Texas Fish & Game

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September 6, 2023

Everything You Need to Know about Swordfish Baits

It’s amazing the lengths anglers will go to when they’re prepping up offshore baits. Ballyhoo get rigged and salted. Ribbonfish get love, care, and a chandelier of treble hooks. Eels get scrubbed with steel wool until […]
September 5, 2023

Catching Specks in Difficult Conditions

Specks are finicky fish, and when conditions aren’t right catching them can seem nearly impossible. Of course, you may have just woken up at zero-dark-early, launched the boat, then cruised for 10 miles before you found […]
August 24, 2023

GOING COASTAL by Kelly Groce

Mother Lagoon in Full Bloom LISTEN: (4 Min, 15 Sec)   SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER are by far my favorite months out of the year, especially for fishing. It’s as if Mother Lagoon and her wildlife have been […]
August 23, 2023

Surf Fishing Tips, Old to New

I already knew that surf fishing was a ton of fun, but somehow through the years I suppose I forgot just how much fun. Then last week my family visited the beach for a week, and […]
August 22, 2023

Inshore Grouper on Light Tackle

Wait a sec – don’t you need a pool-cue rod, 80-pound test, and six ounces of lead to catch grouper!? Heck no. Sure, you’ll have to make some adjustments and take some additional factors into consideration, […]
August 3, 2023

Tips for Fishing Soft Plastic Jigs

Casting soft plastics has become one of the most popular ways to fish among light tackle aficionados, whether the target is redfish, speckled sea trout, or just about any other inshore predator prowling the water. And […]
August 2, 2023

Catch More Mahi-Mahi Offshore

Mahi-mahi are certainly an exhilarating fish to catch. They attack with abandon, leap clear of the water, and go utterly berserk when you get them into the boat. And on the whole, they’re relatively easy to […]
August 1, 2023

Old School Flounder Fishing

We anglers come up with all sorts of inventive ways to catch fish. New lures, new techniques, new rods and reels – the list goes on and on. But in some cases it’s mighty tough to […]
July 5, 2023

Catching Tidal Mega-Cats

Catfish can grow shockingly large, and while they do tend to be larger in freshwater, they get plenty big in tidal waters, too. Interestingly, the record for blue catfish (42.78 pounds), channel catfish (7.44 pounds), and […]
June 29, 2023

Working with Wire

If you’re targeting toothy critters, you’ll often need to work with wire leader. And, this stuff can be tricky. In fact, many anglers simply hate the stuff. If you know how to work with wire, however, […]