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OUTDOORS: Changes forthcoming for hunting, fishing

Published

10 years ago

04/11/2016

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopted changes to this year’s deer hunting regulations.
The most significant change is expansion of white-tailed deer hunting into 14 counties across the western Texas Panhandle.
The commission adopted the following changes to the 2016-17 Statewide Hunting Proclamation, which will be placed into the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Outdoor Annual:
• Elimination of the antlerless and spike-buck control permit due to a lack of demand.
• Define “unbranched antlered deer” to clear up what constitutes a legal buck across seasons and to eliminate confusion for hunters.

Fishing

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved a series of regulation changes affecting bass and catfish.
New rules have clarified saltwater length limits on black drum and amberjack, and rules prohibiting snagging a fish with a pole and line.
The changes to the 2016-17 state recreational and commercial fishing regulations take effect on Sept. 1, 2016.

Texas Fest musical lineup unveiled

Texas Fest will take place from May 20-22 at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, and the musical lineup has been announced.
Lee Brice, Kip Moore and Big & Rich with Cowboy Troy will be the headline musical entertainment.

CWD cases found

Two new cases of chronic wasting disease in Texas captive deer, including the first confirmed from a tonsil biopsy sample.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Animal Health Commission are conducting an epidemiological investigation into the new cases.
One case involves a 3½-year-old captive raised white-tailed doe born and raised on-site, and died on-site from natural causes at a facility in Medina County.
The live test finding is from a 2½-year-old- captive white-tailed buck in the Uvalde-Medina deer breeding facility that was the source of a CWD positive white-tailed buck harvested by a hunter from a release site on the same ranch. Read more from the outdoors notebook in the April 9 Bowie News.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. (Logo provided by the TPWD, used with permission)

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Bowie softball team falls in area round

Published

7 days ago

05/07/2026

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Bowie softball had a historic season, where the squad made the postseason for the first time since 2019 and knocked a top seed from the playoffs, come to an end April 29.

No-4 ranked Tuscola Jim Ned got out to a quick start and took an 11-1, five inning win in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs. Bowie had its season end at 19-15.

With a large crowd at Weatherford High rooting them on, Bowie took the field looking to knock out another top seed, as they did with Early last week.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.

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Willett, Richey off to State

Published

7 days ago

05/07/2026

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Bowie will have two track athletes at the State track and field meet May 14 with top two finishes at the Region 1-3A track meet at Abilene Christian University May 1-2.

Tyler Richey finished 2^nd in the pole vault with a 15’ leap. Richey was also 9^th in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.39. Sophomore Braden Willett was 3^rd in the 1,600-meters with a school record best of time of 4:21.93. Willett was 4^th in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 9:29.71.

Several other Rabbits and Lady Rabbits competed at the regional meet. The 800-meter relay foursome of Colton Dosch, Richey, Finn Riddle and Jaxon White finished 6^th with a time of 1:30.24 while the 1,600-meter relay team of Dosch, Judah Livsey, Riddle and Blaine Leonard finished 8^th with a time of 3:30.76.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.

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Fourteen track athletes head to State

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7 days ago

05/07/2026

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Saint Jo’s boys and girls track teams took top honors at the Region III-A track meet at Hewitt Midway High School May 1-2 and will send several athletes to the state track and field meet May 16 in Austin.

The boys were led by Damon Byrd who won both the long jump with a 22’9 ¾” leap and triple jump with a 45’ 10 ½”. Byrd also won the 100-meter dash with a time of 1.03 and was a member of the victorious 800-meter relay along with Trent Gaston, Barrett Johnson and Lee Yeley with a time of 1:30.80.

Yeley won the high jump with a 6’ leap. Byrd, Yeley, Dominic Luna and Gaston combined for a 2^nd-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay with a time 3:32.81. Gaston was 2^nd in the 110-meter hurdles with a tie of 16.09. Johnson was 2^nd in the 400-meter dash in 50.75, Ayden Giambruno was 6^th in the 3200-meter run in 11:05.24 with Yeley 8^th in the 200-meters with a time of 25.61.

For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.