Here’s what’s worth reading today, Tuesday, April 23, 2019:
Llano River fish population recovering after historic flooding in 2018: After finding more than 18 species of fish during a recent sampling trip on the Llano River, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Inland Fisheries staff are encouraged to see fish populations rebounding following historic flooding in October.
Texas game wardens, Coast Guard chase off illegal fishing boats: Texas game wardens and U.S. Coast Guard patrols chased eight “lanchas” fishing illegally in U.S. waters back into Mexico, confiscating and removing 10 miles of illegal long-lines.
Kamala Harris: ‘You Want to Go Hunting, That’s Fine, But…’ “Supposed leaders in Washington, D.C., who have failed to have the courage to recognize, you know what, you want to go hunting, that’s fine, but we need reasonable gun safety laws in this country, starting with universal background checks and a renewal of the assault weapon ban.”
Texas jetty fishing provides some of the finest angling conditions imaginable
Turkey hunting is stupid … but I love it: Well, it is that time of year again. Some of you reading this live in a state that has a spring turkey season open right now. For some of you it is right around the corner, like in the next week. The dyed in the wool, addicted turkey hunters are as excited as a crazed ferret. They are rambling around the house or at work right now, practicing on a turkey call or blowing on an owl hooter, driving fellow employees mad and forcing wives to get the lawyers number off that magnet on the refrigerator.
No, poachers are not ‘hunters,’ nor should they be described that way: No one seemed to notice when, last April, a father and his son went to a black bear den and killed a hibernating sow and her two cubs. The two men, identified as 41-year-old Andrew Renner and his 18-year-old son, Owen, were convicted for poaching the animals and were sentenced on Jan. 22. The sentencing still didn’t raise many people’s attention until authorities released the video that captured the entire illegal act in graphic detail.
The history of the drop-shot rig for bass fishing: I guess I don’t know who was the first to rig up a drop-shot here or abroad, but it was definitely a Japanese development, and it was actually Aaron Martens that showed it to me first back in the mid-1990s. I had heard of it about five years before that, and I knew of a guy from Lake Perris in California who was using a rig with two hooks and a weight below it, but my history with the drop-shot as we now know it goes back to that first introduction by Aaron. Once the word got out about the drop-shot, it was like no one threw a split shot or doodled anymore. It got to the point where every tournament was won on a drop-shot on those local clear-water, highly pressured impoundments.
Man charged with shooting an off-duty cop, his son while hunting goes before a judge: During his 911 call, the officer provided a description of two men dressed in camouflage and a red pickup truck that fled the scene shortly after the incident.
Conservation groups ask judge to block land management plan that could destroy Oregon sage-grouse habitat: Advocates for the West, Western Watersheds Project, Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians filed a preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho, seeking to halt land use plans approved last month by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.
Why aren’t more kids fishing? Maybe because they can’t stand still: “While outdoor recreation is still popular with families, there are many more options that compete with fishing, including a youth sports schedule that is more demanding than it was on previous generations.”
Will limits on fishing free up salmon for starving orcas? With fishery limits now set, attention turns to rebuilding “overfished” salmon runs and protecting southern resident orcas.
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