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OUTDOORS: TPWD sets guidelines for invasive mussels
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will be using a new classification system for zebra mussels in lakes to better describe the impact.
The new standards classify lakes as the following:
1, Suspect, if there is one verifiable detection of zebra mussels.
2, Positive, if there are multiple or repeated detections.
3, Infested, if the water body has an established, reproducing population.
Currently, six Texas lakes are classified as infested: Texoma, Ray Roberts, Lewisville, Bridgeport, Dean Gilbert and Belton. Dean Gilbert is a tiny lake in Sherman.
Lakes Waco and Lavon have been reclassified as positive under the new system because there is no evidence of reproduction.
“Transitioning to this classification system helps us paint a better picture for the public what is happening with zebra mussels in our lakes,” Monica McGarrity, Austin Aquatic Invasive Species Team Leader for the TPWD, said.
Game wardens respond to flooding
Texas game wardens have been busy responding to floods that have inundated many communities during the past few days.
Game wardens conducted more than 170 water rescues of individuals and families due to rising flood waters.
“The Texas game wardens’ knowledge of the waterways and back country areas have allowed them to quickly locate and rescue those who have been trapped by the floods,” said Texas Game Warden Maj. William Skeen.
Wardens were dispatched in all the affected counties, including: Palo Pinto, Parker, Johnson, Harris, Waller, Austin, Montgomery, Grimes, Fayette, Colorado, Falls and Milam.
Striped bass rebound
Striped bass and white bass in Lake Texoma are rebounding from flooding events that took place in 2015.
The lake went over the spillway twice during the year because of excessive rains in north Texas.
Fisheries management crews from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation recently completed their annual gillnet assessment of fish populations in Lake Texoma.
Winter gillnetting is used to monitor fish population trends every year.
The striped bass population in Lake Texoma has a majority of fish more than 20 inches long. Read more from this notebook in the April 23 Bowie News.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is using a new classification system for zebra mussels, one of the worst invasive species found in Texas. (Courtesy photo provided by the TPWD, used with permission)
Bowie had six players play in the Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl football all-star game. For pictures from not just the football game, but the basketball and volleyball games as well that feature athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6875584&T=1
Nocona is welcoming back Coach Sandy Langford, former coach and alumnus for the Lady Indians, as its new volleyball head coach.
Langford comes back to Nocona after spending the past 11 years leading the Glen Rose volleyball program.
Her circumstances with her family allowed her to jump at the opportunity once she became aware the position at Nocona was available.
“My youngest graduated and is playing football at Midwestern (State University),” Langford said. “All of our family is here and I knew that Coach Kara (Lucherk) was leaving. We were eventually going to retire here. Our oldest son plays college football at West Texas A&M and we’ll be two hours closer to him as well.”
She again will lead the Lady Indians volleyball program, one that she led all the way to the state title game in 2011, which is the farthest the volleyball program has ever gone in its prestigious history.
Langford kept up that level of success during her 11 years at the bigger 4A Glen Rose. She won less than 20 games only twice during her time, winning her 500th career game back in 2023. Her teams were ranked among the top 10 in the state five times and Langford led Glen Rose to the state tournament in 2017, the best finish in program history.
With the Lady Indians also having its own string of success, appearing in back-to-back regional finals while finishing atop the district standings both years, Langford is excited to not just keep the success going, but shoot for the stars.
“We are not expecting anything less than a state championship,” Langford said.
She has stacked the non-district schedule with strong, state-ranked 3A and 4A teams as well as big tournaments that will test Nocona’s mettle early next season in the hopes it will prepare them for a long playoff run.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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