Outdoors With Luke Clayton

Texas fishing guide Omar Cotter joins Luke Clayton to share expert tips on catching hybrid stripers and white bass using downriggers at Lake Tawakoni.

Bill Carey with Striper Express (www.striperexpress.com) is Luke's guest this week. Luke and Bill recap a recent fishing trip this week and give some fishing tips that will help you pattern the fish after the influx of all the water from the flood of a month or so ago.

Luke's guest this week is Lake Tawakoni guide Tony Pennebaker (903-474-3078). Luke and Tony discuss a trip earlier in the week for blue catfish that produced some jumbo size fish up to forty pounds. Many people think the bigger blues bite only during the cold weather months but that's not the case. Listen to Luke's weekly podcast "Catfish Radio with Luke Clayton and Friends" just about everywhere podcast are found.

Luke's guest this week is Kelly Reeves, editor/publisher of the East Texas based magazine, "Life and Land" (www.lifeandland.com). The magazine covers topics that interest not only sportsmen but landowners and folks that lease hunting land as well. Click and listen to an interesting "down home" conversation between two guys that share a passion for the outdoors and the outdoor lifestyle.

Luke visits with Bill Carey (www.striperexpress.com) at Lake Texoma and discusses the striper fishing there post flood. Luke also relates a comical hog hunting tale! Listen to Luke's weekly podcast "Catfish Radio with Luke Clayton and Friends" just about everywhere podcasts are found.

Larry Weishuhn (www.larryweishuhn.net) is Luke's guest again this week. Many of us think of food plots to be limited to fall but Larry explains just how beneficial summer food plots can be to wildlife. Click to listen to Luke and his good friend share some information that might help you improve the habitat for wildlife on your property.

Luke’s guest this week is again, Larry Weishuhn, who has long served as the Ambassador for Dallas Safari Club. This week Luke visits with Larry about the up-coming DSC East Texas Chapter’s “Whitetail Deer Showcase” to be held June 7th and 8th (Saturday and Sunday) at the Nacogdoches County Expo Center in Nacogdoches. On display will be some of the best whitetail deer taken in North East Texas, plus many vendors with hunting and outdoor, equipment and adventures. Open to the public, you do not have to be a member!Friday night there will be a banquet complete with a great meal, games and an auction to raise funds for wildlife conservation with emphasis on Northeast Texas. Texas Wildlife Association staff will be on hand to teach attendees to score deer throughout the event. Saturday’s seminars will include Dr. James Kroll, Texas Wildlife Staff, Larry Weishuhn and Paul Moore.For more information please go to www.easttexassportsmansclub.org.Luke and Larry also talk about the upcoming 40th Anniversary Convention of the Texas Wildlife Association in July 10th–12th. For more information please go to www.texas-wildlife.org.

Luke shares a different way he puts catfish to use in a Cajun dish called Courtbullion (coo-bee-yon). Courtbullion is actually a catfish stew that is very tasty. In this week's show Luke walks us through the simple process, step by step. To see more of Luke's work, check out his website www.catfishradio.org or listen to his podcast "Catfish Radio with Luke Clayton and Friends" just about everywhere podcast are heard. Email Luke at lukeclayton1950@gmail.com

Larry Weishuhn aka "Mr. Whitetail" joins Luke this week and the two old friends 'scattergun' a number of topics including hunting axis deer and upcoming events at Dallas Safari Club (www.biggame.org) as well as a turkey hunt this week at the Choctaw Hunting Lodge (www.choctawhuntinglodge.com) in southeast Oklahoma.

Luke's guest this week is MIke Ford, well known quarterback for SMU back in the eighties. Mike and his wife Lori own a ranch in northern Red River County that was one of the premier areas for the eastern wild turkey/ . Up until a decade or so ago, the birds were flourishing here and in several counties along the Red River. Mike talks about damage wild hogs have done to not only nesting turkeys but quail as well. There used to be a healthy population of timber rattlers in the area and in the summer in May when the snakes are mating, it was common to see them along roadsides. Mike says he has not encountered a rattler in the area for several years. Wild hogs are certainly changing the east Texas ecosystem.