Letters to the Editor

Editor’s Notes
March 16, 2018
Inside Fish & Game
March 16, 2018

Confusing Subscription Cancellation

I respectfully decline the renewal of your magazine. I have come to realize that you have endorsed the antler measurement of 13-inch or greater judged by alert ears!

Ha!

Alert ears means they have detected something that is not right and before you can make a judgment, they are gone.

This has nothing more to do than big money buying TPWD and you guys out.

I do not hunt for horns. If horns happen, that is a plus. It takes three deer for meat for my family a year. Two can be stretched but three is ideal. So, if I am restricted to the point that I have several six point bucks that their horns grow straight up-the case in Jack/Clay county then I am forced to shoot a couple of doe whether young or old. That deletes (sic) the overall deer herd. One of the doe might be carrying a 12-point in the future!

Size of deer should be between the landowner and the hunting lease. Your argument is that the deer belong to the state of Texas. No they don’t. That is a political piece of crap. They first and foremost belong to God. After that, they belong to the landowner when they are on the land. They only belong to Texas first when they are on State owned land.

I do honor the laws as written, but I do not have to otherwise support them, the politicians that support them, nor the outdoor magazines that support them. I know, I, as an individual don’t mean crap to you or politicians and certainly not to game fence operators but I don’t have to support you either.

By the way, I am a lifetime license holder. I do believe in conservation. I do believe that animals should be hunted only if they are destructive-hogs, armadillos, etc., or for food only. People, who do not respect the meat and the animal, are no better than a predator.

Jackie Miller

Editor: We have no problem accepting your cancellation but are completely confused by your letter. For starters, we have never “endorsed” the 13-inch antler regulation. In fact, when it was first proposed I wrote an opinion piece in my column AGAINST it. However as a magazine we take no stance for or against this law. It is what it is.

TF&G has covered the 13-inch rule objectively since 2010.

TF&G has covered the 13-inch rule objectively since 2010.

We are not a governmental agency. We are a privately owned magazine that writes about fishing, hunting, shooting and wildlife. We make no decisions on any regulations whatsoever.

You say that you as an individual “don’t mean crap to you (meaning us) or politicians”.

Again, I am not sure who you think we are. 

And we do care about our readers to the extent we go to great expense of time, money and energy to bring an honest to goodness quality product.

I do salute you for not hunting for “horns.”

I have never hunted for them either. It was always about the meat but I never minded shooting a buck with a nice set of antlers.

If we knew why we offended you we might have a reason to apologize but for now we hope you enjoy your time in the field and don’t stay as frustrated as you seem in the letter.

 

Fish Kills

Why don’t we see fish kills on freshwater like we do in saltwater? It seems freezes or red tides kill fish all the time on the coasts?

John Anderson

Editor: There are kills in freshwater. The biggest killer is golden algae outbreaks that have taken millions of fish at a time on lakes such as Possum Kingdom. There are also freeze related kills in small ponds and freshwater marshes that are rarely reported. The big reservoirs in Texas—like the Gulf of Mexico—have deep enough water that fish can easily get into a safe zone of sorts. Saltwater freeze kills are based on fish being trapped in shallows, often after a warming trend, and then being exposed to quickly falling temperatures.

 

Email your comments to: editor@fishgame.com

 

Yamaha

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