October 14, 2024 • 8 mins
Lake Buchanan Conservation Corp. is holding a State of Lake Buchanan presentation Tuesday, Oct. 15, at Hill Country Hall in Buchanan Dam. The LBCC's Nick Zackoff talked about the group's mission.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nick Zachoff is here. He's with the Lake Bucannan Conservation
Core and it's always good to see Nick.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Good morning? Very well, thank you, welcome to have it
help me here.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Well, I'm glad you're here. Welcome to the studio. Y'all
do all sorts of stuff out there with Lake Buckcannon.
You watch over the lake, you keep an eye on it,
the health of it and all that stuff. And you've
got an event coming up on Tuesday night that is
it's interesting if you at all care about what's going
on in Lake Buchanan. This is the thing to come to,
(00:30):
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yes, it is definitely. It's Tuesday, October fifteenth at the
Hill Country Hall. We've got Texas Parks and Wildlife in
the fish guy that's going to come out and talk
about the state of the lake as far as the
fish population, how healthy they are, the size of the fish,
different varieties of fish.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Will you see a difference do you think in your
years of knowing this kind of stuff, will you see
a difference in the number, health, whatever of the fish?
Since the lake has come up what ten fifteen feet
in the past.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, next month, that's helped a little, But basically it's
it's the stocking that we do in conjunction with parks
and wildlike and Lano County. But the numbers that we
put in every year, we put in over a million
hybrid stripers, the little fry they call them, real small
you can barely see them. But with the fish stocking
(01:29):
and what's going on in the lakes, they do a
gil netting and do a check on the number of
fish and different varieties, and he's going to do a
report on just how well things are going.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
How do you what have they seen in the past?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Have you have you heard any surprises in the past
that you didn't know?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Just to be honest with you, it's been good news, okay,
the last four or five years that I've been involved
with this, and they're pleased with the growth as far
as the numbers and the size of the Okay, that's
that's encouraging.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Do they do a sample like from different areas of
the lake where you can tell where I don't know
how fish are. Are they territorial? Do they like to
stick in one place or do they.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Move all over the place?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And they do spot checks in different areas. I'm kind
of a kilnetting thing, but he'll get into it more
details about that, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So if you want to know this, you need to
come to this event.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Come come out also, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, so it's a Captain Gene Fernandez is coming to
he's game warden with the Parks and Wildife Department and
he's he's responsible for a big area burn Atlanto. Mason
Minard lamp passes sen Saba. What's he going to talk about?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
That's correct.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, he's newly appointed to the area out here and
he's in charge of.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
All the game wardens.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Okay, so he'll probably just give us a brief talk
about what's going on with the game wardens and some
updates as far as regulations and rules, and we'll be
open to two questions after that. And a lot of
people like to know what's going on with with what
they can and can't do.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Okay, So tell me about the conservation cor what doll
what do y'all mainly do?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Fish docking is one of the things, like I said,
we put in over a million hybrid stripers in every
year for the last this will be our fifteenth year okay,
And with working with the Lano County. They help us
with their hot grants to help pay for the for
the fish.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
But that's hotel occupancy tax.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Hotel occupency, that's correct, and so we're we're in for
that again for this year.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
We also work with the docks.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
There's a couple docks that are on Lake Buchanan on
the Bernard side and the Lano County side. With the
lakes being up and down, it's a it's a constant
effort to keep the docks in the water. The one
in Lantos about ten feet out. But we're working on
some kind of a rail system, but we do that.
We also do scholarships for the local high school students.
(03:57):
We set up ten thousand dollars a year for for
the four various high schools, twenty five hundred dollars that
kids can qualify for.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's need. Where do you all get your funds?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Fundraisers, golf tournaments, fish fries and you guys are always
real helpful with getting the word out.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
About what we're doing. Sure, we do raffles.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
We do a big raffle at the Blue Bondy Festival
every year and people help participate and donations and also
memberships we charge a whopping twenty five dollars a year
to become a member, and that actually helps, believe it
or not, but we get grants, we get donations and contributions,
(04:38):
and so far it's going well.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It seems to me that if you're even a burnet
Orlando County resident, I don't care if you live on
mccannon or not, that twenty five dollars membership to the
Conservation Corps is something that is a good investment in
in just our area, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I agree with you one hundred percent. Said.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It's a small membership fee, and we have families that
have been members for many, many years. The organization has
been around almost eighteen years now, and we do quarterly
meetings and it's open to the public. We asked the
members to invite guests and come out, but this one's
open to the public to come out.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And find out what we do.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And we're always looking for volunteers for projects that we're
working on.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Okay, So it's a state of the Lake talk coming
up on Tuesday, October fifteenth, seven pm. Texas Parks and
Wildlife District Supervisor Patrick Iron's going to be there giving
his annual report on Lake Buckken, and how well.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The fish population.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So if you had to just guess off the top
of your head, being out on the lake all the time,
what do you say about how the lake's doing well?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
The lake, as far as it's doing is low, okay,
But as far as the fish population, it appears to
be doing well. I ran into a guide just the
other day who's getting ready to go out. But we
must have a about a dozen professional fishing guides that
make a living, you know, working on the cannon.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And I talk with people all the time.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
They come in and get their limits of either stripers
or whatever they're they're going for. So I'm encouraged to
see how how good it is and and I'm hoping
that the professional guy with Parks and Wildlife, Patrick Island,
will confirm that.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
But it should be a great meeting.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So the lake is low, but it's healthy.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
It is it is, and the fish population is growing,
and I think part of it. Patrick went out with
one of our fishing guides to put in a million fish,
and he was pretty impressed with the way it was done.
How the temperatures have to be exactly right when you
stock the fish, one or two degrees will shock them
(06:46):
in and they yeah, and you know, if we get
a five or six percent survival rate, which is good.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But that was actually my question.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You put a million fish in there, and how many
do you expect to lose? You expect to lose ninety
three to ninety five percent.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I don't expect to but that's what happens.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, and you know you keep doing it year after Yeah,
that population bills that in the in the Lake Buchanan
inach Lake chamber, there's a fish that's twenty thirty eight
inches long that was over twenty pounds that we stocked
to a Lake Buchanan Conservation Corps stocked five years before
it was caught.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Real, it's a huge fish.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's wow.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
It's a nice thing to see.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
One of the local guides out there Firming donated it
to the to the chamber over there.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I think actually he does our fishing report on KBA
every Thursday morning from.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, well he was the guy that caught that fish,
and so it's nice to see that they're out there
and you know the size limit I guess there's eighteen
inches and a lot of guys are coming in with
their limits of five fish, so well, so far it
looks good.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's good. Okay, what else do we need to know?
Just come Tuesday night.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Come on out Tuesday night, Hill Country Hall, seven pm
and we'll answer some questions that you may have about
the fishing and about game warden stuff. So we'd love
to have you come out, and if you have any
questions you can call me. I'm Nick five one two
six five eight nine nine four.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Four Okay, Nick Zakoff, Lake Mucannon Conservation Corp. Thank you
for coming in and letting us know about this, and
thanks for the invitation on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Appreciate your help. Thank you very much. Take your hope
to see there.
Nick Zachoff is here. He's with the Lake Bucannan Conservation
Core and it's always good to see Nick.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Good morning? Very well, thank you, welcome to have it
help me here.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Well, I'm glad you're here. Welcome to the studio. Y'all
do all sorts of stuff out there with Lake Buckcannon.
You watch over the lake, you keep an eye on it,
the health of it and all that stuff. And you've
got an event coming up on Tuesday night that is
it's interesting if you at all care about what's going
on in Lake Buchanan. This is the thing to come to,
(00:30):
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Yes, it is definitely. It's Tuesday, October fifteenth at the
Hill Country Hall. We've got Texas Parks and Wildlife in
the fish guy that's going to come out and talk
about the state of the lake as far as the
fish population, how healthy they are, the size of the fish,
different varieties of fish.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Will you see a difference do you think in your
years of knowing this kind of stuff, will you see
a difference in the number, health, whatever of the fish?
Since the lake has come up what ten fifteen feet
in the past.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, next month, that's helped a little, But basically it's
it's the stocking that we do in conjunction with parks
and wildlike and Lano County. But the numbers that we
put in every year, we put in over a million
hybrid stripers, the little fry they call them, real small
you can barely see them. But with the fish stocking
(01:29):
and what's going on in the lakes, they do a
gil netting and do a check on the number of
fish and different varieties, and he's going to do a
report on just how well things are going.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
How do you what have they seen in the past?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Have you have you heard any surprises in the past
that you didn't know?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Just to be honest with you, it's been good news, okay,
the last four or five years that I've been involved
with this, and they're pleased with the growth as far
as the numbers and the size of the Okay, that's
that's encouraging.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Do they do a sample like from different areas of
the lake where you can tell where I don't know
how fish are. Are they territorial? Do they like to
stick in one place or do they.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Move all over the place?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And they do spot checks in different areas. I'm kind
of a kilnetting thing, but he'll get into it more
details about that, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So if you want to know this, you need to
come to this event.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Come come out also, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, so it's a Captain Gene Fernandez is coming to
he's game warden with the Parks and Wildife Department and
he's he's responsible for a big area burn Atlanto. Mason
Minard lamp passes sen Saba. What's he going to talk about?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
That's correct.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well, he's newly appointed to the area out here and
he's in charge of.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
All the game wardens.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Okay, so he'll probably just give us a brief talk
about what's going on with the game wardens and some
updates as far as regulations and rules, and we'll be
open to two questions after that. And a lot of
people like to know what's going on with with what
they can and can't do.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Okay, So tell me about the conservation cor what doll
what do y'all mainly do?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Fish docking is one of the things, like I said,
we put in over a million hybrid stripers in every
year for the last this will be our fifteenth year okay,
And with working with the Lano County. They help us
with their hot grants to help pay for the for
the fish.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
But that's hotel occupancy tax.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Hotel occupency, that's correct, and so we're we're in for
that again for this year.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
We also work with the docks.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
There's a couple docks that are on Lake Buchanan on
the Bernard side and the Lano County side. With the
lakes being up and down, it's a it's a constant
effort to keep the docks in the water. The one
in Lantos about ten feet out. But we're working on
some kind of a rail system, but we do that.
We also do scholarships for the local high school students.
(03:57):
We set up ten thousand dollars a year for for
the four various high schools, twenty five hundred dollars that
kids can qualify for.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's need. Where do you all get your funds?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Fundraisers, golf tournaments, fish fries and you guys are always
real helpful with getting the word out.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
About what we're doing. Sure, we do raffles.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
We do a big raffle at the Blue Bondy Festival
every year and people help participate and donations and also
memberships we charge a whopping twenty five dollars a year
to become a member, and that actually helps, believe it
or not, but we get grants, we get donations and contributions,
(04:38):
and so far it's going well.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It seems to me that if you're even a burnet
Orlando County resident, I don't care if you live on
mccannon or not, that twenty five dollars membership to the
Conservation Corps is something that is a good investment in
in just our area, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I agree with you one hundred percent. Said.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It's a small membership fee, and we have families that
have been members for many, many years. The organization has
been around almost eighteen years now, and we do quarterly
meetings and it's open to the public. We asked the
members to invite guests and come out, but this one's
open to the public to come out.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
And find out what we do.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And we're always looking for volunteers for projects that we're
working on.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Okay, So it's a state of the Lake talk coming
up on Tuesday, October fifteenth, seven pm. Texas Parks and
Wildlife District Supervisor Patrick Iron's going to be there giving
his annual report on Lake Buckken, and how well.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The fish population.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
So if you had to just guess off the top
of your head, being out on the lake all the time,
what do you say about how the lake's doing well?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
The lake, as far as it's doing is low, okay,
But as far as the fish population, it appears to
be doing well. I ran into a guide just the
other day who's getting ready to go out. But we
must have a about a dozen professional fishing guides that
make a living, you know, working on the cannon.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And I talk with people all the time.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
They come in and get their limits of either stripers
or whatever they're they're going for. So I'm encouraged to
see how how good it is and and I'm hoping
that the professional guy with Parks and Wildlife, Patrick Island,
will confirm that.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
But it should be a great meeting.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So the lake is low, but it's healthy.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
It is it is, and the fish population is growing,
and I think part of it. Patrick went out with
one of our fishing guides to put in a million fish,
and he was pretty impressed with the way it was done.
How the temperatures have to be exactly right when you
stock the fish, one or two degrees will shock them
(06:46):
in and they yeah, and you know, if we get
a five or six percent survival rate, which is good.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
But that was actually my question.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
You put a million fish in there, and how many
do you expect to lose? You expect to lose ninety
three to ninety five percent.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I don't expect to but that's what happens.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, and you know you keep doing it year after Yeah,
that population bills that in the in the Lake Buchanan
inach Lake chamber, there's a fish that's twenty thirty eight
inches long that was over twenty pounds that we stocked
to a Lake Buchanan Conservation Corps stocked five years before
it was caught.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Real, it's a huge fish.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's wow.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
It's a nice thing to see.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
One of the local guides out there Firming donated it
to the to the chamber over there.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I think actually he does our fishing report on KBA
every Thursday morning from.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, well he was the guy that caught that fish,
and so it's nice to see that they're out there
and you know the size limit I guess there's eighteen
inches and a lot of guys are coming in with
their limits of five fish, so well, so far it
looks good.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's good. Okay, what else do we need to know?
Just come Tuesday night.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Come on out Tuesday night, Hill Country Hall, seven pm
and we'll answer some questions that you may have about
the fishing and about game warden stuff. So we'd love
to have you come out, and if you have any
questions you can call me. I'm Nick five one two
six five eight nine nine four.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Four Okay, Nick Zakoff, Lake Mucannon Conservation Corp. Thank you
for coming in and letting us know about this, and
thanks for the invitation on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Appreciate your help. Thank you very much. Take your hope
to see there.
Popular Podcasts
CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist
It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.