I'm just amazed by all the "hunters" on here who don't read, understand and follow the TPWD regulations. Doesn't matter if you like the regs or not, it's the law. If you want to change that, go to a Commission meeting in Austin and start the process. If you choose to be ignorant, don't blame the Game Warden for doing his job and writing you a citation.

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New for 2015-2016
Freshwater Fishing

In Braunig and Calaveras reservoirs, minimum length limit for largemouth bass is lowered to 14 inches. Daily bag limit remains at five.
On O.H. Ivie Reservoir, smallmouth bass minimum length limit is lowered to 14 inches. Daily bag limit is increased to five.
On Lake Nasworthy, largemouth bass length limit changes to prohibit harvest of bass 14–18 inches long (14–18-inch slot). Daily bag limit remains at five.
On Falcon Lake, alligator gar daily bag limit is increased to five per day.
On Lake Texoma, in addition to the prohibition on the "take" of alligator gar during May from Lake Texoma from the U.S. 377 bridge (Willis Bridge) up-stream to the I-35 bridge, no person "shall fish for or seek to take" alligator gar in that area.

Hunting

Eastern turkey season is closed in 11 counties and on national forest lands in Jasper County.
Eastern turkeys now reported electronically.
Mandatory harvest reporting will no longer be required in Wharton and Matagorda Counties during the 30-day spring turkey season, which opens there April 1.
Youth-only late turkey season is expanded by 12 days in counties having a fall Rio Grande turkey season, to run 14 days concurrently with late youth-only white-tailed deer season.[quote]

rancher, I can assure you that I am not unaware of ANY of the game/fish laws that apply to the species I pursue. Not trying to be high and mighty. It's just the way I was raised. I'm 55 and have hunted and fished in Texas my entire life. In all that time, I've probably been checked by GWs 20+ times. I've only received one citation from a warden in all those years. I was one life jacket short after picking up an extra guy at the ramp while night fishing Fork. I knew the law but in the rush to pick up the guy and get back on the fish, I forgot to grab another life jacket out of my truck. My fault and I learned from it.

It's not defined that way. Reasonable attempt to recover.

No. Know it by heart. But you go on believing I looked it up if it will make you feel better.

Can I as a landowner legally pre sign MLD permits?

Why is it BS? I didn't realize all poachers had quit poaching and all that everybody followed the rules/laws 100%. It was put in place PRECISELY because people hacked up several deer and claimed it was ONE. If you can't count the qtrs you don't know for sure how many deer it is. If the quarters are all present it's very easy to say 'That's one deer'. Jeez, some of you'd gritch if they hanged you with a new rope.

I'm really not interested in wasting any more of my time with you. I manage an MLD III ranch in South Texas. That should give you your answer.

Why is it BS? I didn't realize all poachers had quit poaching and all that everybody followed the rules/laws 100%. It was put in place PRECISELY because people hacked up several deer and claimed it was ONE. If you can't count the qtrs you don't know for sure how many deer it is. If the quarters are all present it's very easy to say 'That's one deer'. Jeez, some of you'd gritch if they hanged you with a new rope.

I don't understand the difficulty either. I have run into the occasional law regarding hunting/trapping that required some clarification - but that one ain't one of 'em. It's easy to both understand and comply with.

Can I as a landowner legally pre sign MLD permits?

I am the land owner and process my family's kills at the ranch (non commercial). The meat is not stored any longer than their visit and then taken home with them. The Jack County warden says all I need to do is fill out the log book as mentioned above. He wasn't sure I even had to do that but to be on the safe side and it costs nothing.

Ahh, so it magically becomes obvious how many deer are in the cooler when it reaches "final destination"... Even though that can be at the location it was killed at.

On your lease or your land, do you need a game warden and game laws to make you manage it well?? Or do you just need someone to call for true unlawful trespassers who are poaching? Does how that poacher cuts up his deer make any difference???? Hale no it doesn't. You know it, but won't admit it.

Admit what? That nobody out there illegally shoots three deer, hacks them into a cooler, and uses one or even zero tags on the meat while hauling it however far to their place before packaging it up?