Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record Spring is the time when the whole fishing world loses its collective mind, winter is in the rear view mirror and most anglers are suffering miserably from cabin fever. Some of the angling faithful have taken advantage of the lack of on the water participation from most fishermen, big trout hunters have spent the past weeks waist deep in chilly water snatching stud trout from nearly every venue along the coast. Bass fishermen have enjoyed some i...
KAZ’S KORNER Just about every Houston Texans’ fan, beat writer and even the players were flabbergasted when the news that three-time All-Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins had been traded to the Arizona Cardinals last week. The big question lingering was WHY??? Why did Head Coach and General Manager Bill O’Brien make such a deal that seemed like a bad one from the get-go? Hopkins was perhaps the most consistently productive player the Texans’ franchise has ever known. And he was very popular with his teammates, media, fans an...
The March 16th release by the SRA was both inevitable and necessary depending on how bullet proof you may feel you are in regards to the spread of the coronavirus. In a nut shell, gatherings of fifty or more are now prohibited and that pretty well eliminates any major tournaments in the near future As of today, boat launches are still open to recreational anglers, but that could change as well depending on the spread of the virus.The Louisiana Annual Oilman’s event was canceled last weekend, as was the Texas Team Trail e...
Photo: Redfish make it easy to practice “social distancing” right now. Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record Just about any Texas fisherman who ever wet a line knows that the spring is full of many things, most of which fall into the category of uncertainty and unpredictability. The all time #1 villain is the weather man and his friend the marine forecast, aka “that #$%@ wind”! For plenty of us who take advantage of every season the waders that were used during duck hunts have be...
IT’S HARD TO BE A SPORTSWRITER WITH NO SPORTS GOING ON Just about every event happening or shutting down is a direct result of the Coronavirus which appears to be popping up in just about every state. Most sports have been either postponed or canceled just about the time high school, college and professional athletes have their bodies in tip-top shape for the period of their respective seasons that mean the most. High school basketball is in the midst of their annual state playoffs while the spring sports are beginning to b...
Those who closely follow major league baseball are still scratching their heads and wondering why a team as talented as the Houston Astros would try to enhance their lofty position among the rest of the teams by electronically stealing the opponents’ catcher’s signs and notifying the Astros’ hitters as to what pitch is coming. Even without knowing what pitch is coming, the 2017-19 Astros still would have won around 100 games and captured the American League West Division pennant because they had the best pitching staff compa...
“When I saw Cal Duncan’s name pop up on my cell phone, I immediately shut down the edger and found a comfortable spot on the deck.I knew the call had to be about fishing or death and if he had died, he wouldn’t be calling! “O.K.,” Cal answered as if the usual “hello” was a waste of time “I owe you one and as soon as the white perch catching explodes again, I’ll give you a call. Otherwise, I will save a few fillets and you and Karen can drive up here pick them up.” Back in the late 70’s Cal and I guided together and shared a...
Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record Most any fisherman who spends time on our local waters has a theory about how the tides work and where they need to be to catch fish during those tides. Surprisingly enough there are plenty of people who don’t understand how important the tides really are, or for that matter what a tide is. According to Webster’s dictionary, tide is the periodic variation in the surface level of the oceans, bays, gulfs, inlets, and estuaries caused by gravitational attraction of the moon and sun. The inf...
The Lady Bear golf team played their best tournament of the year as they shot a team score of 374 to win the Silsbee Varsity Girls Invitational at Silsbee Country Club. Montana DiLeo fired a 73 to tie for first with Cadence Underwood of Bridge City and Neely Wozniak placed 3rd with a round of 85. DiLeo would take 2nd place after a scorecard playoff. As for Jaycie Benton and Trinity Williams, both had season best finishes. Benton shot a 101 and Williams finished with a 115....
Last week’s column dealt with the rules changes that will go in effect at the start of the 2020 major league baseball season. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred continues to make changes in the game that probably would make the game’s inventor Abner Doubleday roll over in his grave. Most of the changes over the years have been beneficial to the game like video replay and limiting the number of challenges of each team. New ideas generally are tested in the minor leagues or in spring training like the use of electronic mon...
”How can we leave,” asked Terry Robnet.“It’s pretty obvious the fish are here, but we just forgot how to fish.” That enlightening statement was a logical assumption based on the fact that two anglers drifting the same flat were catching three or four fish every drift.At the same time, we were only three hundred yards east of them and lucky to catch a single trout. Our pile of wrong guesses littering the floor of the boat was growing! The frustration really set in when they started their next drift much closer to the shore...
KAZ’S KORNER For the Record Over the years major league baseball has attempted to shorten the length of nine-inning regular-season games. A couple of years ago a rule was tried in spring training whereby the pitcher had a certain number of seconds to make the next pitch. Wife Susan and I were at College Station last weekend to watch the series between Texas A&M and Army. In all three games pitchers had 20 seconds to make the next pitch ONLY when there were no runners on the basepaths. Then the clock was off. Teams also had t...
“For more than two months my fishing partner and I planned a fishing trip to Toledo Bend hoping to catch a bass over seven pounds,” said Paul Degeter.“We decided back in December to fish the Bend because all the good reports were coming from there.” They planned their trip around everything from high school proms to dance recitals, booked a room in Jasper and spent the past two months reading reports and buying baits they had never fished.“Toledo Bend didn’t look a whole lot like the Atchafalaya,” pointed out Degeter. When...
“I was never so happy not to catch fish as I was last weekend,” said Lester Sensat.“I really don’t like fishing a Carolina rig and I have zero confidence in the drop-shot, but our bass have been camped out in water too deep to catch fish any other way.” When Lester and J.D. Chaumont couldn’t get the first bite in the deep stuff they completely changed tactics and started catching bass up to six pounds on everything from crankbaits to Wacky worms in six to ten feet of water.“Toledo Bend was a foot deeper than the weekend b...
Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record When the federal authorities granted hunters the extra time to hunt light geese after the general season closed they did so with conservation in mind as the population was skyrocketing out of control. Waterfowl enthusiasts welcomed the opportunity with open arms, any chance to keep hunting was sure to be a hit. The first couple of years there were some incredible hunts as many goose hunters took advantage of the liberal rules and brought along the electronic callers and plenty of shells. All...
Out of fear of rousting Mother Nature’s ugly side, I will only mention that we have endured a little more rain and wind than needed over the past few days.Don’t get me wrong…. we have been forced to deal with far worse! If you prefer to fish the wide open confines of Sabine Lake, it has been all but a guarantee that the wind is going to blow the wrong direction and harder than you would like at some point virtually every day.For my money, however, it is still better than dealing with the absence of even a breath of wind...
Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record As far as I am concerned February and March have to be some of the best times on the calendar for a wide variety of reasons. Spring is closing in and everything starts to heat up, especially the fishing. Anglers all over the state look forward to this month with great anticipation every year because in just about any body of water you fish, fresh or salt; you stand an excellent chance of doing battle with a career fish. Freshwater anglers have long known the magic that can happen on those days...
The Kansas City Chiefs used three field goals by Jan Stenerud, a sterling performance by quarterback Len Dawson and a rock-ribbed defense to down the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 before 80,562 fans at New Orleans, making a winner out of legendary Chiefs’ coach Hank Stram. This scenario happened Jan. 11, 1970 in Super Bowl IV following the 1969 season before the full merger of the AFL and NFL, a year after Kansas City owner Lamar Hunt dubbed the big game the Super Bowl. Many San Francisco fans swear that if 49ers cornerback R...
“It’s really kind of crazy the way fishing goes through cycles,” said Ronnie Lott.“Forty years ago when I was working in a refinery every plant or refinery had a bass club.At least over here, they just kind of died out when gas got so high and for some reason the bass fishing on Rayburn got so tough!” “In the mid 80”s most of the really good bass fishermen I had competed against stayed closer to home and started chasing trout and redfish.When folks found out how many big trout we had in the lake, the Bay boat business just ex...
SUPER BOWL LIV WILL OVERSHADOW GROUND HOG’S APPEARANCE For as many years as one can remember, February 2 has always belonged to the ground hog seeing his shadow so folks can plan for six more weeks of winter weather. The winter weather will feel like summertime Sunday when Super Bowl LIV kicks off at 5:38 p.m. in toasty-warm Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It can be seen on Fox TV. Strangely, the Kansas City Chiefs still are favored to win over San Francisco by a single point. I predicted the Chiefs’ odds wou...
Photo: Jack Tindel III, left, and Brett Fregia of Lamar State College-Orange finished seventh of 250 teams in last weekend’s BASS Collegiate fishing tournament at Toledo Bend. They qualified for the BASS Collegiate Nationals this summer. Dave Rogers / For The Record Not bad for openers. Lamar State College Orange’s Gators fishing team qualified for nationals in its first tournament of the 2020 season. The duo of Brett Fregia and Jack Tindel III placed seventh out of 250 two-ma...
Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record As the mercury creeps up into a more comfortable range outside as well as on the water, don’t let that fool you into feeling too secure at this time of the year. January and February on the Texas gulf coast can be down right brutal with all the rank weather we receive at this time of the year. Bone chilling winds coupled with humid overcast days can make even the toughest fisherman wish for a warm spot in the truck and hot cup of coffee. When late winter fronts pass through and temperatures o...
NFL Conference Championship Games This Weekend AFC TENNESSEE TITANS (11-7) over KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (13-4) 2:05 P.M. Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. (CBS)—If the Chiefs start off playing half as sloppy as they did against the Houston Texans Sunday, Tennessee’s defense won’t let them score enough points to come back like they did Sunday and Derrick Henry will take over the offensive portion of the game with his bull-like rushes. MY PROJECTED SCORE (SUPER UPSET)—Tennessee 26-Kansas City 21. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS (...
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS FEATURE YOUNG QBS, NEW COACHES For the fourth time in franchise history the Houston Texans failed to reach the National Football League’s Conference championship round. Sunday’s failure at Kansas City against the explosive Chiefs was unbelievably unique. The Texans became the first team in NFL history to lead by 20 or more points and then lose by 20 points. The game started off with the Chiefs looking like a team that would get blown out by 40 points as they suffered from six dropped passes in the...
If you canceled an early week fishing trip due to the educated guesses passed along via the local weather man….you made a bad mistake.I am no longer as hell bent on fooling a fish as I once was, but rain, unlike the cold, does not keep my boat parked on the driveway. That is especially true, when you find your raingear to be uncomfortably warm in January or February.You cannot order better conditions than a falling barometer, overcast skies and surface temperatures in the high fifties.Even a little more wind than you would c...
