Uvalde Leader News - Newspaper for Uvalde, Texas with Uvalde real estate, news, and entertainment After WWII my dad came back to Uvalde and took a job at the post office, one day he met the county judge out in town and the judge asked him if he'd been deer hunting, and he said no he didn't have a place to hunt. Judge Taylor said go on the river beds the state owns them. So for all his life and all mine we hunted deer, turkey, dove on the rivers until hunting became so commercialized the pressure mounted and they started prosecuting river hunters. In fact my dad and group of men where charged with dove hunting in the river, the case went to trial and they were fined $18/ but the judge threw the case out. Now some 40yrs later they have opened the rivers up to hunting. Talking to my dad tonight,he said no survey lines cross the rivers. The rivers were never titled or granted to anyone but the state. Seems someone has discovered this and given them back to the people.
Happy days are here again!