Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 7, 2001 Page: 1 of 24
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Thursday, June 7, 2001
TV Listings Page 4B
Sunset Sounds
Jesse Bishop will entertain at Sunset Sounds
tomorrow, Friday, June 8, at the Roberts Point Park
AMPHITHEATER STARTING AT 7 P.M. BRING A BLANKET OR LAWN
CHAIR AND AN ICE CHEST AND ENJOY THE MUSIC, THE SUNSET
AN6 THE SIGHTS OF THE SHIP CHANNEL.
Page 1B
Launching set Sunday
Three Nutshell Pram sailing dinghies will be
LAUNCHED AT 3 P.M. SUNDAY AT THE CITY BOAT RAMP.
The boats are part of a year-long project involving
STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
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Vol. 31 No. 23
SPS 946-0202
On Mustang Island, Texas
Robert August here for annual
weekend of surfing with legends
Three days of surfing and fun with surf
legend Robert August and company gets
under way tomorrow, Friday, June 8, when
the eighth annual Robert August Weekend
kicks off. ,
Test rides on new signature model surf-
boards and drawings for trips to Tamarindo,
Costa Rica and Punta de Mita, Mexico are
in store for those who take part in the week-
end.
Pat Magee’s Surf Shop will host the an-
nual event that continues through Sunday,
June 10.
August, star of the 1966 surfing movie,
Endless Summer, and its 1994 sequel, End-
less Summer 11, will bring with him surf
legends Wingnut Weaver, Mark Martinson,
Mike Minchinton, Mike Doyle, Corky
Carroll and Sam August.
The three day “surf party” will headquar-
ter at Pat Magee’s, with periodic jaunts to
the beach to catch some waves. Surfers are
invited to bring their boards or other memo-
rabilia to be autographed by the surf leg-
ends at the shop and on the beach.
August and company will be at the shop
or the beach from about 10 a.m. on all three
days of the event.
At the conclusion of the weekend, two
drawings will be held. One will be for a trip
for two to August’s house in Tamarindo,
Costa Rica. The other will be for a trip for
two to Magee’s house in Punta de Mita,
Mexico.
In addition to his movie-making, August
has his own surf shop in Huntington Beach,
CA. He is a master craftsman and has hand-
shaped more than 30,000 surf boards.
Magee is a surf legend in his own right.
He has been a competitive surfer in Texas,
California and Mexico since he was 12. He
opened his shop here in 1969. In the ensu-
ing years it has become a nationally known
headquarters for surfers.
His Longboard Museum on one side of
the shop has drawn thousands of Baby
Boomers to reminisce over the early days of
surfing. The museum houses old boards,
surfing accessories magazines and other
memorabilia.
The surf legends will be on the Museum
side of the shop during the Robert August
Weekend, ready and willing to talk surfing
— and to go surfing whenever the surfs up.
—Award to be presented posthumously —
Horn is Hall of Famer
By Carolyn Richards
South Jetty reporter
The late Bill Horn, trout fisherman
extraordinaire, has been named posthu-
mously to the Boatmen’s Hall of Fame by
Port Aransas Boatmen Inc.
He and the late Fred Farley and Leona
Courtesy photo
Bill Horn
Church listing..................
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Classified ads..................
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Editorial..........................
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Fishing report..................
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Island Agenda..................
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Island observer ..............8B
Law enforcement reports
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Obituaries........................
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On the town.........................4A
Outdoors.........................
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Pastor’s Pen...................
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TV LISTINGS.......................
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Youth...............................
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Shanklin will be inducted into the Hall of
Fame during the annual Deep Sea Roundup.
For years, Horn’s name called to mind
the north jetty and trout, lots of ’em. For
years and years, Horn caught • and fre-
quently shared - hundreds and hundreds of
trout over on the north jetty.
Horn’s friends tell the story that one of
them would be fishing on the north jetty
and along would come Bill. He would climb
up on a rock right next to his friend and
put a rod that was identical to his friend’s
in the water. He jigged the hait a couple of
times and would pull out a trout. The fel-
low fisherman caught zero.
Horn would continue sipping Olympia
Gold and pulling out trout until he had his
limit of 10. Now understand, the friend next
to him had identical fishing tackle and bait,
but the friend caught nothing.
That same story was told over and over
for many years - always with the same out-
come. Horn just caught fish!
When he was named Boatman of the
Year in 1999, he said he always caught most
of the fish for the Sunday fish fry during
the Deep Sea Roundup. He said that his
brother Bob, Charlie Zahn and Nate Rose
helped him catch the 200 pounds of fish
needed to put on the dinner.
Fishing was the focus of Horn’s life for
many years. In 1936, when he was three, he
and his dad came to Port Aransas to fish
and slept on the beach. He remembers the
sand crabs running over him the first night.
The sand crabs nearly scared him to
death, but he said he had loved salt water
ever since that trip.
He even spent his honeymoon fishing in
Port Aransas. When Horn and his wife, Bo,
were married in 1950, they started out to
Mexico, but he conveniently forgot the car
title and the Mexicans wouldn’t let the new-
lyweds in.
So the Horns came back to Port Aransas
and - you guessed it - they fished.
Horn moved to Port Aransas from Dallas
in 1965, when he transferred from the Dal-
las telephone company office to the one in
Corpus Christi.
He took early retirement from the tele-
phone company in 1983. Horn wasn’t one
of those folks who was unhappy in retire-
ment. He claimed he loved every minute of
it because it gave him time to fish.
One of Horn’s favorite companions for
trout fishing was his son, Mike, who still
lives next door to Bo. Mike works at the
University of Texas Marine Science Insti-
tute. He and his wife, Gayla, have four chil-
dren.
“That’s my love, them jetties,” Horn once
said. “1 fished those old jetties since 1946
and no one’s caught any more trout off them
than 1 have.”
Horn always said, with absolute assurance,
that he would much rather catch a six-pound
trout than a 300 pound marlin!
Fists full of fish
Staff photo by Murray Judson
These young competitors in the Take a Kid Fishing Tournament on Saturday. June 2, had their hands full. Jake
Molak, 6, left, and Katie Molak, 11, both of San Antonio, brought in these big trout and redfish. Texas Parks and
Wildlife game wardens not only acted as weighmasters for the nearly 200 contestants, but donated their boats and
time to take kids fishing who otherwise would not have had a chance to fish from a boat. Warden Eric Jumper of Port
Aransas is pictured at left.
-At Take a Kid Fishing Tournament-
Kids have fishing adventure
Even tishing with a Texas Parks and
Wildlife game warden can come with a
certain amount of adventure.
Adventure was the name of the game
or Kalani Balcom and Kimberly Flippo
of Port Aransas who-went with warden
:ric Jumper to fish in the Take a Kid Fish-
ing Tournament on Saturday, June 2.
Before the morning of fishing was over,
they had run aground and gotten a crab
trap wrapped arouhd the propeller. They
were all good sports about it, and Jumper
was presented the Alan Childress Sports-
manship Award.
Balcom and Flippo, both 8, were two
of nearly 200 anglers from two weeks to
17 years who participated in the tourna-
ment sponsored by the Redfish Bay Chap-
ter of the Coastal Conservation Associa-
tion.
The tournament headquartered at
Woody’s Sports Center.
Continued growth, prosperity forecast
As Port Aransas grows, change is only constant
By Beki Hall
South Jetty reporter
For those who come to visit, the drive off
the ferry is like stepping back in time — to a
time with no traffic, no hustle, no deadlines
and friendly faces all around. For the resi-
dents of Port Aransas time cannot and will
not stay still long enough. Residents see new
construction, new congestion, new problems
and more than a few new faces. Port Aransas
has become more of a residential area and
even more of a tourist spot. The only con-
stant — change.
Whether purchasing a home, looking for
a job or just taking a tour of the vacation
destination some 3,370 people call home,
change is evident all around. One obvious
sign of change is the growth in population.
According to the 1990 census, the popula-
tion of Port Aransas was 2,233. That is a
66 percent increase in just 10 years. This
increase prompts mixed emotions from lo-
cal business owners and residents.
Please see ‘GROWTH,’ PAGE 8A
Bevo ‘hooks up’ with Longhorn
Staff photo by Murray Judson
The University of Texas mascot, Bevo, was in Port Aransas Saturday for pi iblic viewing and as part of the Corpus Christi
Texas Exes meeting. Here, Bevo's handlers set up for a photo with the University of Texas Marine Science Institute's
research vessel, the Longhorn, in the background.
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