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Getting a Move On ver the course of our 33-year history, texas fish & game has had its headquarters in five locations around the state. First, there was 903 Third Street, Marble Falls, Texas 78654. This was […]

Big hogs! I see Texas Fish and Game is looking for photos of monster hogs. Here are some I took with my bow. Enjoy! Mike Ray Host “The Wild Life with Mike and Heather” Thanks for […]

We’ve Got a Texas-Size Poaching Problem 17- year-old Harris County  teen has been charged in connection with the February 22 shooting of a bald eagle near White Oak Bayou. It was one of a pair that […]

Far Bend Fever ack in the spring of 1983, Guinder Edwin Velasquez-Clark guided me to my first fly-rod tarpon. We were fishing out of Archie Fields’s old Rio Colorado Lodge on the northeastern coast of Costa Rica. […]

Unstoppable Hogs N FEBRUARY Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller approved the first chemical weapon for use in the war against the state’s seemingly unstoppable population of wild hogs. My guess is that in a year or […]

Heal Thy Brother ix year old Makon Lynn struggled to walk to the archery range. After a year of chemotherapy and tortuous radiation to treat his agonizing cancer, the courageous little guy had to give all his […]

Spring turkeys are frustrating—especially in Texas. The reason I say this is that temperatures can vary so much in that crucial period when the birds decide to get frisky that it can cause an early breeding […]

There are a passel of good ways to catch crappie. On a scale of one to ten, soaking shiners or casting jigs around brush piles has to rank right near the top. This holds especially true […]

Takin’ It To The Bank ne of the biggest misconceptions  in fishing is you need a boat of some kind to get off the bank to catch fish—especially the big ones. I call it a misconception […]

The State Has Approved the Use of Poison for hogs Control. Right or Wrong? Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has announced a rule change in the Texas Administrative Code (TAC) that classifies a warfarin-based hog lure […]

I wasn’t feeling any pain, yet. I was numb and enraged in my adrenaline high, still feeling the sharp sting of fear and anger. There I was, flat on my butt in a prickly pear cactus […]

Though redfish are year-round hitters, with the warmer weather, there is even more potential for some action-packed fishing in Texas. Captain Chris Martin, owner of Bay Flats Lodge on San Antonio Bay, provides his best tips […]

The long and Short of It o, the bass anglers Sportsman Society has decided that beginning this past January, tournament anglers may use rods up to 10 feet long, up from the long-standing eight-foot limit. The rule, […]

The Growing Reputation of Texas Calvin Carter It’s all about conservation. It’s about inspiring people to take care of our precious wildlife resources.” Those are the words of Calvin Carter, a man many call a “wildlife […]

I Thought I Saw a Sea Snake? It emerged from a weedline that covered the edges of the 18-mile light out of Sabine Pass. “It had white/bluish and black bands and came from under the weeds […]

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Nostalgia for a ‘Favorite’ ost of us who grew up  in the first half of the 20th Century, remember our first gun fondly. For many of us that first gun was a Stevens Favorite. The Favorite was […]

Texas Big Bass t’s big bass time in Texas,  which means plenty of photos of big fish will be shared on social media near and far. I always enjoy inspecting pictures of big fish, especially lunker […]

Sabine’s Hotspots armer air and water temperatures are gradually becoming the rule rather than the exception as the spring season slowly but surely begins to take hold of the Texas Gulf Coast. With the arrival of […]

April Brings More Than The Easter Bunny ith the prospect of a mild winter again and rainfall levels more normal than in recent years, April should see the start of serious fishing action on our part […]

Fishing in Off- Colored Water n April 25th, 2016, I was trying to figure out where my wife Janet and I could go fishing. We had received about three times the normal April rainfall, and most of […]

Spring Into Change or many coastal anglers who don’t live close to the water, a lot of decisions have to be made by a number of different people whenever a plan is being put together for a […]

Banking It t’s true most of us who  have a boat rarely give a thought to fishing from the shoreline. We have, we believe, graduated to the next level and shall never return to beating the […]

Try Holly Beach for a Gift of Speckled Trout pril seems tailor- made for anglers who want to get out, get some sun and warmth, and catch a few cooperative fish to boot.  Water has stayed around […]

Rapid Changes f you’ve been keeping tabs  on marine electronics in the past five or six years, you might have noticed that the pace of technological advancement is now so rapid, what was brand-spanking-new today is […]

Tumbling Dice ore big trout will be caught on the Texas coast in April and May than during any other two-month span of the year, but predicting springtime coastal weather is a crap shoot. Seasoned anglers know […]

Finesse Fishing Heavy Cover With Mark Daniels ass university instruction Mark Daniels Jr., a veteran of the FLW Tour and now a rookie on the Bassmaster Elite Series, learned to fish on the California Delta. Although some […]

The Magnum .30s he first .30 Caliber was an American invention. In 1913, firearms inventor and designer, Charles Newton, of .250-3000 Savage fame, developed a large-cased, non-belted, .30 caliber for gunsmith Fred Adolph. He initially called it […]

In-Water Boat Show Gears Up for Spring The region’s largest in-water boat show allows buyers to see boats in their element The Southwest International Boat Show, the largest in-water boat show in the Southwest, and the […]

Scope Out Skeet’s New Tournament Series Rods  Eagle Claw Wright & McGill proudly introduces the completely redesigned Skeet Reese Tournament Series rod line, featuring the first to market 10-foot telescopic rods designed specifically to meet the […]

Headline Salmon and Shrimp Croquettes This is one of my mom’s recipes that she made as I was growing up. I have added some of my own touches to the original, but they are great served […]

Catch and Release stood there at the tailgate of my pickup with a fishhook buried in my bottom lip and still another in my thumb. But I can explain.  I’d been looking for a tiny bream […]