I like to catch big fish as much as the next guy but NOT enough to risk life and limb. If you keep up with the news, or if you read my last blog you are aware of the problem with Mexican Pirates on Lake Falcon which sits right on the border with Texas. The following article updates the situation. Suffice to say, I'll do my fishing a little closer to home. No fish is worth getting shot.

ZAPATA, Texas — A sheriff says a 30-year-old man reported shot on a lake on the Texas-Mexico border had just moved back to the United States after working in Mexico.

Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez says David Michael Hartley and his wife moved to McAllen, Texas, from the Mexican border city of Reynosa about five months ago. Gonzalez says the Hartleys had planned to returned to their native Colorado in two weeks.

Gonzalez says the shooting was a random attack.

Gonzalez says Hartley was shot in the back of the head Thursday on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake on the Rio Grande in an ambush by armed boaters. It happened near the U.S. boundary of a lake where run-ins with pirates already had fishermen and Texas officials on alert.