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BY CRAIG NYHUS

The Texas Parks and WildlifeCommission did something it had-n’t done in more than 10 years —took its annual public meeting onthe road, this time to the HoustonZoo. Commission members andParks and Wildlife officials said itproved to be a popular decision.

The annual meeting was held at

the Houston Zoo in late August.Where last year’s meeting in Austinhad only a handful of people requestthe chance to speak to the commis-sion, in Houston about 70 peopletook advantage of the three minutesallotted to each to share their views.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity tocome out where our constituentsare,” said Commission Chairman

BY DAVID J. SAMS

Some of the best tasting fish comefrom the deepest part of the ocean.And finding and catching them isn’tthat difficult.

With modern electronics, findinga shipwreck 45 miles from port isn’t

hard. Just dial up the waypoints,plug them in and push the throttlesto full.

Bill Cannan of Port O’Connor

dropped some live bait over the sideattached to a heavy lead weight.“When the bait hits the bottom,hold on,” he said. “A huge grouper

or amberjack might be eyeing yourbait.”

Cannan said you’ll know a big fishis lurking because the end of yourrod will be shaking like crazy as thebait tries to escape. “When it getsheavy, start reeling fast and let the

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HUNTING

FISHING

The Nature Conservancy helpedtrain firefighters to conductprescribed burns in theRefugio-Goliad prairie.

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With the southern flounderpopulation still declining,anglers can expect changes inregulations next year.

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CONSERVATION

Time Sensitive MaterialDeliver ASAP

Jackie Kennedy has fishedFairfield Lake for years, andthis year has two records toshow for it. A recent fish killisn’t expected to affect thefishery.

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Doves usher in a new seasonReport on Page 6

See MEETING, Page 16

Teal are arriving on schedulealong the Texas coast in timefor the early season. Huntersare hoping Hurricane Ikedoesn’t scatter them.

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NATIONALArkansas has lifted its three-year ban on spinning-wingdecoys for this waterfowlseason.

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Grayson County has becomefamous for its big bucks in thestate’s lone archery-onlycounty. A petition to modifythe archery-only rule has manyhunters up in arms.

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Deep-water bottom dropping

HEAVY WEIGHT, HEAVIER FISH: Bill Cannan holds an estimated 55-pound warsaw grouper caught 58 miles off of Port O’Connor. Cannan’s deep-water technique is touse heavy lead weights and live bait to get bites from large bottom fish. Photo by David J. Sams.

GUNNING FOR RESEARCH: Using volunteer hunters, TPW biologists areconducting a three-year study of shot effectiveness on dove, but the earlyhunt caused a PR nightmare for officials. Photo by TPW.

Flyway rivalry promptsTexas’ dove research

Timing of hunt causes stir among huntersBY CRAIG NYHUS

Dove hunters in Texas have longfeared a federal requirement for theuse of nonlead shot to pursue theirquarry. The state holds the same con-cerns, especially after other states inthe Central Flyway tried to forceTexas to require nonlead shot basedon their waterfowl studies, accordingto officials.

That was the genesis of Texas’ ownstudy on the effect of nonlead shot

on doves. A team was out two daysprior to the hunting season to collectbird specimens for a study compar-ing the effectiveness of lead and non-lead shot. But some outfitters andhunters were taken aback by the earlyshooting.

Texas Parks and Wildlife biologistsare in the first year of a multi-yearstudy to determine the effectivenessof different load types on wildmourning doves using trained

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Houston hosts TPW Commission annual public meeting

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Robert L. “Bob” Cook, recently retiredexecutive director of Texas Parks andWildlife, has been named TexasOutdoorsman of the Year by past awardrecipients.

Cook will be honored with a receptionand dinner on Sept. 10 at the TDS ExoticGame Ranch and Pavilion near Creedmoor.

The Texas Outdoorsmen have been pre-

senting this award for 48 years. Until 2005it was hosted by the San Antonio Angler’sClub and was a San Antonio-based award.In 2006, the award’s scope was broadened toinclude residents of the entire State of Texas,and is presented by the Texas WildlifeAssociation Foundation.

— Texas Outdoorsmen report.

Hunting and Fishing Day in Texas andacross the nation is slated for Sept. 27 andevery outdoors person is encouraged toextend an invitation to family, friends,neighbors and co-workers to step outsideand share the values and the fun of theoutdoors.

At the urging of the National ShootingSports Foundation, Congress designatedNational Hunting and Fishing Day on thefourth Saturday of every September as apublic reminder that good conservation

depends on hunters, anglers and shooters.In fact, through licenses and excise taxes,these outdoor enthusiasts generate$100,000 every 30 minutes for fish,wildlife and habitat programs.

A wide range of activities will markHunting and Fishing Day nationwidesponsored by sportsman’s clubs, conserva-tion groups and civic agencies. Texas Parks& Wildlife Expo, while scheduled for Oct.4-5, is working toward the same end, intro-ducing the young and old to the outdoors.

In Texas, hunting and fishing contributemore than $14 billion annually to thestate’s economy, according to data in the2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting,and Wildlife-Associated Recreation.

Sponsors for 2008 include Wonders ofWildlife, NSSF, Bass Pro Shops, TheSportsman Channel, National Wild TurkeyFederation, Realtree, Cabela’s, Woolrich,and Smith & Wesson.

— Staff reports.

The Nature Conservancy led an effortin the heart of Texas’ Refugio-GoliadPrairie to train 20 firefighters from pri-vate organizations and federal agenciesin the planning, implementation andevaluation of prescribed fires.

Held in Victoria and called theTraining Implementation Module, theprogram was developed by Jeremy Bailey,the Conservancy’s training and net-works coordinator for the western UnitedStates.

“The Conservancy’s cooperative fireprogram on ranches here in the Refugio-Goliad Prairie provides a unique oppor-tunity to expose fire practitioners fromall over the country to leadership in firemanagement,” Bailey said.

Participating students came from ninestates and several different federal agen-cies, including the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService, the U.S. Forest Service, theNational Park Service and the Bureau ofLand Management.

Despite multiple rainstorms, the pro-gram managed to conduct demonstra-tion burns on more than 600 acres of pri-vate lands spanning two participatingranches.

The Conservancy’s Refugio-GoliadPrairie Project includes 25 cooperatingranches encompassing more than197,000 acres on South Texas’ coastal

plains. The Conservancy uses highlytrained professional firefighters to con-duct prescribed burning on privateranches to conserve and restore theregion’s ecosystem, which includes someof largest and highest-quality coastalprairie habitat remaining in the state.

“Our work here has the dual benefit of

improving cattle forage and simultane-ously improving habitat for wildlife suchas bobwhite quail and Attwater’s prairiechicken,” said Ray Guse, a prescribed firespecialist for the Conservancy who isbased in Victoria.

— Nature Conservancy of Texas report.

Robert L. ‘Bob’ Cook named Texas Outdoorsman of the Year

Cooperation between the Orvis retail storesin Arlington and Dallas has paid off with a$10,000 conservation grant being awarded bythe Orvis Company to the Lower MountainFork River Foundation.

The grant money will go toward projects toimprove stream habitat for the rainbow andbrown trout in the Lower Mountain ForkRiver, located in southeastern Oklahoma.

The LMFRF was founded in 2002 to donatefunds directly to the Oklahoma Department ofWildlife Conservation for projects to improvethe trout habitat of the Lower Mountain ForkRiver. The LMFRF has a large number of sup-porters who live in the DFW area.

“This is a great opportunity to give back tothe river that so many of our customersenjoy,” said Sean Polk, fishing manager of theOrvis Dallas store. “It’s good to know that theriver we all enjoy will be cared for andimproved.”

The Lower Mountain Fork River is the clos-est year-round trout fishing destination to theDFW area. This past April, the LowerMountain Fork River was hit by flooding thatdamaged or greatly altered much of it’s instream habitat.

The Orvis grant money will be multipliedby matching grants from other sources andwill fund habitat restoration in areas damagedby the flood.

“The LMFRF is in my opinion the singlebiggest contributing factor to the overall suc-cess of the Lower Mountain Fork River,” saidJef Fair, fishing manager of the OrvisArlington store. “If the foundation keeps get-ting the Oklahoma Department of WildlifeConservation the funding it needs, there is noquestion in my mind that this fishery willsomeday rank among the premier tailwatertrout streams in the nation.”

— Orvis report.

Orvis stores secure grantfor the Lower Mountain Fork River Foundation

Prescribed fire training held in Texas

National Hunting and Fishing Day set Sept.27

BURN AND LEARN: The Nature Conservancy conducted demonstration burns to help trainfirefighters in prescribed burn implementation. Photo by The Nature Conservancy.


HUNTING

Teal hunters ready for fast-paced actionHopes are high for the Texas teal season from Sept. 13–28, and early

prospects along the Texas coast are good.“I saw one 100-acre area holding about 10,000,” said Scott

Hickman of League City. “And a larger area nearby held more like15,000. Fishermen are seeing waves of them flying by the boats head-ing south.”

Hunters, though, are carefully watching Hurricane Ike, whichcould change everything. It’s expected to hit the Gulf coast any-where from Louisiana to Mexico this weekend.

For now, near Eagle Lake and Sealy, the teal are there — where thereis water. “Two of my DU ponds are dry,” said Steven Cunningham.“But we pump a few others and they are holding lots of birds.”

Few dove hunters in North Texas reported seeing many teal andhope the next wave stops some birds, since the Panhandle is holdinggood numbers.

The estimated blue-winged teal breeding population index was 6.6million birds according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife estimates, and theTexas coast is seeing a big influx of birds.

Although breeding numbers are way down in the prairie potholeregion due to poor water conditions, the numbers of adult birds heldsteady, meaning the early teal hunting could be nearly as good as lastyear’s banner season. (Photo by Todd Steele.)

— Staff reports.

Dove opener hot in North, West Texas

Hunters shoot quick limits

FOR OPENERS: Hunting in a Comanche County field, Derek Rambo of Arlington firesa shot at a dove. Rambo reached his limit within one hour during the openingafternoon. Black lab “Moose” retrieves a dove on his first hunt. Joe Prather picksup a dove he shot in a plowed sunflower field on the 5G Ranch near Old Glory.Prather, chairman emeritus of Griffin and Howe, was hunting with the Dallas SafariClub. Photos by David J. Sams.

BY CRAIG NYHUS

In much of North and West Texas, thedove opener brought back memories ofseasons past, leaving last year’s spottyopener a distant memory. More “nor-mal” conditions, especially in NorthTexas, kept birds in the area and lefthunters happy with the results.

East of Rising Star, eight hunters shotlimits opening morning, all finishing by9 a.m. They recalled last year when a coolfront moved the birds out just before theopener in the normally reliable area.“They were coming at me in waves,” saidStephen Anderson, a Grapevine dentist.“Some of the time I didn’t even get off ashot, the birds were crossing and diving.”

The evening hunt for the late-arrivingfriends brought limits, but at a slowerpace, and the pressure educated the birdsmaking the next day’s hunt tougher.

On the weekend, hunters north ofAbilene shot quick limits, and a stiffnorth wind that blew for three days did-n’t send the birds south. “We were donein 30 minutes on Friday evening,” saidBob Scott, who hunted as part of the

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Guns of Grayson County

BY BILL MILLER

A dispute is growing in GraysonCounty, but the opposing sideshave one thing in common.

Both love the county’s small butmighty herd of white-tailed deer,which in recent years has producedseveral now-famous 200-B&C-classbucks.

But all of these trophies weredowned by arrows becauseGrayson, nestled along the RedRiver in North Texas, is the state’ssole county designated as archeryonly.

On one side is a solitary manwho doesn’t live in GraysonCounty.

Charlie Haggerton, 35, of FortWorth, has petitioned the TexasParks and Wildlife Commission tomodify the archery-only rule. Hewants to use a rifle on 1,400 acreshis wife’s family has owned inGrayson County since the 1960s.

“It’s about freedom of choice,”said Haggerton, a salesman for ametal building manufacturer.“Nobody hunts that land but me. Ihunt there because I can’t afford tohunt elsewhere.

“For other people to decide how Ido that just doesn’t seem fair.”

Haggerton’s petition has inspireda movement, but it will be workingagainst him.

The Grayson County Bow-hunters Association formed thissummer when the local archerycommunity learned that someoneoutside the county had petitionedto allow guns.

Members of the group argue thatthe challenging nature of theirsport results in low-deer harvests,which lets bucks get older, with big-

Archery-only deer hunters brace for battle

ARCHERY ONLY: Jim Lillis poses with the 10-pointer he shot last season in GraysonCounty that netted a 175 2/8 B&C score. See GRAYSON, Page 26


FISHING

Flounder numbers

still decliningTougher regulations

likely next year

FALLING FLOUNDER: A favorite of youngsters, flounder gigging may be in jeopardy in the coming years. The numbers of southern flounderare down along the Texas coast, and further regulations may be coming next year. Photo by David J. Sams.

BY CRAIG NYHUS

Southern flounder anglers should expect changes in future reg-ulations, although it will be next year before any major revisionsare made.

At the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting, held inHouston in late August, Robin Reichers, a TPW resource manage-ment director, provided the Commission with the southern floun-der update.

“Commercial pressure shifted to flounder after the redfish andtrout ban on commercial sale in 1981,” he said.

For nearly 20 years, efforts have been made to curb the popula-tion decline, beginning with buybacks of commercial licenses in1999 and reduction of limits in 2006.

“We still have a downward trend in gillnet surveys,” Reicherssaid. “And the trends are up and down the coast.”

Reichers said the bag seine catch rates are showing more youngfish indicating a slower downward trend. Bycatch of flounder inshrimp trawls is down 90 percent. The recreational and commer-cial harvest is down and gill net length (of the fish) is increasing.“We’re getting some older fish out there,” he said.

So why is the southern flounder population still declining?Water temperature seems to be a possible culprit. “Recent higherwinter temperatures decrease the egg hatch and increase preda-tion,” Reichers said. “We’ve seen a decrease in bag seines over thesame period. An increase in water temperature reduces the carry-ing capacity of the bays.”

Reichers recommended the consideration of several options, asthe downward trend of the flounder population remains. Bag limitsand season closures are two of those options. “The recreational fish-ermen bring in 50 percent of the catch, and 60 percent of that comesfrom the Galveston Bay system,” Reichers said.

The commercial catch comes from farther south, as the SanAntonio and Aramsas Bay systems make up more than 60 percentof the commercial harvest.

A Southern Flounder Workgroup meeting, including meetingswith commercial fishermen, is set for September, and scopingmeetings open to the public will be scheduled soon. Options willbe presented to the Commission at its next meeting in November,and proposals will be made at the Commission’s January 2009meeting.

Why wait until next year? “It’s serious,” Reichers said. “Butchanges can be done in the normal regulatory process. We’re notin an emergency setting.”

One-room school teacher makes impact on studentsAnnual fishing event continues after 50 years

BY DIANA KUNDE

his is a story about a beloved teacher,a one-room school and friendshipsthat have lasted more than 50 years.

It’s the story of an annual coastal fishingget-together that par-ticipants jokingly callthe Norm StuemkeInvitationalTournament — aftertheir grade schoolteacher, who is alwaysthe guest of honor.

“What can you sayabout someone whotaught kids for all hislife, and still has themwant to take him fish-ing?” said Ron Prellopof Austin, wholaunched what hasnow become a yearlyevent.

This August, eight men gathered at theCastaway Lodge in Seadrift with Capt. KrisKelley. They didn’t limit out this year, butthey caught about 30 trout and a few red-

fish and talked about old times. All hadknown each other, and their teacherStuemke, since they were kids in the1950s.

“I found out really quickly that theytruly, truly care about each other after 50

years,” said Stuemke,77, who retired after41 years in elemen-tary education. “It’samazing to see thecamaraderie stilltoday.”

“They are prettydecent young mentoday, I must say,” headded — like a teacher.

In 1955, as a youngteacher fresh out ofcollege, Stuemke land-ed the job of starting aone-room school forRedeemer Lutheran

Church in Austin. “They don’t teach youthat in college,” said Stuemke, who grew upon an Illinois dairy farm.

That first year, he had 22 students ingrades one through five, as both teacher

and principal of the school. Well-knownTexas artist Larry Prellop, Ron’s cousin, wasone of them.

“I had him for a teacher first throughsixth grade,” Larry said. “He likes to say hetaught me everything I know.” Owner ofthe Prellop Fine Arts Gallery in Salado,Larry hadn’t been able to take the time offfor saltwater fishing until he went on theouting last year.

“I’ll be 59 this year and I’ve known those

guys ever since I can remember,” Larry said.“We’ve all kind of gone our different direc-tions. This was kind of a neat reunion.”

Ron Prellop is president of the MinimaxCrestview IGA grocery store in centralAustin, a family-owned business since 1953,and one of the last independents in the city.

Other members of the group includeGlenn Pittsford, who serves planned givingdonors at the Texas A&M Foundation;

TIES THAT BIND: Students of Norm Stuemke, their former one-room school teacher, gather with theirguest of honor each year to fish on the Texas coast. Glenn Pittsford shows the biggest redfish caughton the trip. Photo by Tim Knippa.

T“What can you say

about someone whotaught kids for all his life,and still has them want to

take him fishing?”— Ron Prellop

See STUEMKE, Page 29

Michael Thompson, 33, a stay-at-homedad from Minnesota who is studying tobecome a police officer, made fantasysports history by becoming America’s firstFLW Fantasy Fishing champion, and theofficial winner of its $1 million grandprize. Thompson’s payday is the largestpayday in fantasy sports, even includingfantasy football.

At the Colonial Center in Columbia,S.C., Thompson ripped open a three-footcard to reveal that he had won the season-long chase for the FLW Fantasy Fishing $1million grand prize.

“This is unbelievable, I simply can’tbelieve it — it’s a dream come true,” saidThompson, an avid bass angler. “I simplystarted playing FLW Fantasy Fishingbecause I love fishing and because it wasfun. We have a lot of dreams and this willhelp us make many of them come true.”

Irwin Jacobs, chairman of FLW

Outdoors and the creator of FLW FantasyFishing, an international online fantasyfishing game launched in February 2008,presented Thompson with his $1 millioncheck.

“When we launched FLW Outdoors, Idreamed about the biggest payday in probass fishing, when the champion of theForrest Wood Cup could claim the first $1million prize in pro bass fishing,” saidJacobs. “Fifteen years later, we achieved mypersonal goal of awarding $1 million to ourForrest Wood Cup champion two years in arow.”

A resident of St. Michael, Minn., a sub-urb of Minneapolis, Thompson has been astay-at-home dad while he works towardfinishing law enforcement school, with agoal of working in the Wright CountySheriff’s office, where he volunteers. In hisspare time, Thompson is an avid bass


Minnesota man winsin FLW Fantasy Fishing

$1M

See FANTASY, Page 16

BY MARY HELEN AGUIRRE

Lifelong fisherman and guideJackie Kennedy of Gun Barrel Cityhad a good summer. In August, hecaught a state record freshwatercatch-and-release red drum just afew months after he hooked a waterbody record blue catfish in FairfieldLake.

“There is not a spot in it that Ihaven’t fished,” he said of the 2,400-acre power plant lake located inFreestone County. “If you’re notfishing where the fish are, you mightas well be fishing in the bath tub.”

Kennedy has been a full-timeguide for several years and works out

of Fairfield Lake and Cedar CreekLake.

Kennedy said clients he’s guidedeither hold and or have held eightwater body records and seven staterecords.

This year, it was Kennedy’s turn tonet some records of his own.

On Aug. 1, Kennedy went out byhimself on Fairfield Lake for someevening fishing.

He had six rods with live shad setout when, at about 6:30 p.m., aschool of red drum swam close tothe boat, many picking up bait.

“I got that one, plus two more,” hesaid of the record fish.

Most of the rods went off.Kennedy managed to lock down two

of the rods, lost two fish and man-aged to reel in a 42-inch-long, 31.7-pound red drum — a state freshwa-ter catch and release record.

The previous record holder wasJason Ensign, who on Jan. 5, 2008caught a 40.5-inch-long red drum.

Kennedy asked two women fish-ing nearby to take a picture and wit-ness the measuring.

But that wasn’t all for Kennedy. Afew months earlier, on May 15, hewas on Fairfield with a friend,Charles Burks of Fairfield, and hewas experimenting with BerkleyGulp! minnow.

At about 10 a.m., a fish startedpulling hard. “It was pulling so hard,

Guide sets state, lake records at Fairfield LakeRecent fish kill takes 3,750 large red drum

RED RECORD: Jackie Kennedy of Gun Barrel City holds his freshwater catch-and-release record for red drum. Kennedy also holds the water body record for bluecatfish at Fairfield Lake. See RECORD, Page 27


20 UNDERSIZED FISH AND TWO DOVE TOO MANY

•While patrolling Lake Travis,Burnet County Game WardensRonnie Langford and BrentWhitus observed two men fish-ing. As the wardens approached,one of the men began throwingobjects in the water. The objectsturned out to be two dove theyhad shot before the seasonopener. They also had a total of20 undersized catfish and large-mouth bass. Cases pending.

FIRED RANCH WORKER RETURNS TO STEAL ATV, SHOOT GAME

•Chris Amthor and Saul Aguilar,game wardens from PecosCounty and Terrell County,responded to a call concerningfour men, one of whom was ter-minated from employment on aPecos County ranch. The fourwent back out to the ranch tocamp and stole one ATV, burnedanother and shot a mule deerbuck as well as other game.Investigation pending.

MAN NABBED FOR BWI INSISTS HE WASN’T OPERATING BOAT

•A man was arrested for BWI onEagle Mountain Lake by TarrantCounty Game Wardens ClintBorchardt and John Padgett.The man performed the afloattests, but later refused all SFSTsand to give a breath sample. Theman was alone on his boat inthe middle of the lake but insist-ed that he was not operating theboat.

MAN WITH BURNING BOAT JUST WOULDN’T LISTEN

•Sabine County Game WardenRandy Button and JasperCounty Game Warden JustinEddins responded to a call onSam Rayburn Lake concerning aboat being on fire. The owner of

the boat said he abandoned theboat after he could not put thefire out with the onboard fireextinguisher. The owner saidthe gas tank exploded and heslammed the hatch to the bowshut, snuffing the fire out.Another boater retrieved theman and towed the boat to theramp. The wardens warned theowner not to move the boatbecause of exposed, bare wireshooked to the battery terminalsand gas leaking from the tank.Approximately one hour later,Sabine County Warden ChadGartman discovered the manthree miles away from the boatramp watching his boat burningon the side of the road.

TWO-MILE LONG LINE REMOVED, DESTROYED

•Sgt. James Dunks, game war-dens Will Plumas and DanWaddell, and mechanic DavidKimball located a Mexican longline north of the Mexico borderin the Gulf of Mexico. The longline was approximately 2 mileslong. The line had fresh bait,but no fish. It was removed anddestroyed.

MAN ON PRIVATE PROPERTY CAN’T FOOL GAME WARDEN

•Refugio County Game WardenDanny Kelso responded to a callabout two men on private prop-erty. The men told Kelso thatthey were working for thelandowner. The men were

unaware that Kelso knew thelandowner did not have anyoneworking on his property. Kelsoturned the men over to theRefugio County Sheriff’s depart-ment. The men were suspectedof stealing aluminum irrigationpipe, diesel fuel and other itemsin the area.

MAN ADMITS TO SHOOTING 8-POINT BUCK IN SUBDIVISION

•Henderson County GameWarden Shawn Smith andFreestone County GameWarden John Thorne investigat-ed a call about a man who shot abuck in Henderson County.After a brief interview, the manadmitted killing an 8-pointbuck in a subdivision on CedarCreek Lake with a .22 magnum.The wardens secured the deerhead, processed meat and rifle.Cases pending.

PEOPLE STRANDED IN OVERTURNED BOAT RESCUED

•Aransas County GameWardens Richard “Marty”Martin, Scott McLeod andBrandi Reeder responded to acall about some people whooverturned their boat in AransasBay. The wardens launched theirpatrol boat and found thestranded boaters on top of theupside-down boat. All werewearing lifejackets. The wardensbrought two people in and theRockport Police Departmentbrought in three people aboard

their patrol boat.

TDCJ EMPLOYEES KILL DEER ON UNIT PROPERTY

•Grimes County Game WardenJonny Heaton and MontgomeryCounty Warden DeanFitzpatrick investigated informa-tion concerning two deer killedon the O.L. Luther Unit. Theinvestigation revealed two TDCJemployees had killed two deeron the unit property at night.Antlers, meat and rifles wereseized. Cases pending.

MEN CITED FOR SPEARFISHING CATFISH

•Two men were cited for takingfish by illegal means by Val VerdeCounty Game Wardens JasonHuebner and Roger Nicholas,who used the darkness toapproach and observe the men.The two men were spearfishingcatfish and had five flathead cat-fish in their possession. Casesand restitution are pending.

TAG ON DUMPED WHITETAIL LEADS TO ARKANSAS MAN

•A local landowner found awhitetail buck that had beendumped on the side of the road.The landowner contacted TerrellCounty Game Warden KennethStannard. Stannard found thedeer with last year’s mule deertag connected to the antlers.Stannard contacted the mannamed on the tag, who was

located in Arkansas. After thephone interview, Stannardmailed a citation for improperlytagged whitetail deer and litter-ing. The man contacted thecourt and paid the fine.

DESIGNATED DRIVER OK, BUT PASSENGERS NOT

•Menard County Game WardenClint Graham noticed a vehicleoccupied by three men travelingdown a back road. Whenstopped, the men said they werejust riding the back roads drink-ing a few cold beers and lookingat deer. The driver stated he wasthe designated driver, so the twopassengers could drink. Thedriver did not show any indica-tors that he had been drinking,but the two passengers had openbeers in their hands. Both pas-sengers were cited for open con-tainer. One of the passengershad a felony no-bond warrantfrom Irion County. He wasarrested and transported to theMenard County Jail.

THIEF AT BOAT MARINA CAUGHT ON SECURITY CAMERA

•Hunt County Game WardenDale Waters was called to assistin thefts from a local marina onLake Tawakoni. A man entered aboat slip around 4 a.m. anddocked his boat. He went to oneboat, raised the cover, and tookout the seats, and replaced thecover. He went to other boatsand took fishing equipment.The security camera recorded allthe activity. The man wasbrought into the local PD andwas shown the video. He said ifthe shot of his face was clear, hewould just admit it. The videohas been sent for enhancement.

•A man had stolen a vehicle inSan Antonio and was involved ina hit-and-run in Aransas Pass. SanPatricio County Game WardenMartin Garcia investigated. The

man bailed out and found a 38-foot yacht to continue his escape.The owner of the vessel rented ahelicopter and spotted his boat inthe Gulf of Mexico. The fleeing

man had found the yacht’s barand was impaired when the boatwas boarded. The subject refusedall field sobriety and intoxilyzertests.

HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER FLEES ON YACHT, HELPS HIMSELF TO BAR

GAME WARDEN BLOTTER


4–6 appetizer servingsIngredients:20 Dove breast halves, boneless withskin removed2-3 Tablespoons olive oil3 Tablespoons Cajun seasoning 1 4-ounce can diced fire roastedchilies 7 medium-sized firm tomatoes1 1/2 Cups shredded jack cheeseInstructions: Toss doves in olive oiland then season liberally with Cajunseasoning. Heat a heavy-duty pan onhigh heat until very hot. Add dovebreasts and cook on each side untilwell-browned, but do not cook pastrare to medium-rare. Remove dovesfrom pan and allow to cool. Slice

tomatoes into 20 slices. Place cookeddove on tomato, top with dicedchilies and jack cheese. Place under apreheated broiler until cheese ismelted and slightly browned.— Recipe from Scott Leysath, huntfish-

cook.com.

ACROSS

1. This hooknose is a popular food fish

4. Classify this with a pound test6. A predator fish8. Anything to attract fish to the

hook10. Any manufactured lure12. Provides bait, fuel, dock

facilities13. To firm hook in a catch14. A sinker material16. To bait the water to attract

fish18. Raising and lowering a lure22. Tangle or snarl in a reel spool23. A type of fishing24. Constructing a fly lure26. Ocean giant of many species27. Material used in some fishlines28. Term for small frying fish29. A wet fly with feather wings31. A fishline material33. Name for a rod guide37. Inshore member of the shark

family38. Circular movement of water

current39. The snake-like fish41. Fisherman’s tackle42. A grouping of fish in one spot43. Stream fishermen will do this44. A name for the chinook salmon

DOWN

1. A mollusk used for bait2. Of the sardine family3. A top commercial fish4. The connector between line

and lure5. Brings a catch safely into the

boat6. This attracts the fish7. This prevents the line twist9. A type of lure

11. Close to the shore line15. The terminal tackle17. A material used in fishlines18. Form built out into the water19. Where deck meets stern of a

boat20. A casting method21. Term for tiring a fish to land it

25. A bass species30. A lake sportfish31. Underwater growth conceal-

ment32. Pole for fly-fishing34. The rugged method of fishing35. To pull a fish in rapidly36. This brings a catch to the boat40. An outdoor regulation41. Fishline material

WILD IN THE KITCHENFor crossword puzzle solution, see Page 20

OUTDOOR PUZZLERSpicy Dove on Tomato

WEATHER

Shrimp & Black Bean Tacos

Outdoor Puzzler, Wilbur "Wib" Lundeen

6 servingsIngredients: 12 Taco shells1 Tablespoon canola oil1 Pound fresh or frozen mediumcooked shrimp, thawed1 Teaspoon ground cumin1/2 Teaspoon garlic powder1/4 Teaspoon chili powderOne 15 1/2-ounce Can black beans,drained and rinsed1 1/2 Cups frozen corn kernels,thawed1 Cup mild salsaOne 8-ounce Can crushed pineap-ple, very well drained1 Cup shredded cheddar cheeseToppings:1 Avocado, sliced1 Tomato, chopped1/2-Cup sour cream

1 Cup shredded lettuceInstructions: Preheat the oven to350°F. Bake the taco shells accord-ing to package directions. Whilethe shells are baking, heat the oil ina large nonstick skillet over medi-um-high heat. Add the shrimp,cumin, garlic powder, and chilipowder and cook about 1 minute.Add the beans, corn, pineapple,and salsa and heat through, about 2minutes. Add the cheese and heatuntil melted. Place about 1/3 cup ofthe shrimp filling into each tacoshell using a slotted spoon toremove any excess liquid. Top withavocado, tomato, lettuce and sourcream.— Recipe from The National Fisheries

Institute, eatshrimp.com.


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ROGER CRANDALL of Fort Worth and a brace of cottontails taken by hiscaptive bred male Harris hawk, 'Cujo.' JIMMY RICHARDSON caught this crappie with his fish

pen on Lake Buchanan. RAMIRO A. GARCIA, 10, with his first bow kill on a hog hunt near Pearsall.

ZACH OTT caught a 35-pound amberjack when fishing with his family in Destin, Fla.RUDY and JOHN TORRES of Waxahachie, RYAN HESTEANDE of Slidel, ERICA WALLACE of Denton and JOSHOVERSTREET of Dallas caught these red snapper on the last day of snapper season.

NICOLE VAUGHN, 8, shows off her 28-inch trout to Capt. ROY LEE EVENS. She reeledin this 7.5-pound trout near Port Mansfield.

JASON GONSALEZ with a 28-inch snook caught in the Lower Laguna Madre on liveshrimp.

TAYLOR NEAL, 10, of Odessa went on her first saltwater fishing trip out of DolphinDock and caught this 25-pound redfish.

DANIEL ERICKSON, 9, of Arlington, hunting with his father,Paul, shot this hog, his first big game animal, near Gonzales.

SKY KIFF with a trout caught in the Lower Laguna Madre onlive shrimp.


AMISTAD: Black bass are very good onshad colored deep-diving jigs, spinner-baits, crankbaits, and topwaters.FORK: Black bass are good on topwa-ters early, strolling DD22s over flats,flutter spoons and Carolina rigs. GREENBELT: Black bass are good ontopwater lures early and late in the day,white spinnerbaits and black/green jigsaround grass and tree lines.

BRAUNIG: Striped bass are excellenton liver and shad off points, and downrigging silver and gold spoons near thejetty and dam. COOPER: White bass are good onRooster Tails and Little Georges. Hybridstriper are good on Sassy Shad and liveshad. RAY HUBBARD: White bass are good ontopwaters and Humdingers.

BUCHANAN: Yellow and blue catfishare very good on rod/reel, juglines andtrotlines baited with goldfish and perchupriver.CALAVERAS: Channel and blue catfishare excellent on liver, shrimp, cheese-bait, and shad near the railroad trestle,181 Cove, and the discharge. CHOKE CANYON: Channel and bluecatfish are very good on frozen shrimpand punchbait. LBJ: Channel catfish are very good onnightcrawlers, liver, and dip bait. Yellowand blue catfish are very good on trot-lines baited with goldfish and perch.

CONROE: Crappie are good on minnowsand white tube jigs. O.H. IVIE: Crappie are good on min-nows and jigs. WEATHERFORD: Crappie are good onminnows and jigs over brush piles andin the crappie house.

SAM RAYBURN: Bream are good onnightcrawlers. TOLEDO BEND: Bream are good oncrickets and nightcrawlers in 5-10 feet.

CATFISH

HOT BITESALAN HENRY: Water lightly stained; 84 degrees; .21' low. Black bass aregood on topwater lures, shad-colored spinnerbaits and large blue fleck softplastic worms along timber lines. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs.AMISTAD: Water clear; 87 degrees; 17.91' low. Catfish are good oncheesebait, shrimp, and nightcrawlers. Yellow catfish are good on trotlinesbaited with live perch. ARROWHEAD: Water lightly stained; 82 degrees; 4.71' low. Crappie aregood on minnows off the derricks. White bass are good schooling whilechasing shad shallow. Catfish are fair on juglines and drift fishing with shador punch bait.ATHENS: Water lightly stained, 83-88 degrees; 0.78' low. Black bass aregood on topwaters early, later switching to Texas rigs, spinnerbaits and 4"plastics. Catfish are good on nightcrawlers.BASTROP: Water clear. Black bass are good on watermelon red deep-divingcrankbaits and soft plastics. Crappie are good on minnows. Channel andblue catfish are very good on shrimp, minnows, and stinkbait. BELTON: Water clear; 80 degrees; 0.13' high. Hybrid striper are good onwhite Riversides at night under lights. White bass are good on whiteRiversides at night under lights. Channel and blue catfish are good on hotdogs and summer sausage. BOB SANDLIN: Water fairly clear; 83-89 degrees; 0.37' low. Crappie aregood on minnows and jigs over brush piles and around bridge columns.Catfish are good on nightcrawlers and prepared bait.BRAUNIG: Water stained; 87 degrees. Channel catfish are excellent onliver, shrimp, cut bait, and cheesebait near the dam and the discharge.Blue catfish are good on cut bait.BRIDGEPORT: Water lightly stained; 82-88 degrees; 4.16' low. Black bassare good on topwaters early, later switching Texas rigged Baby Brush Hogs,Bandit 200 crankbaits and wacky rigs. White bass are good on live shad,topwaters and slabs.BROWNWOOD: Water clear; 86 degrees; 4.30' low. White bass are good onLi'l Fishies off lighted docks at night. Crappie are good on Li'l Fishies andminnows over brush piles in 10-18 feet, and off lighted docks at night.Channel catfish are good on cut bait and nightcrawlers over baited holes in12-20 feet. Yellow cat-fish are good on trot-lines baited with perchin 12-20 feet.BUCHANAN: Waterclear; 86 degrees; 8.01'low. Black bass aregood on daiquiri topwa-ters, blue shad flukes,Rat-L-Traps, and wackyrigged watermelon redWhacky Sticks alongdocks and over flatsearly. Striped bass aregood on plastic swimbaits and drifting orfree lining live baitaround LighthousePoint at first light. CADDO: Water stained;80-86 degrees; 0.45'high. Black bass aregood on Ribbits andbuzzbaits early, middayswitching to wacky rigs,weightless 5" YumDingers and Rat-L-Traps. CALAVERAS: Waterstained; 87 degrees.Striped bass are goodon spoons and striperjigs near the dam andthe crappie wall in 15-20 feet, and on chickenlivers and shad alongthe shoreline. CANYON LAKE: Waterclear; 85 degrees; 6.79'low. Yellow and bluecatfish are very good ontrotlines and juglines baited with live goldfish and perch from Cranes MillPark to the mouth of the river.CEDAR CREEK: Water lightly stained; 79-86 degrees; 1.46' low. Blackbass are good on Ribbits early, later switching to Texas rigs, spinnerbaitsand Carolina rigs. White bass are good on slabs and topwaters. Catfish aregood on prepared bait.CHOKE CANYON: Water lightly stained; 89 degrees; 3.20' low. Black bassare fair on minnows and white spinnerbaits. COLEMAN: Water clear; 86 degrees; 4.03' low. Black bass are good onchartreuse and chartreuse blue spinnerbaits, soft plastics, and Rat-L-Traps.Crappie are good on minnows and green tube jigs. Channel and blue cat-fish are good on shrimp and stinkbait. CONROE: Water clear; 0.90' low. Black bass are good on watermelon redand tequila sunrise Carolina-rigged soft plastics and Senkos, and on char-treuse Rat-L-Traps. COOPER: Water lightly stained; 79-85 degrees; 2.37' low. Black bass aregood on topwaters early, later switching to Texas rigs and Senkos. FALCON: Water stained; 83 degrees. Black bass are good on smallcrankbaits and spinnerbaits in 5-7 feet. Channel and blue catfish are excel-lent on frozen shrimp. FAYETTE: Water clear; 91 degrees. Channel and blue catfish are very goodon cut shad, liver, and shrimp over baited holes under trees.FORK: Water lightly stained; 79-85 degrees; 0.08' low. Crappie are good onjigs and minnows around the bridges and over brush piles. Catfish are goodon nightcrawlers and prepared bait.GRANBURY: Water clear; 1.79' low. Black bass are good on chartreuse/blueand chartreuse/white spinnerbaits and soft plastics. Catfish are good onstinkbait, shrimp, and liver.GRANGER: Water clear; 82 degrees; 1.80' low. Black bass are good onCarolina-rigged soft plastic worms and spinnerbaits. Crappie are good on

chartreuse jigs in 4-10 feet.GRAPEVINE: Water off-color; 79-86 degrees; 3.62' low. Black bass are fairto good on DD22s, jigs, Texas rigs and Carolina rigs. White bass are goodon Humdingers and live shad. GREENBELT: Water lightly stained; 78 degrees; 27.68' low. Crappie aregood on jigs and minnows. White bass are good on live baits and poppers.Catfish are good on live bait.HUBBARD CREEK: Water lightly stained; 79 degrees; 2.33' low. Crappieare good on jigs and minnows. White bass and hybrid stripers are good onlive bait. Catfish are good on live baits.JOE POOL: Water off-color; 79-85 degrees; 1.5' low. Black bass are goodon topwaters early, later switching to jigs, Texas rigs and crankbaits. Whitebass are good on Humdingers. LAVON: Water stained; 79-86 degrees; 3.48' low. Black bass are good onTexas-rigged Baby Brush Hogs, spinnerbaits and wacky rigs. Crappie aregood on minnows and jigs over brush piles. Catfish are good on night-crawlers, cut shad and prepared bait.LBJ: Water stained; 86 degrees; 0.42' low. Black bass are good on water-melon jigs, watermelon red Whacky Sticks, and pumpkin tubes near docksand lay downs along seawalls and in 10 feet at daylight. LEWISVILLE: Water off-color; 79-85 degrees; 2.51' low. Crappie are fair togood on minnows and jigs over brush piles and around bridge columns.White bass are good on lead babies and Rooster Tails. Catfish are good onnightcrawlers and cut shad.LIVINGSTON: Water fairly clear; 85 degrees; 0.34' high. White bass are fairtrolling slabs. Blue catfish are good on shad. MACKENZIE: Water lightly stained; 77 degrees; 77.32' low. Crappie aregood on minnows and jigs. MONTICELLO: Water fairly clear; 85-95 degrees; 0.69' high. Black bassare good on topwaters early, later switching to wacky rigged trick worms,Texas rigs and Rat-L-Traps. Crappie are good on minnows. NAVARRO MILLS: Water murky; 86 degrees; 1.45' low. Black bass aregood on watermelon and motor oil soft plastic worms. White bass are excel-

lent on prism SilverDollar lures betweenWolf Creek Park andOak Park. O.H. IVIE: Water lightlystained; 81 degrees;13.44' low. White bassare good on live baits.Smallmouth bass aregood on live baits.Channel catfish aregood on live and cutbaits.POSSUM KINGDOM:Water stained 81degrees; 3.13' low.White bass are goodwhile trolling using sil-ver crankbaits and onjigging spoons in theNorth Lake area overthe main river channel.Catfish are excellent oncut baits, worms andliver along the riverchannel and underdocks in the RockCreek and CostelloIsland areas.PROCTOR: Waterstained; 85 degrees;3.26' low. Striped bassare good on silverspoons. White bass aregood on slabs. Channeland blue catfish aregood on shrimp andstinkbait. RAY HUBBARD: Wateroff-color; 79-86degrees; 0.68' low.Crappie are good on

minnows and jigs over brush piles, around the bridges and in the marinaslips with brush. RAY ROBERTS: Water clear; 78-84 degrees; 0.66' low. Black bass are goodon topwaters early, later switching to Carolina-rigged lizards in 8-15 feet.White bass are excellent on torpedoes and Pop-Rs. RICHLAND CHAMBERS: Water off-color; 79-86 degrees; 2.11' low. Whitebass are good on slabs. Catfish are good on nightcrawlers and preparedbait.SAM RAYBURN: Water lightly stained; 86 degrees; 4.26' low. Black bassare good on dark soft plastic worms and crankbaits. White bass are good onsilver spoons off points. Crappie are good on live minnows. SOMERVILLE: Water murky; 86 degrees; 1.70' low. Black bass are goodbut small on crappie jigs. Perch are excellent on worms. Channel and bluecatfish are excellent on cut shad. TAWAKONI: Water lightly stained; 79-86 degrees; 1.58' low. Black bass aregood on topwaters early, later switching to Texas rigs, short Carolina rigs,spinnerbaits, and jigs. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. White bassare good on slabs and minnows. TEXOMA: Water off-color; 78-84 degrees; 1.61' low. Striped bass are goodon live shad, topwaters and Storm WildEyes. Catfish are good on cut andlive shad.TOLEDO BEND: Water clear; 86 degrees; 3.65' low. Black bass are good on6" black/blue craw worms and deep diving DD22 crankbaits. White bassare good on spoons. Channel and blue catfish are good on trotlines baitedwith shrimp and nightcrawlers. TRAVIS: Water clear; 86 degrees; 16.62' low. White bass are good onsmoke grubs and jigging spoons in 28-40 feet. Channel and blue catfishare good on nightcrawlers and cut perch in 32-45 feet. WHITNEY: Water clear; 6.65' low. White bass are fair on minnows. Catfishare good on frozen shrimp and punchbait.

CRAPPIE

WHITE/HYBRID/STRIPER

LARGEMOUTHBASS

NORTH SABINE: Tides have risen in thewake of Hurricane Gustav. Trout are fairto good in the river on shad. Redfish aregood in the marsh on small topwaters.Trout have been taken in the middle ofthe lake under birds.SOUTH SABINE: Trout are fair whiledrifting slicks and birds on soft plastics.Trout are fair at the jetty on topwatersand live bait.BOLIVAR: Tides are above normal.Flounder and redfish are fair to goodaround Rollover Pass on jigs tipped withshrimp on the incoming tide. TRINITY BAY: Trout are fair to goodaround the shell pads of the Sun Gettylease. Trout are fair to good while drift-ing slicks and deep shell. Redfish aregood on the north shoreline on goldspoons.EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair togood on mid-bay reefs on live shrimpand plastics. Trout are fair around thewells on live bait.WEST GALVESTON BAY: Whiting,gafftop and sand trout are good on thebeach on fresh shrimp. Trout are fair onlive shrimp while drifting reefs andworking birds. Redfish are fair to goodfor wadersworking theguts and bayouson live shrimpand small top-waters.TEXAS CITY: Higher tides have pushedtrout on the flats. Black drum, redfishand gafftop are fair to good around therocks on shrimp. Trout are good at nightunder the lights on live shrimp and DOAShrimp.FREEPORT: Bull redfish are fair to goodin the surf on crabs and mullet. Trout,redfish and sand trout are good at SanLuis Pass on live shrimp and plastics.Trout, sand trout, gafftop and sharks aregood on the beach.EAST MATAGORDA: Tides are abovenormal. Trout and redfish are fair forwaders working the south shoreline. MATAGORDA: Trout and redfish are fairon the south shoreline grass beds.Redfish and black drum are fair to goodin Oyster Lake on live shrimp with therising tide.PORT O'CONNOR: Bull redfish are goodat the jetty on crabs and mullet. Troutand redfish are better in the back lakeswith the swollen tides.ROCKPORT: Trout are fair to good in theback of Allyn's Bight on She Pups andsmall Super Spooks.PORT ARANSAS: Trout, redfish, whitingand sand trout are fair to good at thejetty on shrimp. Redfish are fair on theEast Flats on live bait. Offshore is goodfor ling, dorado, amberjack, tuna andkingfish.CORPUS CHRISTI: Trout and redfishare fair to good on live shrimp andGulps on the grass beds on the incom-ing tide. Redfish are good in the holesand around the piers on live bait.BAFFINBAY: Troutare fair togoodaroundrocks on soft plastics and topwaters.Redfish are fair to good at Yarboroughon Gulps and small topwaters.PORT MANSFIELD: Redfish are scat-tered on the flats with the rising tide.Trout are fair to good while wading sandand grass on small Super Spooks, ShePups and SkitterWalks.SOUTH PADRE: Tarpon are good at thejetties on natural baits. Redfish aregood on the flats with the rising tide.PORT ISABEL: Trout are fair to good inthree feet of water on soft plasticsunder popping corks. Snook are fair inSouth Bay and the Ship Channel on liveshrimp and glow DOA Shrimp.

SALTWATERSCENE

FISHING REPORT

BREAM

HOT SPOT

Water clear; 84 degrees; 0.53' high. Black bass are good on ruby red/silver swirl worms earlyand late, on Rooster Tails near the dam, and on chartreuse frog poppers along the banks.White bass are good along the northeast shore. Crappie are good on live minnows aroundstumps near the marina in 10 feet. Bream are good on live worms off piers and near grassbeds, and on the south side of the islands. Channel and blue catfish are good on trotlinesbaited with shad and perch.

Houston County

Peter M. Holt.State Park funding took center

stage for many of the more than 200people present at the meeting, espe-cially with the legislative session andfunding issues approaching. Severalspeakers, who were approved foradditional park funding, thankedthe commission, and even onerequester who missed out thankedthe group for the opportunity andpromised to meet the criteria nextyear.

Other presenters shared theirviews on federal offshore red snap-per regulations, croaker used as livebait, Lake Conroe vegetation andgrass carp, youth hunting and edu-cation programs and the inability tohunt reptiles from Texas roads.

"Holding the Texas Parks andWildlife Commission meeting inHouston was very positive, a realopportunity to reach out to con-stituents who might not travel toAustin," said Carter Smith, TPWexecutive director. "Our commis-sioners were pleased with the fact wehad about 70 people testify about awhole range of issues."

The response may result in moremeetings away from Austin in futureyears. “We’ll definitely look at doingthis again,” Holt said.

observers and volunteer shooters.This study is the first of its kind fordoves and is based on a similar proj-ect in Missouri and Louisiana onwaterfowl in the 1980s.

The Brown County hunt beganon Sat., Aug. 30 through a FederalFish and Wildlife permit from theU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

A spokesman for the U.S. Fish andWildlife Service said Texas Parksand Wildlife was issued a scientificcollection permit to lethally take upto 1,000 mourning and white-winged doves.

“As part of the permit, the agencyindicated it needed a special excep-tion to take some doves outside ofthe regular hunting season,” saidGreg Esslinger, a migratory birdmanagement operations specialist.

The permit was effective Aug.30th and expired Sept. 8th. It wasrestricted to Brown, Coleman andMcCulloch counties.

Esslinger said the FWS evaluatedTPW’s request for a permit anddetermined that the sample size of

1,000 birds “shouldn’t impact thetotal population of doves.”However, the FWS was looking atthe impact statewide and not onneighboring properties, he said.

But a local outfitter with a dovefield across the county road wasnot thrilled to find out about thestudy two days before his hunterswere to take to neighboring fields.“My landowner called me thatmorning, that’s how I found out —I was scouting in another area,”David Davis said. “I drove overthere to find out what was goingon. There were about 40 people inthe field.”

Delbert Connaway’s ConnawayRanch neighbors the area of thehunt. He was notified of the event,but wasn’t thrilled about the tim-ing. “As I see, it, we’re all bornequal,” he said. “I don’t think theyshould get an extra day or two ofhunting.”

Connaway didn’t have hunterson opening day, and said huntinghas been good since for mainlywhitewings on his property. “Theymight have improved my hunting,”he said.

After Davis complained, TPWDeputy Director Scott Boruff, who

was unaware of the early hunt,called off the shooting sessions onAug. 31 and the group finished theirshoots on opening day, Sept. 1.

Davis said his opening dayhunters struggled in the nearbyfield. “My hunters didn’t do well onthat field,” he said. “On a scale of 1to 10, it was a 3. My other fields notin the area were close to a 10.”

Tom Stephenson, a Dallas-basedoutfitter, was awarded the contractfor the early hunt with a winningbid of $32,390. Stephenson wasrequired to provide fields, facilitiesassociated services and at least fivefields totaling 400 acres during Aug.24-29 for training observers. He alsowas required to provide a minimumof 150 acres well-populated withmourning doves providing a highprobability that 24 volunteer shoot-ers would accumulate at least 300,one-shot-killed specimens over sixshooting sessions.

“I’m proud Texas stood up to thenorthern states and decided to do itsown study,” Stephenson said. “Icalled and wrote each of the neigh-boring landowners, and I have 7,650of the 9,100 surrounding acresleased.”

“The timing was critical,” Boruff

said. “There were reasons for it to bedone as early as the first day or two ofthe season. All of the adjacentlandowners were informed, but weshould have done a better job of get-ting the word out. We certainly did-n’t mean to disrupt any hunting.”

Officials defended the study,though. “The department has noformal position for or against the useof nonlead shot for dove hunting,”Boruff said. “We’re trying to gatherthe science that would inform thosein the debate.”

The study organizer, TPW DoveProgram Leader Jay Roberson, saidthe main premise of this research isto clarify if there is a differencebetween perception and reality inwounding rates and killing efficien-cy of lead shot and nonlead shot onmourning dove. “We recognize theimportance of this issue,” he said.“Our objective is to replace percep-tions with facts.”

The study design calls for thesame shooters paired with the sameobservers to ensure consistencyacross three types of shotshell loads.The research objective is to obtainunder a controlled study environ-ment 500 mourning dove speci-mens killed with one shot in each of

the next 2-3 years.Tom Roster, an international con-

sultant on migratory game birdwounding mortality, trained andcertified 22 observers. His programwill handle X-ray and necropsies onthe dove specimens collecting dur-ing the study.

“Texas has the largest contingentof dove hunters in the nation andthis scientific information will beinvaluable in the future when ourleadership is faced with makingdecisions about dove manage-ment,” Boruff said. And Robersonsaid future proposals for rulemakingwill be based upon good sciencewith ample opportunity and timefor public review and comment.

As for the study, no one has com-plained about that, Boruff said. “Noone has a problem with the study,”Davis agreed. “They will have theinformation when the feds want topush steel shot. But the timing –that was a problem.”

The study will continue for thenext two years. “We’ll be doing itagain next year,” Boruff said. “Andwe’ll do a better job.”

— Mark England contributed tothis report.


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angler and bow hunter.And what will he do with $1

million? Thompson and his wife,Penny, say they’ll pay offThompson’s Ranger Z20 bassboat, buy Penny a new car, andstart thinking about building anew home on a piece of land thatthey’ve dreamed about buying formany years.

Thompson entered all sevenFLW Fantasy Fishing tourna-ments, which began in February2008 with the kickoff of the FLWTour. Before each tournament,Thompson would log on towww.fantasyfishing.com andselect 10 bass pros who fished inthe FLW Tour tournaments.

Thompson solidified his firstplace spot by selecting MichaelBennett to come in first place inlast weekend’s Forrest Wood Cup.Bennett won the Cup and itsgrand prize, $1 million.

Carl Trussell of Orange was theonly Texan in the top 15, finish-ing fourth. Trussell won a RangerReata boat and motor valued at$36,000.

—FLW Outdoors report.

FantasyContinued from Page 9


OUTDOOR DATEBOOKSept. 17: The Doorkeepers Wild Gamedinner will be held at The PrivateMuseum of Wild Game in Houston.Call (713) 921-7520 or visitopendoorhouston.org for information.

Sept. 18: The Lake Grapevine DUdinner will be held at the GrapevineConvention Center. Contact Fred at(817) 368-7310 or [email protected] information.

Sept. 18: The Rio Grande Valley DUdinner will be held at the PharrConvention Center. Call Brian at (956)369-1812 for information.

Sept. 18: The Beeville CCA Fish Frywill be held at the High 5 Ranch inBeeville. Call (713) 626-4222 forinformation.

Sept. 18: The DallasSafari Club monthlymeeting will be held atRoyal Oaks CountryClub featuring LarryWeishuhn. ContactDebi at (972) 980-9800 [email protected] for information.

Sept. 18: The Paris DU dinner will beheld at the Paris Elks Lodge. Call Mikeat (903) 784-2333 for information.

Sept. 19-20: A Mentored DoveHunting Workshop will be held at theJustin Hurst WMA in Freeport.Includes a target practice session andguided dove hunt. Visittpwd.state.tx.us/learning/hunter_education forinformation.

Sept. 19-20: The 16th AnnualLonesome Dove Fest will be held atthe Youth Show Barn in Karnes City,with a team sporting clays shoot and afree afternoon dove hunt. Forinformation, call Benny Lyssy at (830)780-2670.

Sept. 19-21: The West Texas CelebrityDove Classic benefiting DisabilityResources will be held at Dr. NormanDozier’s lodge. For information,contact Kris at (325) 677-6815 [email protected].

Sept. 19-21: Thenew Houston Orvisstore at 5727Westheimer will hold its Grand Opening

with giveaways, refreshments andseminars. Call (713) 783-2111 forinformation.

Sept. 19-21: The Hill Country RiverRegion Fall Nature Quest will be heldnear Uvalde. For information, callAngela at (830) 591-1074 or visitthcrr.com.

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Sept. 20-21: A hunter’s educationcourse will be held at Bass Pro Shopsin Grapevine. Call (817) 929-9285 forinformation.

Sept. 20: The Post Oak Savannah BigGame Awards will be held at theFreshwater Fisheries Center in Athens.For information, call (210) 826-2904or visit Texasbiggameawards.com.

Sept. 20: The Texas Cache ArrowheadExtravaganza will be held at theHelotes VFW in San Antonio. Call(210) 523-2301 for information.

Sept. 23: TheWharton County DUdinner will be held atHungerford Hall. CallRonnie at (979) 532-3175 forinformation.

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Sept. 27-28: Austin Canoe & Kayakwill host its San Marcos demo days.For information, call (512) 396-2386or visit austinkayak.com.

Sept. 27: Cabela’s inBuda and Fort Worthwill celebrate NationalHunting and FishingDay with savings andprizes. Call (512) 295-1100 (Buda) or(817) 337-2400 (Fort Worth) forinformation.

Sept. 27: The Top of Texas Big GameRMEF banquet will be held inAmarillo. Call Carson at (806) 355-1375 for information.

Sept. 27: The East Texas DeltaWaterfowl dinner will be held at theKellyville Community Center inJefferson. Call Darryl at (903) 576-0775 for information.

Oct. 2-5: The Southwest InternationalBoat Show will be held at the KemahBoardwalk Marina. For information,call (561) 951-9695.

Oct. 2: The Fort Worth DU dinner willbe held at the Lockheed MartinRecreation Association. Contact Aric at(817) 832-8694 [email protected] for information.

Oct. 2: The CCA STARawards banquet will beheld at the HornbergerCenter in Houston. Call(713) 626-4222 forinformation.

Oct. 2: The Dallas Safari Club 100Meeting will be held at EldoradoMotors/Graff Chevrolet in McKinney.Call Jaimey at (469) 484-6777 forinformation.

Oct. 2: The San Antonio DU dinnerwill be held at the Alzafar ShrineTemple. Call Kevin at (210) 616-6876for information.

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Oct. 3: The Texas Parksand Wildlife FoundationEXPO Conservation Hallof Fame Banquet will beheld at the Hyatt LostPines Resort & Spa nearAustin. Call Sara at(214) 720-1478 or [email protected] information.

Oct. 7: The Uvalde DU dinner will beheld at the Uvalde Country Club. CallLott at (830) 278-8911 forinformation.

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Oct. 9: The Granbury DU dinner willbe held at the Hilton Garden Inn.Contact Kyle at (817) 573-9836 [email protected] for information.

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Oct. 14: The Sherman/Denison DUdinner will be held at the Air-1Hanger. Contact Jim at (903) 463-1151 or [email protected] forinformation.

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Oct. 17: TheSoutheastTexas RMEFBig GameBanquet willbe held inBeaumont. CallMark at (409) 673-2771 forinformation.

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Oct. 18: The Rockport/Fulton DUdinner will be held at the FultonConvention Center. Call Vernon at(361) 729-1822 for information.

Oct. 18: The Johnson County FarmBureau will hold an Open Team BassTournament at Lake Whitney. ContactDon at (817) 239-4044 [email protected] forinformation.

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circle hook do its job,” he said. Cannan, who sells real estate for the

Sanctuary at Costa Grande, was fishingrecently with bass pro Kelly Jordon.Fifty-mile runs offshore are like a trip tothe supermarket for Cannan. He steershis 36-foot Yellowfin named “Bidnez”east in search of amberjack, grouper andsnapper as many days as he can.

When you go bottom fishing, muchof the fun is in catching the bait.Cannan likes a variety. Jordon, who dur-ing the off-season spends his time at thecoast as much as possible, caught piggyperch near the bait stands in town witha cast net, then bluerunners off the firstproduction platform they passed usingSabiki rigs. They pushed farther offshoreand caught even larger ones, about 14-18 inches on another platform. Withthe bait wells getting full, they picked upthe pace.

As the pair pulled up on the waypointof the sunken shrimp boat, the unthink-able happened. With all of the water inthe ocean, they watched a giant bargepass directly over the same point.“Whoa, that is weird, Cannan said.“That barge went right over the wreckwe are going to fish — what kind of oddsare that?”

A few moments later, Cannan’s anxi-ety was replaced with excitement.“Never mind. Look at the graph,” hesaid. “They’re there, look.”

The fish finder was showing big ballsof red color.

“Look at them, KJ (Jordon’s nick-name),” Cannan said. The two fisher-men punched circle hooks though twohand-size blue runners, a favorite foodfor amberjack and sent them over theside.

The heavy lead weights hit the bot-tom after falling about 225 feet. The rod

tips shook as the blue runner tried toescape the mouths of some amberjackbelow. “Fish on,” both anglers yelled asthey began cranking back the line with adouble.

Cannan kept making drifts over thewreck and nearly each time a fish washooked. Some broke off and didn’t makeit to the surface. Others were bitten offby sharks.

“We have some bigger blue runners —let’s run out to the deep rigs and catch agrouper,” Cannan said. Jordon agreeswithout question. Cannan wasted notime and put the Yellowfin on pad, skip-ping from wave to wave at 5400 rpm.

Jordon rigged up larger tackle for thedeeper drop — 4 pounds of lead with a20/0 circle hooks on a 400-poundmonofilament leader.

The deep rig sits in more than 380 feetof water. There was a strong current —Cannan thought it was moving about 8knots on the northeast side.

Jordon hooks a bluerunner near thetop of his head and sends him downfast. Cannan took the slack out of theline by maneuvering the boat and thenhopped the bait right up next the rig leg.It only took a few minutes and Cannanslammed the boat in gear. The circlehook grabbed the fish and the fight wason. Jordon strapped into the fightinggear and hauled in an estimated 55-pound warsaw grouper to the surface.“These fish are awesome,” Jordon said.He has caught quite a few of these biggrouper over the years. “They aren’t any-thing like bass, and I love that.”

Off this deep rig, Cannan had caughtmany species of grouper — scamp, gagand rockhind, along with big amberjackand more.

“You really never know what you aregoing to drag up out here. That’s what Ilove about this,” Cannan said as hepushed the throttles back to full for thetrip home. The quiet roar of tripleYamaha 250’s were drowned out byJimmy Buffet as the sun set. Everyone onboard was smiling.

A LONG HAUL: Kelly Jordon, left,and Bill Cannan hold anamberjack caught near a sunkenshrimp boat. A large blue runnerand a circle hook are sent down380 feet to catch warsaw groupernear a production platform in theGulf. Photos by David J. Sams.

OffshoreContinued from Page 1


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The Texas Wildlife Associationhas named Gary Joiner to theorganization’s newly created posi-tion of Chief Executive Officer.

Joiner, 44, comes to TWA fromhis position as director of organi-zation for the Washington FarmBureau in Lacey, Washington.Previously, he worked in his nativeTexas as a public relations and leg-islative representative of the TexasFarm Bureau.

“Gary Joiner has representedand advocated the interests oflandowners for more than 20years,” said TWA President RandyRehmann. “He understands ourissues and is a strong proponent ofthe conservation, management,and enhancement of wildlife andhabitat on private lands.”

Rehmann said the position willenable the volunteer leadership tofocus on the group’s mission inadvocacy, conservation and hunt-ing education.

Joiner is a native of FarmersBranch and a graduate of TexasTech University. “I am deeply hon-ored to accept this new chal-lenge,” said Joiner. “It is great toreturn to Texas and to join the out-standing volunteers and staff inworking to defend the things wecherish about our state’s wildlife,habitat and heritage.”

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Texas Wildlife Association names

Joiner as CEO

Predator callers from around thecountry traveled to Kansas to com-pete in the world championshippredator calling competition at theWorld Predator Hunting Expo at theOverland Park Convention Center.

The new world distress callingchampion was Seth Skinner, whonamed his hometown as “CentralTexas.” Second place went to JonPaul Moody of Tennessee.

The new world coyote vocalizationchampion is J.D. Piatt of Ohio.Jeremy Gugulmeyer of Dalhart fin-ished second.

The world’s new all-around preda-tor calling champion wasTennessee’s Jon Paul Moody.

The World Predator CallingCompetition was sponsored byJohnny Stewart Game Calls, PredatorXtreme Magazine and Cabela’s. Theevent is expected to be held in Texasnext year, Expo officials said.

— World Predator and HuntingExpo report.

Professional and recreationalsport shooters alike will benefitfrom $278,000 in matching grantsfor the construction and renova-tion of target ranges across Texas inKerr, McLennan, Harris, Cochran,Angelina, Caldwell, Williamsonand Smith counties.

The Texas Parks and WildlifeCommission approved the target-range grants during its Aug. 21 pub-lic meeting in Houston. Recipientsof the 2009 funding includeAmerican Shooting Center, ashooting facility that is one of themost widely used by hunter-educa-tion instructors in the Houstonarea.

This center in Harris County hasbeen approved to receive $30,000in 2009 for the continued develop-ment of sporting clays and infra-structure such as parking lots androads. The site has received priorfunding of more than $500,000

during the 1980s and 1990s. Another grant recipient is Pines

Sporting Club in Angelina Countynear Lufkin. The club sponsors sev-eral youth shoots and will serve as amodel club for the Scholastic ClaysTarget Program that introducesschool-aged children to sportshooting and allows them to com-pete as well as learn the safe han-dling of firearms. Pines SportingClub was approved to receive$60,000 for enhancements to itsshotgun ranges.

“Their range is currently active inproviding a place for 4-H ShootingSports,” said Steve Hall, Texas Parksand Wildlife education director.“The number of youths servedthrough this facility-enhancementshould more than triple, increasingfrom 100 4-H members to 350 4-Hmembers and 50 new ScholasticClay Target participants.”

“Shotgun clays is an extracurric-

ular activity and will hopefully, oneday, be a school-sponsored activityin Texas,” Hall said.

Hall said that providing grantmoney to legitimate shooting

ranges allows the operators toimprove and promote their facili-ties and assist them in being opento public for a long time.

“The encroachment of cities iscausing us to lose ranges faster thanwe can build them,” Hall said.“More people want to shoot, butthere are fewer places for them toshoot safely.”

Other target range projects fund-ed through the grants include:

Hill Country Shooting SportsCenter — This shooting center nearKerrville received $60,000 for thefinal construction phase of its air-gun range at its USA Shooting andtraining facility.

Central Texas Rifle and PistolClub — This McLennan Countyfacility west of Waco will receive$30,000 toward the continueddevelopment of its pistol and rifleranges and classroom facilities andthe possible construction of a shot-

gun range. The center was initiallyapproved for construction in 2006.

Cochran County 4-H ShootingSports Range — The Texas Parksand Wildlife Commissionapproved $38,000 to this WestTexas range for the development ofits existing rifle, pistol and shotgunranges, and for possible construc-tion of archery and shotgun rangesat another location.

Legacy Gun Club — This club,just north of Austin, will receive$30,000 to begin the process ofbuilding an indoor rifle, pistol andarchery facility as well as an indoorhunter-education classroom.

Rose City Flying Clays — Thecommission approved a grant of$30,000 for this range to furtherdevelop its shotgun facilities. Thisrange also sponsors youth sport-shooting activities in East Texas.

— Texas Parks and Wildlife report.

Grants awarded for Texas target ranges“Shotgun clays is

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Texan claims world title in

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ger antlers.But gun hunting, they assert, could soon

wipe out the small, but properly aged deerherd.

“We’re up for a battle,” said Jim Lillis,bowhunter and Grayson County native. “Wedon’t want to get nasty, but we have a lot ofsupport in this county.

“We’re going to have numbers.” By the first week of September, there had

been no discussions between Haggerton andthe archers; both were still trying to figureout who was on the other side of the issue.

Both sides, however, were well-versed inthe history of Grayson County white-taileddeer.

Haggerton said his father-in-law told himthat in the 1960s, deer hunting was bannedin Grayson County because Dallas-area peo-ple were buying weekend getaways there andthey didn’t want the sound of gunfire dis-rupting the solitude.

But in the 1980s, bowhunting was allowed

on the Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge.And a decade later, Lillis said, state officials

approved countywide deer hunting, but onlywith bows and arrows.

Many of the Grayson bucks are taken onsmall, isolated pockets of farmland — someno bigger than 50 to 300 acres — which maynot seem conducive to developing trophies.

But the Hagerman is a well-known big-buck incubator and, Lillis explained, thereare some “arteries” extending from therefuge onto private property.

Lillis, a regional director for DucksUnlimited, arrowed a Hagerman 10-pointerlast season that netted 175 2/8.

Some 200-class private-property buckswere also taken.

Included were two shot by Sherman physi-

cian Mike Benson and his son, Brock, aSherman lawyer who is president of the newbowhunters association.

Brock’s deer, 210 4/8, was the biggestarchery buck taken last season in Texas,according to various contests.

But while Haggerton may be the lone manin his corner, one official with Texas Parksand Wildlife said his staff initially doesn’t seewhy gun hunting couldn’t work in GraysonCounty.

Clayton Wolf, big game program director,said the nearby counties of Cooke andDenton have deer habitat similar toGrayson’s, but they allow gun hunting.

“The proposal our staff is looking at,” Wolfsaid, “is a gun season with antler restrictions.

“We will be advising the commission that

it will be a very unpopular proposal.“(But) there is no biological reason for

Grayson County to be different than coun-ties just like it.”

Antler restrictions, Wolf added, might easethe archers’ concerns because hunters wouldbe allowed to shoot only the older-classbucks that are wiser and harder to find.

And, he noted, even if gun hunting isapproved, landowners still have the right todeclare their property as archery-only.

The commission will examine the issue atits November meeting. A final decision bythe panel would likely be made next spring,Wolf said.

If approved, gun hunting could begin inthe 2009-2010 season.

Meanwhile, Wolf said, both sides will begiven fair hearings before the commission.

But the Grayson County archers havevowed to fight, said Mike Benson.

“Our herd is so protected by the archeryseason,” he said. “It’s unbelievable whatwe’ve been able to accomplish. And we’regoing to try to prove that with our own biol-ogists.

“It’s going to be fiery, I promise you.”


GraysonContinued from Page 7

“We’re up for a battle. We don’t want to get nasty, butwe have a lot of support in this county.”

— Jim Lillis


I thought it was a red,” Kennedysaid. He said to his fellow fisher-man, “Get the net, this is a big fish.”

It was more than big: It was awater body record blue catfishweighing 47.05 pounds and meas-uring 43.13 inches.

The previous record holder inthat category was Dallas Taylor,who on Aug. 16, 2003, at the age of13, caught a 26.37-pound, 38.5-inch-long blue cat.

The news isn’t all good atFairfield, though. On Sept. 4, deadfish were found along FairfieldLake’s upper shoreline from a cove

immediately northwest of the damto the spillway. The majority (51percent) were large red drum. Asmaller kill (involving primarily giz-zard and threadfin shad) was foundin a cove about a half-mile south ofthe main kill.

The TPW’s Inland Fisheries man-agement and Kills and Spills Teambiologists conducted water qualityand other field observations, butweren’t able to conclusively identi-fy the cause of the kill, which tookplace no earlier than Sept. 3.

Initial estimates show about7,345 fish died in the two locations.Species involved included reddrum, bluegill, largemouth bass,gizzard and threadfin shad, chan-nel and flathead catfish, tilapia andgar.

TPW officials said water qualityfield data collected indicated alocalized area of high oxygen andabundant phytoplankton in thelarger of the two areas where thefish kill occurred, indicatingextreme fluctuations in the oxygenlevel. During the day, photosynthe-sis by the abundant phytoplanktonincreases oxygen concentration.But during darkness, respiration bythe phytoplankton reduces oxygenconcentration.

TPW has stocked over 5.3 millionred drum in Fairfield Lake since1984, and the estimated 3,750 reddrum lost in the present kill isunlikely to permanently impact thepopular fishery.

“It was pullingso hard, I

thought it was ared.”

—Jackie Kennedy

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Dallas Safari Club Dove Hunt at theHailey Ranch.

Saturday morning brought good num-bers of birds, but limits were tougher toreach. “There didn’t seem to be a pattern,you couldn’t figure out where they weregoing to come from,” said one memberof the group. About half of the 90 or sohunters managed their limits.

Hunters near Breckenridge shot quicklimits on opening day over sunflowers,and hunters near Lubbock and areas far-ther west said afternoon limits were thenorm especially near water.

Farther south, Dean Stewart huntedmourning doves in Medina County. “Wehunted near a tank and had good birds,”he said. “It wasn’t hot and heavy — wehad some good rains the week before theopener which is typical, so it took a fewhours to get our limit.”

Stewart said the hunters closer to SanAntonio, Uvalde and Hondo (north of I-10) did well on whitewings. Reports frompublic hunting areas near San Antonioindicated lots of doves and lots ofhunters, with the morning hunters see-

ing many high-flying whitewings andthe afternoon hunters having betterluck. Tim Soderquist, hunting withfriends on Type II public land nearBelton Lake, said bird numbers weregood and limits were taken.

Hunters in some areas struggled,believing a northerly breeze may havemoved the birds. Hunters in public hunt-ing areas near Rockwall fired few shots,and Ellis County hunters said the birdswere spotty.

In the Central Zone area north of I-10near Houston, heavy rains before theopener dampened the success. “I wouldsay it was mediocre,” said Scott Hickmanof Circle H Outfitters, who hunted nearWinnie. “We had 11 inches of rain andthe birds couldn’t get to the food so theymoved south where it’s dry.”

Some of the hunters scratched outlimits, but most managed five or sixbirds, he said. They were impressed withthe numbers of blue-winged teal,though. “The hunters said they wishedthere were as many dove as there wereteal,” Hickman said.

Hickman expects the South Zoneopener to be excellent. “There arewhitewings everywhere south of I-10,”he said. “If we don’t get messed up by ahurricane, it will be on.”

TAKING DOWN BIRDS: Joe Prather takes aim at a fast-flying mourning dove with his Griffin & Howe .28-gauge side-by-side. Prather flew down from New Jersey to participate in the Dallas Safari Club annual dove hunt. Photo by David J.Sams.

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After a three-year experiment,the Arkansas Game and FishCommission lifted the ban on spin-ning-wing decoys during waterfowlhunting season. The Commissionalso increased the daily bag limit forhen mallards from one to two.

Commissioner George Dunklin,chairman of the Commission’swaterfowl committee, said the deci-sion to rescind the ban was diffi-cult.

“I know there’s some dissensionabout removing the ban, but a sur-vey showed the majority of peoplewanted spinning-wing decoysbrought back,” Dunklin said. “Weasked all of the surrounding statesto come aboard with us on this, butto no avail.”

In support of his position toremove the ban, Dunklin read froma letter from the U.S. Fish andWildlife Service that stated therewas “no demonstrable impacts oneither overall harvest rates or popu-lation levels.”

Commissioner Brett Morgan castthe lone vote to continue the spin-ning-wing decoy ban. “I can’t sup-port something that we know helpskill juvenile ducks,” Morgan said.“This is an issue that we (commis-sioners) raised — not the public.The majority of e-mails and phonecalls that I’ve received supportkeeping the ban in place.”

— Arkansas Game and FishCommission report.

State-record fish caught on Barbie Doll rod and reel

PRETTY IN PINK: David Hayes holds his state record-breaking channel catfish while his granddaughter Alyssa,3, holds the Barbie combo that he used to reel in thefish. Photo by N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.

David Hayes of Wilkes County, N.C., used hisgranddaughter’s Barbie Doll rod-and-reel combo toreel in a new state record channel catfish that meas-ured 2 inches longer than the fishing pole.

Hayes landed the record-breaking fish, whichweighed 21 pounds, 1 ounce, on Aug. 5 from a pri-vate pond while fishing with his granddaughterAlyssa, 3.

After collecting several black crickets, Hayes andAlyssa went down to the pond behind the house tofish for bluegill. Like previous fishing trips, Hayesbaits the hook and Alyssa catches the fish, using herhot pink Barbie Doll rod and reel combo.

“After catching two or three bluegill, Alyssa turnsto me and says ‘Papa, I’ve got to go to the bathroom.Hold my fishing rod,’” Hayes said. “A few minuteslater, the float went under and I saw the water startboiling up — I knew right then that I had my handsfull with that fishing rod.”

It took Hayes about 25 minutes to land the fish,which measured 32 inches in length and 22 1/2 inch-es in girth.

— N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission report.

Arkansas removes ban on spinning-wing decoys

EPA vetoes Yazoo River Basin pumpsThe Environmental Protection

Agency announced it will veto aproposed project in Mississippithat would include a massivepumping station in the YazooRiver Basin. The construction andoperation of the proposed pumpswould alter and degrade the criti-cal functions of roughly 67,000acres of wetland resources in thesurrounding area.

“This veto of the Yazoo Pumpsproject will ensure that tens of

thousands of acres of natural wet-lands will continue to provide themost efficient and natural methodof flood control there is,” saidTheodore Roosevelt ConservationPartnership Initiative ManagerGeoff Mullins. “The EPA estimatesthat one acre of wetlands can storeup to one-and-a-half million gal-lons of floodwater. We don’t haveto look far beyond the nightlyweather report to see why this is soimportant.”

“More than half of our nation’sand nearly three-fifths ofMississippi’s original wetlandshave been converted to non-wet-lands,” said TRCP Director ofCommunications Tim Zink.“Along a flood-prone Gulf Coastand in a vitally important state forwaterfowl and fisheries, the YazooPumps project could have doneexceptional damage to both.”

— TRCP report.

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Construction of the new $27million East Texas Fish Hatchery,expected to be completed in early2010, is now underway.

The state-of-the-art facility on200 acres just below Sam RayburnReservoir will replace the 70-year-old Jasper Fish Hatchery and pro-vide at least 45 acres of fish produc-tion ponds capable of delivering upto 4.5 million fish annually forstocking in Texas public waters.

A groundbreaking ceremonynear the site of the fish hatcherywater intake structure was held onAug. 27.

“Once operational, this newhatchery will have the capacity tomore than double what’s currentlyproduced at the outdated JasperFish Hatchery. This will help meetthe growing needs of our recre-ational angling community,” saidPhil Durocher, Texas Parks andWildlife Department inland fish-eries director. “We applaud thegenerous support of Texas anglers,who stepped up to the plate to helpfund this critical project throughthe purchase of the FreshwaterFishing Stamp, and our partners.”

In addition to stamp revenues,

Jasper County in 2004 donated200 acres of land for the hatcheryand the Lower Neches ValleyAuthority has agreed to provide10,000-acre feet of water from SamRayburn Reservoir for hatcheryoperation.

Also, Temple Inland providedeasements to accommodate thecounty road as well as all site utili-ties and water conveyance lines.The U.S. Corps of Engineers willprovide easements to accommo-date the facility water intake sta-

tion.“Texas freshwater anglers are the

largest single constituency TexasParks and Wildlife Departmenthas,” noted TPW CommissionChairman Peter M. Holt. “Morefish in more places equals betterfishing, and that benefits the qual-ity of life in this state.”

In addition to the productionponds, the hatchery complex willfeature a 34,000-square-foot pro-duction building and an 8,200-square-foot administrative build-ing, which will office 24 employ-ees, including hatchery, aquatichabitat enhancement and fisheriesmanagement staffs, and game war-dens.

“This hatchery will add a greaterdegree of operational flexibilityand increased production by abouttwo million fingerlings a year,” saidTodd Engeling, TPWD hatcheriesdirector. “This hatchery will beused primarily for production oflargemouth bass, channel and bluecatfish and bluegill sunfish. It willalso have the capability of produc-ing striped bass should we need it.”

—Texas Parks and Wildlife report.

Donny McDonald, who has trav-eled the world as a Blackhawk heli-copter pilot and maintenance chieffor the National Guard; Neil Weise,a retired information systems man-ager; Larry Becker, retired National

Guard; and Tim Knippa, who hasworked in the environmental fieldfor 20 years. Ron began fishingwith his former teacher and Capt.Kelley about eight years ago.Gradually, as more friends joinedthem, the Norm StuemkeInvitational was born.

The group that fishes not onlywent to school together, but toyouth groups and Boy Scouts. Fiveof them formed a country-western

band as teens, Ron said.Stuemke is “a visionary,” Ron

said. “He started that school fromscratch. He’s an excellent teacher.He’s a loving Christian guy whoformed close relationships with hisstudents.”

Redeemer Lutheran School nowboasts more than 500 students.

As Capt. Kelley put it, “This justgoes to show that a teacher canmake a difference.”

New East Texas Fish Hatchery construction under way

“This hatchery willbe used primarily for

production of largemouth bass,

channel and blue catfish and bluegill

sunfish.” — Todd Engeling

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