Texas Fish & Game

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December 5, 2023

Alligator Feeding Frenzy On Sabine River (Video)

Alligators usually feed with stealth by waiting patiently for their prey to come by. Occasionally alligators will feed in a frenzy. Texas Fish & Game Editor-In-Chief Chester Moore found a 2013 clip of a gator frenzy […]
December 4, 2023

Lake Calcasieu Gets New Fishing Reefs

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has completed the construction of 25 acres oyster reefs in Calcasieu Lake (East Side) to increase oyster habitat and fisheries production. The construction process, known as cultch planting, […]
November 29, 2023

Taking Back Bass

The bream never saw it coming. Guarding its bed, the hand-sized fish swam in circles until a flash of green, black and white burst onto the shallows. Engulfing the bream with one strike and pushing a […]
November 29, 2023

TX Master Naturalist Program Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Over the last 25 years, more than 15,300 Texas Master Naturalist volunteers have made their mark by dedicating their time to helping protect and conserve the state’s natural resources. Their impact spans across more than 256,000 acres of […]
November 29, 2023

TX Couple Busted For Selling Jaguar Cub

An Alamo couple have been arrested for selling protected wildlife in the first case filed under The Big Cat Act, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Legal permanent resident Rafael Gutierrez-Galvan, 29, and his wife Deyanira […]
November 27, 2023

Jordan Lee Returns To Bassmaster Elite Series

Former back-to-back Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic champion Jordan Lee is headed back to the Bassmaster Elite Series in 2024. Lee will return to the Elites via a Legend’s spot in the field, which opened […]
November 27, 2023

Feds Give $20 Million To Snapper Research

The Department of Commerce and NOAA announced plans for $20 million in funding to address the impacts of climate change on red snapper and other reef fish in the Gulf of Mexico, as part of President […]
November 27, 2023

Find These Signs And Find Specks

Although the Gulf Coast has a huge trout population and healthy number of large fish, the habits of truly large trout are still mysterious in many ways. But over the years I have noticed through my […]
November 27, 2023

TPWD Closing Oyster Areas Along Coast

Based on recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD)-collected samples showing low abundance of legal-sized oysters, beginning 12:01 a.m. Nov. 27, TPWD will close TX-1 and TX-5 in Galveston Bay to commercial and recreational oyster harvest. TPWD […]
November 21, 2023

NOAA Denies Petition To Establish Gulf Speed Limit

A huge win for the recreational community occurred on Friday, October 27th, 2023 when the petition to establish a mandatory, 10.5-knot speed limit in the Gulf of Mexico was denied by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration […]