Whitetail Mason   Turkey Rocksprings   Catfish Lake Somerville   Black Drum Galveston   Crappie Spring   Redfish San Luis Pass   Redfish Aransas Bay ...

Cold I woke up before sunrise tening to sleet rattle on the roof of the pop-up trailer. I could see my breath. My nose was cold, ...

The Search Continues for your Trophy Buck Y ogi Berra once said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” And in Texas, it ain’t over for hunters on ...

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Roasted Cream of Five Pepper Soup This is a favorite soup of mine and my entire family. On a cold afternoon or evening, nothing will ...

Textron’s Bad Boy Off Road Bad Boy Off Road, a Textron Specialized Vehicles brand, has gone the extra mile so drivers can do even more ...

Flextone Game Calls  One of the main reasons I hunt is to have fun and if I can call a deer within my known accuracy ...

Favorite Deer Rifles I killed my first deer in 1970, I think. I shot it at about 125 yards with my father’s custom Model 98 Mauser ...

Biting Whiting M enticirrhus Americanus is a sleek fish with a humped back and sharply tapered snout. Their underslung mouth is small and designed for taking ...

She Speaks S hhh… of you listen closely, you can hear her talking. She’s trying to tell you something. Yes, your boat does have the power to ...

Red January O n the lower Texas Gulf Coast, the end of federal red snapper season after a few too-short days in summer does not mean that ...

Cold Water Trout T he bay options for the  Port O’Connor and Seadrift area include Matagorda Bay, Espiritu Santo Bay, San Antonio Bay, and even Mesquite ...

New Kayak Service M atagorda has long been known for great kayak fishing, and now it has a business that offers kayak fishing rental, instruction, ...

New Year Excitement J anuary start us over on a new calendar, but it doesn’t have to be a blank one. Outdoorsmen are always planning ahead, ...

Getting 2017 Started J anuary 2017 has arrived. As we greet it with a nice Southeast Texas style welcome, we think about our goals, expectations and hopes ...

Man Made Freshwater T exans are blessed when  it comes to freshwater angling opportunities. We’ve got hundreds of public lakes and reservoirs that are second ...

Weatherby Accumark I could see the forlorn muley’s head and antlers in the gap between a pair of flowering bushes. He was bedded down, the rest of his ...

Bass Bastrop Axis Winnie   Cobia Galveston   Post your own Action Photos and Check Out the TEXAS HOT SHOTS Photo Contest [button title=”GO to ...

Changing Lives, One Fish at a Time Can you see yourself walking into a church and being greeted by a smiling and caring young pastor’s ...

The least expensive and most accessible fishing opportunity in Texas lies along the Gulf Coast. Hundreds of miles of shoreline is available to anglers from ...

This is the best time of year to see boats, boats and more boats! As 2016 becomes history, so do the 2016 model year boats. ...

Hype or Deathly Seriously? Roughly five years have passed since chronic wasting disease first reared its ugly head on Texas soil. That’s when sample collections ...

  January 2-15 marks the late muzzleloader season for whitetail deer in 90 counties across the state. It gives hunters an option to score on ...

Cold Strategy T here’s nothing novel if I were to tell you that wintertime is prime time for big speckled trout. Countless big yellow-mouths have been pulled ...

The Lake Most Likely I t’s hard to believe, but January 24 will mark the 25th anniversary of Texas’s current state record bass. Weighing a whopping ...

Free-Ranging Across the State for More Than 60 Years, These Exotic Imports are Right at Home in Texas The aoudad may be the most challenging ...

The Truth About Dioxins in Galveston Bay The Galveston Bay area has official warnings on the consumption of speckled trout in large portions of the ...

The vast majority of Texans lives within 90 minutes of world-class bass fishing. Whether it’s Lake Falcon to the south, Toledo Bend to the east, ...

Trump .45 Barring unforeseen events to the contrary, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States of America ...

The Politics of Hunting Politics! Bah Humbug! I’ve heard it over and over again and again for so many years. “That Nugent is just too ...

Play Date on a Bay Boat Since our nine-year old boys were barely eight, Andrew Cloutier and I have tried to coordinate a fishing trip ...

Yield to Nature Henry David Thoreau famously called it “the therapeutic value of nature.” The mid-19th Century American philosopher and naturalist based this conclusion on the ...

State of the Nation Last year we introduced the concept of the “Texas Outdoor Nation.” Texas is larger than many countries and in many social ...

Kudos for Kendal Just last week, I was attending the grand opening of a local Dick’s Sporting Goods in Katy. While standing in the hot ...

You’re the Boss As we enter this new year, we want to begin by saying “Thank You” to our loyal readers. Without you, we literally ...

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