastic worms. Crappie are good on chartreuse jigs and minnows. Catfish are good on stink bait and live baits.

WACO: Water clear 56 degrees; 1.20’ low. Largemouth bass are good on spinner baits, plastic worms and lipless crankbaits in warmer water coves and creeks. Crappie are fair on minnows and chartreuse jigs. Channel and blue catfish are fair on cut shad or live bait.

WEATHERFORD: Water stained; 54 degrees; 0.06’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on spinner baits, lipless crankbaits and plastic worms. White bass are slow. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs around docks and marinas. Catfish are good on crawfish, liver, blood bait and cut bait.

WHITNEY: Water clear; 55 degrees; 4.13’ low. Black bass are good on crankbaits, watermelon/red plastic worms and jigs. White bass are good near creeks. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs near brush in shallow water. Catfish are fair on cut shad and prepared baits.

WRIGHT PATMAN: Water stained; 50 degrees; 11.98’ high. Largemouth bass are good on slow-moving worms and jigs. White bass are slow.

Crappie are fair on jigs over brush piles. Catfish are fair on cut bait, live bait and stink bait.

—TPWD

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TEXAS SALTWATER FISHING REPORT SABINE LAKE: Water stained; 64 degrees.

Speckled trout are slow to fair between cold fronts on corkies and suspending twitch baits. Redfish are fair on mud shell flats and channel drops.

TRINITY BAY: 59 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are fair wade-fishing with artificials or drifting over shell reefs. Flounder are good on minnow bait around the rocks.

EAST GALVESTON BAY: 63 degrees. Speckled trout and redfish are good on shrimp.

Flounder are good on live shrimp. Sheepshead are excellent near the jetties on shrimp.

WEST GALVESTON BAY: 63 degrees. Redfish

and speckled trout are fair on the flats on live shrimp. Flounder are good on live shrimp.

Sheepshead are good on shrimp around the jetties. Black drum are good along the shoreline on blue crab.

TEXAS CITY: 57 degrees. Speckled trout are good along the shoreline on mullet or shrimp.

Redfish are good over the flats on live shrimp.

Flounder are good on live shrimp or mud minnows around the jetties. Black drum are good on blue crab. Sheepshead are good on shrimp around the rocks.

FREEPORT: 63-64 degrees; Water clear.

Redfish are fair along the flats on shrimp.

Speckled trout are good on shrimp. Black drum are good on dead shrimp.

WEST MATAGORDA BAY: 62-63 degrees.

Speckled trout are good on soft plastics. Redfish are good on live shrimp and soft plastics.

Flounder are fair to good on shrimp around the rocks.

PORT O’CONNOR: 62-64 degrees. Trout and redfish are good on shrimp. Black drum are good on blue crab or shrimp. Flounder are

good around the jetties on shrimp or mud minnows. Sheepshead are excellent near the jetty on live shrimp.

ROCKPORT: 61-63 degrees. Redfish are very good on mullet, mud minnows or blue crabs around the flats and channel edges. Trout are excellent on mullet around the reef. Black drum are good around grass beds on mullet.

PORT ARANSAS: 64-66 degrees. Redfish and trout are good along the south jetty on shrimp. Flounder are good on live mullet along the marsh. Sheepshead are good on shrimp.

CORPUS CHRISTI: 66-67 degrees. Redfish are good on live mullet around Mustang Island. Speckled trout are good around the midbay reefs on artificial baits or shrimp.

Flounder are good on finger mullet around the rocks. Black drum are good on blue crab around the Laguna Madre.

BAFFIN BAY: 71-73 degrees. Speckled trout are fair to good on swimbaits along the edge of rocks. Redfish are good in the flats on mullet or shrimp. Flounder are good on mud minnows around the rocks.

PORT MANSFIELD: 63-64 degrees. Speckled trout are fair to good in sand pockets on corkies and ball tail plastics. Redfish are good in the shallows on live shrimp and scented plastics.

SOUTH PADRE: 66-67 degrees. Snook are good on D.O.A. lures. Speckled trout are good along the shoreline on shrimp.

PORT ISABEL: 63 degrees. Trout are fair in the shallow grass flats around the Laguna Madre on shrimp. Redfish are fair to good on shrimp in shallow water. Black drum are good on crab and shrimp.

—TPWD

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GAME WARDEN BLOTTER STRANDED HUNTER RESCUED A hunter in Red River County became trapped in his deer stand due to rising floodwaters. DPS located the deer stand from the air and Region 2 game wardens rescued him by airboat after daylight the next morning. The 70-year-old was cold, but safe.

UNDER A WATCHFUL EYE In an area where several deer had been shot from the road in recent months, a Cherokee County game warden noticed a truck nearing his location at a very slow pace, and stopping twice. Through his binoculars, the warden could see a subject exit the vehicle’s passenger side and walk into the pasture where he was located. Using thermal imaging, he saw the subject walking up the hill adjacent to his location. A short time later the subject started shining a light. The warden approached the subject’s vehicle and asked the driver what they were up to. The driver replied, “Not any good.” The driver said his buddy was out in the field looking for a deer he had shot earlier in the evening. It was determined the shooter and his wife had been driving by and saw a small buck on the hillside and the subject took a shot at the buck with his .17 caliber rimfire rifle. The deer seemed to drop so the subject took his wife home and

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planned to come back and pick up the deer with his buddy. The deer was never recovered.

SOMETHING BORROWED A landowners contacted a Cherokee County game warden regarding a stolen generator, valued at $4,700, that was taken from his deer lease.

The warden received a tip regarding a local duck hunter who had possibly been seen with the stolen generator at Richland Creek WMA. Initially, the subject said he had borrowed a generator from a friend in Jacksonville and knew nothing about a the one that was stolen.

The warden then questioned the man’s cousin. The cousin denied any involvement or knowledge of the missing generator. However, the warden learned the subject had told someone that he borrowed a generator from someone in Bullard,

three hunters shot a deer and used one license to tag the three deer. Citations were issued for no hunting license and hunting under the license of another. Two deer heads were seized.

which was not the story he had originally told the warden. The subject later came clean and admitted that he and his cousin had both taken the generator with full intent on returning it, even though it had been more than three weeks since it was “borrowed.” The generator was recovered in a local storage unit and returned to the original owner.

ROAD-HUNTING COMPETITION A Houston County game warden observed a vehicle slowly driving down a county road. The vehicle would stop, back up and then proceed forward again. The warden followed and the vehicle stopped at an open pasture. The passenger stuck a rifle barrel out the window and was using the mirror as a rest. The truck moved forward again very slowly and then quickly stopped. The passenger could be heard chambering

a round into the action. A second road hunter came creeping up the county road behind the warden, who then activated his lights. The passenger in the truck was looking at the warden, and the second truck reversed course, spun around and fled quickly in the opposite direction. The occupants in the first vehicle were two males and a female along with a 2-year-old child.

They were using a 7.62 on an AR platform with an attached thermal scope to “look around.” The second vehicle was not located.

DEER CONTEST ENTRY DISQUALIFIED A Georgia hunter killed a big buck in Frio County and had it entered in the local hunting contest. It was learned the hunter did not have a license. A citation was issued, and the deer head was seized.

FLEEING WARDEN FOR A BAD REASON On the Paluxy River in Glen Rose, a Somerville County game warden noticed two individuals who were fishing and put their fishing rods down and started to walk in the opposite direction. One of them started to jog away and duck behind a house. The warden made contact with the other individual who said he did not have a fishing license and his driver’s license was in his father’s truck. The warden followed the individual to his father’s truck to retrieve the license, and during a check the individual was wanted for sexual assault on a child. The warden directed the individual to place his hands on the vehicle, but he refused and started to run away.

The man was quickly apprehended.

The other individual was located and was unable to produce a fishing license.

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Bass Champs winners on Rayburn George Glass, of Derrider, and Trent Manuel, of Orange, brought in five bass totaling 24.53 pounds on Sam Rayburn Reservoir to beat the 255 other teams and capture first place at the Bass Champs event, winning $20,000.

Following in second place was the team of Jason Moorhead and Charles Shofner Jr., both of Jasper, with 23.42 pounds, earning $5,400. Sam Huckabee, of Shreveport, Louisiana and Toby Johnson, of Bossier City, finished third with 21.5 pounds, winning $4,400.

The biggest bass, at 10.79 pounds, was brought in by the team of Eric and Howard Wilson.

—Bass Champs

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According to the Houston Area Fly Fishers, the run continues and white bass are aggressively taking flies in the area, along with yellow bass and crappie.

On the Lampasas River above Stillhouse Hollow, Butch Good reported water too shallow to get to their favorite spot without walking. When they reached the spot they usually beach the boat, he fished some deeper green water with a sassy shad, and with his wife caught 30 fish, including

some bigger females.

“The closer we got to the lake, the fewer fish were being caught,” he said. “The run has started but it should get much better as March wears on.”

Anglers also are reporting good catches along the Middle Bosque River and other tributaries upstream from Lake Waco, as recent rains creating ideal spawning conditions have reports of limits of white bass on the rise.

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Christopher Dunlap harvested this impala at Tributary Sporting Club in Burnet County.

Caeden Bowers, 9, shot his first deer in Collin County.

Charlie Haas, 11, harvested his first buck while hunting with his dad, Dudley Haas II, on their family ranch in Nueces County.

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a few calls on whatever property he is hunting.

“I use a box call as sort of a locator call or a shock call,” he said. “Once I get a bird to respond to it, I’ll find an area to get set up where I think I can coax him into approaching. From then on, I’ll use mouth calls or diaphragm calls to bring him into shooting range.”

In his younger days, Bone’s hunts revolved a lot around targeting birds on and off their roosts.

“In recent years, I have learned to favor the midmorning and midafternoon hours more,” he said. “I’ve had a lot of success calling turkeys in the middle of the day, after the hens have wandered away from gobblers to tend to their nests.”

Hill Country turkey hunter Devin Leissner varies his tactics based on the terrain he’s hunting.

“If the birds are cruising open pastures, I like to use decoys to help bring them in close,” Leissner said. “If there’s a lot of underbrush present, I’ll ditch the decoys and set up in area that I think will give me a good shot opportunity when they close the distance as they approach my calls.”

Adam Wetz, of San Antonio, said he’s been pursuing longbeards seriously for nearly 10 years. He puts a lot of faith in diaphragm calls and realistic decoys to draw in gobblers for a close encounter.

Wetz’s go-to decoy setup includes a half strut jake decoy and two hen fakes.

“I love watching the show,” Wetz said.

“I’ve been able to experience many incredible interactions between toms and decoys, and seeing them posture up or come strutting in to spar with a jake decoy or impress a hen decoy is an absolute blast.”

Wetz prefers a pop-up blind to conceal his presence from the keen eyes of love-stricken gobblers. This allows him to tote along camera gear, enabling him to capture the interactions between the birds and his decoys. The blind also allows Wetz to harvest turkeys with a bow if they come in close enough, by giving him the concealment necessary to draw back and take a shot without spooking birds that are present.

South Texas turkey hunter James Meissner uses the run-and-gun approach, a box call, and three decoys to fool spring gobblers.

“I’ve had the most success using a semistrut jake decoy and two feeding hen de-

Photo by Nate Skinner for Lone Star Outdoor News.

Jakes to take center stage Turkey hunters are likely to see plenty of birds when the season opens.

However, many of them might be jakes.

Reports from South Texas, where the spring season opens March 21, to North Texas, opening April 4, are similar. There are jakes everywhere, with hunters reporting seeing up to 75 jakes hanging in giant flocks with the hens.

“There are still some old birds from the 2015 and 2016, but we had a lack of production in 2017 and 2018, so there will be fewer 2- and 3-yearold birds,” said Jason Hardin, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s turkey program leader.

Hardin said the abundance of juvenile hens also could make the hunting tougher.

“They don’t show much interest in breeding,” he said. “But they sure do distract the gobblers.”

coys,” he said.

Clay Wiatrek chases turkeys in various counties across the state. He spends most of his time trying to call in gobblers close enough to take them with his bow with use of slate calls.

“Decoys really add to the experience of a hunt, and I use a variety of jake and hen decoys, depending on what the birds are doing,” the New Braunfels resident said.

“It’s amazing how their behavior can change overnight sometimes, and that’s what makes hunting them so fun.”

Wiatrek uses a pop-up blind to conceal his presence, but he also enjoys the challenge of bowhunting turkeys without a blind.

“Pulling off a shot with a bow without a blind is the ultimate rush,” he said.

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Pure Archery Group promoted Jon DuMars to vice president of sales.

Traditions Firearms named the W.L. Carter Company as its 2019 Rep Group of the Year.

MDF seeking CEO The Mule Deer Foundation is accepting applications for its new president and chief executive officer.

H&K rep group of year Heckler & Koch named Owen J Brown & Associates as its 2019 Manufacturer’s Representative Group of the Year.

QDMA CEO stepping down Quality Deer Management Association chief executive officer Brian Murphy will transition to a part-time role focusing on strategic partnerships, and QDMA will begin a search for his replacement.

New agency for Bow Spider

New sales leader at St. Croix St. Croix Rods hired Steve Self as the company’s director of sales.

Moeller joins Bill Hicks & Co.

Bow Spider named Hunter Outdoor Communications as its agency of record.

Alpine Archery sold Kinsey’s purchased Lewiston, Idaho-based Alpine Archery.

Randy Moeller was named director of sales at Bill Hicks & Co., Ltd.

ACROSS 1. The Greek goddess of hunting 8. Highest paying predator contest 10. Makes the Ribbit 12. A rifle manufacturer 15. A fishing rod brand 16. A safari destination 19. They give hunting dogs a mouthful of quills 21. A hook manufacturer 23. A shotgun brand 24. A hawk species (two words) 26. A North Texas river 28. Man-made feeding area for deer (two words) 29. One of Leopold’s tools 30. An outboard manufacturer 31. Turkey Fest is held here 32. A fishing line brand

DOWN 2. Banging antlers together to attract bucks 3. The small mammals that invade deer camps 4. The male elk 5. Rope from the tent to the peg (two words) 6. Bass boat brand 7. Lesser or greater upland bird (two words) 9. A trout species 11. The young hen turkey 13. A trail camera brand 14. A West Texas county 17. Reservoir near San Angelo (two words) 18. A shooting sport (two words) 19. An uninvited guest, like an eyeworm to a quail 20. An East Texas reservoir (two words) 21. The smaller shad 22. Showing off, in turkey terms 25. A deer’s tail pointed straight up is a sign of ____ 27. A type of turkey call

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Fish in the marsh

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complex, where his best action has occurred during high tides.

“The days immediately following the passage of fronts when water levels have dropped have been a little tougher,” he elaborated.

“When the water leaves the back bays and marshes, the fish have been congregating in deeper bayou channels and the mouths of drains.”

When the marshes are full of water, Hoisington has been catching flounder, specks and redfish on soft plastics and live shrimp rigged under a popping cork.

“The trout are staging over oyster shell and the reds are cruising along banks and shorelines,” he said.

Galveston Bay angler Kyle Holmes said the back bays and marshes of West Bay are loaded with solid specks and reds, with flounder just about anywhere as well. He’s been wadefishing guts near the edges of shell reefs in Chocolate Bay and in satellite lakes off of the Intracoastal Waterway.

Recreational angler Matt Hubbell has also found success in Chocolate recently. Most of the action he has experienced has been from flounder and redfish swarming along the mouths of bayous and creeks.

Galveston guide Capt. Ryan Battistoni said

the spring flounder bite has been as good as he’s seen it in over a decade.

“Folks are literally catching flounder everywhere,” he said.

Battistoni and his buddy, Capt. Kurt Pless, have been focusing on areas within Bastrop and Chocolate bays with mud and shell. Both guides reported that heavy slot reds, along with keeper-sized specks and flounder, have been regularly found in the back lakes and marshes.

Capt. Greg Verm says that West Galveston Bay back lakes are full of slot reds willing to strike live shrimp under a popping cork, as well as soft plastics.

“And we are consistently catching flounder while targeting other species,” he said.

Verm said the speckled trout action in bayous has been the best in areas with guts and drop-offs.

“Erosion from fast-flowing water where bayous make sharp turns usually creates deep holes, and that’s where the specks have been stacked up, especially after the passage of a front,” he said. “Watch your depth finder, and try to locate these uncharted hotspots.

Spending some time doing this will certainly pay off.”

Environmental Impact Statement this fall, dealing with how to manage the conflict between businesses, landowners and the cormorants.

“The final report could include lethal depredation permits; depredation orders, similar to permits for aquaculture, catfish and crawfish farms and orders that applied to public fisheries; and permits issued for property damage or human health concerns.

“The states used the public fisheries orders sporadically, or not at all,” said USFWS biologist Lesley Kordella in a webinar about the EIS. “The order could include new permits for states and tribes, a new aquaculture depredation order or a combination of the two.”

Kordella said the state permits, if issued, could be used for wild and stocked fisheries.

“The states and tribes may be in a better position to manage the birds,” she said. “USFWS would determine the total amount that can be taken annually. The purose is to address conflict while maintaining sustainable popula-

tions and minimizing regulatory burden.”

Double-breasted cormorants have a history of decline and recovery in the U.S. In the 1800s, after unregulated killing, primarily for feathers for the hat trade, the birds were thought to be wiped out, but recovered in the early to mid-1900s. In the 1950s, they again declined due to the insecticide DDT, but quickly recovered after DDT’s ban in 1972 and the bird’s inclusion in the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. “They are capable of strong rebounds when conditions are favorable,” Kordella said.

The birds also are capable of devastating destruction, contributing to a significant decrease in biomass in the Great Lakes. It’s also estimated the cormorants take approximately 80 percent of the endangered salmon smolt on the West Coast. The birds eat about two pounds of usually smaller fish per bird per day.

“I hope they do something,” Waldrop said. “Right now, it’s cormorants first and fishing last.”

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Record lake trout Thomas Knight, of Meredith, New Hampshire, using an 11-inch sucker for bait, landed a 37.65-pound lake trout through the ice, breaking the state record by more than 9 pounds.

After catching the fish and packing it with snow in an ice box, Knight called the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department to certify the record. A fisheries biologist placed the fish on a certified scale, but the fish surpassed the maximum weight of the scale at 30 pounds. A larger scale was secured and confirmed the trout’s weight.

—NHFG

TENNESSEE

NWTF convention brings big crowds More than 57,000 people attended the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Convention and Sport Show at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, in support of the wild turkey and America’s natural resources.

Notable guests from across the conservation and hunting industry spoke at various events throughout the five-day convention, including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Bass Pro Shops owner Johnny Morris.

—NWTF

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ALABAMA

Cherry wins Classic North Carolina’s Hank Cherry brought 19 pounds, 8 ounces to the scales on the final day of the Bassmaster Classic, completing a wire-to-wire win with a total of 65 pounds, 5 ounces. Cherry won the $300,000 first-place purse.

Cherry weighed in 29 pounds, 3 ounces to the scales on the opening day, taking a big lead. He primarily fished the rip-rap along Highway 69, a short boat ride from the tournament’s launch site on Lake Guntersville, using crankbaits and suspending jerkbaits.

Todd Auten, of Lake Wylie, South Carolina, finished second with 58 pounds, 10 ounces, winning $50,000, and Stetson Blaylock, of Benton, Arkansas, came in third with 58 pounds, 1 ounce, winning $40,000.

—B.A.S.S.

Stemler receives MDF award For his contribution to mule deer and black-tailed deer conservation, Casey Stemler received the Mule Deer Foundation’s President’s Award. Stemler serves as the coordinator implementing the Department of the Interior’s Secretarial Order on big game winter range and migration corridors.

—MDF

Father/son bucks Continued from page 4

two hours. We had gotten about 5 inches of rain the night before and there was a flooded creek where the buck had gone into the brush. I figured he went into the creek and got washed away. We went out the next day and found nothing. We even had a tracking dog out there. I just gave up on finding the buck.”

Then something astonishing happened. Three and half weeks later, Tim Jr. was out at their ranch and checked a game camera near their house. The big buck, that his dad had shot, was in one of the photos.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Baker said. “I went out there that afternoon. It was a cold and rainy day. He came to the feeder at 5:15, and I put him on the ground with one shot at 150 yards.”

This past season, Tim Jr. was in the hunt for a big 13-pointer that they had Tim Baker Jr. found the buck he shot in the same area as his father’s big seen on a game camera. He buck after an 8-day search. Photo from Tim Baker. had wanted to tag that buck “We trailed him for 500 yards, and then during bow season but didn’t get a shot. the blood trail disappeared,” Baker said.

During the regular gun season, though, he “We called my friend with the tracking got a shot at the trophy he had been hunt- dog. We got the dog on the blood trail and ing. It was 700 yards from where his dad it took off. We could see the track of the had shot his buck the season prior. dog via a GPS collar and an iPad. At one “We were hunting during the rut and see- point the dog lost the scent, then picked ing lots of does,” Baker said. “On Nov. 17, it up again. Then the dog started going in I saw the buck my son was after at about circles. We thought he had found the deer.

700 yards for a few seconds on the pipe- Then the dog comes back to us, with a hole line. I called my son and he got out of his in his chest from fighting with the deer. We blind and eased my way. He saw the buck dinged the spot where the dog and deer at 350 yards and took the shot with a .270, had met, but couldn’t get on the property and 140-grain bullet. Both of us clearly without the owner’s permission. We just heard the impact. Then the deer ran into gave up.” the brush. We waited about 45 minutes, Eight days later, Baker’s son obtained perand went to where he had disappeared. mission to go on the property where the We found blood about 150 yards into the dog and deer had fought. brush.”

“And that’s where he found the deer,” They didn’t want to push the buck, so Baker said. “The coyotes had pretty much they went to the camp house and waited eaten the body, but the head and antlers for two hours. They then returned to where were in pretty good shape.” they had found a blood trail.

earn extra spending money.”

Having spent his childhood and teenage years hunting predators and other game animals, Rooks was drawn to the art of taxidermy.

“I came home from college one summer to get a job in between semesters, and saw an ad in the paper for a taxidermist in need of an assistant,” he said. “I took the job, fell in love with the work, and have now been a full-time taxidermist for 15 years.”

Rooks began participating in predator hunting contests when these types of events began popping up across the state and gaining momentum about 10 years ago. He and his team of buddies hunt all over Texas, but their bread and butter lies in the southern portion of the state.

“I just love the South Texas Brush Country,” he said. “I have guided hunts on many South Texas ranches over the years and have developed relationships with several ranch managers and landowners. Most of these folks gladly welcome us to remove predators from their properties. I even have some contacts that will regularly contact me and ask us to come out and hunt coyotes or bobcats when they start showing up regularly on their ranches.”

Rooks receives a lot of repeat calls from ranchers and landowners asking him to bring his team back to their properties to hunt predators when they are present.

“This happens quite often when whitetailed deer begin giving birth to their fawns,” he said.

In addition to participating in contests, Rooks said he enjoys predator hunting so much that he is usually hard at it at least two nights a week.

“I love it,” he said. “There’s just something special about outsmarting a predator like a coyote at their own game. It can be very challenging, but it’s rewarding and a whole lot of fun.”

Kailum Rooks shows some of the mounts he created in his Devine shop. Photo from Kailum Rooks.

Rooks occasionally uses electronic calls, but said he and his friends pride themselves in using hand calls and mouth calls.

“So many people use electronic call systems that play the same recordings over and over again,” he said. “If you can master the art of using a hand or mouth call, you might have a little bit of an edge over the competition because you can create a sound that is unique in and of itself.”

Rooks said his go-to call is one that mimics a cottontail or jackrabbit.

Rooks and his team use red LED light bars, handheld lights and a customized shooting rack designed for two predator hunters that can be added or removed to the back of just about any pickup. During a hunt, one person drives, calls, and shines the lights while the other two sit on the customized rack and wait for a shot opportunity.

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1.16L 1.79H 1.71H 1.64H 1.58H 1.52H 1.48H 1.43H 1.38H

9:48 PM 10:06 PM 10:22 PM 10:30 PM 10:40 PM 11:00 PM 11:28 PM

1.09L 0.98L 0.86L 0.71L 0.56L 0.41L 0.29L

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Time 2:41 PM

Height 0.83L

Time 6:13 PM

Height 0.97H

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9:55 9:58 4:11 4:24 4:35 4:46 4:56 5:03 4:57

PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM

1.04L 0.99L 1.41H 1.33H 1.26H 1.20H 1.15H 1.10H 1.08H

11:59 PM

1.08H

10:09 10:23 10:36 10:49 11:04 11:23 11:47

0.90L 0.79L 0.67L 0.55L 0.43L 0.32L 0.22L

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Time

Height

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2:25 PM 2:07 AM 8:28 AM 9:58 AM 11:36 AM 7:34 PM 6:30 PM

0.03L 0.47L 0.47H 0.46H 0.46H 0.59H 0.67H

PM PM PM PM PM PM PM

Port O’Connor Date Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 25 Mar 26 Mar 27

Time 2:21 AM 3:19 AM 4:31 AM 5:53 AM 7:13 AM 8:28 AM 9:38 AM 10:40 AM 11:30 AM 12:11 PM 12:25 AM 12:43 AM 1:04 AM 1:25 AM 1:46 AM

Time 6:27 AM 7:17 AM 8:11 AM 9:16 AM 10:29 AM 11:39 AM 12:42 PM 1:36 PM 3:28 AM 12:00 AM 2:55 AM 3:47 AM 4:33 AM 5:09 AM 5:38 AM

Date Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 25 Mar 26 Mar 27

Time 1:08 AM 2:01 AM 2:57 AM 3:58 AM 5:08 AM 6:26 AM 7:39 AM 8:41 AM 1:33 AM 2:43 AM 3:43 AM 4:37 AM 5:29 AM 6:24 AM 12:03 AM

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Height 0.76L

Time 10:14 PM

Height 0.90H

12:50 PM 1:45 PM 2:27 PM 2:59 PM 3:21 PM 3:31 PM 3:28 PM 3:27 PM

-0.02L 0.04L 0.15L 0.31L 0.51L 0.71L 0.89L 1.03L

10:04 PM 9:40 PM 9:16 PM 9:03 PM 8:46 PM 8:31 PM 8:22 PM 8:09 PM

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Time 3:13 PM

Height 0.68L

Time 6:35 PM

Height 0.81H

10:28 PM 5:16 PM 5:15 PM 5:17 PM 5:20 PM 5:23 PM 5:29 PM 1:45 PM

0.84L 0.97H 0.92H 0.90H 0.90H 0.91H 0.92H 0.81L

10:43 10:52 10:54 11:04 11:29

0.79L 0.71L 0.62L 0.52L 0.41L

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Time 5:32 PM 3:59 PM 4:25 PM 5:02 PM 5:44 PM 6:30 PM 7:20 PM 8:07 PM 8:34 PM 3:23 AM 4:22 AM 5:15 AM 6:14 AM 5:23 PM 5:09 PM

Height 0.37H 0.42H 0.46H 0.48H 0.48H 0.46H 0.43H 0.39H 0.34H 0.33H 0.32H 0.30H 0.29H 0.37H 0.38H

Time

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Height 0.08L -0.10L -0.18L -0.20L -0.15L -0.07L 0.01L 0.10L 0.20L 1.04H 1.06H 1.10H 1.16H 1.21H 1.26H

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PM PM PM PM PM

5:35 PM

0.92H

Date Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 25 Mar 26 Mar 27

Time 2:48 AM 3:41 AM 4:45 AM 5:57 AM 7:04 AM 8:06 AM 9:04 AM 9:59 AM 10:49 AM 12:27 AM 12:27 AM 12:37 AM 12:55 AM 1:18 AM 1:45 AM

11:31 12:03 12:24 12:27

AM PM PM PM

Height

Time

Height

0.10L 0.15L 0.20L 0.25L

5:31 5:25 5:28 5:29

PM PM PM PM

0.32H 0.33H 0.34H 0.36H

Time 1:55 PM 3:02 PM

Height 0.76L 0.92L

Time 5:25 PM 5:05 PM

Height 0.88H 0.94H

10:00 PM 4:30 PM 4:19 PM 3:50 PM 3:53 PM 4:11 PM 4:30 PM 4:37 PM

0.81L 0.84H 0.79H 0.78H 0.80H 0.82H 0.83H 0.84H

9:56 PM 9:57 PM 10:10 PM 10:31 PM 11:00 PM 11:36 PM

0.75L 0.67L 0.58L 0.48L 0.38L 0.27L

Time 2:23 PM

Height 0.92L

Time 5:03 PM

Height 0.98H

10:21 PM 4:44 PM 4:34 PM 4:31 PM 4:31 PM 4:29 PM 4:16 PM

0.98L 1.13H 1.07H 1.03H 1.01H 1.00H 1.02H

10:09 10:05 10:15 10:37 11:06 11:40

0.89L 0.76L 0.62L 0.47L 0.33L 0.21L

Port Aransas

12:43 PM 1:06 PM 1:20 PM 1:25 PM 1:18 PM

0.23L 0.33L 0.42L 0.49L 0.56L

Time

8:14 6:20 5:17 4:47 4:32

Height

PM PM PM PM PM

0.46H 0.45H 0.48H 0.53H 0.58H

Time

Height

Nueces Bay Date Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 25 Mar 26 Mar 27

San Luis Pass

Height 0.10L -0.06L -0.14L -0.16L -0.11L -0.06L -0.04L 0.95L 0.94L 0.89L 0.79L 0.65L 0.49L 0.33L 0.20L

East Matagorda

Freeport Harbor Date Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 25 Mar 26 Mar 27

Time 4:55 AM 5:50 AM 6:44 AM 7:38 AM 8:46 AM 10:20 AM 11:42 AM 2:33 AM 2:37 AM 2:45 AM 2:51 AM 2:52 AM 2:58 AM 3:17 AM 3:44 AM

Date Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 25 Mar 26 Mar 27

Time 12:30 AM 1:24 AM 2:19 AM 3:21 AM 4:36 AM 5:56 AM 7:03 AM 7:57 AM 12:31 AM 1:36 AM 2:34 AM 3:26 AM 4:15 AM 5:05 AM 6:02 AM

South Padre Island Time

5:14 3:43 4:09 1:38

AM PM PM PM

Height

0.50H 0.22L 0.34L 0.45L

3:07 9:59 9:38 8:15

PM PM PM PM

0.11L 0.45H 0.46H 0.51H

Date Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 25 Mar 26 Mar 27

Time 12:03 AM 12:56 AM 1:53 AM 2:54 AM 4:01 AM 5:15 AM 6:28 AM 7:29 AM 8:21 AM 1:23 AM 2:43 AM 3:49 AM 4:48 AM 5:43 AM 6:43 AM

PM PM PM PM PM PM

Texas Coast Tides

Date Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar 17 Mar 18 Mar 19 Mar 20 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 25 Mar 26 Mar 27

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