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Shooters descend on Decatur Aguila Cup brings multiple disciplines to shooting competition

By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News Gebben Miles won the High Overall award and prize money totalling $9,534.39 in the Main Event at the Aguila Cup in Decatur. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.

Jack Copeland (a recent Rockwall High School graduate) placed in three rimfire events at the Aguila Cup, held in De-

catur June 14-17. The rimfireshooting competitor then tried something new to him.

He gave five-stand shooting a try.

According to Aguila Cup organizers, Jack’s experience was exactly what they were looking for.

“We want to introduce shooters of one discipline to try an-

other one — without worrying about how they do,” said Kristi Heuring, ammunition manufacturer Aguila’s marketing manager.

About 400 shooters attended the four-day multi-discipline event.

“We were hoping for 300 shooters in our first year, so we were really happy with that,”

Heuring said. “We had shooters from Washington, Georgia, Louisiana, New Mexico, Missouri, of course Texas, and Mexico.

The event, held at the expansive Fossil Pointe Shooting Grounds in Decatur, consisted of competitions in sporting clays, five-stand, FITASC (an international sporting clays discipline where shooters attempt Please turn to page 19

Boy’s first fishing trip

By Nate Skinner

For Lone Star Outdoor News Wade Hoffman experienced his first-ever fishing trip with his parents and grandparents on Galveston Bay, and, after his first cast, the 6-year-old will soon be begging his parents to return.

The youngster traveled from his hometown of Garwood, where his family farms rice, corn, and a variety of other crops, to Galveston Island with his parents, Kevin and Alyson Hoffman, and his grandparents, Mike and Paula Lanier, for a short getaway at Jamaica Beach.

Hoffman, along with his dad and grandfather, spent a morning fishing with a family friend on upper Galveston Bay. It was the 6-year-old’s first time to ride on a boat, and the trip turned out to be an adventure that he will likely never forget.

The excitement for the young angler began at their very first stop, according to his father.

“We had Wade set up with a live shrimp

rigged under a popping cork and were fishing a bank lined with rocks and riprap,” said Kevin Hoffman. “I helped my son make the first cast toward the structure on the shoreline and then let him hold the rod while I went to bait another line.”

All of a sudden, Wade started screaming with excitement, shouting, “I’ve got one!

I’ve got one!”

“I turned around to see Wade’s rod doubled over and the drag peeling off the reel,” Kevin said.

After several minutes of aiding his son with handling the rod and reel during a feisty battle, the youngster landed his first slot redfish.

“It was the perfect way to start the morning,” Kevin said. “The red measured 24 inches and bit on Wade’s very first cast.”

The rest of the fishing trip did not disappoint. Wade learned how to catch shrimp out of the livewell with a bait net, as well as how to properly hook a shrimp on the end of a line in order for it to remain alive Please turn to page 14

Wade Hoffman, 6, landed his first redfish, a 24-incher, while fishing in Galveston Bay with his parents and grandparents. Photo by Nate Skinner, for Lone Star Outdoor News.

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Limblining Guadalupe River catfish

By Robert Sloan

Bill Panto tugs on a limbline holding a 6-pound blue catfish on the Guadalupe River near Victoria. Photo by Robert Sloan.

Growing up on a river and spending your summer nights running limblines is the cat’s meow for catfish-loving fishermen. It’s a good way to beat the daytime heat, and a good way to bring in enough tasty catfish to feed friends and family.

Dodd Coffey is one of those lucky guys that grew up on the Guadalupe

River near Victoria.

“I learned how to run limblines, trotlines and juglines at a very young age,” said Coffey, who has been fishing the river for more than 60 years. “That’s what I love to do, and it puts a lot of very tasty fish on the table. Over the years we’ve had many fish fries thanks to all the catfish we pulled into the boat.”

Recently he teamed up Bill Panto who came down from Dripping Please turn to page 13

Freshwater Fishing Report . Page 10

HUNTING

FISHING

Game Warden Blotter . . . . Page 12

Turkey nesting (P. 4)

Stripers growing (P. 8)

Few poults in West Texas.

Texoma seeing bigger fish.

Father’s Day weekend (P. 5)

Jigging for red snapper (P. 8)

Son takes first axis buck.

Artificials still bring in the fish.

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HUNTING

Montezuma quail and tree cover Sul Ross grad student helps determine right amount of cover for quail success

By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News Montezuma quail are difficult to find, and nearly impossible to catch.

As part of her Master’s studies, Sul Ross State University graduate student Liz Oaster spent nearly four years to get enough information about the birds to complete her work.

“They are very hard to catch and really hard to find,” Oaster said. “You don’t even know they are there until you just about step on them and they move.”

Once the birds get into cover, it’s even tougher.

“It’s almost impossible to see them, and they don’t move,” Oaster said.

The colorful quail species can only be found in a few locations, and, being rare in the state, cannot be hunted in Texas.

“There are two places where they are found in the Edwards Plateau; Kickapoo Cavern and Rocksprings,” Oaster said. “The strongest population is in Trans-Pecos, in the Fort Davis and Alpine areas at higher elevations with juniper-type habitat. And there may be some in the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park.”

Oaster’s research was conducted in the Fort Stanton National Conserva-

tion Area northeast of Ruidoso, New Mexico.

“The Bureau of Land Management had a small area where they wanted to go in and do some juniper thinning and a prescribed burn,” she said. “The original thought was to improve habitat for Montezuma quail.”

Oaster looked into the Montezuma quail’s tree selection, and her findings will help managers determine the amount of tree cover to thin out, if any.

“No one was sure how much tree canopy cover they actually utilized and Please turn to page 6 The Montezuma quail is very secretive and hard to find. Liz Oaster studied the birds and their habitat as part of her Master’s degree project at Sul Ross State University. Photos from Liz Oaster.

Turkey nesting a bust in West Texas, Rolling Plains No poults, quail off to late start

By Craig Nyhus

Young woman builds, installs wood duck boxes

Lone Star Outdoor News While at the Stonewall County ranch doing chores, the Texas hunter observed something he hadn’t seen in the springtime — a group of a dozen hen turkeys loafing around and feeding.

Unfortunately, the unusual sighting is not a good sign this time of year.

“Seeing 10-12 hens without poults is pretty proof positive that the hens either didn’t try to breed or they gave up pretty quick,” said Gene Miller, a former Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologist who, for the past eight years, has been a biologist with the National Wild Turkey Federation who covers West Texas and Oklahoma.

The scenario is likely occurring throughout the remainder of his Texas territory.

“I hunted in Hardeman County early in the season,” Miller said. “It still looked like the dead of winter — there were very few blooms and little greenery. The hens weren’t much in the breeding mode.”

Miller also hunted near Collingsworth, southeast of Amarillo.

“Birds that historically made a lot of noise were quiet, even at first light,” he

Zoe Taggert built and installed wood duck boxes at the Athens Fish and Game Club as part of her Venturing program project.

Photo from Steve Taggert.

Seeks badge through Venturing program Seeing large groups of turkey hens hanging together, without poults, in late spring is a sign that no nesting took place. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.

By Craig Nyhus

said.

The poor breeding conditions made the hens concentrate on survival instead of breeding.

“I haven’t talked with anyone out West who is seeing poults,” Miller said.

The areas received significant rains in early June, which bodes well for the habitat, but it’s likely too late for the turkeys to nest.

“It’s not the end of the world,” Miller said. “If you get a solid crop every three

Zoe Taggert recently completed a project building and installing 19 wood duck boxes at the Athens Fish and Game Club, as part of the Venturing program, an age-old coed effort through the Boy Scouts of America.

“She is working toward the Hornaday Conservation Award,” her father, Steve Tag-

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Father’s Day weekend axis Father guides son to buck

By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News The best gift for a father during Father’s Day weekend may very well be a guiding his son on a great hunt, with memories that will last a lifetime.

Mike Hughs, Lone Star Outdoor News’ operations manager, had been to the property in Kendall County the weekend before Father’s Day, and passed on a nice axis buck that, according to trail camera photos, was hanging out in a specific area.

“I was saving it for Taylor,” he said, after returning to the office.

Like many well-made plans, Hughs was unsure this one would work.

“The axis move around a lot,” he said.

“One weekend you might see 40 of them, and the next you won’t see any.”

The father and his 12-year-old son arrived Friday evening in time to hunt, but were interrupted in the ground blind by a skunk.

When returning to the house, they saw an axis Hughs thought was the one he had seen the weekend before.

“He was still in the area,” Hughs said. “On the camera, he would show up about 8 a.m., so we had a plan for the morning.”

The next day, they checked the field other axis had been using early, and saw a small buck.

“I wanted to shoot him, but my dad said to wait,” Taylor said.

They decided to return to the area where the big buck had been. Only, when they drove to the area on the golf cart, a good buck was already there.

“I told Taylor we would just go by and then get into the blind, and maybe one of the bucks would come back.” Hughs said.

“He didn’t think it would work.”

Over the next hour, they sat quietly in the

ground blind, until the excitable youngster noticed some movement.

“It was about 8:05 and he came out of the brush,” Taylor said. “I told my dad there was a big buck out there.”

His father glanced out the window and recognized the buck, and noticed an unusual sight — the axis buck was with four white-tailed deer.

“Before we got the gun up, I told Taylor he couldn’t shoot if there was anything behind the axis buck and explained how one bullet could kill something behind what he was shooting at,” Hughs said.

After Taylor got the .243 that was passed down from his grandfather up and some more time went by, Taylor said he had a clear shot.

“The whitetails got out of the way and I got him,” Taylor said.

After the shot, the buck’s hind legs went up into the air — a good sign, Hughs thought.

“I know I got him, dad,” Taylor said.

“We’re going to wait at least 15 minutes before we go out there,” his father replied and explained why to his son.

After the seemingly long wait, the pair covered the 146 yards and noticed dark, red blood.

“I saw some blood on a rock,” Taylor said.

“Dad said the dark red blood was a good color. Then, I followed the blood on the plants.”

His father said, “He got a real kick out of doing that; he kept saying, ‘There’s more blood. There’s more blood.’”

Hughs had glanced ahead and saw the axis buck down not more than 30 yards from where it was initially hit, but kept quiet.

“Taylor tracked him right to the spot,” he said.

The Father’s Day weekend couldn’t have been more perfect.

Taylor Hughs took his first axis buck while hunting with his father in Kendall County during the Father’s Day weekend. Photo by Mike Hughs.

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Studying Montezuma quail Continued from page 4

during what parts of the year,” she said.

“We found they utilized cover with 30-69 percent tree canopy cover, and avoided anything below or above that. They need some kind of tree cover.”

Unlike bobwhites, the Montezuma quail don’t forage above ground.

“They did for most of their diet of tubers and yellow nutsedge,” Oaster said. “They will eat acorns, and when they have chick, insects.”

Oaster and her team caught 56 separate birds as part of the research.

“And we caught some of the birds several times,” she said. “I was very happy with how many we caught.”

She also looked at age and sex ratios of the birds, plus their roost sites and survival.

“It had been thought the ratio of Montezuma quail was usually two males for each female,” she said. “But we found a 1:1 ratio, skewed slightly toward more females.”

Age ratios mimicked those of other quail species, meaning they don’t live very long lives.

“In the higher precipitation years, there were more young birds,” she said.

The Montezuma quail utilize roost sites with a higher vegetation density, or visual obstruction index.

“Those areas are better for them to hide from predators at night,” Oaster said.

After years of studying the secretive birds, Oaster is in the final editing stage of her thesis, and will defend it to a committee of professors, hopefully by the end of July.

She’s also working with the AgriLife extension service in Uvalde, doing some bird surveys, and started apprenticing under a taxidermist.

Oaster’s hunting career began with a deer-hunting trip with the Lone Star Outdoor News Foundation in 2014, where she

Montezuma quail usually dig for their food, and prefer a tree canopy for protection from predators at night. Photo from Liz Oaster.

shot a buck, doe and spike and was hooked.

Since then, she has hunted each year, and harvested turkeys, coyotes, pigs, a few mule deer doe, and a mule deer buck with her bow.

“I’ve attempted dove and quail hunting, but I’m not very good at it,” she said.

The Pennsylvania native who attended college at the University of Wyoming has taken to the Texas lifestyle. She’s getting married next year to Daniel Tisdale, another former grad student at Sul Ross, and plans to do some wildlife consulting with her husband-to-be beginning this fall.

After getting her Master’s degree, her time in school will be done, though.

“That’s enough school,” she said. “I’m tapping out.”

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years, we’re fine. But the year after next, there won’t be many 2-year-olds.”

While unlikely, it’s not impossible that a hen or two may begin nesting late.

“If they got bred one time by a viable gobbler, the hens can maintain the sperm in their oviduct for 56 days,” Miller said. “It’s unlikely they tried, but not impossible. I wouldn’t put much stock in it, though.”

Jason Hardin, turkey program leader with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said the rains received, especially in West Texas, were too little, too late Many turkey hens took the breeding and nesting season off for turkey nesting.

“The main push in late April and this year. Photo by Lone Star Outdoor News early May is the bread and butter for turkey production,” he said. “The late nesters are an exception, we’ve had gobbling and breeding activity in the past into July, and poults on the ground as late as September. But it’s usually that one hen that is determined to nest.”

Miller had not received any reports of late-nesting hens, and Hardin said with the hot temperatures, it would be unlikely.

“In good years, 100 percent of hens will try to nest once,” he said. “If that attempt is unsuccessful, only 50 percent try a second time, and it goes down from there.”

The recent rains are still very positive, though, especially for quail reproduction.

“The later rains help the habitat, and helped the quail and spurred their nesting activity,” Miller said. “In country that hasn’t experienced depletion grazing, more of the water went into the soil instead of running off. Then come the forbs and the bugs. We can still have a good quail crop, but it will be spotty.”

Hardin agreed.

“The quail will have a chance, but they got off to a late start,” he said.

At the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch, Lloyd LaCoste reported the first confirmed nest of the season was spotted June 6, and seven eggs were counted.

While finding the first nest that late is disheartening, as the first nests are usually seen in mid-May, the Fisher County ranch received 3 inches of rain after May 15, likely stimulating reproduction.

“The rainfall has transformed the ranch,” LaCoste said. “Hopefully it isn’t too little, too late.”

The picture in Central Texas and the Hill Country is brighter.

“Poults were on the ground early in Uvalde County,” Hardin said. “And the one-turkey zone area east of I-35 in Caldwell County had pretty good production.”

In West Texas, Hardin only heard one report of poults being seen.

“That was right next to a heavily irrigated golf course,” he said.

Hardin said hunters shouldn’t despair about next season.

“We’re coming off two good years,” he said. “There will be plenty of carryover and, with the recent rains, the hens will be doing well.”

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FISHING

Texoma stripers growing Good catches around the state

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Good striped bass fishing has returned to Lake Texoma, with an added bonus. Bigger fish are being caught.

“The fish are on the move,” said guide Jacob Orr. “They had been mostly at the north end of the lake, but have moved west and south. But

there are a lot of good fish this year, lots of 4- to 6-pounders.”

Texoma was plagued with floods surrounding a drought, which impacted the fishing the past few years.

The future, though, looks better.

“If we can avoid a catastrophe, we’ll have some really big fish,” he said.

Most of the recent catches have been on live bait, fishing above the thermocline.

“We’re doing best catching fish in 30 to 40 feet of water over a 50-foot depth,” Orr said.

Capt. Steve Barnes said the most consistent action has been on live shad.

“There also are fish that can be caught on top-waters, swimbaits and slabs,” he said. “The fish have been cruising around in deep water and live bait is the key to catching those Please turn to page 11

The size of the striped bass at Lake Texoma is improving, according to guides and anglers. Photo by Lone Star Outdoor News.

Jigging with plastics for red snapper

Justin Halliday caught this red snapper about 20 miles out on a 2-ounce bucktail jig with a plastic trailer. Photo by Robert Sloan.

By Robert Sloan

For Lone Star Outdoor News The traditional way to head offshore for red snapper is to load up with frozen boxes of dead bait like squid and pogies. Yes, you are

pretty much guaranteed to hook up nonstop, but catching them on jigs can be more fun.

“That’s what I’m talking about,” said Mark Davis, the host of BigWater Adventures TV, while hold-

ing up a fresh-caught snapper.

“This is about a 10-pounder and it smacked that Z-Man soft plastic.

The key is to get the jig through the suspended small snapper, and down to bottom where the big

ones are.”

Davis and others were fishing out of Port Mansfield aboard Capt.

Chad Kinney’s 46-foot Bertram.

One of the best snapper destinations along the Texas Gulf Coast,

the group was about 20 miles off the Mansfield jetties and fishing in 132 feet of dark blue water.

The area is known for its nearshore fishing over rocks. But on this day, Kinney was setting up Please turn to page 14

Best-kept secret on Moses Lake

By Nate Skinner

For Lone Star Outdoor News Texas City is a lot like other upper coast towns and communities. It has its well-known boat ramps, bait shops and restaurants. The area’s best-kept secret however, might just be an establishment that many have not yet heard of.

Haille Renfro works at the bar at the Fish Spot in Texas City. Her mother owns the eatery on Moses Lake. Photo by Nate Skinner, for Lone Star Outdoor News.

Tucked away behind a small storage facility on the north side of town lies Fish Spot. The eatery on Moses Lake has a marina, boat ramp and fish-cleaning station with running water. It provides anglers convenient access to the protected waters of Moses Lake as well as upper Galveston Bay, not to mention it offers an outstanding menu of burgers, a variety of sandwiches, appetizers and seafood.

Owner Holle Renfro took over the Fish Spot at the end of 2017. Originally from a small town in Missouri, Renfro moved to Texas City as a chiropractor, but always had dreams of running a

burger joint.

“I worked at a small hamburger place during my high school years before I went off to college, and I absolutely loved it,” Renfro said. “Since then I’ve always wanted to own and operate a small, local restaurant known for outstanding burgers and ice cold beer.

When the opportunity to take over the Fish Spot came up, I jumped on it and haven’t looked back.”

The Fish Spot has a diverse set of dining options and, according to Renfro, they are all equally delicious.

“We are known for our burgers, but our seafood has been a big hit with Please turn to page 17

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Survey seeks opinions on alligator gar management A new online survey seeks to gather opinions and data from Texas anglers regarding alligator gar.

The survey, from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, asks both anglers and non-anglers to to share their experiences and opinions about alligator gar, Texas’ largest freshwater fish.

The results from the survey will help Photo by Lone Star Outdoor News the department make informed management decisions regarding this species in the near future.

“Our management goal is to sustain our unique alligator gar fisheries for future generations of Texans,” said Warren Schlechte, TPWD Inland Fisheries research biologist. “We spent the last decade learning about the biology of alligator gar, and from that we know we have a variety of management options on the table. What we need now is constituent input — this survey will give our constituents a place at the table.”

The survey is available through July 31 and takes about 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

Survey questions focus on gathering information about who constituents are, how anglers like to fish, angler harvest practices and how people would like to see alligator gar managed in the future.

Schlechte said alligator gar populations can only sustain harvest rates of about 5 percent each year.

TPWD also established a separate website to learn more about this species or view the findings of studies conducted by state biologists, at tpwd.texas.gov/texasgar.

—TPWD

Lake record bigmouth buffalo Joel Langston, of Dean, caught a 28.13-pound bigmouth buffalo at Lake Arrowhead that may set the lake record for the species, according to Lake Arrowhead State Park.

The current lake record was set in 1999 for a 21-pound fish. The state record is 58.75 pounds, set at Sam Rayburn Reservoir on Jan. 29, 1994.

—Staff report After tagging along on numerous fishing trips, Mary Blood, left, caught her first fish with her daughter, Britney, and her husband, Chris. Photo from Chris Blood.

Mother of two brings in reds at Calaveras

By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News Chris Blood’s wife, Mary, grew up on the Pacific Ocean in Peru where her father was a chef on a fishing boat. Her husband assumed she had caught plenty of fish, but never asked.

After being together 36 years and raising two children, taking them on fishing trips since they were toddlers, Chris, the marketing manager at Texas Hunter Products in San Antonio, finally learned his wife had never caught a fish.

“She was along on all of those family fishing trips, but she was always taking care of the kids’ needs and I just assumed she had been fishing when she was younger,” Chris said.

“Until our trip to Lake Calaveras (the weekend of June 9), I never realized she had never caught a fish in her life — I couldn’t believe it.”

The trip on Calaveras with their daughter, Britney, took care of the issue.

“We caught our limit of redfish in about three hours, and the biggest was about 10 pounds,” Chris said.

The highlight, though, was when it was Mary’s turn.

“Her biggest one weighed about 7 pounds,” Chris said. “It put up a great fight and she had a blast. She’s in the club now.”

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TEXAS FRESHWATER FISHING REPORT ALAN HENRY: Water clear main lake, stained up the river; 81-84 degrees main lake, 85 up the creeks; 6.42’ low. Black bass are good on top-waters, 7-inch worms and stick worms. Crappie are slow.

Catfish are slow.

AMISTAD: Water murky; 85-89 degrees; 30.42’ low. Black bass are very good on spinner baits, crankbaits, swimbaits and soft plastic worms and lizards. Striped bass are fair on Red Fins. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on cheese bait. Yellow catfish are good on live perch.

ARROWHEAD: Water fairly clear; 79-85 degrees; 2.01’ low. Black bass are fair on top-waters early, later switching to Carolina rigs, Texas rigs and jigs. Crappie are fair on live minnows. Catfish are fair to good on cut bait and nightcrawlers.

ATHENS: Water lightly stained; 83-87 degrees; 0.16’ low. Black bass are good on weightless flukes, buzzbaits and Texas-rigged creature baits. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on trotlines and cut shad.

AUSTIN: Water stained; 81-86 degrees; 0.92’ low. Black bass are good on top-waters early, later switching to jigs, Texas rigs and flukes. Sunfish are fair to good on cut nightcrawlers. Catfish are good on live bait and nightcrawlers.

BASTROP: Water stained; 8488 degrees. Black bass are fair on watermelon/red soft plastics.

Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are good on liver and nightcrawlers.

BELTON: Water stained; 83-87 degrees; 2.27’ low. Black bass are good on spinner baits in coves and on perch-colored lipless crankbaits. Hybrid striper are fair on live shad. White bass are good on blue jigs. Crappie are good on minnows under lights at night. Channel and blue catfish are good on hot dogs, shrimp and stink bait. Yellow catfish are fair on juglines baited with live perch.

BENBROOK: Water stained; 82-86 degrees; 2.84’ low. Black bass are fair on top-waters, football jigs and deep crankbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows. White bass are fair on slabs and top-waters.

Catfish are fair on trotlines.

BOB SANDLIN: Water stained; 8387 degrees; 0.12’ low. Black bass are good on Texas-rigged craws, hollow-body frogs and buzzbaits.

Crappie are fair on minnows. White bass are good on minnows. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

BONHAM: Water lightly stained to stained; 82-87 degrees; 0.41’ low. Black bass are good on spinner baits, hollow-body frogs, buzzbaits and crankbaits. Crappie are good on brush piles in 12-15’ on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good along creek channel on cut bait.

BRAUNIG: Water murky. Black bass are fair on crankbaits and dark soft plastics in reeds. Striped bass are fair on liver and perch off points near the pier. Redfish are good on perch, shad and silver spoons. Channel and blue catfish are good on shrimp, cheese bait, cut bait and liver.

BRIDGEPORT: Water lightly stained, 82-86 degrees: 1.58’ low.

Black bass are good on shallow crankbaits, shaky-head worms and Texas-rigged craws. Crappie are fair on minnows. White bass are good on slabs and minnows.

Hybrid striper are fair on slabs and top-waters. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

BROWNWOOD: Water stained; 82-86 degrees; 4.79’ low. Black bass are very good on top-waters, crankbaits, and watermelon or green/pumpkin soft plastics around docks and among rocks and brush in 6-8 feet. White bass are good on jigs, trolling crankbaits in 10-12 feet, and on minnows and jigs off

lighted docks at night. Crappie are good on minnows and white or shad tube jigs in 10-16 feet.

Channel catfish are good on cut shad. Blue catfish are good on juglines baited with cut shad.

BUCHANAN: Water stained; 83-87 degrees; 2.96’ low. Black bass are good on watermelon top-waters, bleeding shad lipless crankbaits and watermelon worms with chartreuse tails early in 4-12 feet. Striped bass are good on top-waters and lipless crankbaits on the surface at first light. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and chartreuse tube jigs.

Channel catfish are fair on live bait and cut bait. Yellow and blue catfish are good on juglines and trotlines baited with live bait.

CADDO: Water stained to muddy; 85-91 degrees; 0.30’ high. Black bass are fair on shallow crankbaits, hollow-body frogs and black buzzbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on trotlines and cut shad.

CALAVERAS: Water murky. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are good on spoons and striper jigs near the crappie wall. Redfish are good on live perch, tilapia and crawfish. Channel catfish are fair on liver, shrimp, cheese bait and shad.

CANYON LAKE: Water stained; 82-86 degrees; 4.26’ low. Black bass are fair on Texas-rigged watermelon/red stick worms, chartreuse top-waters, and pumpkin jigs along bluff ledges. Striped bass are fair trolling crankbaits and vertically jigging white jigs.

White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on white tube jigs and live minnows. Catfish are slow.

CEDAR CREEK: Water stained to lightly stained; 83-87 degrees; 0.46’ low. Black bass are slow.

Crappie are fair on minnows on docks with brush. Catfish are fair on trotlines. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid striper are good on slabs and top-waters.

CHOKE CANYON: Water stained; 81-85 degrees; 26.63’ low. Black bass are fair on chartreuse crankbaits and pumpkinseed lizards and spinner baits. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows.

Drum are fair on nightcrawlers and spoons. Channel and blue catfish are good on punch bait. Yellow catfish are fair on cut bait.

COLEMAN: Water stained; 80-84 degrees; 3.44’ low. Black bass are good on watermelon/red soft plastic lizards, crankbaits, and electric blue worms. Hybrid striper are slow. Crappie are slow. Channel catfish are fair on live bait.

COLETO CREEK: Water clear; 101 degrees at the hot water discharge, 85 degrees in main lake; 2.91’ low. Black bass are good on watermelon soft plastics and spinner baits in 6-8 feet. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows and white tube jigs in 10-12 feet. Channel and blue catfish are good on trotlines baited with perch in 10-12 feet.

CONROE: Water stained; 82-86 degrees; 0.33’ low. Black bass are fair on watermelon/red and pumpkinseed Texas- and Carolinarigged soft plastics and spinner baits.

Striped bass are good on chartreuse striper jigs.

Crappie are fair on minnows.

Catfish are good on stink bait, frozen shrimp and nightcrawlers.

COOPER: Water stained; 83-88 degrees; 0.87’ low. Black bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows.

Hybrid striper and white bass are fair on slabs.

CORPUS CHRISTI LAKE: Water off-color; 80–88 degrees; 3.51’

low. Black bass are good on top-waters early, later switching to Texas rigs and jigs. White bass are fair to good on Little Georges.

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

EAGLE MOUNTAIN: Water lightly stained; 82-86 degrees; 1.46’ low.

Black bass are good on squarebilled crankbaits, top-waters and shaky-head worms. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are slow.

FALCON: Water murky; 84-88 degrees; 36.70’ low. Black bass are good on deep-running crankbaits and fair on Carolina-rigged soft plastics. Channel and blue catfish are excellent on cut bait and stink bait in the river.

FAYETTE: Water murky. Black bass are good on watermelon soft plastics, spinner baits and crankbaits over grass. Channel and blue catfish are fair on shrimp and dough bait.

FORK: Water lightly stained to stained; 83-87 degrees; 0.94’ low.

Black bass are fair on Texas-rigged craws on timber along creek channels. White buzzbaits early are effective as well. White and yellow bass are fair on slabs. Crappie are fair on minnows near bridges.

Catfish are good on trotlines.

FT. PHANTOM HILL: Water off-color; 79-87 degrees; 2.77’ low. Black bass are fair to good on top-waters, medium-running crankbaits, Texas rigs and weightless flukes. Crappie are fair to good on live minnows around deeper structure. Catfish are good on live and cut bait.

GIBBONS CREEK: Water stained.

Black bass are good on chartreuse lipless crankbaits, soft plastics, spinner baits and crankbaits.

Crappie are good on minnows and white/blue tube jigs. Catfish are good on punch bait, shrimp and liver.

GRANBURY: Water stained; 81-85 degrees; 0.76’ low. Black bass are fair on chartreuse soft plastics, crankbaits and spinner baits. Striped bass are slow. White bass are good on shad-colored Li’l Fishies. Crappie are good on minnows and green tube jigs. Catfish are good on stink bait, shrimp and liver.

GRANGER: Water stained; 8387 degrees; 0.32’ high. Black bass are slow. White bass are fair on jigs along shallow roadbeds.

Crappie are very good on minnows over brush piles in 4-12 feet. Blue catfish are good on punch bait in 3-12 feet. Yellow catfish are very good on trotlines baited with live perch in the river.

GRAPEVINE: Water lightly stained; 82-86 degrees; 0.62’ low. Black bass are good on football jigs, Texas-rigged craws and top-waters. White bass and hybrid bass are good on minnows. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

GREENBELT: Water off-color; 78-89 degrees; 33.97’ low. Black bass are fair on pearl shallowrunning crankbaits, Texas rigs and shaky heads. Crappie are fair on live minnows and jigs.

Catfish are fair to good on live and cut bait.

HOUSTON COUNTY: Water stained; 83–87 degrees; 0.36’ low. Black bass are good on deepdiving perch-colored crankbaits.

Crappie are very good on live minnows near the dam. Bream are good on live worms off piers and near the islands. Catfish are good on juglines baited with perch.

HUBBARD CREEK: Water offcolor; 79-88 degrees; 4.23’ low.

Black bass are fair on top-waters, Texas rigs and jigs. Crappie are fair to good on live minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on live and cut bait.

JOE POOL: Water stained; 83-87 degrees; 0.46’ low. Black bass are fair on weightless flukes, top-water poppers and Texas-rigged creature baits. White bass are fair on slabs and top-waters. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

LAKE O’ THE PINES: Water stained; 83-88 degrees: 0.91’ high. Black bass are fair on Texasrigged creature baits, hollow-body frogs and buzzbaits. White bass are good on slabs and top-waters.

Crappie are fair on minnows.

Catfish are fair on trotlines.

LAVON: Water stained; 83-87 degrees: 0.66’ low. Black bass are slow. White bass are good on slabs and topwaters.

Crappie are fair on minnows.

Catfish are fair on trotlines.

LBJ: Water stained; 84-88 degrees; 0.77’ low. Black bass are fair on chartreuse stick worms, lipless crankbaits and weightless green/pumpkin wacky rigged worms. White bass are slow.

Crappie are very good on minnows and white crappie jigs over brush piles in 10 feet. Channel catfish are good on minnows and dip bait.

Yellow and blue catfish are good on trotlines baited with live perch and carp.

LEWISVILLE: Water lightly stained; 82-86 degrees; 0.92’ low’. Black bass are good on square-billed crankbaits and shaky-head worms. White bass are fair on slabs and top-waters. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on trotlines.

LIVINGSTON: Water stained; 82-86 degrees; 0.14’ high. Black bass are fair on watermelon lipless crankbaits and spinner baits.

Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows. Blue catfish are fair on shad.

MACKENZIE: Water stained; 79-88 degrees; 75.93’ low. Black bass are fair on Texas rigs and split-shot rigged flukes. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs around structure. Catfish are fair to good on nightcrawlers and live baitfish.

MARTIN CREEK: Water stained; 86-92 degrees; 0.73’ low. Black bass are fair on buzzbaits, Texasrigged craws and hollow-body frogs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. White bass are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

MONTICELLO: Water stained; 84-88 degrees; 2.77’ low. Black bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

NASWORTHY: 78-87 degrees; 1.58’ low. Black bass are good on top-waters, Texas rigs and dropshot rigs. No reports on crappie.

Catfish are fair to good on live bait and nightcrawlers.

NAVARRO MILLS: Water stained; 80-84 degrees; 0.17’ low. Black bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair but small on minnows and chartreuse tube jigs. Channel catfish are good on minnows and stink bait in baited areas. Blue catfish are fair on trotlines and juglines baited with shad and shrimp.

O.H. IVIE: Water stained; 79-88 degrees; 40.91’ low. Black bass are fair to good on stick worms, Texas rigs, shad-pattern crankbaits and shaky heads. Crappie are fair

to good on live minnows. Catfish are good on cut and live bait.

OAK CREEK: Water stained; 78-86 degrees; 12.11’ low. Black bass are fair to good on Carolinarigged creature baits, Texas rigs and jigs. Crappie are fair on jigs and live minnows. Catfish are fair to good on live and cut bait.

PALESTINE: Water lightly stained; 83-87 degrees; 0.47’ low. Black bass are good on Texasrigged creature baits, hollow-body frogs and top-waters. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Hybrid striper are fair on slabs. White bass are good on slabs. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

POSSUM KINGDOM: Water fairly clear; 78-87 degrees; 1.42’ low.

Black bass are fair to good on top-waters early and late, midday switching to Carolina rigs, jigs, drop-shot rigs, Texas rigs and crankbaits.

Crappie are fair to good on live minnows around structure in 14-22 feet.

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

PROCTOR: Water murky; 79-83 degrees; 3.34’ low. Black bass are fair on green/pumpkin soft plastics, crankbaits and spinner baits. Striped bass are good on slabs and white striper jigs. White bass are good on minnows and shad-colored crankbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are very good on shad.

Yellow catfish are fair on trotlines baited with live bait.

RAY HUBBARD: Water lightly stained; 83-87 degrees; 0.68’ low. Black bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows. White bass are good on slabs. Hybrid striper are fair on slabs. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

RAY ROBERTS: Water lightly stained: 83-86 degrees; 0.32’ low.

Black bass are fair on top-water poppers, deep-diving crankbaits and football jigs. White bass are fair on minnows and top-waters.

Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water lightly stained; 82-87 degrees; 0.28’ low. Black bass are good on Texas-rigged craws, squarebilled crankbaits and buzzbaits.

White bass are fair on slabs and top-waters. Hybrid striper are good on slabs. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are fair on trotlines.

SAM RAYBURN: Water stained; 83-87 degrees; 1.42’ low. Black bass are fair on pumpkinseed soft plastics and creature baits. White bass are good on minnows, hellbenders and silver spoons. Crappie are good on minnows and tube jigs over brush piles. Bream are slow. Catfish are good on trotlines baited with live bait.

SOMERVILLE: Water murky; 82-86 degrees; 0.35’ low. Black bass are fair on lipless crankbaits and soft plastics. Hybrid striper are good on crawfish and silver spoons. White bass are good on crawfish and silver spoons.

Crappie are good on minnows and chartreuse tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are good on punch bait.

STAMFORD: Water stained to muddy; 80-87 degrees; 2.14’ low. Black bass are fair to good on top-waters, Texas rigs, jigs and chatterbaits. Crappie are fair to good on jigs and live minnows.

White bass are fair on slabs. Blue catfish are fair to good on cut and live bait.

STILLHOUSE: Water murky; 83-87 degrees; 5.00’ low. Black

n Saltwater reports Page 11 bass are slow. White bass are fair on minnows and small spinner baits. Crappie are fair on minnows.

Catfish are slow.

TAWAKONI: Water stained; 83-88 degrees; 0.54’ low. Black bass are fair on black buzzbaits, hollow-body frogs and Texasrigged craws. White bass are fair on slabs. Hybrid bass are good on slabs and top-waters. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on trotlines and prepared bait.

TEXANA: Water stained; 82-89 degrees; 5.07’ low. Black bass are fair to good on top-waters, Texas rigs and short Carolina rigs.

Crappie are fair on live minnows.

Catfish are fair to good on nightcrawlers and cut bait.

TEXOMA: Water lightly stained; 82-85 degrees; 1.41’ high. Black bass are fair on Texas-rigged craws, top-water walking baits and soft plastic jerkbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows. Striped bass are good on slabs and top-waters.

Catfish are fair on trotlines and cut shad.

TOLEDO BEND: Water stained; 81-85 degrees; 2.24’ low. Black bass are good on chartreuse/white soft plastics. Striped bass are fair on white striper jigs. White bass are fair on silver spoons and slabs in the river. Crappie are good on minnows and chartreuse tube jigs.

Channel and blue catfish are good on trotlines baited with live bait, cut bait and shrimp.

TRAVIS: Water stained; 84-88 degrees; 17.26’ low. Black bass are good on chrome top-waters and junebug worms in 5-18 feet.

Striped bass are fair on chrome top-waters and smoke grubs. White bass are good on chrome top-waters, smoke grubs and white shad raps. Crappie are fair on blue/ white tube jigs and roadrunners.

Channel and blue catfish are fair on fresh cut bait and nightcrawlers in 15-25 feet.

WALTER E. LONG: Water murky.

Black bass are good on watermelon crankbaits, lipless crankbaits and soft plastic worms. Hybrid striper are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are fair on minnows.

Channel and blue catfish are good on nightcrawlers and shrimp.

WEATHERFORD: Water lightly stained; 82-87 degrees; 1.31’ low.

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

WHITE RIVER: Water stained; 79-88 degrees; 22.94’ low. Black bass are fair on top-waters early, later switching to Texas rigs and jigs. No reports on crappie. Catfish are good on live bait.

WHITNEY: Water stained; 80-84 degrees; 2.08’ low. Black bass are good on pumpkinseed Texas- and Carolina-rigged soft plastics and lipless crankbaits. Striped bass are fair on white/green striper jigs.

White bass are fair on minnows, slabs, spoons and spinner baits.

Crappie are good on minnows and Li’l Fishies. Catfish are good on frozen shrimp and stink bait.

WRIGHT PATMAN: Water stained to muddy; 83-88 degrees; 6.85’ high. Black bass are good on Texas-rigged creature baits, buzz frogs and hollow-body frogs. Crappie are good on minnows. Catfish are good on trotlines.

—TPWD

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NORTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good under birds and pods of shad on soft plastics. Redfish are good in the cuts and drains leading to the marsh on shrimp and scented plastics.

SOUTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good while drifting the reefs on live shrimp and top-waters. Drifters have been working slicks and pods of shad on the Reef on the south end. Trout are good at the jetty on live bait and top-waters.

BOLIVAR: Trout are good on the south shoreline on Bass Assassins, Corkies and Down South Lures. Black drum, sand trout and redfish are good at Rollover Pass. Trout are good in the surf on live bait.

TRINITY BAY: Trout are good for drifters working wells and shell pads on shrimp, croaker, Bass Assassins, Gamblers and Lil’ Johns.

Redfish are good on live bait around the reefs and at the spillway.

EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are good for drifters working deep shell on limetreuse and plum plastics. Whiting and sand trout are good on the edge of the Intracoastal on fresh shrimp. Trout are good on the Ship Channel on croakers and plastics.

croaker. Trout are good on the edge of the Ship Channel on croaker and shrimp.

FREEPORT: Trout are good at San Luis Pass on shrimp and MirrOlures. Trout, sand trout and sheepshead are good on live shrimp on the reefs in Christmas Bay. Trout, Spanish mackerel and sand trout are good at the jetties on live bait. Offshore is good for red snapper, kingfish and ling.

EAST MATAGORDA BAY: Trout are fair for drifters on live shrimp over humps and scattered shell. Redfish are fair to good on the edge of the Intracoastal on crabs and mullet.

WEST MATAGORDA BAY: Trout are fair on sand and grass humps on soft plastics and top-waters. Redfish are fair on top-waters and live shrimp along the shorelines early in the morning.

PORT O’CONNOR: Trout and redfish are fair on top-waters and live bait over sand, grass and shell in San Antonio Bay. Redfish are good on the shorelines around Pass Cavallo on gold spoons and scented plastics.

ROCKPORT: Trout are fair in the guts and channels on free-lined shrimp. Trout are fair to good on the outside beaches of Traylor Island on croaker. Redfish are good on mullet on the edge of Estes Flats and around Mud Island.

PORT ARANSAS: Trout, redfish and sheepshead are fair to good at the jetty on shrimp and croaker. Offshore is good for red snapper,

WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are good at the railroad bridge on live shrimp. Sheepshead, redfish and black drum are good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs. Offshore is good for tarpon, kingfish, red snapper and ling.

TEXAS CITY: Trout are fair to good on the reefs on live shrimp and

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Barnes said the thermocline is setting in, and fishing too deep will result in no catches and dead bait.

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Catching bait has become more of a challenge.

“It’s been really tough the past week or so,” Barnes said. “That’s another good reason to hire a guide.”

Good striper action also has been reported at Lake Whitney and Canyon Lake.

Stumpjumper22 posted his success on Canyon Lake over the past two weeks.

“I went out with a cork and worms to catch perch for bait,” he said. “After an hour of running around, I found a big school in about 70 feet of water and they just kept coming.”

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CORPUS CHRISTI: Trout are fair to good on the edge of the spoils on scented plastics and live shrimp. Redfish are good in the potholes on shrimp. Trout are fair to good at Emmord’s Hole on croaker and piggy perch.

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GAME WARDEN BLOTTER FATHER, CHILD IN ATV ACCIDENT Lubbock District game wardens responded to a report of an ATV accident on the OHV trails near Buffalo Springs Lake. They discovered a 34-year-old male subject was riding an ATV with a 5-year-old passenger when the ATV overturned and rolled several times on the steep rocky trail. The child was wearing a helmet and escaped with only minor scratches and bruises.

The man’s leg was crushed under the ATV resulting in a substantial injury requiring medical treatment and transport to a local hospital by ambulance. Alcohol was not a factor in the accident.

WARDENS USE AIRBOAT TO TRANSPORT DECEASED CANOER Wichita Falls District game wardens assisted the Palo Pinto County Sheriff’s Office on a call along the Brazos River concerning a deceased male. The victim was on a canoe trip with his 13-year-old son and another male subject below Possum Kingdom Lake. They were camped out and the victim was discovered deceased the next morning by his son. The game wardens used an airboat to get to the scene and to transport the victim out.

DRUNK BOATER JUMPS OUT OF BOAT TO DRINK LAKE WATER On Possum Kingdom Lake, a Young County game warden arrested a male subject for a Class A boating while intoxicated (2nd offense). On the way off the lake, the subject jumped out of the patrol boat as they were approaching the boat

TOO DRUNK TO FISH On Lake Amon Carter, a Montague County game warden came across a boat with no lights driving across the lake at night. He stopped the boat and the operator said he was headed out to go fishing. After observing signs of impairment, field sobriety tests were administered and the operator

ramp. Apparently, the subject was intentionally swallowing lake water in an attempt to disguise his alcohol consumption. The subject was transported to Palo Pinto County Jail where he blew a .11 BAC. WARDENS RESCUE SINKING BOAT, ARREST OPERATOR A boat appeared to have mechanical issues on Lake Conroe.

Montgomery County game wardens stopped to assist, and the passengers of the vessel said they were trying to make it back to the boat ramp because their boat was taking on water. Both passengers appeared to be under the influence of alcohol. One warden took the driver to shore to perform sobriety tests, and the other drove the sinking boat to a nearby marina. After the sobriety tests, the driver was placed under arrest for boating while intoxicated.

A tow boat took the sinking boat back to the boat ramp. The driver provided a breath sample of 0.132.

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was arrested for felony BWI (3rd or more). He was transported to the Montague County Jail where he provided breath samples indicating a .117 and .116 blood alcohol content two hours after the initial stop.

were deployed to Grimes County after two firearms used in the commission of an assault were thought to have been discarded. Within 35 minutes of deploying, the dog alerted on a loaded semi-automatic firearm believed to be connected to the offense.

Another warden and K9 partner found another semi-automatic pistol also connected with the offense.

Criminal charges have been pursued against the individual responsible for the violent offense and the prosecution of this case will be easier with the firearms collected as evidence.

WARDEN TESTIFIES IN MURDER TRIAL A Grayson County game warden appeared in court to testify regarding an April 2017 incident. The warden assisted a DPS trooper with a single vehicle fatality crash. As a result of the crash, a 7-year-old child was killed. The warden served as the lead intoxication officer, and the father of the child had a blood alcohol content of .145 two hours after the crash. Witnesses at the

scene reported the father was trying to keep people from calling 911 and tried to leave the scene. The child had also been unrestrained in the vehicle at the time of the crash.

After deliberating for only 45 minutes, a Grayson County jury found the father guilty of murder.

WARDENS HELP MAN PASSED OUT ON PONTOON San Jacinto County game wardens were flagged down by a PWC operator to assist an individual who had passed out on a pontoon. The man had a history of high blood pressure. The wardens took him to Browder’s Marina where he was transported to the local hospital by emergency medical services.

BOAT RACING BACK AND FORTH ACROSS LAKE AT NIGHT Numerous 911 calls from boaters and persons on the shore of Miller Creek Reservoir reported a racing boat without lights driving erratically on the water late at night. Baylor County game wardens located the boat from the shore and observed

with binoculars that the boat had no navigational lights and three persons were aboard. The boat would start up, drive across the lake at a high rate of speed, and then stop.

The activity continued for several hours until the boat approached the boat ramp. The wardens made contact and arrested the operator for boating while intoxicated. The passengers, also intoxicated, were arrested for public intoxication.

SQUATTER FOUND ON RANCH In Smith County, an absentee landowner called a game warden about possible trespassing on his property. The game warden and a sheriff’s deputy went to the location and discovered a well-established squatter’s campsite. While talking with the individual, the warden observed methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. A loaded flare gun in a holster, painted black to look like a pistol, was also found.

The subject said he had been living there for a couple of months and had previously lived in the location for six months. The subject was arrested.

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Dodd Coffey caught this blue catfish on a limbline baited with live sunfish. Photo by Robert Sloan.

Springs to get in on some nocturnal catfishing. Between the two of them, they managed to catch a mix of blue and flathead catfish on their limblines.

“The river has been very low due to a lack of rain,” Coffey said. “That will slow the fishing down a good bit. But when the river is on a 1- to 5-foot rise, catfish go on a big feed. When the river is up, I’ll bait limblines both day and night. But with a low river and slow current, it’s best to bait up at sunset to keep the gar from eating all the perch.”

Coffey said the best bait is a live perch about 3 to 5 inches long. Live crawfish also make very good baits that last longer than a perch. He’ll hook the crawfish through the tail. The perch are hooked about midway back so they swim right, do a lot of wiggling and stay alive longer.

“The heaviest flathead I’ve ever caught on the Guadalupe weighed 79 pounds,” Coffey said. “My best blue weighed 48 pounds. Both were caught on big perch.

During the day I’ll drift down the river and use a cane pole and worms to catch perch for the lines. The big ones tend to catch the bigger cats. Liver is the best dead bait to use. It’s especially good during the day.”

Most of the time the limblines are rigged with 5/0 straight shank hooks. If the bait is bigger, Coffey will switch to 8/0 hooks.

The best spots to set out the lines will be in logjams, little backwater eddies, deep holes and points.

The official water body records for Guadalupe cats is a blue weighing 34.25 pounds and flathead weighing 23.63 pounds. Both were caught on fresh cut perch.

“We’ve caught some record-setting catfish, but opted to eat them instead of doing the paper work,” Coffey said.

A limbline is actually a throw line according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. According to the law, you can have up to five hooks per line. They can only be used to catch channel, blue and flathead catfish. Each line must have a gear tag attached with the name of the fisherman, address and date set. Each gear tag is good for 10 days.

For channel and blue catfish, the minimum length limit is 12 inches and a daily bag limit of 25 in any combination. For flathead catfish, the minimum length is 18 inches with a daily bag limit of five.

So what’s the best way to fry a catfish?

“We’ve been cooking them for years with a fine grind Lance cracker meal,” Coffey said. “It’s not seasoned. We add salt and pepper to taste and you get the real flavor of the catfish. There’s a huge difference in the taste of a river cat as opposed to a farm-raised catfish.”

Narrow win at Bass Champs Joe Rome and Joel McBride won the Bass Champs last regular season event of the year at Cedar Creek Reservoir by a fraction of a pound.

Rome, of Flower Mound, and McBride, of Corinth, fished areas in about 15 feet of water, using a variety of lures, with their best success on worms with a very slow presentation. The team’s best bass weighed 7.48 pounds, helping the team reach a total weight of 22.39 pounds, winning by a nose to capture the $20,000 prize.

Branden Hollingshead, of Azle, and Jeremy Lambert, of Heath, finished second with 22.23 pounds. The team only had seven bites all day, but made the best of it to win $5,000.

Third place was captured by the team of Lee Batson and Jason Greer, both of Heath, with 21.85 pounds. The team fished brush piles and docks, using jigs to win $4,000.

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the boat for drifts over some “junk” on bottom.

“We could be using cut baits out here and catch a limit of snapper on probably two drifts,” Kinney said. “With jigs on bottom, it’ll take us a little longer, but we’ll catch some really nice snapper.”

Within a few hours, the five fishermen had iced a full box of snapper in the 10- to 15-pound class.

Most of the fish were caught on 2-ounce Spro Power bucktail jigs in gold/yellow/ white or chartreus. They were rigged on a 5-foot leader of 50-pound test Seaguar fluorocarbon.

“This is the perfect situation to be fishing jigs for big snapper,” Davis said. “The water is clear and we’ve got good bottom structure to hold the fish. You can see on the electronics that the small snapper are suspended about midway down. The bigger fish are on the bottom structure, and they are all over these jigs and trailers.”

Capt. Woody Woodward has been jigfishing red snapper for a number of years.

He developed and sells the very popular Snapper Slapper jigs out of Texas City.

“I’ve been fishing these jigs for about 15 years,” Woodward said. “At first people thought that making a line of jigs for snapper was not the best idea. But, they are proven and they have caught a lot of snapper.”

The Snapper Slapper jigs have a one-of-akind design. They are built on a weighted squid head with a nylon tail that comes in all the right colors.

“They come in six sizes from 1/2 ounce to 7 ounces so you can fish them at just about any depth even in a very strong current,” Woodward said. “We make the heavier jigs with two hooks. You have the option of tipping them with fish strips or soft plastics. We’ve caught some of our heaviest snapper by adding a soft plastic curl tail on the trailing hook.”

Woodward said that if you really want to have some fun, try flipping smaller jigs and soft plastics to snapper that have been chummed to the surface.

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and draw a strike from a hungry game fish.

Kevin said his son also hooked, and landed several other redfish and a 17-inch sheepshead.

“He was intrigued by the characteristics of the sheepshead,” he said. “He couldn’t stop looking at the fish’s teeth and spiny fins.”

Kevin said another fun memory from the trip was how proud and excited his son was to land some keeper-sized fish and put them on ice to bring home and eat.

“We couldn’t keep him out of the fish box,” he said. “Every ten minutes or so he would want to stop fishing to go open the lid and admire his catch that he was going to bring home for his mom and Kevin Hoffman helps his son, Wade, while he reels in a redfish on his first bay-fishing trip. Photo by Nate Skinner. grandmother to cook. I finally had to tell him that if he kept opening the box that all the ice was going to melt and that we would have to throw all his fish back.”

After returning to the dock, the youngster was able to experience another “first,” as he watched how fish were filleted and bagged.

Wade’s favorite activity at the dock was feeding the pelicans around the cleaning table the unwanted carcasses that were left after the fish were cleaned.

“For the rest of the day, all Wade talked about was his experiences from fishing that morning,” Kevin said. “We were unsure at first if he was going to like it, but it is now clear that he is hooked. No doubt we have a fisherman on our hands, and he will cherish that fishing trip for many years to come.”

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gert, said. “The Venturing project is similar to an Eagle Scout project. She was in charge of managing the entire project.

She led the effort, did the fundraising, managed the people to help put the boxes together, get the posts in the ground and put the boxes up.”

Venturing is a program for males and females, ages 14-21. The project is in partial fulfillment of the William T. Hornaday Badge, an award given to honor work performed to protect wildlife and conserve the natural environment. It is one of BSA’s four coed programs.

The Hornaday award is no easy feat.

Since the original Hornaday medals and badges were established in 1914, slightly more than 1,000 bronze medals and 2,200 youth badges have been awarded.

About 200 Hornaday Awards of all types

are made nationally per year.

The early signs showed the project will likely be a success.

“The boxes were installed right before the breeding season,” Taggert said.

“Within two weeks of placing the boxes, two wood ducks were seen standing on top of one of them.”

Zoe will enter the 11th grade at the Covenant School, in Dallas, this fall, and is a member of the Venture Crew 399, based in Austin. She has previously participated with her Venture Crew team members and adults in cleaning up invasive plant species at the Boy Scout Camp in Bastrop.

And to her dad’s delight, she loves to hunt and fish.

“She likes to duck hunt with me,” Taggert said. “And we have a boat dock with

some of the best crappie fishing on the lake. She has jug-lined and bass fished.”

Taggert, an Eagle Scout himself, stressed the Venturing Program was separate from BSA’s more recent decision to allow girls into the Boy Scouts.

“They already had a program for girls to participate,” he said. “It’s always been coed. That’s how Zoe got involved — it’s a means for girls to participate.”

Zoe Taggert, a junior in high school, puts the final touches on one of 19 wood duck boxes she built and installed near Athens. Photo from Steve Taggert.

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our customers since we added it to the menu,” she said. “Fresh, handbreaded shrimp, oysters, and fish, as well as hand-breaded mushrooms and onions rings, have become quite popular.”

A new edition since Renfro has taken over includes a bar behind the restaurant adjacent to the waters of the marina.

“The outside bar is open on Friday and Saturday nights and allows our customers to enjoy a relaxing waterfront atmosphere while eating some delicious food or indulging in a cold adult beverage,” Renfro said.

Renfro also plans to have a fully operating bait camp open very soon.

Galveston Bay fishing guide, Capt.

Gary Campbell of Fishin’ Hookers charters, is a regular customer at Fish

Spot. Campbell said the fried shrimp and oysters are some of his favorite menu items, but that it’s always hard to beat one of the restaurant’s hamburgers.

“The secret to their delicious burgers is the flavor that the seasoned, 30-year-old grill they use produces,” Campbell said. “Anything that hits their grill is amazing.”

Campbell is one of many locals who love the carefree environment.

He and his friends may be found enjoying a cold beverage at a shaded picnic table while overlooking the boat ramp.

“I’ve witnessed many interesting mishaps with folks launching and trailering their boats here at this boat ramp,” he said. “From boaters plowing into the bulkhead while trying

to dock their boat, to people forgetting to put their plug in and almost sinking their vessel, it never ceases to amaze me how many goofy things can take place at one launch site.”

In addition to boats, the Fish Spot is also a great place for anglers to launch a kayak. Angler Jack Janoe, of League City, often puts his kayak in at the Fish Spot when he’s got the itch to bend a rod.

“I like launching here because it makes for an easy paddle out into Moses Lake,” he said. “I can make a quick morning trip, usually catch a few fish, and then get home in time for lunch.”

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For Lone Star Outdoor News Red snapper weighing 10-15 pounds or more are being brought up onto the deck of Murphy’s Law, one of three head boats making eight- and four-hour trips out of South Padre Island.

A week after the season opened, a boat packed with people, numbering 40 fishermen and women landed their 80 red snapper. The limit is two fish per angler per day in federal waters.

Mario “TK” Rodriguez, an avid fisherman from Brownsville, caught one of the bigger snapper during the trip.

“This is the big one that did not get away,” he said. “I figured out this one weighs at least 15 pounds.”

Other anglers like Rick Turner, of Illinois, and Michelle Beatty, of Dallas, said they really enjoyed making the trip.

“This was great for being my first fishing trip,” Beatty said.

Within a minute after she dropped the line baited with squid, Beatty hooked into a good size fish.

Turner said he and his family used to come to the island some time back, adding this is his first trip in nearly 30 years.

“We fish for bass back home,” he said after catching his two-fish limit. “I am going to cook these snapper the same way we fix bass — pan fried.”

The season for head boats and other for-hire operations like guided trips of one to four or six is set for 52 days, or from June 1 through July 20.

Stephen Murphy, of Murphy Charter Services, said the 2018 season has been one of the busiest he has had in the many years they have been making red snapper trips.

“The fish are really plentiful this year,” he said. “Our crews have been working to the max.”

Murphy attributed the increase in red snapper to more law enforcement as Mexican fishermen take thousands of fish every day in state waters.

“Every time a boat goes back undetected,” he claimed, “it has more than 400 red snapper on board.”

The Fish Spot on Moses Lake in Texas City has a boat launch, and is a favorite spot for kayakers. Photo by Nate Skinner, for Lone Star Outdoor News.

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Sabine Pass, north Date Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jul 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 6

Time 1:13 AM 2:25 AM 3:23 AM 4:11 AM 4:52 AM 5:27 AM 6:00 AM 6:32 AM 7:05 AM 7:41 AM 12:21 AM 1:02 AM 1:47 AM 2:39 AM 3:41 AM

Rollover Pass Height 1.36H 1.50H 1.61H 1.68H 1.70H 1.69H 1.66H 1.62H 1.58H 1.54H -0.01L 0.14L 0.32L 0.51L 0.70L

Time 6:18 AM 7:39 AM 8:50 AM 9:47 AM 10:31 AM 10:59 AM 11:18 AM 11:41 AM 12:15 PM 1:03 PM 8:19 AM 8:57 AM 9:32 AM 10:02 AM 10:26 AM

Time 12:11 PM 12:42 PM 1:08 PM 1:28 PM 1:41 PM 1:47 PM 1:59 PM 2:22 PM 2:53 PM 3:30 PM 2:03 PM 3:05 PM 3:56 PM 4:38 PM 5:18 PM

Height 1.41H 1.38H 1.35H 1.33H 1.32H 1.32H 1.33H 1.31H 1.28H 1.22H 1.11L 0.99L 0.82L 0.62L 0.38L

Time 6:58 PM 7:35 PM 8:10 PM 8:44 PM 9:18 PM 9:52 PM 10:27 PM 11:04 PM 11:42 PM

Height 0.09L -0.08L -0.21L -0.29L -0.32L -0.32L -0.29L -0.22L -0.13L

4:18 PM 5:39 PM 8:07 PM 10:45 PM

1.14H 1.02H 0.94H 0.99H

Time 11:55 AM 12:13 PM 12:21 PM

Height 1.41H 1.37H 1.35H

Time 7:11 PM 7:44 PM 8:15 PM

Height 0.20L 0.01L -0.11L

Galveston Bay entrance, north jetty Date Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jul 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 6

Time 1:11 AM 2:31 AM 3:39 AM 4:34 AM 5:17 AM 5:54 AM 6:29 AM 7:06 AM 7:46 AM 8:27 AM 12:20 AM 12:56 AM 1:34 AM 2:19 AM 3:11 AM

Height 1.38H 1.52H 1.66H 1.76H 1.82H 1.84H 1.82H 1.78H 1.73H 1.67H 0.01L 0.16L 0.33L 0.53L 0.74L

Time 6:49 AM 8:01 AM 9:14 AM 8:47 PM 9:21 PM 9:57 PM 10:35 PM 11:11 PM 11:46 PM

Height 0.99L 1.16L 1.28L -0.20L -0.24L -0.25L -0.23L -0.19L -0.11L

9:03 AM 9:30 AM 9:48 AM 10:01 AM 10:14 AM

1.62H 1.56H 1.51H 1.46H 1.43H

Height 1.36H 1.56H 1.73H 1.83H 1.90H 1.92H 1.91H 1.88H 1.83H 1.77H

Time 7:06 AM 8:42 AM 7:58 PM 8:24 PM 8:52 PM 9:22 PM 9:56 PM 10:34 PM 11:14 PM

Height 1.04L 1.16L -0.06L -0.14L -0.17L -0.18L -0.15L -0.10L -0.02L 11:52

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0.86L 0.67L 0.44L

8:31 PM 10:21 PM

0.96H 0.99H

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Height 1.30H 1.24H

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Height 0.24L 0.07L

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Time 9:06 PM 9:43 PM 10:25 PM 11:07 PM 11:49 PM

Height 0.12L 0.01L -0.08L -0.13L -0.15L

11:45 AM 12:30 PM 1:08 PM 1:22 PM 1:10 PM 12:54 PM 12:40 PM 12:14 PM 11:29 AM

0.84H 0.81H 0.78H 0.75H 0.71H 0.67H 0.63H 0.59H 0.56H

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Time 4:35 PM 3:48 PM 3:41 PM 3:51 PM 4:08 PM 4:29 PM 4:52 PM 5:11 PM 5:26 PM 5:38 PM 5:43 PM 5:21 PM 4:40 PM 4:31 PM 4:17 PM

Height 0.75H 0.78H 0.84H 0.89H 0.93H 0.95H 0.95H 0.94H 0.92H 0.90H 0.86H 0.82H 0.78H 0.75H 0.72H

4:58 PM 5:00 PM

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Port O’Connor Date Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jul 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 6

Time 11:30 AM 10:57 AM 9:14 AM 9:38 AM 10:17 AM 11:00 AM 12:28 AM 1:04 AM 1:34 AM 1:59 AM 2:20 AM 2:39 AM 2:56 AM 3:05 AM 2:12 AM

Time 7:30 AM 12:59 AM 01:25 AM 2:01 AM 2:43 AM 3:31 AM 4:22 AM 5:11 AM 5:55 AM 6:31 AM 6:59 AM 7:18 AM 7:24 AM 7:23 AM 7:25 AM

San Luis Pass Date Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jul 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 6

Time 1:19 AM 3:10 AM 4:51 AM 5:57 AM 6:44 AM 7:21 AM 7:51 AM 8:19 AM 8:49 AM 9:22 AM 12:29 AM 1:14 AM 2:01 AM 2:48 AM 3:38 AM

Height 1.23H 1.37H 1.47H 1.53H 0.05L 0.05L 0.08L 0.12L 0.15L 0.19L 0.24L 0.32L 0.43L 0.59L 0.95H

Time 10:46 AM 12:07 PM 11:53 PM

Height 0.98L 1.11L 0.09L

10:05 AM 11:00 AM 11:50 AM 12:28 PM 12:36 PM 12:28 PM 12:31 PM 12:43 PM 12:58 PM 1:15 PM 7:17 AM

1.53H 1.50H 1.46H 1.40H 1.35H 1.32H 1.29H 1.26H 1.22H 1.18H 0.77L

Height 0.81H 0.93H 1.05H 1.13H 1.17H 1.16H 1.14H 1.10H 1.07H 1.04H -0.09L 0.00L 0.12L 0.26L 0.43L

Time 7:05 AM 8:35 AM 8:36 PM 9:05 PM 9:33 PM 10:01 PM 10:32 PM 11:07 PM 11:46 PM

Height 0.62L 0.77L -0.21L -0.26L -0.28L -0.28L -0.25L -0.21L -0.16L

9:53 AM 10:18 AM 10:35 AM 10:44 AM 10:48 AM

1.02H 0.99H 0.95H 0.91H 0.88H

Height 0.83H 0.99H 1.16H 1.27H 1.33H 1.35H 1.35H 1.33H 1.30H 1.25H 1.18H 0.14L 0.26L 0.40L 0.58L

Time 5:11 AM 7:04 AM 8:19 AM 9:29 AM 8:44 PM 9:11 PM 9:42 PM 10:18 PM 10:57 PM 11:41 PM

Height 0.79L 0.97L 1.10L 1.19L -0.16L -0.14L -0.10L -0.06L -0.00L 0.06L

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AM AM AM AM

1.10H 1.06H 1.04H 1.02H

Height 0.79H 0.88H 0.99H 1.06H 1.09H 1.10H 1.10H 1.08H 1.05H 1.00H 0.04L 0.11L 0.21L 0.35L 0.51L

Time 6:08 AM 7:38 AM 8:52 AM 8:47 PM 9:17 PM 9:48 PM 10:19 PM 10:54 PM 11:33 PM

Height 0.66L 0.79L 0.89L -0.10L -0.12L -0.11L -0.08L -0.05L -0.02L

9:49 AM 10:07 AM 10:18 AM 9:49 AM 9:59 AM

0.97H 0.94H 0.91H 0.88H 0.87H

Height 0.80H 0.96H 1.11H 1.20H 1.25H 1.27H 1.25H 1.23H 1.19H 1.15H 1.10H -0.09L 0.05L 0.22L 0.42L

Time 5:50 AM 7:47 AM 7:48 PM 8:19 PM 8:50 PM 9:22 PM 9:56 PM 10:33 PM 11:12 PM 11:52 PM

Height 0.69L 0.86L -0.32L -0.39L -0.41L -0.40L -0.37L -0.33L -0.27L -0.19L

9:52 AM 9:57 AM 10:01 AM 10:04 AM

1.04H 0.98H 0.92H 0.88H

Time 2:27 PM 2:29 PM

Height 1.14H 1.16H

Time 10:36 PM 11:14 PM

Height 0.33L 0.18L

8:11 8:30 8:52 1:33

0.95L 0.81L 0.65L 1.14H

10:12 PM 11:55 PM

0.97H 0.94H

9:19 PM

0.47L

Time 11:47 AM 11:56 AM

Height 0.89H 0.88H

Time 7:31 PM 8:05 PM

Height 0.04L -0.11L

5:59 PM 6:12 PM

0.40L 0.23L

11:01 PM

0.54H

Time 10:35 AM 10:47 AM 11:07 AM 11:29 AM

Height 1.10H 1.17H 1.22H 1.24H

Time 6:53 PM 7:25 PM 7:54 PM 8:20 PM

Height 0.16L -0.00L -0.11L -0.15L

5:22 PM 5:20 PM

0.68L 0.47L

7:34 PM

0.71H

Time 10:50 AM 11:15 AM 11:39 AM

Height 0.90H 0.93H 0.95H

Time 7:09 PM 7:43 PM 8:16 PM

Height 0.19L 0.05L -0.05L

4:51 PM 5:32 PM

0.61L 0.45L

8:59 PM

0.65H

Time 10:39 AM 10:35 AM

Height 0.88H 0.91H

Time 6:43 PM 7:16 PM

Height -0.04L -0.21L

4:58 PM 5:05 PM

0.45L 0.25L

9:45 PM

0.53H

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Date Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jul 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 6

Time 12:27 AM 4:52 AM 5:51 AM 6:44 AM 7:39 AM 8:38 AM 9:39 AM 10:36 AM 11:28 AM 12:10 PM 12:27 PM 12:27 AM 1:13 AM 1:55 AM 2:16 AM

Port Aransas

8:11 PM

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Height

Time

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Nueces Bay Date Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jul 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 6

Time 5:14 AM 6:51 AM 8:05 AM 9:08 AM 12:32 AM 1:08 AM 1:42 AM 2:13 AM 2:41 AM 3:11 AM 3:46 AM 04:25 AM 5:10 AM 6:03 AM 1:48 AM

East Matagorda

Freeport Harbor Date Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jul 1

Date Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jul 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 6

Date Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jul 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 6

Time 12:30 AM 2:20 AM 5:20 AM 6:20 AM 7:26 AM 8:33 AM 9:32 AM 10:20 AM 10:58 AM 11:25 AM 12:12 AM 12:50 AM 1:25 AM 1:57 AM 2:25 AM

South Padre Island

11:57 PM

0.39L

Time

Height

Date Jun 22 Jun 23 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 27 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jul 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul 4 Jul 5 Jul 6

Time 1:11 AM 3:20 AM 4:40 AM 5:37 AM 6:26 AM 7:14 AM 8:00 AM 8:42 AM 9:15 AM 9:36 AM 9:47 AM 12:32 AM 1:13 AM 1:55 AM 2:41 AM

Texas Coast Tides

Height 0.89L 1.04L 1.14L 1.21L 1.26L 1.28L 1.29L 1.27L 1.24L 1.19L 1.50H 1.45H 1.41H 1.36H 1.33H

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Aguila Cup a hit Continued from page 1

When a shooter’s shot was true at the Aguila Cup, held at Fossil Pointe Sporting Grounds in Decatur, there was no dispute as the breaking orange crusher targets from White Flyer were easy to see. Top shooter Gebben Miles kept cool while waiting for his turn to shoot, and rimfire shooter Sky Killian is proud of her two wining silver bracelets. C-Z pro shooter Dave Miller showed his world-record clay target tattoo. Nearly 400 shooters participated in the first annual event. Next year’s Aguila Cup with be June 20-22, 2019. Photos by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.

100 targets from four layouts of 25 targets each, rimfire and 3-Gun. “We have had events the past three years in Acapulco and Guadalajara, Mexico, and now that TxAT is a Texas-based company, we wanted to bring the event here,” Heuring said.

Cole Johnson, a junior at Southlake Carroll High School, shot both sporting clays and FITASC, and won in the B Class.

The rimfire competition involved a timed competition with steel targets.

“You get real quick feedback,” Aguila’s Patrick Thomas said.

The Limited Rimfire Division involved shooting with iron sights.

The big winner in the shotgun competition was Gebben Miles, a professional shooter originally from Tuscon, Arizona, who now runs the Gebben Miles Shooting Academy in Dripping Springs.

Miles has won multiple national and world championships.

“I teach mainly in the sporting clays and five-stand disciplines,” he said. “The academy opened last year, but I’ve been teaching around the world since 2002.”

The Triple Threat, a combination of 100 Sporting Clays targets, 100 5-stand targets and at least 100 points in the rimfire and 3 Gun challenge, was won by Rob Ramiro.

While the event was all about fun and shooting, much of the competition was serious, as $65,000 of total prize money was at stake. Gebbens won $9,534.39 for his efforts.

The goal of the Aguila Cup, though, was met by seeing all of the new shooters and shooters trying something new.

“Shooting is a family friendly sport that lasts for a lifetime,” Heuring said.

Aguila Ammunition has manufactured ammunition since 1961, and is one of the largest rimfire manufacturers in the world. The rimfire, shotshell and centerfire ammo is made in partnership with Texas Armament & Technology.

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T-H Marine acquires Troll Perfect T-H Marine Supplies, Inc., of Huntsville, Alabama, acquired the assets of Troll Perfect, Ltd. of Chester, Virginia, the manufacturer of a trolling motor tensioning device.

New head at Remington Remington Outdoor Company appointed Anthony Acitelli as chairman of the board.

New manager at Ridge Road Jose Jaureguizar was named national account manager firearms and accessories for Ridge Road Outdoors.

New product manager for Franchi Benelli USA hired Bret Maffett as the product manager for the Franchi brand and the accessories category.

Gray Loon hiring Gray Loon Marketing Group is expanding its communications department team with a media relations position focused on the outdoor, hunting and shooting industries.

New CEO at Otis Technology Larry Williams assumed the role of chief executive officer at Otis Technology.

Ruffed Grouse Society names new president Benjamin C. Jones was selected as the new president and chief executive officer of the Ruffed Grouse Society and American Woodcock Society.

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

Kingfish steaks with citrus butter 4 (6-ounce) king mackerel steaks 1 cup flour, lightly seasoned with salt and pepper Olive oil for cooking Sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste Preheat a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Lightly dredge each fillet in the seasoned flour. Add the olive oil to the preheated sauté pan. Add coated fillets to the sauté pan.

Cook 3 to 4 minutes on each

side until completely cooked throughout. Serve with citrus butter.

Citrus Butter 1/2 stick unsalted butter, room temperature 1 tsp. orange zest, chopped fine 1 tsp. lime zest, chopped fine 1 tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped fine Mix all ingredients into small bowl and stir to combine.

—Florida Dept. of Agriculture

Venison sausage breakfast pie 1/2 pound venison sausage 1/2 pound breakfast sausage (spicy is good) 1 tbsp. butter 1 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced 1/2 cup chopped onion 4 eggs, beaten 1/2 pound Monterrey Jack cheese, shredded 1 cup heavy cream Salt and pepper 2 9-inch pie shells, baked

and sauté the mushrooms and onions for about 5 minutes.

Drain and put aside. Brown the sausage mixture and set aside.

Mix the sausage, mushrooms, onions, cheese, beaten eggs, cream, and salt and pepper.

Spread evenly into the pie shells and bake for about 30 minutes. Place foil around the edge of the pie shells if they become too brown.

—Ohio DNR

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Melt butter in a large frying pan

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Rock Island Auction Company selects Proxibid as online bidding partner Rock Island Auction Company, recognizing that not all collectors can make it to the company’s live auctions, is making it easier than ever to participate.

RIAC selected Proxibid as it’s exclusive online bidding partner. Bidders can simply log on to Proxibid, view the auction catalog, and bid and buy just as if they were at the event.

Proxibid, based in Omaha, Nebraska, will handle online bidding for RIAC’s firearms auction, taking place June 21-24 in Rock Island, Illinois.

“Rock Island Auction Company has been working with Proxibid since 2010 to bring our live auctions to global online buyers,” said Dan Thorngren, vice president of Information Technology for Rock Island Auction Company. We’ve decided to make Proxibid our exclusive online bidding partner because of the company’s commitment to offering a trusted way for buyers to participate in Rock Island firearms auctions, even when they cannot attend the live event.”

The June Regional Firearms Auction will feature more than 10,000 firearms, military arms, sporting arms, collector arms, edged weapons and related items.

Win this Polaris Ranger

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STAR leaderboard Nine tagged reds landed Although nine tagged redfish have been landed since the opening of the CCA STAR tournament, only two have officially claimed their prizes and two more are awaiting polygraph testing, while five other fishermen had not registered for the tournament.

The tournament runs through Labor Day. Current leaders: STARKIDS scholarship division: Flounder Brody Henderson, 10, of Spring Branch Sheepshead Tanner Basci, 8, of San Antonio Gafftop Makenzie Hebert of Nederland

4 pounds, 6 ounces 8 pounds, 3 ounces 6 pounds, 8 ounces

STARTEENS scholarship division: Speckled trout: Upper coast Buck Warren, 11, of Galveston Middle coast Camryn Jones, 15, of Portland Lower coast Audrie Lozano, 17, of La Feria

6 pounds, 12 ounces 6 pounds, 13 ounces 8 pounds, 10 ounces

Flounder Sheepshead Gafftop

6 pounds, 1 ounce 10 pounds, 3 ounces 5 pounds, 5 ounces

Chase Blackwell, 16, of Cuero Emily Gray, 15, of Baytown Colton Vandergrifft of Freeport

General leaderboard: Speckled trout: Upper coast Robert Lewis of Angleton Middle coast Colby Lowrie of Rosenberg Lower coast Frank Cavazos of Harlingen

9 pounds 8 pounds, 4 ounces 11 pounds

Kingfish Dorado Ling Flounder Sheepshead Gafftop

52 pounds, 10 ounces 38 pounds, 15 ounces 77 pounds, 15 ounces 6 pounds, 12 ounces 9 pounds, 10 ounces 6 pounds, 6 ounces

Kolby Lafleur of Sulphur, La. Ashley Gerloff of San Antonio Grant Gale of Johnson City Jake Taylor of Sweeny Bobby McKissack of Port Lavaca Cason Warschak of Fayetteville

—STAR tournament

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Spending statistics Sportsmen spent more than $24 billion on hunting, shooting, and sportfishing equipment in 2017, according to new market size reports available from Southwick Associates.

—Southwick Associates

SOUTH CAROLINA

Redfish limit reduced A declining trend in South Carolina’s red drum population has resulted in a new law intended to reverse overfishing. The new redfish limit is now two fish per person per day and no more than six fish per boat per day, effective July 1.

The previous limit was three fish per person per day, with no boat limit. The slot limit (1523 inches) remains unchanged.

—South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

INTERNATIONAL

Namibian hunting leader dies Frank Heger, president of the Namibian Professional Hunters Association from 1998 to 2005, died in an automobile accident.

Heger also served on the NAU’s Land Reform Advisory Committee and is recognized for being an ambassador for the hunting profession in Namibia.

—Staff report

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Fishing harassment charge Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents arrested a man for alleged battery and harassment charges on June 5.

Vincent Ditta, 64, allegedly threw gasoline on three people while they were fishing.

Agents determined the three people were legally fishing in front of Ditta’s property and dock on Lake D’Arbonne. Ditta confronted the anglers and, in an effort to run them off, poured gasoline from a handheld gasoline tank on the men and in the water.

—LDFW

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Billfish Classic winners Team Reel Addiction topped the field of 117 boats to win the 2018 Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic. Angler Chase Pate of Pensacola, Florida, Capt. Scooter Porto, owners Rocky and Laurie Jones, and mates Zach Taylor, Seth Brennan and Nate Dennis boated a 796.9-pound blue marlin. The largest marlin of the week earned the team $405,705.

The Catch and Release Division was won

by Relentless Pursuit (Capt. Robbie Doggett), with 1,800 points (three blue marlin releases), earning a check of $265,050.

The overall tournament prize money was nearly $2.2 million.

—MGCBC

ARIZONA

Record Gila trout David Worsham was bass fishing on June 2 when he landed a potential state- and worldrecord Gila trout.

Worsham caught a 23-inch, 5.12-pound Gila trout that is in the process of certification as an Arizona state record. He caught the fish on a lipless crankbait.

The Gila trout is one of two native trout species to Arizona.

The previous inland waters, hook-and-line Arizona state record Gila trout was 3 pounds, 5.6 ounces and 19 1/4 inches caught by Roberts Woods of Flagstaff from Frye Mesa Reservoir in 2011.

The International Game Fish Association All-Tackle World-Record Gila trout stands at 3 pounds, 7 ounces and was caught by Bo Nelson in 2011 from Arizona’s Frye Mesa Reservoir.

—AGFC

IDAHO

Freedom Munitions seeks Chapter 11 protection Howell Munitions and Technology, and its associated companies — Freedom Munitions, Howell Machine, Xtreme Bullets, and Ammo Load Worldwide and Range Time Training Ammo ­— filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

According to a company statement, the ammunition subsidiaries will continue to manufacture and ship ammo.

—Staff report

MICHIGAN

Black buffalo bowfishing record The Department of Natural Resources confirmed the catch of a new state-record black buffalo.

The fish, a member of the sucker family, was caught by Brandonn Kramer of Muskegon, Michigan. The fish weighed 46.54 pounds and measured 39.75 inches. Kramer was bowfishing when he landed the record fish.

The previous record fish weighed 44.54 pounds.

—MDNR

Wolf population stable Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division officials said the state’s wolf population has remained relatively stable over the past four wolf surveys, the most recent of which occurred this past winter.

DNR wildlife biologists estimate there was a minimum of 662 wolves found among 139 packs across the Upper Peninsula this past winter. The 2016 minimum population estimate was 618 wolves.

—MDNR

MAINE

Deer harvest most in decade Deer hunters harvested 27,233 deer in 2017, the highest total in the last 10 years and an increase of 15 percent from 2016.

“An increasing deer herd in southern and central Maine, and favorable hunting conditions contributed to the best deer hunting season in 10 years,” said Nathan Bieber, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife deer biologist.

—MDIFW

KANSAS

No hunting fatalities last season A total of 11 hunting-related incidents, and two treestand incidents were reported in Kansas during the 2017 seasons, according to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. There were no fatalities.

Four of the incidents occurred while hunters acted as “blockers” while hunting upland game; three were the result of hunters swinging on game; two were attributed to poor firearm handling; one was the result of the unsafe use of a decoy; and one was attributed to an equipment malfunction.

Neither of the hunters involved in the treestand incidents were wearing a full body harness or fall arrest system.

—KDWPT

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PRODUCTS XCEL 500BT: Powered by an advanced digital chipset, Walker’s new electronic muffs are loaded with features for the outdoorsman. The digital control panel and microphones have been placed on the headband, resulting in more air space inside the cup to deliver better protection. The device’s technology incorporates a variable dynamic sound suppression that automatically adjusts the compression time based on the power level of the potentially damaging noise. The muffs also offer four listening modes: universal mode for over-all amplification; speech clarity mode for reduced ambient noise and enhanced vocal frequencies; and high frequency and power boost modes, which provide additional options. The XCEL 500BT, which also offers Bluetooth connectivity, costs about $150.

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DATEBOOK JUNE 22-24

Silver Spur Trade Shows Great Outdoors Expo Horseshoe Pavilion, Midland (806) 253-1322 goetx.com

JUNE 23

Lone Star Bowhunters Association Awards Banquet Columbus Hall, Columbus (979) 758-1547 lonestarbowhunter.com Fieldworkers Club Fly-fishing in Cuba and Belize Sportsman’s Finest, Austin (312) 440-1200 sportsmansfinest.com Ducks Unlimited Texas State Convention Grapevine Hilton (512) 738-7049 ducks.org/Texas Bass Champs Texas Shootout Umphrey Pavilion, Sam Rayburn (817) 439-3274 basschamps.com Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Central Texas Big Game Banquet Bell County Expo Center (254) 718-0504 rmef.org

JUNE 26

Ducks Unlimited Johnson County Raffle Night West End Grill, Cleburne (972) 724-0572 ducks.org/Texas

JUNE 28

Coastal Conservation Association Matagorda Bay Banquet El Campo Civic Center (713) 626-4222 ccatexas.org National Wild Turkey Federation Southeast Texas Banquet Rockin’ A Café, Beaumont (409) 658-4914 nwtf.org Coastal Conservation Association Tomball/Magnolia Banquet Tomball VFW (832) 963-5215 ccatexas.org

JUNE 30

Ducks Unlimited San Augustine Dinner San Augustine County Fairgrounds (936) 645-6987 ducks.org/Texas

JULY 7

National Wild Turkey Federation San Jac Banquet Coldspring High School (936) 628-1401 nwtf.org

JULY 12-15

Texas Deer Association Region 8 Annual Meeting Pleasanton Country Club (512) 499-0466 texasdeerassociation.com

JULY 12

Houston Safari Club HSCF Pint Night Saloon Door Brewing (713) 623-8844 houstonsafariclub.org

Dallas Safari Club Monthly Meeting DSC Office (972) 980-9800 biggame.org

JULY 20-22

JULY 14

Sportsman Channel Outdoor Fest George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston (210) 994-0050 scoutdoorfest.com

National Wild Turkey Federation Van Zandt Banquet Silver Spur Resort (903) 275-9660 nwtf.org

JULY 21

JULY 14-15

Mule Deer Foundation Lone Star Chapter Banquet Bastrop Convention and Exhibit Center (512) 633-7519 muledeer.org

Texas Gun & Knife Show Amarillo Civic Center (830) 285-0575 texasgunandknifeshows.com

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