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Texas coastal areas will be closed to fishing due to freeze Matt Wyatt, Staff writer
Areas on the Texas coast are being closed to fishing while an arctic blast sweeps much of the country, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced Saturday.
The closure will take effect at midnight on Monday through 11:59 p.m. Tuesday. The high mortality that a freeze can cause may deplete fish stocks for years, Robin Riechers, director of TPWD’s coastal fisheries division, said in a release. Protection of the surviving fish during the few days when they are especially vulnerable to capture would likely shorten the time period for overall recovery of coastal species, especially spotted sea trout.
Just don’t expect to come back from a chachalaca hunt with an entertaining story for your buddies around the campfire, Perez added. “You didn’t take your dog, and it wasn’t a beautiful morning. The sun wasn’t setting,” he said, describing scenes from a more idyllic hunt. “You have to leave all that stuff out. But you can say, ‘I did it.’”
I had never shot a chachalaca. Heck, I didn’t even know you could hunt chachalacas until this assignment came along. I’d heard the birds’ cacophonous calls only once although I didn’t lay eyes on them while strolling the native gardens of Quinta Mazatlan, an urban bird and plant sanctuary in McAllen.