Texas Fish & Game

The National News of Texas

May 22, 2014

Joystick Control, for Outboard Boats?

Why not? We’ve become used to seeing joysticks in pod drive applications on boats in the 30-foot-plus range, and anyone who’s used these systems knows they make docking a breeze. But on an outboard boat, joysticks […]
May 22, 2014

Alligators and Conservation

No animal symbolizes the marshes of the American South better than the American alligator. Once an endangered species, the population rose enough to open a hunting season in 1984 and now thanks to solid management by […]
May 21, 2014

Croaker basics

Capt. Robert Brooks, www.fishingrockport.com, will be rigging live croaker on his customer’s hooks by the end of May, his “go-to” bait. “With the water temperature climbing, the baitfish get so bad they will wipe out a […]
May 21, 2014

Sand and Teeth: Catching Sharks from Shore

Calixto Gonzales The three old men were a fixture on the South Brazos Santiago jetties. They had an old red oilskin tarp set up as a sort of lean-to for shade, a banged up Coleman camp […]
May 21, 2014

Crime The Major Hunting and Outdoors Store at the Center of a Big Gun Lawsuit

Dawn Nguyen was sentenced to 16 months in prison Monday after pleading guilty last month to falsifying firearms forms in June 2010 at a Gander Mountain store Rochester, New York. There she was accompanied by William […]
May 21, 2014

Another week of huge GM recalls: is your vehicle listed here?

There has to be a better way…or maybe not.   General Motors continues to parcel out recall notices with a new bunch (2.42-million vehicles) today and 2.7-million late last week.  I suspect there is a strategy […]
May 21, 2014

WATCH: Viral Time-lapse Video Captures ‘Epic’ Severe Storm in Wyoming

Take a look at a viral, time-lapse video of a supercell spotted in northeast Wyoming near Clareton Sunday by Basehunters Chasers: “These low precipitation supercells are usually found in the Plains or northern Rockies as they […]
May 21, 2014

Face-to-face with his greatest fear: Moment host of River Monsters encountered 200 lbs, 20-foot long Amazon anaconda that had already crushed a man to death

River Monster’s intrepid host Jeremy Wade faced down his greatest fear when he came face-to-face with a deadly 200 pound anaconda on the latest edition of his hit show, River Monsters. The British adventurer was followed […]
May 21, 2014

TPWD begins oyster restoration project in Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has begun distributing more than 79,000 cubic yards of oyster reef building materials, more commonly known as clutch over eight sites on four natural, publicly owned oyster reefs in Galveston Bay […]
May 21, 2014

Video: Storm Chaser Catches What a Momma Bear Did When Her Cub Became Stranded on the Side of a Road

Storm chaser Ricky Forbes was on the trail of some violent weather in a Canadian national park in British Columbia when he spotted something more interesting than a potential tornado — a momma bear realizing that […]