Texas Game and Fish, Volume 13, Number 4, April 1955 Page: 20
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Fish Reports Texas Tracks
Field Data
By JAY VESSELSHENRY OR MABEL?
CONCENTRATED CONFLICT MIGHTY MULLET
Wildlife Biologist Willie Parker
of the Game and Fish Commission
staff, complains that the new Span-
ish red-legged partridges being intro-
duced in West Texas "all look
alike." That is the males and fe-
males have no distinguishing color
markings. Parker says the only ap-
parent reliable difference is that the
male has a small spur on its leg. He
added that technicians conducting
the stocking experiment simply will
have to watch closely to determine
which ones start laying eggs.
NAUGHTY BUT NICE
Outdoor Editor Roy Swann of the
Corpus Christi Caller-Times, closed
a long report on an all-night "bob-
cat" hunt with: "So, after the dogs
had been thoroughly disciplined for
'chasing a dern coon' we trudged
back out tired but pleased." Actu-
ally, the spree staged near Swinney's
Switch, wherever that is, had pro-
duced a prolonged hubbub when
the pack jumped a cat but finally
were tricked off the trail by the
beast's cunning tree-hopping.
SAFETY FIRST
Outdoor Editor Woody Mont-
gomery of the Temple Telegram,
lectured fishermen and boaters re-
cently on boating safety: "Time and
again last year, the word came of
a drowning and not one drowning
victim had on a life jacket. Even if
a person is a good swimmer, he
sometimes loses his head in a boat-
ing accident and someone has to
pay, maybe with a life." Inciden-
tally, none of the first six boating
victims reported this year wore life
jackets.Balance of nature or what have
you, marsh and Cooper's hawks
gave Game and Fish Commission
wildlife biologists a hard time dur-
ing this year's mourning dove trap-
ping in the Rio Grande Valley. The
hawks winter in the area where the
doves concentrate and apparently
thought penning up the doves (for
banding) was for the predators'
own convenience. It required the
combined efforts of biologists and
helpers, and use of shotguns, to
convince the hawks that the doves
were doing their bit for scientific
study and should be spared.
ANSWERS TO REMEMBER
The Sports Fishing Institute Bul-
letin contained this gem under the
heading "Conservation Education":
"Observations found in our daugh-
ter's notebook for Science (7th
grade) -'Why do you kill off fish?
We kill off fish because in some
places there are too many fish. That
makes not enough food. So the fish
do not grow very big. Then we just
kill off some and the others have
enough food and grow to good
sizes. Why do people tag fish and
animals? People tag fish and animals
so that they can find how far they
go. Some fish have crossed oceans
while rabbits have hardly crossed
over more than about two to four
acres. How is the land plowed and
why? When a farmer lives on a hill-
side and he plants his crops on the
hillside he would plant his crops
across because if he planted his crops
straight up and down the water
would all run off taking good soil
with it. Farmers try to make it hard-
er for the water by planting their
crops across.' "A six-pound, five-ounce mullet
was netted by Aquatic Biologist Ken
Jurgens' crew on Lake Buchanan
near Austin. Its length was 24
inches. "Mighty large," observed
Jurgens, "for a mullet this far from
the coast, especially since there are
six dams between Lake Buchanan
and the mouth of the river."
HOW DEEP IS DOWN?
A new electronic depth sounder
so small that it can be carried in
a rowboat for charting the bottoms
of lakes, rivers and shoal waters, is
described in Inventor-New Product
Digest, Austin magazine devoted to
science and invention.
DUSTY'S BIG MOMENT
The Austin Statesman carried the
story about Dusty, a Canadian Cock-
er, which was brought up with three
kittens and thought he was a cat.
That is he did until one night re-
cently when a stray possum treed
just off Dusty's backyard kennel.
The yowls awoke everybody within
ear range and proved conclusively
that little plain meows just wouldn't
get the job done.
COLUMNIST'S CONFESSION
Andy Anderson (there are two
such outdoor columnists in Texas),
writing in the Fort Worth Press:
"Through the regular channels, I
heard of 'a bush' in Lake Whitney
where you could tie and get your
limit. It wasn't too far, and I had
four hours. It took an hour to go
and an hour to find the 'bush.' In
the next hour, using the Arkansas
Razorback, I picked tip eight black
hass."TEXAS GAME AND FISH
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