The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 325, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 30, 2005 Page: 9 of 22
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SPORTS
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday. October 30,2005
Waterfowl arriving daily as season prepares to open
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birds congregate on only a few
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receive rainfall to raise levels and
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The 2005 duck season promises to be a good one, provided you have water on
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NORTH SABINE: Trout are good
under the birds in the middle of the
lake and in the river on Carolina-
rigged live shad, Top Dogs, Sand
Eels and Bass Assassins. Redfish
are good under the birds on topwa-
ters and glow and chartreuse plas-
tics. Flounder are good on live mud
garnered individual recog- defeat Alamo Heights, 8-5.
In the third place game,
Sterling dropped a hard-
fair to good on the north and west
shorelines on live shrimp,
MATAGORDA: Trout and redfish are boost of rain two weeks ago that
fair to good on the north shoreline
on live bait and topwaters. Redfish
and flounder are fair to good in
Oyster Lake on shrimp.
Hunting
beds. During the September teal
season, many hunters reported bet-
ter-than-normal results on lakes due .
to dry conditions. Closer to the
coast, rice fields with water left
from last week’s rains have been
holding shovelers, teal, gadwalls and
pintails. Still, the region, especially in
East Texas, needs sustained rain in
order to hold waterfowl throughout
Winter. Duck season runs Nov.5-27
and Dec.10- Jan,29.
SOUTH ZONE WATERFOWL: Duck
numbers are strong across the
coastal prairie. Eagle Lake,
other ponds.in the region are hold-
ing birds. The region received a
recharged ponds and helped habi-
tat. Duck numbers are building on
the coast as well. Redheads were
sighted from East Matagorda Bay to
Rockport and marsh ponds from
Port Arthur to Port O’Connor were
holding strong numbers of teal,
shovelers, gadwalls and pintails. Ah
influx of specklebellies hit the coast
shrimp. Bull redfish are good on fin-
ger mullet.
FREEPORT: Redfish and flounder
are good on gold spoons and mud
minnows in Christmas Bay. Flounder
are fair to good at San Luis Pass on
mud minnows and jigs tipped with
shrimp. Bull redfish are good in the
surf on crabs and cut mullet. r
EAST MATAGORDA: Trout and
flounder are fair to good for waders
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flounder are good in the marsh on
live bait and on the Louisiana shore-
line on red shad and limetreuse
Bass Assassins, Stanley Wedgetails,
Trout Killers and Sand Eels.
BOLIVAR: Redfish, flounder, whiting,
sand trout and croaker are good at
Rollover Pass on fresh dead shrimp.
Flounder are good on live bait at the
Pass on the outgoing tide.
TRINITY BAY: Trout are fair to good
on the east shoreline on red shad,
limetreuse, pumpkinseed/char-
treuse and pepper/chartreuse Bass
Assassins, Trout Killers, Stanley
Wedgetails and Sand Eels. Croaker,
black drum, whiting, sand trout,
flounder and redfish are good at
the Spillway on fresh dead shrimp
and live shrimp under a popping
cork.
EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout and
redfish are fair to good on
a flock then compare the number of
gray birds to snow white ones. That
will give a quite accurate percentage.
The East Zone goose season for
snows and Canadas run Nov.5-
Jan.29, and Nov.5-Jan. 15 for speck-
lebellies. Bag limits are 20 snows,
three Canadas and two specklebel-
lies.
The North and South Zone duck
season runs Nov.5-27 and Dec. 10-
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29. The bag limit is six ducks, to
include no more than: five mallards,
only two of which can be hens, two
redheads, two wood ducks, two
scaup, one mottled duck, one pintail
and one canvasback.
Pintails and canvasbacks are legal
Dec.22-Jan.29.
For weekly conditions and hunting
and migration reports, check on the
web at www.tpwd.state.tx.us.
cant migration of waterfowl into
Texas. White-fronted geese (speckle-
bellies), evident by their yodeling
banter, took the coast by force on the the winter to sustain a vibrant water-
heels of the first real cold front of
autumn.
Dark geese were not the only fowl
to find the Lone Star State; an influx
of pintails, gadwalls, green-winged
teal, wigeons, mallards, redheads
and scaup found leveed rice ponds
and shallow marsh flats. Absent was
the brunt of the snow goose popula-
tion; yet, expect snows to blanket the
rice prairie in the next 10 days.
“We have plenty of ducks and
specklebellies,” said Mike Grigar,
owner of Johnny’s Sport Shop, a hub
for hunters in Eagle Lake.
“Everything looks great; it ought to
be a good opener.”
One key ingredient to a successful
fowl population.
Those who had water to hunt dur-
ing the special teal season enjoyed
some of the fastest shotgunning in
15 years. With an absence of water,
ducks and geese congregate on the
limited water sources. If the region
remains dry, those who have the
means to hold water throughout the
waterfowl season should see fabu-
lous hunting.
The downside to a dry year is the
potential for diseases. When so many as high as 20 percent juveniles have
duck and goose season is water.
Since August, Texas, except the
southeast part of the state that
endured Hurricane Rita and the
Panhandle, has seen limited rainfall.
Waterfowlers were forced to pump
water to ponds on the coastal prairie
during the special September teal
season; and, though the coastal
prairie received as much as three
inches of rain two weeks ago that
recharged ponds, the region remains.
Stagnant roosts
holding thousands
of birds fill with
waste and excre-
ments, and disease
spreads rampantly.
“Yeah, I am praying
for rain,” said
Wesley Morton,
owner of South
Texas Waterfowl in
El Campo. “The
price of farm diesel
is at an all-time
high and it takes a
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per/chartreuse, morning glory and
red shad Bass Assassins, Sand
Eels, Trout Killers, Stanley
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HIGH PLAINS MALLARD MANAGE-
MENT UNIT: An abbreviated two-day prior to me front. Fields in Wharton,
coacnn nnpnort thia nact uvaaV. Co|oradOi Jacksoni Lavacai
Matagorda, Brazoria and Chambers
are holding good numbers of dark ;
geese. Only a few trickles of snow ? '
geese made it down with the recent.
front; however, expect to see more
season runs Nov.5-27 and Dec.10-
Though I have lived on the coast
all of my life and endured 34
autumns, migrating waterfowl still
amaze me. A good friend of mine
who lives in Northeast Texas called
me a week ago, like he has for sever-
al years now when a certain thing
occurs.
“The flight is on,” he said. “I have
been in the woods all day long and
they have been steadily flying over-
head.”
He was referring to the first signifi- well below the average rainfall for
the year.
If we do not get rain soon, those
ponds will not hold water throughout lot of it to pump water; some people
probably cannot afford it, and that
will hurt the ducks and geese.”
While duck reports look promis-
ing, unofficial reports from snow
goose breeding grounds suggest a
solid hatch of young birds.
Compared to last season’s hatch,
anything would be better.
A late summer snow destroyed
many eggs on the ground last year
that resulted in less than a five per-
cent juvenile snow goose population,
and slow decoying action. Estimates
Contributed photo
Members of the Sterling girls water polo team that finished fourth at state are, front, from left, Rachel
Miller, Kortnie Bennett, Kalie Cowher, Allie Hill; back, from left, Tara Brigham, Kyra Wagstaff, Kenna
Terry, Ashely Stephens, Jacquelyn Traylor, RSS Principal Trey Kraemer, Sarah McMullen, Kara Evard,
Brittany Watkins, Hannah McMullen and Amber Shultz.
RSS girls place fourth at state
BY JUDY WATKINS BEHNETT
i Special to The Sun
The, Sterling Lady Rangers
bought home fourth place
from the state water polo meet
last week.
In addition, four RSS play-
ers £ .....*
nition, as Sarah McMullen
made first team all-state and
Brittany Watkins made second fought 6-5 decision to Clear i
” “ " Lake, as the Lady Falcons next year's class.”
er, hunter participation has slowed
to a crawl across most of the state.
Whitewings remain fair to good in
the San Antonio corridor. The same
holds true for mourning doves
around Uvalde. South Zone dove
hunting slowed in the Rio Grande
Valley last week. Expect new birds
in the region as a result of the front.
The South Zone runs through Nov.10.
Prospects are fair to good.
Evard and Jacquelyn Traylor came up with the winning )
earned honorable mention all- goal in the final 35 seconds of
state honors. the contest.
In their first game, , RSS “I’m pleased that we did
defeated San Antonio Taft 8-1. better than last year and proud
They followed that with a 5- of the seniors for taking us
0 shutout loss to Humble, one step closer to our goals,”
before bouncing back to said Sterling coach Mac
McDonald, who is stepping
down after this season.
“We’ve left a little bit of
room for improvement for
steel shot: Limit hunts were posted
just about any watering hole near a
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Bass Assassins, Hogies, Trout Killers beginning to show in force in the
and Sand Eels under the birds and
. on the protected shorelines. Trout
I are fair to good at Hannas Reef on
I live shrimp, when the wind allows.
( Flounder are fair to good at
Rollover Pass on shrimp and squid.
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duck season , opened this past week-
end and results were fabulous. ■
Playa lakes were covered with teal,
gadwalls, shovelers and a few mal-
lards. If the opener is any indication
„of.how the rest of the season will .
go, waterfowlers should stock up on white in the next two weeks. Duck
steel shot. Limit hunts were posted season runs Nov.5-27 and Dec.10-
in Knox Oily, Dumas, Spearman and jan,29. The East Zone goose season ‘
jnct ahniit anw watprind hnlp npar a »...«« k no iihm a™™
glow/chartreuse and morning glory : food source, Canada geese-
t™,.+ i/:ii™„ hpdinnind tn chnu/in fnrnp in
Panhandle since the front. More .
: specklebellies, along with Canadas,
are showing in the Knox City area.
Duck season reopens, and runs.,
West Zone runs Nov.5-Feb.7 with a deposit new birds to Texas, howev-
white-front and 20 light geese.
minnows and shad in mouths of bay- on pumpkinseed/chartreuSe, pep-
ous. ...
SOUTH SABINE: Trout are good
under the birds on Rat-L-Traps, top- _________________________
waters and live shad. Redfish and Wedgetails and Hogies. Redfish are Garwood, Sealy, El Campo and any
flniinrlor aro dnnd in tho march nn nthdr nnndc in tho rodinn ana hnlrF.
shorelines on live shrimp,
runs Nov.5-Jan.29 for light geese
and Canada geese, and Nov. 5-Jan.15
for specklebellies. Bag limits are 20
light geese, two specklebellies and '
three Canada geese.. .
DOVE HUNTING: Dove season in the
------—, North and Central Zones ends at
Oct.28-Jan.29. Goose season in the sunset Oct.30. The recent front did
WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are bag limit of three Canadas, one
fair to good over shell on motor oil, white-front and 20 light geese,
glow/chartreuse and pumpkinseed Prospects are good.
shrimptails, Bass Assassins, Trout NORTH ZONE WATERFOWL: The
Killers and Sand Eels. Redfish, floun- recent front deposited gadwalls,
der, croaker and whiting are good shovelers, teal, wigeons and a few
I from the beachfront piers on fresh mallards on area lakes and reser-
dead shrimp. voirs. Since the region is quite dry,
TEXAS CITY: Croaker, whiting, black expect more ducks on lakes and
drum and flounder are fair to good reservoirs until winter rains fill,
from the piers off the dike on dead
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 325, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 30, 2005, newspaper, October 30, 2005; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1191102/m1/9/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.