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Lone✯Star Outdoor News
February 24, 2012
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❘❚ HUNTING
Air power Modern airguns are catching on with hunters. Page 4
A not-so-typical typical Mule deer set to be Texas Big Game Awards record. Page 5
❘❚ FISHING
LATE WINTER BITE: Kyle Druschel of Houston holds a fat winter trout near Port Mansfield. Expect fish to feed wherever the water is warming near shorelines or submerged spoil banks. Photo by Mike McBride, for Lone Star Outdoor News.
Spawn watch Bass are spawning on Falcon, and still staging on other lakes. Page 8
Hitting the surf
By Conor Harrison
Surf anglers are reeling in whiting, trout and redfish while dodging rainy days. Page 8
❘❚ CONTENTS Classifieds . . . . . . . Crossword . . . . . . . Fishing Report . . . . . For the Table. . . . . . Game Warden Blotter . . Heroes. . . . . . . . . Outdoor Datebook . . . Outdoor Business . . . Products . . . . . . . . Sun, Moon and Tide data
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Trout massing in Lower Laguna Madre
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LONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS Lower Laguna Madre Capt. Mike McBride is known for putting clients on big trout, especially in late winter. McBride said this year
has been outstanding around Port Mansfield. “All remains well in Port Mansfield, with fishing just about as good as could ever be expected anywhere upon this blue earth,” McBride said, “weather permitting of course. An
unusual warm spell during January had our bigger trout dazed and confused, but we caught them by applying spring patterns rather than more traditional colder water efforts.” High numbers of fish have made choosing a pattern for
Vampire bucks — go figure
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them easier, McBride said. “The bottom line is that if the area looks good, it probably is,” he said. “The most consistent efforts, however, have been about kneeto-thigh deep near sand and grass edges bordering deeper water. Shorelines
with good breaks, flats near deeper depressions and basically anywhere you see bait lined up with color changes and a few curious birds has held quality fish.”
White bass running in East Texas; rainfall churns northern creeks By Conor Harrison LONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS
GOOD EVENING: Although rare, occasionally whitetails appear with pronounced upper canines, thought to be a genetic throwback from their Asian ancestors. Photo by David J. Sams, Lone Star Outdoor News.
Whitetails with upper canines roam South Texas
By Craig Nyhus LONE STAR OUTDOOR NEWS Teen-age girls and their moms who watch “Twilight” movies, “True Blood,” “The Vampire Diaries” and other blood-
See TROUT, Page 18
sucking shows may want to steer clear of Frio County. The vampire bucks are there. Not really, but the examination of the upper
Fort Worth angler Nelson Jones looked at the muddy creek running into Grapevine Lake Feb. 19 and shook his head. “We had started to see the white bass showing up,” he said. “But good luck catching them in this water.” The water had risen and turned into something that resembled chocolate milk. Weekend rains in North Texas turned a lot of the area creeks into roiling, muddy messes.
See VAMPIRE BUCKS, Page 23
See WHITE BASS, Page 19