LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – September/October 2020
EDITOR’S NOTES by Chester Moore – September/October 2020
August 26, 2020
INSIDE FISH & GAME by Roy and Ardia Neves – September/October 2020
August 26, 2020
America Is Still Beautiful
HI CHESTER,
I read your article “America Is Still Beautiful” in the July/August issue not once, but twice. Indeed, you are very fortunate to have been able to travel and experience all that you have in America. Many people including me have not even been to all of the states in America. Your adoration of America and all its wildlife and scenery are indeed a treasure.
I live in East Texas near Lake Fork and it pisses me off just to travel the back roads and see all the trash people throw away along the road. When we take a walk, we take a trash bag to pick up stuff on our way back to the house.
My wife and I own what we call a “little piece of paradise” with a big pond right out our back door. It is stocked with bluegill and bass so we can fish and share it with our grand kids and the neighbor’s kids too. We have a small flock of Canadian geese that come back each year to have babies. Such a treat to know that they trust us and keep coming back; and such a God-given instinct to find our place each year.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and talent for writing about them for us.
Kind Regards,
Herman and Mary Meister
Editor: Thank you so much for your kind words. I love seeing baby Canadas. Too cute and really cool they are increasing in numbers in East Texas. I still believe great things can happen here in America if we move forward with God-given creativity and freedom.
Cool Down and Be Thankful
I ENJOYED Doug Pike’s column, a lament on the no-fishing lock-down, “Cool Down and Be Thankful.”.
Me? Well, my main fishing interest these days is fly fishing in the mountains of the Occupied Territories, the 2/3 of New Mexico and 1/3 of Colorado that are part of the Republic of Texas. So, I ordered some fly-tying equipment and materials and I am teaching myself to tie flies.
FWIW: There are countless hours of very good fly-tying instructional videos on the Internet. Davie McPhail on YouTube is very good, but it takes a while to get used to his very thick Scottish accent.
Jay Bute
Austin, Texas
Editor: Doug always turns in great columns and your “occupied territory” comment totally made my day.
Bear Coverage
TF&G has been covering bears in Texas for twenty years.
(Photo: Canstock)
THANKS FOR the great bear coverage in the Texas Fish & Game e-newsletter. I appreciate that you do so much diversity in coverage, and whether I want to learn how to catch trout on topwaters or learn about bear recovery in Texas I can get it in my inbox. The bear stories have been great. Keep them coming.
Lon Felsher
It’s so cool to see bears coming back to Northeast Texas. Your work to raise awareness to the bear situation has to go back at least a decade. Kudos to you for that.
W. Hollen
Editor: I started writing on bears returning to Texas in ’96 when I was 23 in newspapers and in TF&G in 2000. I started the “Be Texas Bear Aware” program with TF&G in 2007. Through it we have distributed thousands of bear aware posters and published numerous articles in Texas Fish & Game and in our e-newsletter. We are the only privately owned outdoor magazine to have a bear cover in Texas and are proud that we were doing this before anyone else.
Email your comments to: editor@fishgame.com
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America Is Still Beautiful
HI CHESTER,
I read your article “America Is Still Beautiful” in the July/August issue not once, but twice. Indeed, you are very fortunate to have been able to travel and experience all that you have in America. Many people including me have not even been to all of the states in America. Your adoration of America and all its wildlife and scenery are indeed a treasure.
I live in East Texas near Lake Fork and it pisses me off just to travel the back roads and see all the trash people throw away along the road. When we take a walk, we take a trash bag to pick up stuff on our way back to the house.
My wife and I own what we call a “little piece of paradise” with a big pond right out our back door. It is stocked with bluegill and bass so we can fish and share it with our grand kids and the neighbor’s kids too. We have a small flock of Canadian geese that come back each year to have babies. Such a treat to know that they trust us and keep coming back; and such a God-given instinct to find our place each year.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and talent for writing about them for us.
Kind Regards,
Herman and Mary Meister
Editor: Thank you so much for your kind words. I love seeing baby Canadas. Too cute and really cool they are increasing in numbers in East Texas. I still believe great things can happen here in America if we move forward with God-given creativity and freedom.
Cool Down and Be Thankful
I ENJOYED Doug Pike’s column, a lament on the no-fishing lock-down, “Cool Down and Be Thankful.”.
Me? Well, my main fishing interest these days is fly fishing in the mountains of the Occupied Territories, the 2/3 of New Mexico and 1/3 of Colorado that are part of the Republic of Texas. So, I ordered some fly-tying equipment and materials and I am teaching myself to tie flies.
FWIW: There are countless hours of very good fly-tying instructional videos on the Internet. Davie McPhail on YouTube is very good, but it takes a while to get used to his very thick Scottish accent.
Jay Bute
Austin, Texas
Editor: Doug always turns in great columns and your “occupied territory” comment totally made my day.
Bear Coverage
TF&G has been covering bears in Texas for twenty years.
(Photo: Canstock)
THANKS FOR the great bear coverage in the Texas Fish & Game e-newsletter. I appreciate that you do so much diversity in coverage, and whether I want to learn how to catch trout on topwaters or learn about bear recovery in Texas I can get it in my inbox. The bear stories have been great. Keep them coming.
Lon Felsher
It’s so cool to see bears coming back to Northeast Texas. Your work to raise awareness to the bear situation has to go back at least a decade. Kudos to you for that.
W. Hollen
Editor: I started writing on bears returning to Texas in ’96 when I was 23 in newspapers and in TF&G in 2000. I started the “Be Texas Bear Aware” program with TF&G in 2007. Through it we have distributed thousands of bear aware posters and published numerous articles in Texas Fish & Game and in our e-newsletter. We are the only privately owned outdoor magazine to have a bear cover in Texas and are proud that we were doing this before anyone else.
Email your comments to: editor@fishgame.com
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