Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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For the Record Capt. Chuck Uzzle Fishing too fast is a common problem that many anglers have, especially when the fish tend to gather up and school in big bunches. Saltwater anglers who chase schooling fish along with freshwater fishermen who also key in on flocks of birds over hungry groups of stripers, hybrids, and whites are perhaps the worst. The frenzied activity puts everyone on the boat in high gear often leaving the majority of the water column untouched. It’s a proven fact that smaller more aggressive fish will be t...
LUNCH BUNCH WELCOMES PRIMARY WINNERS The Wednesday Lunch Bunch gathered at JB’s Barbeque last week. We were glad to welcome Theresa Bauchamp, and husband Frank, who attended for the first time. Many old timers will remember him when he and Dickie Colburn were football stars for the Stark Tigers of Orange. Theresa is the Republican nominee for Pct. 2, County Commissioner. She has an opponent in the General Election. Her mother, Marcell Adams was the first woman county commissioner in Orange County. Theresa,for the most of h...
Cutlines: The First Presbyterian Church of Orange, founded in 1878, has grown from 108 members in 1912 to nearly 1,000 in the 1950s and 1960s. It now has 200 active members, according to Pastor Mike Umbenhaur. PHOTO courtesy of Bill Schaefer Dave Rogers For The Record It wasn’t the first air-conditioned building in the country and it’s probably not the oldest church in town. But Orange’s First Presbyterian Church isn’t too far down either list. “We’re one of the two- or thr...
KAZ’S KORNER A good crowd of West Orange-Stark fans were anxiously waiting for the kickoff between the Mustangs and Wimberley for the right to reach the state championship game this weekend at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. If there’s anything more annoying than the person in front of you jumping up and down like a Jack-in-the-Box at a football game, I just don’t know what it could be. But this senior citizen with a full beard dressed in stylish blue jeans and a Lumberjack shirt was the culprit that was really annoying me. I exp...
For the Record Capt. Dickie Colburn While they can be an absolute blessing for bay fishermen, clouds of gulls and terns working over surfacing shrimp are very much akin to fool’s gold.The user-friendly sign that feeding fish are at least in the area is a confidence builder like no other, but relying on the same scenario to occur even two days in a row can be a recipe for disappointment. It is all based on the food chain.The ultimate loser in the deal are the shrimp migrating o...
For the Record Capt. Dickie Colburn The first of two big summer fishing events in Orange is now on the books with the second scheduled for Thursday night.While she made it difficult at times for the fishermen, Mother Nature did little more than cool things off at the weigh-in for the 30^th annual OCARC fishing tournament Saturday afternoon. As predicted, every category was not only filled, but also well represented. Easily the fish of the day was Taylor Guidry’s 6.81 pound bass! Guidry said that he caught his winning fish a...
IT’S NOT ENOUGH ALREADY The rains we needed badly came in bunches. Hopefully we are in for a few days of dry, sunny weather that will help our gardens. Let me tell you what’s coming next weekend, it’s the “Skeeters.” If you are planning outdoor activities at your place in the next few weeks, you‘d best call Donna at Pestco. They will send Tony out to spray and guarantee that you will have several weeks of mosquito free days. *****I’ve really fallen behind and not very organized. With a deadline just a few hours away I’d best...
COURSE OF HISTORY CHANGED THROUGH SHENANIGANS A lot of things have been going on in Washington but none more significant than the appointment of the 113 Supreme Court judge. If you are 21 years old, the new judge, Neil Gorsuch, will probably be on the court your entire adult life, until the day he retires. His appointment came about by the Senate changing the rules, in a historical move, for the first time they appointed a Supreme Court judge just with a simple majority of 52 votes, not the 60 votes required throughout our...
For the Record Capt. Chuck Uzzle You ever wonder what a 64 pack of Crayola crayons, 31 flavors of ice cream at Baskin Robbins, or bags of assorted candy have in common? The answer is they offer something for everyone because we all don’t have the same taste. If everyone did things exactly like everyone else then life would be ridiculously boring and mundane. It’s choices and options that give each individual the opportunity to succeed and sometimes those options and choices are a little different than what some people con...
It will come as no surprise to his Mom if her fifteen year old son, Bo, balks at the idea of returning home after a week of fishing on Toledo Bend.“He will fish in a mud puddle,” says his Mom, “and he jumped at the chance to spend his entire spring break at his Uncle’s camp.” His initial game plan was to fish 24/7 for sac-au-lait off his Uncle’s pontoon boat, but that all changed Friday evening.“We were still unloading the truck when he grabbed his tackle box and headed for the boat. He idled around to the nearest point...
For The Record Capt. Dickie Colburn In the pre-dawn darkness Saturday morning, Nellie Miller was racing around encouraging anyone launching their bass boat to sign up at the last minute and fish the LCM Project Graduation tournament. While the odds of adding any unsuspecting anglers to the field were not in her favor, she would, surprisingly enough, still be rewarded for her persistence! With the tournament scheduled to kick off in the next few minutes, as far as Miller was co...
For The Record - Capt. Dickie Colburn After all but striking out the previous day in perfect conditions, I was less than excited about the prospect of catching fish the following day.I was even less excited when I got home and saw the miserable weather forecast. A quick courteousy phone call to inform my clients as to how tough it had been and discuss the approaching storms for the following day proved to be a waste of time.“We are coming anyway,” was not the response I was...
For The Record- Capt. Dickie Colburn We had finally caught three or four trout on consecutive casts after struggling most of the morning when 14-year old Jordan Leander’s cork bobbed once or twice before slowly sliding beneath the surface.“That is a weird bite for a trout or red,” I thought as the cork remained in place even as Jordan reeled in the slack line. His hook set resulted in a serious bow in his rod, but it was obvious that he wasn’t making any headway as we continued to drift across the flat. The only time he gain...
For The Record -For The Record- By Capt Dickie Colburn Afternoon after afternoon and weekend after weekend, Michael Vaughan and his seven year old daughter Karsyn climbed into their deer stand and waited for a shot at a special deer.From Day 1 until the final day of youth season and regardless of weather conditions, they repeated that scenario. It was not that she had not had several other opportunities that she patiently passed on nor was it the mounting pressure of having...
For The Record -For The Record- By Capt Dickie Colburn How can you be absolutely sure it’s the first day of the High School baseball season?You climb out of your truck wearing shorts and a wind breaker only to notice that every other parent or grandparent huddled behind the backstop is wearing an insulated jacket or wrapped in a blanket.Only the women were practical enough to bundle up in sleeping bags! I mention this only because I, too, initially had on shorts Saturday morning, but fortunately also had warmer clothes in t...
For The Record- By Capt Dickie Colburn Even before we reached East Pass it was obvious that Mother Nature would unfortunately make our initial decision of the day as to where to start an easy one.The trout bite had been improving daily when Elvin Nelson scheduled his three day vacation, but we had already lost two of them to the wind. We salvaged the first day dinking around in Black’s and Cow bayou for redfish that the low water had forced out of the bordering marshes.That didn’t scratch Elvin’s itch, but he admitted that...
For The Record- By Capt Dickie Colburn As you would probably suspect, I receive a number of texts concerning fishing every week that usually include a picture and a word or two, but seldom if ever the name of the sender. Therefore, if I don’t recognize the person in the picture I am left with little more than a phone number and another fish that I certainly don’t recognize. As a rule, if I don’t recognize the phone number (I can barely remember my own) I briefly admire the fish before deleting the text.A text this past week,...
For The Record- Capt Dickie Colburn I canceled or postponed a ton of trips in 2016 due to the flooding and some pretty tough winds, but I never lost a day due to cold weather.That all changed this past weekend.It was C-O-L-D! There isn’t a fish in Sabine Lake that I want to hunt down when it is 27 degrees at daylight and still in the mid 30’s at lunch.As of today, we are back to having to deal with a howling wind that dictates which shoreline you will fish on any given day, but we can at least feel our fingers now. I wou...
For The Record- Capt Dickie Colburn The wind was blowing a little harder than we would have liked and the rain that was forecast to have already passed was still hanging around when I shut the big engine down.We had already made a pretty big round checking out the effects of all of the runoff and, much to our surprise, the water was dirtier on the west side of the lake than the east. Austin Lejeune pointed in the direction of a small group of terns pecking at the surface and,...
For The Record - Capt. Dickie Colburn With few days remaining in what has been a challenging year for area trout fishermen, Alton Nelson and I slowly cruised down the fog shrouded Intracoastal fully aware that leaving early had no benefit.Because the wind had howled the previous two days, we decided to use up the morning hours by checking water clarity throughout the lake. We cruised at a slow enough speed that I could safely run with my eyes glued on the GPS while he scanned...
For The Record- Capt. Dickie Colburn “Evan, I’m not having fun anymore,” I shouted across a never ending field of icy cold whitecaps.“We’ve only been here fifteen minutes,” he replied.“Give it a chance!” Had I driven a long way to fish, I possibly would have exhibited a little more dogged persistence, but we were less than a ten minute ride from the boat launch right here on Sabine Lake.Evan had driven in from Conroe to fish the day before and decided to stay another day after doing so well.Unfortunately, he talked me into...
SANTA’S VISIT TO THE MEADOWS REVEALS CHRISTMAS GIFTS For The Record- Joe Kazmar The month of November is one I would really like to forget, because I spent it all either in Beaumont Baptist Hospital or rehabbing at The Meadows in Orange. Time was very confusing to me for much of the time. Things began to clear for me when I transferred to The Meadows. Thanksgiving came and went and the next day the huge Christmas tree was put up and decorated in the lobby. As an added surprise Santa made a visit to the patients and even p...
For The Record- By Capt. Dickie Colburn Determined not to waste the entire day due to a mid-day meeting, I decided to make a conscious effort to stream line a burgeoning collection of soft plastic lures stowed away in my boat.I try to do this once a year and it usually takes place when the winter trout bite kicks off as I will be throwing only three baits, a Corky Fat Boy, Maniac Mullet or Softdine XL most of the time. The largest of Sabine Lake’s big trout population will readily track down one of these slow moving mullet i...
For The Record- By Capt. Dickie Colburn We were still treading water Monday following a month’s worth of rain in a single weekend. Boats would have been more appropriate than floats had they not postponed Friday night’s Christmas parade. When it comes to weather, we seem to never get a moderate change in conditions.It is either so hot and dry that a weed won’t grow or flooded streets and ditches overnight.We badly needed about a third of all of this rain for parched yards, but the other two thirds is quickly running off i...
For The Record- Capt. Dickie Colburn At that exact moment there was every indication that while Jack Valence and his son, Daryl and I may not be anchored in a great flounder spot, we were at the very least anchored in a popular one! I hadn’t fished for flounder with mud minnows since Foret’s Tackle closed, but they brought some with them and I wasn’t on a bite that held any more promise. The anchor rope was no sooner stretched tight than Daryl requested the net and his Dad s...
