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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.

The same reason that you shoot any animal, for the hunt. The sport of trying to track an animal and be in position to take it in one shot. I have seen videos of people killing wild lions with a bow and arrow about 30 yards away. Pretty gutsy stuff. The thrill of the hunt. Having a tame lion led out on a leash and then unharnessed so you can shoot him seems about like shooting your cat in your front yard. There is not a lot of macho status in that. In the case of the tame lions in South Africa, apparently a lot of millionaires don't want to spend the time, energy, skill and take the risk of actually being in the bush to take a game animal. They could just buy a stuffed head but then they could not brag to their friends that they bagged a big one "in the wild". They can then produce the trophy picture of themselves standing by their big kill. >

That's worse than trophy deer hunts in Texas. At least the deer aren't raised in cages and led to the shooting lane.

Most of the LNVA canals in this area have some decent catfish in them. They have Ops, Blues and Channels. The biggest that I have caught is about a 10 pound Ops on a limb line. I have gotten a lot of Channel cats out of these canals.

That was an eye opener! Great game by BC.

I didn't know I need your permission to post.. oh yeah, I don't. Kyle Green is a friend and I coached him for 4 years. I am friends with his family. If it offends you that I said Vidor is off to a great start and to keep it up..... I guess you will just have to be offended. Now why not just try and stick with the topic.

They have been in this area for quite a while. I see them when I fish in the Neches River out of Beaumont. The one that has gotten the press lately near Vidor fortunately happens to be near the highway where it can be seen by more people.

Great start Vidor. Keep it up.

That's nicer than anything I killed this year.

Maybe I am reading this wrong. Are you saying that Lamar was a top 25 1-AA football team a few times back in the late 80's? Exactly when is it that the "record was good" in the late 80's? This is from a New York Times article from December 15, 1989: Lamar University Drops Football The Lamar University board of regents today voted to discontinue the school's football program, citing projected losses of half a million dollars over the next three seasons. The Lamar University board of regents today voted to discontinue the school's football program, citing projected losses of half a million dollars over the next three seasons. The board's vote was 5-4 to discontinue football at the school, which has competed as a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-AA independent the past three years. The football program lost $4.3 million over the past decade, all losing seasons on the field except this year's 5-5 finish under Coach Ray Alborn. [Hidden Content] Okay, so in the last decade of Lamar football they had all losing seasons except a 5-5 finish in their last year. Not a single winning season in the 80's and yet several times Lamar was a top 25 team? It must not have taken much to be in the top 25 back then. You are correct, how quickly we forget.. or in your case, just make it up.