Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1984 Page: 13 of 18
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Sports
Future filets
This large catch of amberjack will provide these anglers with fine dining for some time.
Forty amberjack were brought in aboard the Dolphin Express recently. The fish weighed
in, ranging from 20 to 40 pounds. Captain of the boat is Marvin Horner Jr. (Photo courtesy
of Vicki Dirk)^
Sportsman’s notes
by Alan Charles
South Jetty, Thursday, May 10, 1984, Page 13A
Tags worth $10
King mackerel returning
What is the best investment &
sportsman can make to preserve his
outdoors environment? A lifetime
membership in a club like Ducks
Unlimited? A campaign contribution
to Ronald Reagan, or Walter
Mondale, or whomever? Ownership
of a piece of land that he can
manage the way he sees fit?
To my mind, none of these is the
answer. The future of our outdoors,
the key to preserving our woods and
fields and sporting activities, is held
in the hands of that little four-year-
old girl who just rode her bicycle
past your house. It lies in the mind
of that infant being carried around
by your wife; it’s heard in the
laughter of your grandchildren and
the neighbor kids they bring home.
Too young, you say? You’re going
to wait until they’re old enough to
UNDERSTAND, maybe old enough
to carry a gun out hunting with you?
You’re missing the boat, and in my
opinion, depriving them of a major
source of excitement and entertain-
ment as they’re growing up.
You say you’re a single parent?
You say you live in the city and don’t
really have any place to take the
kids? You say you don’t hunt or fish,
and don’t redly have the time to
learn?
None of these is reason enough to
deprive your child of an outdoors
education. The materials are all
around you, regardless where you
live. The birds migrate overhead;
they nest in the backyard trees, on
window ledges and in the city park.
The magic of budding blooms and
unfolding leaves is as much a part of
the outdoors world as is the rutting
of a buck or the battle of a fish.
A child’s mind is like an unplanted
field, waiting for the seeds of
interest to be sown. A drive in the
country, with stops to point out
different animals, and more, to
explain the sounds they make and
the things they do, can awaken an
interest. A picture book and a pair of
toy binoculars can stimulate a
yet-unformed calling. A planting of a
garden, be it a windowsill flower bed
or a square of vegetables, can
INVOLVE a child in the outdoors
world, and therein lies the secret.
To be interested, to actually care
about something, one must be
involved. There are, of course,
varying degrees of involvement. But
for a child, and subsequently, an
adult, to care about such things no
habitat preservation and wildlife
management, he must be involved
with them.
He must observe and participate in
the entire cycle. To understand the
complexities of hunting and fishing,
he must know the basics of planting
and nurturing. To comprehend
death, he must know life. And as the
cycle of life begins with birth, so,
too, does the cycle of learning begins
with birth, so, too, does the cycle of
learning begin at the beginning, in
the open minds of our young people.
The length between stakes
in the game of horseshoes is
forty feet.
Ike first report* of kina meckere!
returning to Gulf of Mexico waters
off the Texas coast are beginning to
trickle in, according to the Texas
Burks and Wildlife Department.
Only a few isolated catches of the
popular sport fish have been report-
ed, but action should improve by
mid-May, if the fish follow traditional
patterns.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart-
ment biologists remind king mackerel
anglers that the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) tagged
1,100 kings off the Louisiana coast
during December 1983, and these
tags are worth $10 if recovered and
sent to the NMFS.
Tag returns will help biologists
, learn more about the movements of
Luck returns to
local fishermen
Fisherman’s Wharf said 12-hour
fishing has brought in lots of red
snapper and some amberjack. Drift
fishing is getting better every day,
particularly for catching kingfish.
Also, there are a lot of shark.
The report from Dolphin Docks is
excellent catches of red snapper.
When the Dolphin has gone out, it
has brought back blacktip shark,
Atlantic sharpnosed shark, a few
kingfish anjj jackfish.
Deep Sea Headquarters said they
have had good catches of kingfish
and ling. Catches of big blacktip
shark have also been reported.
Deep Sea Headquarters said the
water is warming up and everything
is looking good.
Woody’s Boat Basin reports red-
fish have been caught off the head of
the jetty. Gaff are being caught
along the channel. Offshore fishing
has been sporadic because of a
strong kand. Live bait is plentiful.
Seafood buyers
should be alert
Seafood shoppers can make wiser
purchases at the market if they are
aware of r few basic facts about
fishery products.
‘"Die consumer’s skill in selecting
seafood has much to do with his or
her success in preparing the dish,”
said Annette Reddell Hegen, seafood
specialist with the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service.
The following tips should help
shoppers find good buys at the
seafood counter:
Whole fish - Scales tightly at-
tached, firm pink flesh, mild and
fresh odor, clear bulging eyes,
reddish-pink gill area.
Oysters • shells tightly closed is
alive, (discard if shells gap open and
do not close when tapped) clear, thin
liquor, no ammonia-like odor; plump
'with no extraneous material.
Crab^’mffgW,^ free of shell and
cartilage iTjticjce'd: sweet odor; alive
if uncooked ahckjn shell; bright
orange and chilled if'tooked in shell.
All seafoods are extremely‘perish-
able and must be maintained at a
low temperature. Store seafoods in
your refrigerator at 36 degrees F in
the coldest part; on the bottom shelf
where two walls meet.
For a free assortment of seafood
recipes, write Seafood Recipes, P.O.
Box 158, Port Aransas, Texas 78373.
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TOURIST INFORMATION
-S5££kcrcl, which imu migrate liiuu-
skjmgT'of miles each vyear. NMFS
officials said so far only-one tagged
king has been caught, and that fish
swam an average of nine miles per
day after release to reach the waters
off Maricruze, Mexico.
During past tagging studies of
mackerel caught off Louisiana, most
of the recoveries came from the
Padre Island area of Texas. How-
ever, biologists are studying the
possibility that separate stocks of
kingfish overlap off Louisiana, with
some migrating to Florida and the
South Atlantic, and the others to
Texas and Mexico.
Anglers catching a tagged fish
may report their catch by calling the
telephone number printed on the tag,
collect. Tagged fish are identified by
organge belly streamers.
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Judson, Mary. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1984, newspaper, May 10, 1984; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth840880/m1/13/?q=%221961-07%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.