Blasting and casting down near the gulf coast

People sometimes ask me which I like the most — hunting or fishing. It’s like, do you like cherry or apple pie the most? If bird hunting is good, it’s my favorite. If fishing is hot, I like it the best.

Last week I got to do both — blast and cast. My friend, Bill Jones, purchased a dove hunt for four of us in a field near Sinton. We had planned to hunt white-winged doves in south Texas where Bill had shot a limit of birds a few days prior. But the outfitter said the birds had moved. Doves can be fickle. Here one day and gone the next.

But he called Bill to report that another of his connections reported lots of doves feeding in a sesame seed field between Mathis and Sinton.