High Plains Outdoors: A New, Old Fishing Spot

This week, Luke comes to you from the porch of his little hunting cabin, nestled in the oaks behind his house, with the topic of mountain lions.

Earlier this week, a jogger was attacked by a juvenile 80-pound male mountain lion on Horsetooth Mountain in Colorado. The jogger managed to choke the lion to death, which in itself is an amazing feat. 

In this week's High Plains Outdoors Luke discusses the various types of night vision used for hunting wild hogs.

Thermal is hands down the most versatile of all form of 'lighting up the night' but it is also the most expensive.

Luke uses a Photon XT digital scope by Sightmark that is good for both day and night hunting that costs a fraction of the cost of the high-end thermal scopes. 

Luke spend a couple days last week helping to host some outdoors writer friends on a big bore airgun hunt sponsored by Pyramyd Air www.pyramydair.com.

Joe Arterburn, who freelances a column for Outdoor Life, Doug Howlett, editor of Fur and Fangs, and Larry Chesey, senior editor at Sporting Classics, joined Luke in east Texas at B & C Outfitters, owned by Mark Balette.

The 50-caliber Dragon Claw was put to work and did a great job putting wild porkers on the ground. 

Luke considers part of his job as an outdoors journalist for almost three decades is to introduce his readers/listeners to awesome outdoor opportunities.

Last week, Luke visited a brand new hunting, fishing and weekend getaway located only a bit over two hours from Dallas, the Broken Stone Ranch www.brokenstoneranch.com, which offers reasonably priced hog hunting year 'round but there is no better time to go than during the winter and spring months.

In this week's High Plains Outdoors, Luke recaps a yellow bass fishing trip he went on last week.

Yellow bass, sometimes called 'barfish' are excellent eating and provide great sport when using light spinning tackle.

"Yellows' can be caught on a wide variety of downsized baits or one-third sections of minnow.

In Texas, there is no limit on yellow bass and these little fish are excellent eating.

Tune in and hear all about this past week’s outing that Luke enjoyed with Stubby Stubbfield, Jeff Rice and Shannon Wheeler on Lake Fork in East Texas.