tvc184

There are a lot of different opinions out there but it is hard to go against that statement.

At least they are getting some notice.

This will all likely be dropped from a felony burglary to a misdemeanor trespassing. They will then get deferred probation meaning that they will likely pay a fine, do some community service and if they stay clean for 6 months, the whole deal will be off of their record.

What a way to start your life after high school, with a felony record.

If you can't win, at least you could look good losing.

At least they can be somebody.

I have the same issue but for saltwater. I can be saltwater fishing in 15 minutes. I could be freshwater fishing just as quick if you count the local canals or Taylor's Bayou. A trip to Rayburn or Toldeo is a couple of hours one way.

... and I caught an amberjack at Toledo Bend. I was fishing for sand sharks and don't know how I hooked the jack.

He is a great player but I doubt that he would be ranked in the top 150 in the country. He could be in the top 50 in Texas and not make the list.

Time to break out the heavy fly rods. ;D

I've eaten them. A good eating fish but a lot of work for what is about the size of a big bream. Even the croaker are bigger.... and just as good to eat.

Yep. For an inshore fish, a red can put up a fight. Once you get out in the Gulf, they don't even rank.

I see a remake of Hitchcock's The Birds.... only the remake will be The Fish.

Saltwater is much better to catch a lot of eating size fish but I would have a hard time saying that they are better to eat. Bass, crappie and catfish fillets can be tough to overcome. Not that snapper, flouder, ling and others are not equal to the task but to pronounce them as better is a bit suspect.

It can be. The flounder fishing is good now and will continue to the fall flouder run. The fall run has a tendency to concentrate them when the first good cold fronts hit and it sends them en masse through the fish passes.

Where are the updates?

Anytime a ball is hit faster, it is more dangerous. Maybe that is acceptable to you and you are entitled to your opinion. To say that they are no more dangerous is a joke. I don't care what the bat material is made of. Why not be like other sports that restrict the speed however. It would be easy to make a bat out of a material other than wood but that has the hitting properties of wood. That would satify the claimed argument that aluminum is more durable and thereby more cost effective.

Notice that the incident was not in Mississippi or Alabama but in Pennsylvania. So much for criticism of us southern rednecks.

Great! Another set of morons give gun control nuts and PETA types a reason to hate hunters and so called sportsmen. What a great sporting idea. Tie a bunch of tame birds down by their legs and shoot them for money.

Sounds like a good flyfishing lake.

I don't know if it is right or wrong but I think it is silly and stupid to say that aluminum bats do not hit the ball harder and faster than wood. The reasoning used? There is no scientific proof. Right.... and cigarettes don't cause cancer either. Just because MIT has yet to study baseball bats doesn't negate what is going on. Let's see, a guy buys his 11 year old kid a baseball bat for $250 because it hits the same way as wood. Talk about things that make you go hmmmmmm!!

Not me. I look forward to it every year but now is the time to fish. About the first part of September I will start turning my attention toward the woods.

I didn't notice any really radical proposed changes.. anyone else read the proposals and think anything is outlandish?

I agree with gringo to a point. I totally agree that the tags are used for management and east Texas is so over hunted know, deer would be extinct. Yes there are just about as many deer in other areas and parts of east Texas are overrun with deer but also in much of it, if a buck makes it past a year, he is the old man of the herd. I also agree that there is probably more politics in hunting than any other political arena. It is obvious when a local big time lawyer donates large sums of cash to a political campaign and then gets named to the tpwd board that helps make up laws. Then gets a state park named after him............ I think in many political arenas, there is a strong other side/party to most issues. If the democrats are in power, the republicans can still make a fuss that counts. If the republicans are in power, the same goes for the democrats. I don't think you have much opposition on the other side of game management. Sure you can get vocal residents from around the state and they must hold public meetings due to the laws. I have seem some pretty vocal responses on some (but not many) issues and the tpwd board votes against it anyway. The deer and ducks don't get a vote and the average Joe buying the hunting license doesn't have very much of an advocacy pulling for him.... but I still agree with gringo about south texas and the deer/turkey issue. It is like Shannon Tompkins makes a bit of a point about politics but he picked the wrong excuse to show it, IMO.