Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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With my little skiff in tow I eased down the road and got a feel for the water level as I crossed one of the many bayous that run through town. The water was a little lower than normal and that would certainly help out my shallow water program by concentrating the redfish in smaller areas. Things were definitely shaping up and the odds would appear to be in our favor. The final piece to the puzzle were my angling friends for the day, two very accomplished fishermen who I enjoy...
There are probably no more ardent professional sports fans than those in the Houston area. These fans show up in droves at the stadiums and sports complexes to watch their heroes in action. And for most of the time, the Houston Astros, Houston Texans and Houston Rockets have been good enough to qualify for the respective post-season playoffs. These three franchises for 2021 have really hit the skids and are working diligently just to have a chance at victory in the latter stag...
Few, if any other, fishing organizations are as attuned to the needs and future for not only their members, but the resource as well. Having said that, it has been a stressful year for the CCA. The pandemic limited the fund raising while a parade of hurricanes and a record freeze wreaked havoc on the trout population. So much so, that even the popular statewide S.T.A.R. tournament made several changes to help advance the recovery efforts. It was like a breath of fresh air when I received an e-mail earlier this week...
With a two-day total of 28 pounds, 15 ounces, Jason Christie of Park Hill, Okla., is leading after Day 2 of the 2021 Dovetail Games Bassmaster Elite at Sabine River sponsored by Bassmaster Fishing 2022 – the official video game of B.A.S.S. Photo by Seigo Saito/B.A.S.S. Putting significant distance between himself and the rest of the 98-boat field, Jason Christie amassed a two-day total of 28 pounds, 15 ounces and took over the Day 2 lead of the 2021 Dovetail Games Bassmaster E...
My guess turned out to be true on the improved numbers at the district meets although the weather is still far from the normal heat that traditionally graces the state meet. That's quite acceptable for now and the key is to stay healthy and get your rest as area meets arrive. West Orange and Woodville will host the 4A and 3A area meets on Wednesday while Mont Belvieu and Galena Park will host the 5A and 6A area meets on Thursday. Remember, the top four places in this week's...
I have no idea how it happens, it seems like only a few weeks ago summer was so far away and we were in the midst of a mini winter as successive cool fronts continued to remind us how nice 60 degree weather with zero humidity could be. All that is but a distant memory now as we have flipped the calendar and officially entered the dog days of summer. Welcome back the sweltering heat and humidity so thick you need to breathe through a snorkel just to cope with everyday tasks....
Trystin Chapman, 15 yrs old, currently homeschooled but is part of the Bridge City High School fishing team. He has loved to fish since he was a little boy and has spent several hours on the water with his dad, Tyler Chapman. Trystin went fishing with his grandfather, Marlon Tomlin and cousin, Michael Hammond at Humphries Pier and caught this 37.5 " bull redfish on March 12. It took about 15-20 mins to reel this one in!...
Playing a 60-game schedule without any fans appears to have hurt interest in the major leagues due mainly to the excessive length of the contests believed to be caused by home runs, walks and strikeouts, according to an Associated Press article that appeared in Saturday's newspapers. "As baseball games get longer and less action-packed, the sport has been looking for ways to reverse the fan-unfriendly trend," the article pointed out. "Among the biggest targets-infield shifts...
Last weekend’s Bassmaster Elite tournament held out of the Orange Public Boat Ramp could best be described as a happening. Mother Nature did her part, every volunteer did their part and record crowds packed the park all four days! The competition itself was entertaining enough for most, but even those afternoon crowds were dwarfed by the number of folks that wedged in to enjoy the concerts Friday and Saturday night. One spectator that drove in from Houston probably best summed it up with, “I bet ninety percent of the peo...
The Texas Amateur Golf Championship is one of the oldest and most prestigious golf tournaments in Texas. Wednesday, LC-M Bear, and future Texas State Bobcat, Jack Burke played in the sectional qualifier where three exemptions were on the line for a spot in the 112th Texas Amateur Championship. The qualifier was held at Crown Colony Golf Club in Lufkin where Jack was one of just two high school players competing among a field a college players from schools such as Sam Houston...
A busy time arrives in the 2021 outdoor season with the elite performers needing to finish in the top four at district meets in order to advance to the area meets. That opportunity already has come and gone in District 22-4A last week at West Orange. So we should extend our congratulations to the WO-S boys and BC girls for capturing the team titles. We wish to salute the fine young athletes – Caryss Carpenter of BC and Raymond Baltrip of Silsbee for being the individual h...
The Houston Astros must be mad!! They are upset over the fact the Oakland A's won the American League West Division title last season. They are angry over the catcalls the A's fans were hurling at them for allegedly cheating to win the 2017 World Series during the opening four-game series of the 2021 major league baseball season. So, Houston retaliated by completely overwhelming Oakland by scores of 8-1, 9-5, 9-1 and 9-2 in the four-game series that began last Thursday night...
Outside of not even leaving the dock, the single biggest impediment to consistent fishing success is getting in a rush to get it done. One of our better local bass fishermen was quick to point that out earlier this week. “If I don’t get to make a single weigh-in this week,” he said, “I have already benefited from the Bassmaster Elite coming to town. Three years ago I was more concerned with where my favorite angler was fishing than how he was fishing.” The lesson learned w...
It was a couple of days after Christmas in 2018 when my grandson Logan Smith and his family were visiting Orange for the holidays. Logan was home in Lufkin from West Point on the Christmas break, but was a pitcher for the Army baseball team and had various daily pitching routines he had to do to prepare for the upcoming season and wanted me to work out with him. I told him my days of seeing 90 mile an hour fast balls were long gone. So, his mother Karen remembered that her...
In a little less than 3 months the average every day citizen has been overwhelmed by an avalanche of executive orders from the new president Joe Biden. Many of those orders like cancelling the Keystone Pipeline and the disastrous new border policy have been chronicled at length by media outlets so I won't even go in that direction even though they should be pointed out at every opportunity. Instead I'll just share some news that came from another one the dozens of executive or...
I don’t think that we are quite there, but it is evident that the spawn is at the very least in the final stages on both Rayburn and Toledo Bend. Smaller males and females can be seen running the banks in the back end of virtually every major creek and while that final rush to propagate affords the easiest bite of the year, it serves up very few trophy fish. Even if you have the patience and determination to target deeper water, you will still be hard-pressed to earn a s...
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 s...
While most of the sports fans around the country were paying attention to the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament and how they were doing on their personal bracket, fans in the Southeast Texas and Houston areas were focused on the daily soap opera about the Houston Texans’ unstable quarterback situation. Because starting quarterback Deshaun Watson has been adamant since January about never wanting to play another down of football for the Texans since, General Manager Nick...
Surprise, surprise….the LCM bears dominated yet another SETX high school bass tournament on Rayburn Saturday and it resulted in well-earned paydays for several of their teams. They not only took home first and third place money, but celebrated three other Bear teams earning scholarship money as well. The feat is more impressive considering the fact that they were competing in a field of over 400 other anglers. I have suggested several times over the past year that an LCM b...
Our weather improved and so did several of the area’s HS track and field performances at the Woodville, Nederland and Vidor track meets last week. The area scenes shift to Port Arthur, Anahuac and Jasper on this next-to-last March weekend and it’s getting late early, as Yogi Berra once said about another spring sport. It’s getting late before the district meets yet early in the ‘21 season for coaches to sort out their relay teams into the best possible order. With spring break in progress, the participation at the meets I...
Major League Baseball has been trying to speed up the game for the past few decades, but unfortunately with very little success. Last year’s shortened 60-game season saw a couple of new ideas put into practice, but received mixed evaluations from various baseball people who have been around the game for decades. Personally, I really liked the idea of having designated hitters used in both the American League (where it has been a fixture for nearly 50 years) and the National Le...
According to Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School Coach Brett Nicholson last Friday was another successful day for LCM Tennis.” The team competed in the Vidor Invitational March 12 and Evan Barborek and Kaitlyn Ewing brought home the Mixed B Gold. Tex Collier and Dax Rodgers brought home Silver in the Boys A Doubles. Dakota Posey Lizzy De La Fuente brought home the Bronze in Mixed A Doubles....
The LCM bass club has dominated the southeast Texas high school circuits this year and they were at it again last weekend. As if to say, "We just like Rayburn a little more," the club took four of the top ten spots fishing Toledo Bend. They have consistently posted impressive numbers on Rayburn and fish the majority of their tournaments on the older of the two impoundments. Last weekend they took their winning ways to T-Bend and Layne Pevey teamed up with Logan Freeman to best...
Last week’s column about the possibilities of where J.J. Watt would end up was already in the paper ready to be printed to hit the streets when the blockbuster news he had signed with the Arizona Cardinals was announced. I scrambled and added a couple of paragraphs near the end of the column and sent the column on its way to be published. There’s a good chance the same thing might happen with this week’s Korner as many media outlets agreed with the column in Sunday’s Houston C...
If you are a regular reader of this column or most any outdoor publication its not a far stretch to say you should be concerned with new gun law proposals generated by the current president. Throughout his campaign he had made it clear that he would go after gun owner's rights and "take on the National Rifle Association and win". Sportsmen everywhere need to be informed about the legislation and its far reaching effects because some of the items hidden in the bill are, let's...
