Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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“Either we are fishing in the wrong place or we are the only people on the lake,” said Ray Bayliss on a very hot afternoon last week.I feared when it rained earlier in the day that it would at least feel hotter than usual after it stopped due to the humidity and the fact that the thermometer was hovering around the 93 degree mark. With the light wind I also assumed that the boat ramp would be packed with local fishermen hoping to squeeze in a few hours of thinking about som...
Last week more than two dozen Division I conferences lobbied the NCAA’s highest governing body to delay a decision on fall football championships until a majority of the leagues determine whether to even have regular-season competition because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an Associated Press article. The NCAA Board of Governors agreed that it must continue to thoughtfully and aggressively monitor health conditions around the country and its implementation of the p...
The following items are compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife law enforcement reports. The Other Side of Nowhere A Big Bend Ranch State Park Police Officer and a Presidio County game warden were patrolling River Road at night through Big Bend Ranch State Park when the officers noticed a car parked in the Closed Canyon Trail parking lot after the park closed. In the car, they saw a park pass for that day, a car rental agreement, a jug of water and snacks, but the driver was nowhere to be found. The Closed Canyon Trail...
For some unknown reason society has always been interested in and amused by the misfortunes of others. Television has had countless shows dedicated to "bloopers" and other gaffes made by everyday people doing everyday things and the masses tune in weekly to get another dose of these antics. I'd be willing to bet you most fishermen you know are at least familiar with the Bill Dance blooper videos, a compilation of outtakes and blunders that fishermen can certainly relate to...
Larry Roman held up a hand-sized goggle eye for me to admire before slipping it in his livewell.“If I didn’t know better I would think we were just fishing a four-inch piece of worm on a sixteenth ounce jig,” he announced in a sarcastic tone. The basis of his tongue-in-cheek comment was that we were fishing what is now officially termed a Ned rig and we were fishing it in fresh water.More precisely, the water would probably lean more toward brackish than fresh depending on ru...
No matter how hard lure manufacturers try they will never be able to create a lure that works better than real thing, period. The typical profile of the weekend angler is not that of the high end trophy trout hunter who chunks artificial lures for hours on end looking for one big fish, it's the fisherman who takes a quart of live shrimp or a bucket of mud minnows and looks for anything that will bite. Much has been made of the big trout phenomenon and all the hoopla that surro...
I can't imagine that we will see another 12.4-pound bass caught this summer, but Toledo Bend did give up at least two more double digit fish this past week.Both fish were caught in the afternoon hours. Jason Simms' lunker hit a Carolina rigged watermelon-red flake Centipede in twenty-six feet of water and Carol Duplantis duped his prize with a deep diving crankbait in fourteen feet of water.Jason's fish weighed 10.02 pounds and Carol's bass weighed 10.42 pounds. You certainly...
There won’t be any peanuts or crackerjacks and nobody will care if they ever come back because there will be major league baseball starting tomorrow but in a shortened format. The season was supposed to begin on March 26, but due the coronavirus pandemic it was put on hold until further notice. That notice came from MLB without the approval of the Players Association a couple of weeks ago with all 30 teams seeing action either June 23 or 24. It’s the shortest season since the...
It's a familiar scene that is played out all along the gulf coast from Texas to Florida, anglers armed with light tackle weapons probe the shallow shorelines for the bullies of the marsh. The whole encounter is a sensory overload from the get go, it is always visually stimulating to see cruising redfish roam the banks and wreak havoc like only they can. Your ears are often treated to the sounds of vicious strikes as these heavyweights flex their muscles on mullet or crabs...
LSCO anglers Trent Buchholz and Grady Doucet placed third in the Abu Garcia College tournament, qualifying them for the national tournament. The event was held Friday, July 10 at Fort Gibson Lake in Oklahoma. This is the first win for these particular anglers as both Buchholz and Doucet are new to the LSCO Fishing Team. The team caught five fish with a total weight of 17 lbs. 1 ounce. Two other sets of teams from LSCO’s club also participated in the tournament. Brett Fregia a...
Any college or university that participates in football will see some kind of shortfall in their financial situation for the 2020-2021 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A couple of smaller-school conferences (Ivy League and Patriot Conference) in the Northeast already announced the complete cancellation of their respective 2020 football schedules. Most of the schools in these two conferences care more about academics than athletics, so the cancellation of football...
I don’t know that the weather can get much more unbearable as far as the heat is concerned, but local anglers appear to be handling it quite well! Even on the saltwater side and Lord know there isn’t much shade at the jetties or middle of Sabine Lake, local anglers have fared well on the tournament scene.Last weekend Eddie Roberts and Brian Quebedeaux teamed up to finish fourth in the Showtime on Sabine tournament which is one of the scheduled events on the popular Elite Red...
Pics: Hunters wanting to keep their dogs in tune should be careful of the heat and concentrate training during early morning and late evenings. Switching gears I know it's tough to even imagine it, especially when the mercury is threatening to burst out the top of the thermometer, but hunting season is right around the corner. In just about 50 days everything gets kicked off so hunters are now seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. For the fishermen it's just now getting rig...
Another one bites the dust!! Last week the brain trust of professional baseball announced there will be no 2020 minor league baseball season due to the coronavirus. This hit close to home for me because more than a half century ago, I was playing minor league baseball with the Chicago Cubs organization. Back then, very few minor leaguers were in it for the money, because most of them were corralling less than a thousand dollars a month. And the minor league baseball season...
When you run out of water and have to pull the boat back with an ATV that would be an "epic fail". For some unknown reason society has always been interested in and amused by the misfortunes of others. Television has had countless shows dedicated to "bloopers" and other gaffes made by everyday people doing everyday things and the masses tune in weekly to get another dose of these antics. I'd be willing to bet you most fishermen you know are at least familiar with the Bill...
AUSTIN — The following items are compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife law enforcement reports. Bare Necessities While patrolling near Lake Sam Rayburn, a Sabine County game warden noticed a naked man running across the road from the water into a makeshift tent. The man soon emerged wearing an oversized pair of pants. The warden then contacted dispatch, who advised that the subject was wanted on three felony warrants out of Sabine County. The man’s actions and demeanor led the warden to ask a female subject with the...
Easily one of the most alluring features of Sabine Lake area is the fact that you can catch so many different species of fish in a relatively small area. The brackish water holds both fresh and saltwater fish in good numbers as well as quality. It's never uncommon to see a stringer of fish include flounder, redfish, speckled trout, and an occasional really nice largemouth bass. The potential for all these fish to be in the same body of water makes each strike that much more...
It seems like every time I have convinced myself that we have turned the corner on Covid-19, another individual I know tests positive and it becomes a little more real.If you can safely make it to the water, there is probably no safer place to be than fishing in the middle of the lake! Sooo…….the most viable preventative options until a vaccine is developed is to wear a mask and go fishing.I’ll bet that is not a reason you ever thought you would use to escape to your favor...
For the second time this year training for the 2020 Major League Baseball season began today when players reported to their respective 30 teams. Commissioner Bob Manfred on June 22 made a conference call with all major league owners and has decided to schedule a 60-game season that will have “opening day” July 23 or 24 and will end Sept. 27, covering 66 or 67 days. The shortened-season format will have teams playing 10 games against each of their four division foes and four ga...
KAZ’S KORNER I was amazed last Wednesday when I saw an article previewing the Belmont Stakes running Saturday without any fans, Wait a minute!! The Belmont Stakes in normally the final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown, following the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, The key word is “normally”. Since the coronavirus pandemic nothing has been normal, especially in sports which has been shut down just like everything else. So instead of the three Triple Crown races being r...
One day this past week we caught some very solid trout on one specific lure and they would not hit anything else.That has seldom if ever been my experience when trying to dupe saltwater fish with a piece of plastic. When I decided to switch gears and guide on Sabine Lake rather than Toledo Bend, I foolishly believed that my investment in everything from boat to tackle would be far less.In looking back to 1982, that assumption was reasonably accurate at the time. I would no...
Despite some terrible early season weather, constantly changing winds, and some relatively hard run off from heavy rains the conditions on both our local lakes are ahead of schedule. On several trips in the last week I could not believe the amount of bait in our estuaries or the clarity of the water, both were impressive to say the least. The main bodies of the lakes as well as the surrounding marshes are full of life, the early season shad populations and shrimp numbers are...
While it seems as though some anglers consistently catch fish every time they go fishing……in reality it just doesn’t work that way.More especially, when you are talking about bass fishing! A recreational saltwater fishermen just looking for a bite that isn’t species specific has a much better chance of catching something.The fact that when all else fails he can turn to live or frozen bait as an option greatly enhances his chances of some level of success. I mention this on...
KAZ’S KORNER It doesn’t matter what the decision about starting the 2020 Major League Baseball season looks like, most fans and probably many players and coaches won’t consider it a legitimate season due to the shortened number of games, the empty stadiums and the con- tinued hassle about the money. The owners and the union both agreed players would receive full prorated salaries for the number of games that could be played. And with empty stadiums, the money story won’t...
Texas "two a days" like this are hard to beat. Now unless you live under a rock in a far dark corner of the planet you probably have some sort of idea about how completely fanatical Texas folks are about football. The summer months in our great state are often looked upon with great enthusiasm as thousands of football players begin their preparations for the fall campaign by first trying to beat the Texas heat. The football term "2 a days" refers to the common practice of...
