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Volume 18, Issue 22

Taking advantage of green water

Erin O’Connell performs telemetry to find a collared pronghorn on the Rocker B Ranch by using a radio antenna and receiver that picks up a signal emitted from the GPS collar. Photo by Kai Yun Lai.

Finding greener pastures

When the water is clear to the beach, anglers are finding speckled trout and redfish, often fishing top-water lures. Photo by Robert Sloan, for Lone Star Outdoor News. Right, Heidi Sweet shows her personal best 26-inch red drum she caught while using a live croaker. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.

Translocated pronghorn move through modified fences By Nate Skinner

For Lone Star Outdoor News Erin O’Connell, a graduate research assistant at the Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) at Sul Ross State University, is studying the movements and behaviors of pronghorn while conducting a Pronghorn Restoration Behavior project with a team of BRI colleagues. This study will provide the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and landowners with insight to improve the future of pronghorn restoration efforts

Fishing the surf for trout, reds By Robert Sloan

For Lone Star Outdoor News This time of summer, the surf can be green to the beach, bringing some excellent fish-

ing for trout and a few scattered redfish. Guide Charlie Paradoski said the best fishing in the surf on the middle Texas coast is when a variable wind results in 1-foot waves along the beach. “To hit it right you have to watch the weather, and when

it does get right you have got to be ready to go,” Paradoski said. “That can be a pretty good run from Matagorda Harbor where I keep my boat. But when the surf is green, the top-water bite can be some of the best of the entire year.” The guide runs his boat par-

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allel to the Matagorda Island beach, looking for birds and baitfish working in the first and second guts. “Sometimes the best bite will be in the first gut,” Paradoski said. “That’s where you are more than likely going to find both trout and reds. But

Bass both shallow, deep By Nate Skinner

With the summer heat, most bass anglers are focusing their efforts during the early morning and late evening hours. Stretches of water with offshore structure have been providing consistent action, but surprisingly enough, many anglers are also having good success catching green fish up in shallow

waters. A variety of bait presentations are producing strikes, depending on the water depth. Lake Fork guide Greg Hill has been finding some solid largemouths from 3 to 7 pounds over bluegill beds in 5 to 10 feet of water. “Stretches that have long humps that are similar to old pond dams have been the ticket lately,” Hill said. “These areas

might be surrounded by deeper water on either side, with the hump portion being as shallow as 5 to 6 feet. The beds are located on these shallow flats or dams and there are plenty of bass feeding in and around them.” Hill spots these shallower areas with bluegill beds by using side imaging sonar. “Using today’s electronics, Please turn to page 25

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Mike Laubauch caught this smallmouth bass on a small swimbait along a shallow, rocky point while fishing with guide Hunter Jenkins on Lake Texoma. Photo by Hunter Jenkins.

HUNTING

FISHING

Summer food (P. 4)

Fishing on calmer days (P. 8)

Deer turn to mesquite beans in drought.

Coastal anglers catching trout, drum and tripletail.

Taxidermists gather (P. 4)

A crappie hotspot (P. 8)

Convention holds contests, seminars.

Lake Palestine reliable, not as crowded.

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Studying deer survey methods By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News How many deer are on my land? A simple question, but with a challenging answer bringing struggles for land and wildlife managers. In South Texas, the East Foundation set out to evaluate aerial survey methods for estimating deer and other wildlife numbers by comparing the effective-

ness and feasibility of two known techniques. The most common method is conventional distance sampling (CDS). Unlike raw counts, this method accounts for unseen animals during flights as a function of how far away the animal is when it was first seen. More recently, CDS has been combined with mark-recapture techniques, in a method termed mark-recapture dis-

tance sampling (MRDS), to account for visibility bias. A potential downside of the MRDS method when compared to CDS is that it requires two independent observers rather than one. Animals seen by a single observer are considered marked, and if seen by a second independent observer, are considered recaptured. In 2013, the East Foundation, together with the

Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University Kingsville, sought to compare methods and develop large mammal aerial survey recommendations hoping for the answer to the age-old question. Led by CKWRI’s Mary Peterson, researchers conducted aerial surveys for deer, nilgai antelope, collared peccary and wild pigs across four ranches: Please turn to page 24

Trying to figure out the number of white-tailed deer on a ranch is a challenge, and survey methods were studied to give ranch managers the most feasible approaches. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.

Taxidermists gather at state convention By Craig Nyhus

Lone Star Outdoor News Alyssa Godwin is one of the growing numbers of female taxidermists in Texas, and she shares the love of birds with her husband, Micah. The two operate Feathered Arts Taxidermy in El Campo, and they competed in the Texas Taxidermy Association Masters Division at the group’s convention in Belton. “From a young age, I’ve been enamored with wildlife,” Godwin said. “My two brothers and father are avid hunters and fishermen, and my dad has taken my all over Texas to youth hunts on wildlife management areas, and we recently hunted elk in Colorado.” Godwin graduated with a degree in wildlife ecology from Texas A&M University and planned to work as a biologist or become a game warden. Things changed when she helped her father mount a blue-winged teal over the Christmas break in 2017. “My dad and grandpa have always done their own taxidermy,” she said. “I never would have guessed I would become a taxidermist, but it just made sense being able to combine my love of waterfowl, science and a touch of my creative side.” Since that Christmas Eve, she switched gears. “I’ve met a lot of taxidermists over the years who have been very helpful, including my husband who I work by every day,” Godwin said.

She and her husband said the convention is a great place to learn new tactics and tricks. “The seminars are great,” Micah said. “But talking to all the other taxidermists in the lobby is where you learn some of the best tricks.” The pair’s hen mallard finished in second place in the Godwin’s first year in the Masters Division. Alyssa Godwin became a taxidermist after helping her father mount a blue-winged teal. She now operates “We scored well,” Micah said. “The di- Feathered Arts Taxidermy, focusing on birds. Photos from Alyssa Godwin. Please turn to page 20

Mother Nature’s gift Mesquite beans thrive in drought By Craig Nyhus

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Mesquite beans thrive during droughts, giving deer a food option when other food is scarce. Photo by Lone Star Outdoor News.

When food for wildlife gets sparse, one plant in particular gets to work producing food. Designated a desert legume, mesquite beans are beneficial to most wildlife species in the hot Texas summer, according to consulting biologist Macy Ledbetter of Spring Creek Outdoors. Mesquite beans provide both protein and starch.

“The beans, once brown and dried, are 13 percent crude protein,” Ledbetter said. “Deer readily consume the beans once they dry and turn brown and indicate seeds are mature. Quail, turkey and songbirds relish the hard seeds when most other seeds are absent from the landscape.” While some people try to eliminate mesquite, Ledbetter said wildlife managers should protect the plants. “Mesquite, especially mature mesquite trees, are incredibly valuable

on the landscape,” he said. “The quantity of mesquite beans is a good indicator of drought conditions because they fluctuate depending on rainfall. Mother Nature provides for the wildlife by increasing bean production as times get hard for the wildlife.” On Lone Star Outdoor News’ social media pages, several hunters chimed in, saying the beans are great for wildlife but not so great for livestock. “If I could bag them up and sell them, I’d be one of the richest people on

earth,” Brice Born commented. “Best crop I’ve seen in years right now.” Some ranchers weren’t fans of the mesquites that continually pop up. “A few years ago there was a really bad drought in West Texas, and the only thing that grew was beans,” Kinsey Smith said. “Cattle would fill their bellies on them and couldn’t process the starch. We lost at least 20 head that year.” Horses also have difficulty digesting the beans. “Just be careful with horses,” Kim Moore Ker-

by said. “They cause colic and other issues.” Even humans use the beans occasionally, making flour and other treats. “They make a great jelly,” Joe Bingham said. “I use the dried bean hulls at home to make BBQ sauce,” Will Gann said. “There are a sweet treat to chew on before they are completely dry,” said Bobby Sanchez, who grew up in far South Texas. “Don’t eat them, though, or you will get a severe case of constipation.”

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Hunting gar with a bow Bow hunters change species By Tony Vindell

For Lone Star Outdoor News A father and son from Willacy County won the top two spots in a bowfishing contest for alligator gar. The two had never competed in such an event, but luck was on their side after they decided to participate in the annual tournament organized by avid archer Wally Garcia. The Harlingen resident has been hosting the contest for several decades to honor the family patriarchs every year during Father’s Day weekend. This year, however, newcomers Martin Nieto and son, Anthony, registered for the threeday contest and won first and second place. “It was challenging,” Martin Nieto, said. “We have to use a bow and arrow on a gar but couldn’t enter the big ones we usually get.” That is because one of Garcia’s regulations put the maximum length of a qualifying gar at 4 feet. “We get gar 5, 6 and even more than 7-feet long,” he said. “This time we had to pick the right ones.” Nieto said they fish some of the irrigation canals in Willacy County but added one of their favorite places is the floodway. He said he shot the gar at about 7 a.m. on the last day of the event. “I saw quite a few swimming around,” he said, “but had to pick the right one.” Nieto said he has been hunting with a bow and arrow for quite a while but mostly for deer, nilgai and hogs. “I started hunting for gar about three years ago,” he said. “I never thought about entering a contest but, guess what, we both won the first time we did so.” Nieto, a cowboy who works the local rodeos, said he learned about the contest through some friends via social media. Garcia said he held the first contest about 40 years ago. “It started with a group of friends,” he said. “We just got together and went looking for gar.” But as time went by, Garcia said he thought about having a contest among those who like this type of fishing. Now, the tournament includes a fish fry on Saturday where people shares stories and listen to good music. “When the tournament started, we had about 10 participants,” Garcia said. “This year we had close to 30.” In this part of the Lone Star State, people hunt for alligator gar in the ditches found throughout the Rio Grande Valley irrigation system and in the resacas. They also go after the fish in the many inlets of the lower Laguna Madre off El Sauz and King ranches.

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Plenty of options for inshore anglers Drum, trout, and even tripletail By Nate Skinner

For Lone Star Outdoor News Longer periods of light winds have finally greeted anglers along the Texas coast, allowing fishing with varying tactics — and a variety of species have been the result. Black drum, redfish, speckled trout and tripletail have been bending rods for those who have been able to hit the bays and marshes. Drew Lubianski recently fished the Rockport area with his brothers, Derek and Dustin, his dad, Kevin, and his 9-year-old nephew, Preston. “It’s not every day that three generations of Lubianskis are able to go fishing together, but this trip was a Christmas gift I had given to my dad and brothers, and we were finally able to find a day to make it happen,” Lubianski explained. They fished with Rockport-area airboat guide Greg Hodsdon and caught black drum and redfish until their arms were sore. “The best action took place from mid to late morning over flats along the south shoreline of Aransas Bay,” Lubianski said. “We were fishing in 1 to 2 feet of water, and most of the bites came on dead shrimp.” The group pulled up to one area late in the morning where they could see a school of redfish hanging out around some grass beds with po holes. “At this point we started all hooking up with redfish at the same time,” Lubianksi said. “Twice we had a triple hookup with three redfish on at one Mark Markovsky caught this 10-pound tripletail while fishing in the Aransas Bay complex with Capt. Dillon Hering. Photo by Dillon Hering. Right, Preston Lubianski, 9, caught this black drum while on a family fishing trip in Rockport with Capt. Greg Hodsdon. Photo by Drew Lubianski.

Crappie anglers head to Lake Palestine

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Hot bass fishing on Big Sam

By Robert Sloan

For Lone Star Outdoor News Lake Palestine has been an East Texas fishing magnet for thousands of anglers since 1962. It has great bass fishing, good numbers of catfish and an outstanding number of both black and white crappie, one of the best-kept fising secrets in the state. Lake Palestine crappie fishing guide Duwayne Benson said the lake gets quite a bit of pressure, but nothing like you’ll find on Toledo Bend, Sam Rayburn or Fork. He’s been fishing this lake since he was a kid in 1971, and is still going strong. “The crappie fishing is exceptionally right now, or for that matter, year-round,” Benson said. “It’s some of the best in Texas. Finding and catching them is not that difficult. This lake has a lot of underwater wooded structure. And we’ve got lots of brush piles that crappie hold on throughout the summer months.” Benson said the crappie are mobile. “The best bite is usually from 10 to 18 feet deep,” he said. “But the crappie tend to move around a lot. For example, I have about 200 brush piles to fish. I might find the best bite at 10 feet today and go back the next and find them at 15 feet.” Benson, a retired postal worker, said the only fish he’s after on Palestine is a crappie. “I’ve found that they can be finicky eaters,” he said. “They transition from one day to the next. Sometimes I’ll catch nothing but small crappie and go back in a day or so and catch nothing but big ones on the same spot. The barometric pressure might Please turn to page 25

Sam Rayburn Reservoir is still producing big fish on jigs and long plastic worms. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News

By Robert Sloan

For Lone Star Outdoor News An abundance of underwater structure helps anglers find Lake Palestine crappie. Photo by Duwayne Benson.

Sam Rayburn is among the top bass fishing lakes in Texas and for one very good reason — it keeps giving up double-digit bass just about year-round. The key to finding and catching the lunkers here is to go deep — in most situations. William Flournoy has been fishing on Rayburn for years and grew up learning

the basics from pro bass angler Lonnie Stanley. “He taught me a lot of stuff about catching big bass, and even though he recently passed away I’m still using the same tactics that he showed me how to use. In a recent Bass Champs tournament on Sam Rayburn, the TX Shootout, James Chumley and I weighed in five bass that weighed 31.40 pounds. Our heaviest weighed 10.35 pounds.” Please turn to page 19

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For Lone Star Outdoor News All eyes were on which angler caught the heaviest fish at the first annual red snapper fishing tournament held recently in Port Mansfield. In the end, no behemoth fish were checked in during the weigh-in period of the local chamber of commerce-hosted tournament held July 3. Eight boats took out 32 anglers in the adult and youth divisions for the event. Some who ventured in deeper waters saw swells of up to 5 feet. “Yes, it was rough,” Jennifer Garza, the overall winner of the shootout, said. “But we managed to catch some good snapper.” Her 10.3-pound, 27 3/4-inch fish was the event’s heaviest. Two other members of her team, Lillian Janik and Gina Hagan, took second and third places, respectively, in the women’s divisions. In the men’s, Gilbert Alaniz took first place, while John Frankson and Chad Bishop got the second and third spot in that order. Nolan Freed, Urijah and Carson Foster

took the first, second and third spots in the Junior division. “This is first time I fished in a Port Mansfield tournament,” Freed, whose fish was the first to be weighed-in at the first annual tourney, said. “I feel good.” As the anglers started arriving at the pavilion dock, some of them were completely soaked. One of them said they got wet both going out of the harbor and coming in. Others said the swells were up to 5 feet even though weather forecasters downgraded the swells to 3 feet before the event. Tom “Tackle Box” Floyd, a lifetime board member with the chamber, described the shootout as a success. “I think this was a great start,” he said. Floyd said the weather was a little iffy, adding that probably made some fishing folks nervous. “We are excited with today’s turnout, nevertheless,”’ Floyd said. “I believe we are going to have a good tournament from now on.” After the awards were given out, a surprise announcement was made. A private citizen has donated a $1,000 for the heaviest red snapper for next year’s tournament.

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the second gut is usually the best for solid trout.” Galveston-based Guide Jim West has been wading the surf along the Bolivar Peninsula for decades. “We are lucky here because we have access to the beach via our vehicles,” he said. “That’s not the case along much of the surf along the Texas coast. Being able to drive on the beach and look for bait and birds is the easy way to cover lots of water and find trout when the Gulf is green to the beach.” West looks for bait like mullet or even shrimp jumping on the surface trying to not get eaten, keeping close attention to pelicans and seagulls. “At times the birds will be feeding in the first gut,” he said. “But for the most part they will be looking for bait fish in the second and third guts.” Wading the surf is not easy, especially with the occasional big set of waves coming in. “You always have to keep an eye out for big waves rolling in and busting on the first sand bar,” Paradoski said. “If you’re not completely sold that the surf is fishable, don’t go. The last thing you want to do is to get hit with a big wave when you’ve got all your wade-fishing gear on.” Anchoring a boat in the surf can be tricky, even in a big boat. Robert Anderson prefers to fish the surf from the Port O’Connor jetties down south to the Darlington. “We took our 24-foot Grady White out a couple of weeks ago,” Anderson said. “We had fished offshore the day before and wanted try and find some trout in the surf.

Green water and calmer conditions allow anglers to work the surf for redfish and speckled trout. Photo by Robert Sloan, for Lone Star Outdoor News.

It was pretty calm when we first headed out. We got set up with the boat anchored just off the second gut. We had both croaker and shrimp. The water was green to the white sand and we had lots of mullet in the first and second guts. We had not been fishing more than a few minutes when a wave came over the bow, then another before we could get cranked up and pull the anchor in. Once we got out a quarter mile the water was fairly calm, but up close it was not so good.” Paradoski doesn’t use live bait in the surf. “When the conditions are right with a green tide and lots of bait around you don’t need live bait,” he said. “I like to fish topwater lures a lot, and if that doesn’t work I’ll go with Assassins in glow, chartreuse or red/shad. Both trout and reds are more aggressive in the surf than in the bays and backwater lakes. If you get to the surf early, a top-water lure like a Mirrolure Top Dog or Super Spook Jr are tough to beat. Some of the better colors are chrome/blue and pink/silver.”

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TEXAS FRESHWATER FISHING REPORT ALAN HENRY: Water clear; 81 degrees; 7.47’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on plastics worms. Crappie are good over trees on minnows. AMISTAD: Water clear; 83 degrees; 59.41’ low. Largemouth bass are good on Texas rigged craws and swimbaits. Channel catfish are good on punch bait. ARLINGTON: Water lightly stained; 86 degrees; 2.68’ low. Largemouth bass are good on deep-diving crankbaits and Carolina rigs. White bass are fair along the dam on small silver spoons. ATHENS: Water clear; 86-90 degrees; 0.35’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on shaky-head worms and jigs. Crappie are slow. AUSTIN: Water clear; 85 degrees; 0.43’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on senkos and jerkbaits around bridge pilings. B.A. STEINHAGEN: Water stained; 81 degrees; 0.33’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters and soft plastics. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on cut bait and cheese bait. BASTROP: Water clear; 90 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on small top-waters and straight tail plastics and flukes. BELTON: Water lightly stained; 84 degrees; 5.53’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters and soft plastics. White bass are fair on pet spoons and spinner baits. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows. BENBROOK: Water lightly stained; 79 degrees; 3.44’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on chatterbaits and finesse worms. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. White bass are fair on shad imitations. Catfish are good on cut bait. BOB SANDLIN: Water clear; 92 degrees; 0.73’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters and soft plastics. Crappie are fair minnow and jigs. Catfish are fair on cheese bait and cut bait. BRAUNIG: Water stained; 88 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on reed beds on spinner baits and pumpkinseed or chartreuse soft plastics. Red drum are fair on live perch and tilapia. Channel and blue catfish are fair on cheese bait and shrimp. BROWNWOOD: Water slightly stained; 81 degrees; 4.12’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters, shaky heads, crankbaits and jigs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass are slow. Catfish are good on cut bait, liver and perch. BUCHANAN: Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 9.17’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters, crankbaits, shaky heads and Texas rigs. CADDO: Water stained; 79 degrees; 0.54’ high.

Largemouth bass are fair on junebug or watermelon flukes and plastic worms. CALAVERAS: Water stained; 89 degrees. Red drum are fair on live tilapia, perch and crawfish. Channel and blue catfish are good on cheese bait and cut bait. CANYON: Water lightly stained; 78 degrees; 3.34’ low. Largemouth bass are good on flukes and trick worms. Striped bass are fair on top-waters, swimbaits and jigging spoons. CEDAR CREEK: Water stained; 84-90 degrees; 2.27’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on shaky heads, crankbaits and Carolina rigs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass and hybrid bass are fair to good on poppers and small spoons. Catfish are good on live and frozen shad. CHOKE CANYON: Water stained; 78 degrees; 21.37’ low. Largemouth bass are good on frogs, flukes and Carolina rigs. Crappie are good on live minnows. White bass are good on live minnows. CONROE: Water slightly stained; 88 degrees; 0.71’ low. Largemouth bass are good on creature baits. Hybrid striped bass are good on slabs. Crappie are slow. Catfish are good on catfish bubblegum, shrimp and chicken liver. COOPER: Water lightly stained; 81 degrees; 2.50’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters, chatterbaits and crankbaits. Catfish are good off docks and shorelines on cut bait. CORPUS CHRISTI: 80 degrees; 6.80’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters. Crappie are fair on minnows and scented jigs Catfish are fair on cheese bait, shad oil soap and cut carp. EAGLE MOUNTAIN: Water stained; 85 degrees; 2.67’ low. White bass are good on slabs with teaser flies and spoons. Crappie are fair on white and chartreuse jigs. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits. Channel catfish are good on punch bait. FALCON: Water stained; 85 degrees; 44.02’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits and shaky heads. Catfish are good on cut bait. FAYETTE: Water lightly stained; 85 degrees. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters, jigs and plastics. Catfish are fair on punch bait. FORK: Water stained; 75 degrees; 6.17’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on big worms Texas or Carolina rigged and big shaky heads. Crappie are good on minnows. FT. PHANTOM HILL: Water

stained; 84 degrees; 4.24’ low. White bass are good on blade baits. Hybrid striped bass are fair to good trolling deep diving crankbaits. Channel catfish are fair on a bobber and stink bait. GRANBURY: Water lightly stained; 81 degrees; 1.19’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on Carolina-rigged plastics. Striped bass and white bass are good on top-waters early. Catfish are good on cut bait. GRANGER: Water lightly stained; 80 degrees; 0.62’ low. Largemouth bass are good on red shad worms. Crappie are good on minnows. White bass are fair on slab spoons. GRAPEVINE: Water lightly stained; 84 degrees; 0.51’ high. Largemouth bass are good on Carolina rigs and chatterbaits. White bass are slow to fair on pet spoons. HOUSTON COUNTY: Water stained; 82 degrees; 0.46’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on drop shots, crankbaits and flukes. Catfish are good on cut bait and juglines. HUBBARD CREEK: Water stained; 80 degrees; 4.49’ low. White bass are fair on blade baits and slabs. JACKSONVILLE: Water lightly stained; 79 degrees; 0.48’ low. Largemouth bass are good on top-waters and Texas rigs. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on punch bait. JOE POOL: Water slightly stained; 80 degrees; 1.74’ low. Largemouth bass are good on shaky heads and Texas-rigged finesse worms in red shad. LAKE O’ THE PINES: Water lightly stained; 93 degrees; 1.19’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters and plastics. Crappie are fair on minnow and jigs. Catfish are fair on cheese bait and cut bait. LAVON: Water lightly stained; 82 degrees; 0.47’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on white and chartreuse spinner baits. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs in timber or brush. White bass are good on white or chartreuse slabs. Channel catfish are good on cut shad and sunfish. LBJ: Water lightly stained; 81 degrees; 0.61’ low. Largemouth bass are good early on worms, flukes and top-water frogs, later on Carolina rigs and swim jigs. LEWISVILLE: Water lightly stained; 84 degrees; 0.22’ high. White bass are slow. Hybrid stripers are slow. Crappie are fair to good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair to good drifting cut shad and chicken breasts. LIMESTONE: Water clear; 93 degrees; 1.28’ low.

Largemouth bass are good on Texas rigs, shaky heads and crankbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows. White bass are good on silver jigging spoons. LIVINGSTON: Water stained; 85 degrees; 0.05’ high. Largemouth bass are fair on Texas-rigged worms and shaky heads. White bass are fair to good on silver jigging spoons and small swimbaits. Catfish are good on cut bait. MEDINA: Water lightly stained; 86 degrees; 63.68’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters and crankbaits. White bass are fair on slabs. Catfish are good on stink bait and cut bait. MEREDITH: Water stained; 75-80 degrees; 53.80’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on minnows and artificial baits. Crappie are good on minnows. Walleye are good on minnows and crankbaits. Catfish are good on live bait and stink bait. MILLERS CREEK: Water stained; 85 degrees; 2.91’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-waters and Carolina rigged worms. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on cut bait. NACONICHE: Water clear to stained; 89 degrees. Largemouth bass are fair above the thermocline on junebug mag worms and small slabs. Catfish are slow. NASWORTHY: Water murky; 86 degrees; 0.98’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on soft plastics and top-waters. Crappie are good in the reeds, around docks and the bridge using black and chartreuse jigs and minnows. Catfish are good on cut bait and stink bait. NAVARRO MILLS: Water stained; 80 degrees; 0.90’ low. Catfish are good on frozen shad and perch on juglines. Largemouth bass are fair in grass lines on soft plastics. Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows. O.C. FISHER: Water stained; 77 degrees; 45.01’ low. Largemouth bass are good on swimbaits and crankbaits. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are fair on stink bait and cut bait. O.H. IVIE: Water clear; 81 degrees; 19.34’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on soft plastics and crankbaits. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows. Catfish are Good on prepared baits, live and cut bait. OAK CREEK: Water lightly stained; 79 degrees; 7.88 feet low. Bass are good on chartreuse and apple worms. Crappie are slow. Catfish are good on shrimp, chicken liver and perch. PALESTINE: Water lightly stained; 83 degrees; 0.65’

low. Largemouth bass are good on Texas-rigged worms and finesse worms. Crappie are good in the river on chartreuse jigs. White bass are good on spoons and tail spinners. Catfish are good on nightcrawlers and chicken liver. POSSUM KINGDOM: Water lightly stained; 83 degrees; 1.69’ low. Striped bass are good on live bait and trolling large spoons. White bass are good early on top-waters. Catfish are fair on cut shad. PROCTOR: Water stained; 82 degrees; 4.22’ low. Largemouth bass are slow. White bass and striped bass are fair on top-waters. Crappie are good on jigs. Catfish are good on juglines with cut bait. RAVEN: Water stained; 91 degrees; 3.50’ low. Largemouth bass are fair to good on top-waters and Texas rigs. Catfish are good on punch bait and cut bait. RAY HUBBARD: Water lightly stained; 81-84 degrees; 0.51’ low. White bass are fair on small tail spinners and slab and jig combinations. Crappie are fair on minnows. Catfish are good on cut shad and stink bait. RAY ROBERTS: Water clear; 82 degrees; 0.01’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on Carolina. Crappie are slow. White bass are fair on small swimbaits and slabs. Blue catfish are good on slabs and raw chicken mixed with Kool-Aid. RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water clear; 83 degrees; 2.96’ low. Crappie are fair on minnows. White bass are slow. Hybrids are fair on live shad. Channel catfish are fair on punch bait. SAM RAYBURN: Water stained; 90 degrees; 2.45’ low. Largemouth bass are good early on top-waters over grass and later on soft plastics. Crappie are good on live minnows. Catfish are fair on punch bait and cut bait. SOMERVILLE: Water stained; 98-103 degrees; 1.35’ low. Largemouth bass are good on slow moving jigs with plastics. Crappie are fair but small on minnows and jigs. White bass are good on jigs and trolling with pet spoons. Catfish are fair on punch bait. STILLHOUSE HOLLOW: Water lightly stained; 85 degrees; 5.79’ low. Largemouth bass are fair in hydrilla on Texas rigs and white spinner baits. White bass are good on pet spoons and tail spinners. TAWAKONI: Water lightly stained; 88 degrees; 2.03’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on frogs, flukes and crankbaits. White bass and striped bass are good early, then fair on live bait and slab spoons. Crappie are good on minnows.

n Saltwater reports Page 22 Blue and channel catfish are excellent on cheese punch bait. TEXANA: Water stained; 79 degrees; 3.30’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on artificial worms. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bass are fair in the Navidad River on lipless crankbaits. Catfish are good on liver perch, cut bait and juglines. TEXOMA: Water stained; 83 degrees; 1.96’ high. Striped bass are excellent on slabs, live bait and trolling swimbaits. TOLEDO BEND: Water stained; 80-82 degrees; 2.03’ low. Largemouth bass are good on buzzbaits, popping frogs, ribbon tail worms and crankbaits. Crappie are fair on live minnows and jigs. TRAVIS: Water stained; 79 degrees; 30.27’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on top-water spooks and small swimbaits. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. TYLER: Water lightly stained; 84 degrees; 0.66’ below. Largemouth bass are slow. Crappie are fair on live minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on minnows and stink bait. WACO: Water stained; 82 degrees; 6.74’ low. Largemouth and white bass are good on top-waters early morning. Crappie are good deep on jigs and minnows. Catfish are good on live bait. WALTER E. LONG: Water clear; 82 degrees. Largemouth bass are fair on drop shots. Hybrid striped bass are fair on small swimbaits and Alabama rigs. WHITNEY: Water lightly stained; 82 degrees; 4.55’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on jigs and shaky heads. Striped bass are fair early on top-waters, live shad, spoons and slabs. WORTH: Water stained; 85 degrees; 2.00’ low. Largemouth bass are fair on crankbaits. White bass are good on slabs with teaser flies. Crappie are fair on jigs with white combinations. Channel catfish are good on punch bait. WRIGHT PATMAN: Water lightly stained; 86 degrees; 2.13’ high. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows. White bass are good on shad imitations. Catfish are fair on punch bait.

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GAME WARDEN BLOTTER QUAIL HUNTERS SWING TOWARD FRIEND, BOY In Clay County, three friends were quail hunting with a guide and two bird dogs. The shooter fired on low-flying quail and shot toward the victim from 30 yards. Five pellets struck the victim in the eye, face and shoulder. Another group was quail hunting with a guide and bird dogs in Freestone County when one person fired on low-flying quail and shot toward a 9-year-old who was lagging behind the rest of the group. Pellets struck the boy in the face, head, neck and legs. NIGHT VISION RISKS In Lamar County, two men were hunting hogs with night vision scopes. One shot toward his companion, who stood close by as he swung his .308 caliber rifle on running hogs. The bullet struck the companion in his back/shoulder blade and exited his triceps muscle. MAN SHOT WHILE HOG HUNTING AT NIGHT Three men were hunting hogs in Coryell County with night vision scopes, when one of the men split from the other two, letting them

HUNTING ACCIDENTS DOWN, BUT ONE FATALITY While hunting accidents continue to trend downward to near-record levels, in 2021, the final report of hunting accidents and fatalities showed a number of accidents, most of which officials state could have been prevented. There was one fatality accident in 2021, resulting from the discharge

know his approximate field location. The shooter missed a shot at a hog, then swung his rifle and fired towards a second hog. The bullet struck the victim in lower abdomen and exited the lower back. LEAVE THE LOW-FLYING DOVE Multiple shooters were firing at low-flying dove in Medina County while another was in a sunflower field retrieving a downed bird. The victim, about 50 yards away, was struck by 17 pellets to his face, arm and torso. The game warden

of a firearm in Harrison County. While unloading a .30-30 lever action rifle with the muzzle facing the victim, the handler let the hammer down while there was still one cartridge in the chamber. The victim died from the wound.

received an account only from the victim who did not know who shot in his direction. Another individual in Kimble County fired at low-flying dove and peppered one of his hunting companions who had repositioned himself to another side of a pond about 25-35 yards away. The victim was struck by pellets to head and upper torso. Also, while dove hunting in Uvalde County, an individual fired on low-flying dove and peppered his hunting companion who was 20 yards away and bent over, retrieving a downed bird. The

companion was hit by pellets in the back, arm, neck and head. Finally, in Bee County, an individual fired at low-flying dove and peppered one of his hunting companions who was on the other side of a pond. The companion was struck by pellets to his arm, shoulder, hand and lip. MAKE SURE GUN UNLOADED In Zavala County, while changing shot tubes in the muzzle of his shotgun, an individual discharged his loaded shotgun and sent the blast of pellets through his hand. Another

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Jason Westbrook caught this tripletail, which measured 24 1/4 inches on a red and white plastic ball tail lure.

Tex Crouch, 11, caught and released this 42-inch and 30-pound redfish near Port Arthur with fishing guide, John West.

Emily Hellen, 15, of Tomball, with the 8-point buck she shot on a TPWD drawn youth hunt at Guadalupe River State Park.

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Sisters, Reagan, 10, left and Madeline, 13, with their dad, Paul Hellen, of Tomball, both shot their first deer on the same day in October 2021.

J.R. Dressen, 15, of Buffalo Gap, caught this bass on a top-water on a ranch in Shackelford County while fishing with his grandpaw.

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Legend: Major=2 hours. Minor=1 hour. Times centered on the major-minor window. For other locations, subtract 1 minute per 12 miles east of a location, and add 1 minute per 12 miles west of a location.

Sabine Pass, north Date July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21 July 22

Time 12:48 AM 1:55 AM 2:51 AM 3:41 AM 4:30 AM 5:19 AM 6:06 AM 6:52 AM 7:36 AM 12:39 AM 1:33 AM 2:31 AM 3:42 AM 12:40 AM 2:06 AM

High Island Height 1.30H 1.54H 1.74H 1.88H 1.93H 1.92H 1.85H 1.76H 1.65H -0.25L 0.12L 0.49L 0.83L 1.34H 1.51H

Time 5:17 AM 6:40 AM 7:51 AM 8:45 AM 9:27 AM 10:06 AM 10:49 AM 11:40 AM 12:40 PM 8:17 AM 8:54 AM 9:28 AM 9:58 AM 5:27 AM 8:15 AM

Height 1.03L 1.21L 1.34L 1.43L 1.48L 1.47L 1.41L 1.30L 1.14L 1.55H 1.46H 1.38H 1.32H 1.10L 1.23L

Time 10:18 AM 10:33 AM 11:02 AM 11:47 AM 12:43 PM 1:43 PM 2:46 PM 3:54 PM 5:11 PM 1:48 PM 2:56 PM 3:59 PM 4:54 PM 10:23 AM 10:39 AM

Height 1.31H 1.36H 1.43H 1.52H 1.60H 1.64H 1.64H 1.56H 1.43H 0.93L 0.69L 0.43L 0.19L 1.27H 1.25H

Time 6:00 PM 6:44 PM 7:30 PM 8:19 PM 9:10 PM 10:01 PM 10:53 PM 11:46 PM

Height -0.12L -0.44L -0.69L -0.88L -0.96L -0.93L -0.80L -0.56L

6:47 PM 8:46 PM 10:50 PM

1.27H 1.17H 1.20H

5:41 PM 6:24 PM

-0.01L -0.16L

Galveston Bay entrance, north jetty Time 12:58 AM 2:21 AM 3:26 AM 4:23 AM 5:13 AM 5:57 AM 6:41 AM 7:26 AM 8:10 AM 12:47 AM 1:43 AM 2:48 AM 4:06 AM 12:30 AM 2:09 AM

Height 1.26H 1.53H 1.78H 1.98H 2.09H 2.10H 2.02H 1.88H 1.73H -0.23L 0.14L 0.51L 0.85L 1.34H 1.51H

Time 4:39 AM 7:37 AM 7:27 PM 8:13 PM 9:05 PM 10:01 PM 10:59 PM 1:18 PM 1:50 PM 8:47 AM 9:17 AM 9:41 AM 9:57 AM 6:03 AM 7:45 AM

Height 1.12L 1.35L -0.64L -0.83L -0.92L -0.90L -0.77L 1.46L 1.27L 1.58H 1.45H 1.36H 1.30H 1.11L 1.27L

Time 10:16 AM 10:22 AM

Height 1.40H 1.42H

Time 6:04 PM 6:43 PM

Height -0.04L -0.36L

3:52 PM 5:15 PM 2:36 PM 3:26 PM 4:14 PM 5:02 PM 10:00 AM 9:47 AM

1.53H 1.43H 1.03L 0.75L 0.47L 0.22L 1.28H 1.30H

11:54 PM

-0.55L

6:44 PM 8:54 PM 10:40 PM

1.29H 1.21H 1.24H

5:48 PM 6:30 PM

0.00L -0.16L

Height 1.25H 1.54H 1.81H 2.02H 2.15H 2.19H 2.13H 2.00H 1.82H -0.24L 0.13L 0.52L 0.89L 1.38H 1.58H

Time 5:21 AM 6:12 PM 6:56 PM 7:46 PM 8:39 PM 9:33 PM 10:29 PM 11:27 PM

Height 1.13L -0.26L -0.51L -0.71L -0.83L -0.84L -0.75L -0.54L

Time 9:46 AM

Height 1.22H

Time 5:35 PM

Height 0.02L

Time 12:53 AM 2:05 AM 3:08 AM 4:03 AM 4:54 AM 5:41 AM 6:27 AM 7:10 AM 7:48 AM 12:28 AM 1:31 AM 2:36 AM 3:59 AM 12:33 AM 2:07 AM

8:21 AM 8:46 AM 8:59 AM 9:02 AM 4:57 PM 5:36 PM

1.62H 1.43H 1.28H 1.19H 0.05L -0.09L

3:07 PM 3:25 PM 3:50 PM 4:22 PM

1.04L 0.78L 0.50L 0.25L

Time 8:05 PM 8:49 PM 9:45 PM 10:48 PM 11:49 PM

Height 0.01L -0.12L -0.23L -0.30L -0.35L

Time

Height

1:39 PM 2:51 PM 3:42 PM 3:55 PM 12:41 PM 11:04 AM 6:57 PM 7:38 PM 8:24 PM

0.99H 0.93H 0.82H 0.67H 0.55H 0.51H 0.14L 0.01L -0.08L

6:04 PM 7:57 PM 10:42 PM

1.17H 1.09H 1.17H

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

Time 9:41 AM 8:42 AM 8:59 AM 9:51 AM 10:54 AM 12:11 PM 12:44 AM 1:34 AM 2:19 AM 3:00 AM 3:36 AM 4:04 AM 9:55 AM 9:02 AM 7:42 AM

Time 2:35 PM 12:03 AM 12:43 AM 1:35 AM 2:35 AM 3:40 AM 4:43 AM 5:37 AM 6:22 AM 7:00 AM 7:31 AM 7:53 AM 7:45 AM 2:42 PM 2:05 PM

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

Time 2:09 AM 3:58 AM 4:59 AM 5:46 AM 6:30 AM 7:17 AM 8:05 AM 8:46 AM 12:12 AM 1:13 AM 2:14 AM 3:19 AM 4:43 AM 1:44 AM 3:59 AM

Time 10:15 PM 10:50 PM 11:31 PM

Height -0.26L -0.43L -0.55L

11:26 AM 12:23 PM 1:10 PM 1:30 PM 12:54 PM 12:48 PM 12:55 PM 1:02 PM 7:10 AM 9:19 PM 9:57 PM

1.45H 1.43H 1.38H 1.29H 1.21H 1.14H 1.07H 1.02H 0.63L -0.18L -0.31L

Height 0.78H 0.99H 1.17H 1.29H 1.35H 1.34H 1.28H 1.19H -0.44L -0.23L 0.02L 0.29L 0.56L 0.87H 1.04H

Time 5:31 AM 7:05 PM 7:45 PM 8:31 PM 9:21 PM 10:15 PM 11:12 PM

Height 0.76L -0.34L -0.52L -0.64L -0.69L -0.67L -0.59L

9:11 9:26 9:37 9:47 9:53 6:38 6:46

1.08H 0.98H 0.90H 0.85H 0.84H 0.77L -0.19L

Height 0.38H 0.43H 0.47H 0.50H 0.51H 0.52H -0.11L -0.09L -0.05L 0.01L 0.09L 0.18L 0.27L 0.37H 0.43H

Time 8:26 PM 9:09 PM 10:00 PM 10:55 PM 11:49 PM

Height 0.05L -0.02L -0.06L -0.09L -0.11L

3:35 PM 4:22 PM 5:03 PM 5:43 PM 11:27 AM 10:37 AM 10:33 AM 7:58 AM 8:30 PM

0.53H 0.51H 0.47H 0.41H 0.34H 0.34H 0.35H 0.36L 0.03L

Height 0.88H 1.00H 1.15H 1.25H 1.30H 1.31H 1.27H 1.20H 1.10H -0.07L 0.15L 0.40L 0.64L 0.87H 1.02H

Time 6:09 PM 6:44 PM 7:24 PM 8:09 PM 8:59 PM 9:55 PM 10:56 PM 11:57 PM

Height 0.14L -0.08L -0.27L -0.40L -0.46L -0.45L -0.37L -0.25L

9:39 9:17 8:54 8:56 6:01 6:19

0.89 0.82H 0.81H 0.84H 0.84L -0.01L

1:36 2:29 3:29 4:33 9:12

PM PM PM PM AM

0.85L 0.66L 0.46L 0.27L 0.89H

5:25 PM 7:14 PM 10:33 PM

0.97H 0.83H 0.80H

5:32 PM

0.11L

Height 0.94H 1.20H 1.43H 1.61H 1.71H 1.73H 1.67H 1.54H 1.36H -0.31L 0.03L 0.40L 0.74L 1.07H 1.28H

Time 4:52 AM 5:53 PM 6:42 PM 7:35 PM 8:31 PM 9:29 PM 10:27 PM 11:24 PM

Height 0.88L -0.38L -0.62L -0.80L -0.90L -0.90L -0.80L -0.60L

Time 8:46 AM

Height 0.94H

Time 5:11 PM

Height -0.10L

9:08 AM 8:53 AM 8:43 AM 8:32 AM 4:48 PM 5:30 PM

1.17H 1.03H 0.96H 0.95H -0.06L -0.19L

2:17 2:45 3:24 4:06

0.96L 0.67L 0.39L 0.14L

4:58 PM 7:23 PM 10:38 PM

1.01H 0.86H 0.89H

AM AM AM AM AM AM PM

Time

7:30 7:51 8:17 1:01

PM PM PM PM

Height

Time

Height

0.82L 0.56L 0.28L 0.97H

9:49 PM 11:45 PM

0.88H 0.76H

8:46 PM

0.02L

Time 10:26 AM

Height 0.88H

Time 6:31 PM

Height -0.12L

2:42 3:19 4:02 4:46 5:29 9:53

PM PM PM PM PM AM

0.92L 0.74L 0.53L 0.30L 0.10L 0.85H

4:51 PM 6:20 PM 8:21 PM 11:11 PM

0.96H 0.83H 0.72H 0.73H

6:09 PM

-0.07L

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

Time 10:37 AM 9:59 AM 9:42 AM 10:31 AM 12:17 PM 2:33 PM 12:40 AM 1:27 AM 2:10 AM 2:51 AM 3:29 AM 4:04 AM 1:27 AM 5:39 AM 6:21 AM

Time

Height

5:09 PM 6:35 PM 7:13 PM 10:25 AM

0.32L 0.23L 0.15L 0.37H

Time

Height

7:18 PM 10:56 PM

0.33H 0.28H

7:51 PM

0.08L

Time

Height

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6:22 PM

Time

Height

0.31L

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

San Luis Pass

Height 1.05H 1.20H 1.35H 1.43H -0.61L -0.64L -0.64L -0.59L -0.47L -0.28L -0.02L 0.29L 0.77H 0.97H 1.22H

East Matagorda

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

Time 12:49 PM 10:14 AM 10:16 AM 10:39 AM 12:22 AM 1:21 AM 2:18 AM 3:10 AM 3:59 AM 4:48 AM 5:40 AM 6:29 AM 2:12 AM 5:12 AM 8:30 AM

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

Time 9:43 AM 5:23 AM 6:03 AM 7:00 AM 8:09 AM 9:19 AM 10:19 AM 2:38 PM 4:03 PM 12:54 AM 1:47 AM 2:39 AM 3:40 AM 12:30 AM 4:16 AM

AM AM AM AM AM PM

Time

Height

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Time 2:36 PM 2:54 PM 3:25 PM 4:07 PM 4:56 PM 5:46 PM 6:33 PM 7:09 PM 6:40 PM 5:56 PM 4:23 PM 3:31 PM 11:18 PM

Height 0.84H 0.93H 0.99H 1.04H 1.06H 1.06H 1.02H 0.95H 0.84H 0.72H 0.63H 0.61H 0.20L

Time

10:45 PM

Height

0.35L

Time

Height

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

Time 12:58 AM 2:55 AM 4:16 AM 5:22 AM 6:24 AM 7:25 AM 8:21 AM 9:02 AM 9:17 AM 12:21 AM 1:16 AM 2:12 AM 3:21 AM 1:27 AM 3:14 AM

PM PM PM PM

Texas Coast Tides

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

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INDUSTRY Marine equipment acquisition OneWater Marine Inc. will acquire Ocean Bio-Chem, Inc., a supplier of marine, RV and outdoor power equipment products.

Agency for Duck Commander Duck call manufacturer Duck Commander retained Murray Road Agency as its marketing agency of record.

Johnson joins MDF The Mule Deer Foundation named Marshall Johnson the organization’s director of field operations.

Two acquisitions for GSM GSM Outdoors acquired two fishing product companies, Buckeye Lures and SteelShad Lures.

Across 1) Shotshell brand 3) Fishing hook brand 6) The small redfish 8) The young buck 11) Slang for the salamander 12) An immature aquatic insect 14) Front of the boat 16) A Texas bay 17) White bass lure 21) Fishing reel manufacturer 22) A pheasant-hunting state 26) Medical instrument used to remove hooks 27) Member of the Big Five 30) Bow brand 31) An offshore species 34) Upton County’s seat 37) Bean liked by deer 38) Bait for the baitfish 40) U of H’s team 41) One of the grouse 42) Where the line goes on the hook 43) Fishing tournament series 44) Unusual catfish bait (two words)

Mark Sosin dies Mark Sosin, author and host of Mark Sosin’s Saltwater Journal, died in Boca Raton, Florida at the age of 88.

Riton retains PR group

Riton Optics selected Chevalier Advertising as its public relations agency of record.

Lyssy & Excel expands Lyssy & Eckel Feeds purchased the AC Nutrition Feed Mill in Roswell, New Mexico to manufacture feed in New Mexico.

Moultrie hires Backbone Media Moultrie Mobile named Backbone Media its public relations agency of record.

New director at RFA Robert A. Nixon was named the new executive director of the Recreational Fishing Alliance.

Down 2) An optics brand 4) An African antelope 5) Kayak brand 7) Catfish capital of Texas 9) Snapper species 10) Safari destination 13) Corpus Christi’s minor league team 14) Wood used in crank baits 15) One of the quail 18) Spaniel breed 19) Bass boat brand 20) Reagan County’s seat (two words) 23) Trout species 24) Tossing the bait with no weight 25) Duck call brand 28) A shorebird 29) Fishing while walking 32) East Texas lake 33) Austin College’s team 35) An aquatic plant 36) Texas mountain range 38) Salmon species 39) Fishing show host

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Creole crostini One baguette, sliced 3 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil, divided 1 lb. small raw shrimp, peeled and deveined with tails removed 1 avocado, diced Zest and juice of 1 lemon 6 oz. crumbled feta cheese 1 cup grape tomatoes, sliced into quarters 2 tsp. and 3 tbsp. Tony’s Original Creole Seasoning Pickled red onions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lay baguette slices on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with 1 tbsp. olive oil, then evenly sprinkle on 2 tsp. seasoning. Place into oven and toast for 10-12 minutes. Remove and let cool. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add 3 tbsp. seasoning to the water. Carefully put the raw shrimp in the water and cook until they turn pink and look opaque. Remove the shrimp with a slotted spoon and let cool. In a small bowl, add the avocado, lemon zest, lemon juice and remaining olive oil. Gently mash the avocado with lemon and oil until combined. It should be slightly chunky. Spread a heaping spoon of avocado on bread, next add 2-3 shrimp (depending on size), a few pieces of tomato, crumbled feta, and top with pickled red onion. —tonchachere.com

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease casserole dish. In butter over medium heat, sauté celery, onion, and parsley. Add remaining stuffing ingredients and mix until moist. Place half of stuffing mix in casserole dish and arrange your dove breasts over the top. Cover dove breasts completely with remaining stuffing mixture. Bake uncovered until dove is cooked through (approximately 1 hour). —Georgia DNR

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Big days on Sam Rayburn Continued from page 8

The lunker was caught in the Black Forest area on a plum-colored Old Monster Zoom worm in 25 feet of water. “We were fishing in an area that wasn’t getting too much boat traffic, and it paid off,” Flournoy said. “The first-place team, Brett Preuett and Ben South, just barely beat us with five bass weighing 31.50 pounds.” Another lure the team used to catch big fish was a 9/16-ounce peanut buttercolored Stanley casting jig with a green/ pumpkin craw worm. Catching double digit bass on Rayburn isn’t common during the hot summer months. Most of the big ones are caught during the spring spawn up shallow. But fishing shallow is not always a waste of your time. On a recent trip to Rayburn Flournoy used a 1-ounce Stanley jig to catch a 9.98-pound bass. “We were on a slow bite that day and went into an area that had produced big bass in the past,” he said. “It was a woodPhoto by William Flournoy ed area with lots of hydrilla. Turns out the best bite was on a black, blue and purple jig. The bass in that spot were hammering our jigs. They would pick it up and wouldn’t let go. It was the kind of bite you would want to have in a tournament.” Flournoy said even with the lake being 2 to 3 feet low right now, that won’t affect the bite. When fishing for bass on Rayburn several lures have been used to catch double-digit bass ranging from spinner baits, jigs, worms and lizards. But when push comes to shove Flournoy said his go-to lures during hot water months are cranks, big worms and jigs. “During June I did best with a Strike King XD10 crankbait,” he said. “On one trip out the best bite was in water that was 36 feet deep. The best color combination was chartreuse with a blue back. Fishing that deep is a good summertime tactic but can wear you out.” Flournoy said one thing to remember is to try and find areas of the lake that don’t get a whole lot of boat traffic and fishing pressure. “That can be tough to do during the summer months with so many fishermen on the water,” he said. “But with today’s electronics it’s the best way to go. Once I find an area with big bass, I’ll use my Garmin LiveScope to locate the right structure, like big stumps. I don’t always see the fish, but I can position my boat over the structure bass will hang out on. During the summer months, big bass will more than likely be holding close to any type of submerged wood in 25 to 28 feet of water.”

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vision is a whole different league — we learned a lot.” Both Micah and Alyssa believe their focus solely on birds is a plus for hunters who sometimes find birds taking a back seat to big game animals. “Our turnaround time is better,” Micah, who is originally from South Awards Major Awards — Judge’s Choice Best of Professional Best of Masters “Woody” Award Best of Show

Carolina, said. The TTAI convention brings together taxidermists from across the state, with competitions, events and seminars covering topics including open-mouth whitetails, pheasants, African game heads, pedestal mounts and full-body mountain lions.

Mark Sandro, Cape buffalo Mark Hernandez, bobcat Mark Pontuis, turkey Mark Hernandez, bobcat

Paul Provenzano Awards Lifesize: Courney Shaheen Birds: Chuck Dennison, Nick Fruge, Kyle Landry Gameheads: Anthony Salisbury, Nathaniel Cook, John Baker, Brayden Hagendorf, Trent Bartlett, Jeremy Kiolbassa Reptiles: Ricardo Vela Competition Awards WASCO Award Research Manikin Award Van Dykes Award TTAI Akeley Award Brian Harness Award PRO-1 Award Champion’s Choice Award Carter Adams Award Lifetone Award Polytranspar Award Amateur Horizon Award MDF Award, Professional MDF Award, Masters Best of Category, Professional Gameheads: Mark Sandro Small mammal: Mark Sandro Reproduction: Buddy Andrews Reptiles: Ricardo Vela Texas State Champion, Masters Gameheads: Mark Hernandez Small mammal: Ben Cromeens Upland bird: Mark Pontius Reproduction: Josh Kelly

Mark Sandro, Cape buffalo James Newport, whitetail Josh Kelly, blue spotted ribbontail stingray Mark Sandro, Cape buffalo Mark Sandro, European martin Mark Hernandez, bobcat Mark Sandro, Cape buffalo Mark Pontius, turkey Travis Farley, yellow perch Josh Kelly, blue spotted ribbontail stingray Annalesia Farley, bluegill Austin Sullivan Kaleb Tierce Whitetail: Clayton Gibbs Waterfowl: James Dingee Large mammal: Jake Carter

Whitetail: James Newport Waterfowl: Brad Domangue Fish: Robert Rowe Reptiles: Buddy Andrews

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Teacher receives Richard M. Hart award Wildlife Forever announced Sara Wilder, a K-8 visual arts teacher from Ellsinore as the winner of the 2022 Richard M Hart Educator of the Year Award. Wilder originally participated with the Art of Conservation Fish Art Contest as a student in 2002. Inspired by her passion for the outdoors, she has used the Fish Art Program since 2017 to connect hundreds of students to the joys of fishing, creating a new generation of environmental stewards. The Richard M Hart Educator of the Year Award was created to honor the legacy of Dallas’ Mr. Hart, who had a passion for fishing and conservation. He strongly believed in the power of educators to inspire stewardship in youth. He and Johnny Morris founded the Hart/Morris Education Center in Athens, Texas at the TPWD Freshwater Fisheries Center. —WF

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Restrictions for harvested ducks, geese Duck hunters may not be able to bring harvested birds back from Canada, depending on where they are hunting, due to restrictions by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) aimed at preventing the spread of a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza. The prohibition applies to both unmounted trophy imports and raw meat from game birds. In Canada, unprocessed avian products originating from or transiting any one of 63 restricted zones will not be permitted to enter the United States. The zones are spread across Canada and have been identified by the Canadian government as areas with avian influenza outbreaks. They include Ontario (20 zones), Alberta (20 zones); Quebec (five zones); British Columbia (nine zones); Saskatchewan (nine zones) and Manitoba (one zone). —SCI

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PORT ARANSAS: 87 degrees. Speckled trout are good on croaker. Black drum and redfish are good on dead shrimp and cut mullet. CORPUS CHRISTI: 84 degrees. Speckled trout are fair on croaker and live shrimp. BAFFIN BAY: 85 degrees. Speckled trout are good on croaker along grass lines, with a few redfish mixed in. PORT MANSFIELD: 82 degrees. Speckled trout are good in deeper water on soft plastics. Redfish are fair on soft plastics. SOUTH PADRE: 87 degrees. Redfish are fair in the shallows on shrimp and soft plastics. Speckled trout are fair on soft plastics. PORT ISABEL: 87 degrees. Speckled trout are slow to fair along the ICW on shrimp. Redfish are fair on shrimp and soft plastics. —TPWD

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time.” Lubianski said the best part about the trip was that it was his nephew’s first saltwater fishing trip. “At the beginning of the trip we were all working with Preston, teaching him how to work the rod and reel and how to fight the fish,” he said. “Well when the action got hot and heavy, he was forced to do it all by himself, and he did great. By the end of the trip he was catching quality drum and reds all on his own, and that really made our adventure pretty special.” Capt. Dillon Hering has been chasing tripletail along the channel markers in and around Port Aransas along the Lydia Ann Channel and the Cor- Preston Lubianski caught this red drum in Rockport while pus Christi Ship Channel, as well as fishing from Capt. Greg Hodsdon’s airboat. Photo by Drew back north around channel markers Lubianski. along the ICW near Carlos Bay. “I’ve basically just been covering water looking for them,” Hering said. “Sometimes you find them hanging out along the surface, and sometimes you have to make a few casts to see if there is one nearby staging down deep.” A medium-sized live shrimp rigged under a popping cork has been the ticket for fooling tripletail. “If you don’t get a bite fairly quickly along a channel marker, then it’s time to move to the next one,” Hering elaborated. “It doesn’t take long. If there is a tripletail there, it will eat that live shrimp.” Hering said any floating debris in the open bay waters of Aransas Bay have also been holding tripletail. “If I see anything floating on the surface at all, I usually go and check it out,” he said. “You just never know where you’re going to find a tripletail during this time of year.” Most of the tripletail have been anywhere from 10 to 15 pounds. Hering said shell reefs in Copano Bay and Nueces Bay have been holding good numbers of trout in 2 to 5 feet of water. Live croaker under a popping cork has been his best bait. “Most of the trout in Copano Bay have been in the 17 to 20 inch range, but the fish in Nueces have been in the 18 to 23 inch range with some pushing 25 to 26 inches,” Hering said. Freeport guide Jake Brown has been targeting speckled trout and redfish near the mouths of the Brazos and San Bernard rivers. “There are a lot of fish in the rivers right now,” he said. “Just about anywhere where there is structure or a depth change has been holding trout and reds.” Brown also has been targeting guts between sand bars along the inside of the San Luis Pass in lower West Galveston Bay. “Live croaker chunked into any gut between sand bars that’s holding a lot of baitfish will produce solid specks,” he said.

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Moving pronghorn Continued from page 1

Summer largemouths Continued from page 1

Erin O’Connell, a graduate assistant at the Borderlands Research Institute, has been studying pronghorn movement and behavior as a part of restoration efforts on the Rocker B Ranch. Photo by Kai Yun Lai.

in West Texas. “Pronghorn have gradually faded from the West Texas landscape,” she said. “Many factors have caused this decrease in populations over time, including drought, restrictive fencing, and anthropogenic expansion, all of which contribute to habitat loss. Overgrazing, parasites, habitat fragmentation, fawn predation and food availability also played a role in their decline.” In 2011, TPWD began a long-term program to restore pronghorn in the Trans-Pecos region. They began by partnering with the Borderlands Research Institute, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, landowners and other conservation organizations. Efforts to restore pronghorn populations are now being explored on several private ranches in the Trans-Pecos through translocations. “Restoration efforts can be challenging to implement,” O’Connell said, “especially when animals must be translocated, or moved from areas with surplus populations to areas where they could possibly enhance declining populations. The behaviors of translocated pronghorn versus those of resident or native pronghorn are not well understood. So, a big part of our project has focused on how the movements between translocated pronghorn and resident pronghorn differ, based on data transmitted from collars, worn by both translocated and resident animals.” O’Connell said understanding how pronghorn move is essential, because their movements provide insight into posttranslocation pronghorn behavior and spacial use. Her efforts have focused on analyzing the movements of both translocated and resident pronghorn on the Rocker B Ranch. “Pronghorn strongly rely on their memory of the landscape by using what we refer to as a cognitive map, to choose their habitat,” O’Connell said. “We initially thought that translocated pronghorn were going to learn from resident pronghorn in order to develop their cognitive map when they were placed on a new landscape, by benefiting from the residents’ experience.” Instead, O’Connell said they learned translocated pronghorn readily crossed

modified fences and moved freely throughout the ranch, while residents did not exhibit the same behavior. “Collar data showed that translocated pronghorn were significantly more willing to go through or across fences with modifications that made them easier for them to cross, when compared to the movement data gathered from resident pronghorn that had collars,” O’Connell explained. “Our guess is the memory of past restriction along fences before modifications were implemented still limited their use of the landscape. This is of great concern to biologists and land managers, because without connectivity between pronghorn populations across the landscape, it becomes increasingly more difficult to increase their numbers when physical barriers like fences hinder their movement.” O’Connell said the level of disregard the translocated pronghorn showed toward fences is advantageous, as they are not restricted to the boundaries of a single pasture. “This allows them to be more selective, and to better balance the energetic costs and risks of moving more to find certain resources,” she said. “It also allows them to colonize areas beyond the limits of the resident population, expanding the species’ range in the state. Translocated pronghorn just might be able to teach the residents something new about finding greener pastures, if they can teach them to cross fences the way they willingly do.” O’Connell’s research and monitoring of pronghorn is ongoing. As the project continues, she hopes to learn more about the social behaviors of pronghorn and wants to see how these behaviors change or evolve as the translocated populations and resident populations mix. “I am also going to focus on their movements and habitat selection in response to the development of oil and gas infrastructure on the landscape,” she said. “I want to see how much the activity from the day-today operations of the old and gas industry on the landscape will affect what portions of the terrain they will use.”

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have something to do with that, but for the most part I’ll keep moving around until I find the fish I’m looking for.” His approach to crappie fishing has a lot to do with the electronics on his boat. “The LiveScope is a big help on just about every day I’m on the water,” he said. “It’s a big help in locating where the crappie are. Sometimes they will be on top of the brush, or off the side. It used to be that we used a buoy to mark the brush pile and then fish until we find them. That’s-old school now. With today’s electronics, I can locate crappie and precisely fish a jig or minnow right with them. No wasted time.” Benson mostly fishes with jigs, and hair jigs are his favorite. But on some days the plastic jigs will work. The small 1/16-ounce jigs are his favorite. They are about 1 1/4

inches long. His reels are spooled with 20-pound test braided line that has the diameter of 6-pound mono. “I don’t use a leader,” he said. “The braided line is so thin the fish don’t seem to mind it. I don’t normally use live minnows. But there are days when the fish are reluctant to hit a jig. In that situation I’ll cut a minnow in half and attach the tail section to a jig. In the clear water I’ll use white/chartreuse or shad-colored jigs. In stained water I like a black/chartreuse or blue/chartreuse.” His heaviest crappie from Palestine weighed 2 1/2 pounds. The lake, 15 miles southwest of Tyler, covers more than 25,000 acres and is located on the Neches River.

these beds stick out like a sore thumb,” he said. Large 10-inch worms, swimbaits that mimic bluegill, crankbaits, and spinner baits in a bluegill color pattern have been producing bites. “Anything that looks like a bluegill coming up off of the bottom works well,” Hill said. Mike McFarland has been targeting deeper areas on Lake Fork to catch quality fish. “Offshore structure like long points, ledges, road beds and bridge pilings in 16 to 22 feet of water have held steady action,” McFarland said. “Most of the best fish are being caught on big worms in plum and red shad color patterns. Football jigs and swing head jigs with creature baits have been working well, too.” McFarland said a lot of the have been in the 3- to 5-pound range with an occasional 6- to 9-pounder mixed in. On Lake Lewisville, guide Brandon Dillard said shallow rip-rap in 2 to 4 feet of water adjacent to deeper water has been holding some fish during the early morning hours. “Top-waters and square-billed crankbaits have been the ticket along the shallows,” he said. Rock piles and brush piles in 12 to 20 feet of water also have been holding larger bass. “The fish I’m catching up shallow are in the 2 to 3 pound range, but we are seeing fish in the 4 to 9 pound range out deep,” Dillard said. “Texas-rigged soft plastics, jigs and flutter spoons have been the best bait presentations over deeper structure.” Offshore structure like rock piles and

rocky points on Lake Grapevine are also starting to concentrate larger bass. “Structure in 6 to 18 feet of water has been pretty good on Grapevine lately,” Dillard said. Guide Hunter Jenkins is still finding good numbers of largemouth and smallmouth bass up shallow on Lake Texoma. “A lot of these fish are in less than 2 to 3 feet of water,” Jenkins said. “Buzzbaits, small swimbaits, chatterbaits, and anything that moves quickly and will draw a reaction strike has been getting bit up shallow.” Shallow points and the backs of coves and pockets have been productive, as well as rocky banks and areas with lay downs, logs, and wooden structure. “These fish are holding super tight to the bank,” he said. “Most of the fish are in the 2 to 4-pound range, and the smallmouths and largemouths are mixed in together.” Shallow structure on Lake Bonham has also been working well. “Later in the day, any structure along the bank that creates shade has been holding fish,” Jenkins said. On Lake LBJ, guide Travis Cockerham has been fishing in the mouths of creeks and catching bass in about a foot of water. “Big top-water lures have been working well early and late, and square-billed crankbaits have been the best bet during the midday hours,” Cockerham said. “Texas-rigged soft plastics pitched around docks have also been catching plenty of bass.” Cockerham also fished Choke Canyon Reservoir recently, and the bass were shallow and hitting frogs and wake baits.

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