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Discovery T HERE’S A LEGAL TERM called “discovery.” It really has to do with lawsuits, but the abbreviated definition is that “the process of discovery ...

TEXAS FRESHWATER Lake Amistad Lake Texoma DFW Metroplex Lake Livingston TEXAS SALTWATER Upper Texas Coast Mid Texas Coast Lower Texas Coast Louisiana HUNTING South Texas ...

Texas Style Cajun Jambalaya WHETHER YOU ARE AT THE FISHING CAMP, the deer lease or just at home and wanting to make something good without ...

A Texas Hill Country Sporting Paradise JOSHUA CREEK RANCH, located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, is nestled on an isolated stretch of the pristine ...

The following pages contain TIDE and SOLUNAR predictions for Galveston Channel (N 29.3166°, W 94.88°). TIDE PREDICTIONS are located in the WHITE SPACE above the ...

PINEY WOODS LOCATION: Lake Livingston HOTSPOT: The Pocket | Off the River Channel GPS: N 30 55.662, W 95 15.054 (30.9277, -95.2509) SPECIES: Largemouth Bass ...

UPPER TEXAS COAST LOCATION: East Galveston Bay HOTSPOT: Van-Ta-Un Flats GPS: N 29 32.794, W 94 45.805 (29.5466, -94.7634) SPECIES: Speckled Trout BEST BAITS: Topwaters ...

April Showers Bring… Trout [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]I T’S BEEN A CRAZY WINTER. Fronts blowing sometimes twice, even three times a week have ...

A Magic Combination on Baffin Bay [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]T HERE’S ON BIG REASON that the April guide’s calendars at BBR&G fill up ...

Tried and True: The Popping Cork T HE POPPING CORK/SHRIMP COMBO is undoubtedly the most used technique along the coast to catch speckled trout. Why? Because ...

One Person’s Trash is Another’s Treasure [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]W HEN SANFORD AND SON  was created, I am pretty sure they let my ...

Early-Season Tactics for Mid-Coast Flounder [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]A NGLERS CAN OFTEN LOCATE speckled trout and redfish almost every month of the year ...

Where Are They? [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]I N THE MONTH OF APRIL, water temperatures are typically between 70°F and 80°F. This stimulates the ...

Getting Ready for Spring! [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]T HE WINTER OF 2017-18 saw more cold weather on the upper Texas coast than had ...

April Brings Consistency to Sabine W EATHER PATTERNS AND CONDITIONS become slightly more stable and predictable in April, so the translation here on Sabine Lake equals ...

Redfish Galveston Whitetail Doss, Texas   Post your own Action Photos and Check Out the TEXAS HOT SHOTS Photo Contest [button title=”GO to Hot Shots” ...

Improvements Underway at J.D. Murphree WMA Ducks Unlimited and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) completed a project in early December to improve more ...

THE CONVERSATION COULD NOT have been more cloak and dagger if it were on the pages of a Hollywood script. We were in the basement ...

When a Kingwood Pastor’s Boat Suffered Major Damage Rescuing Hurricane Harvey Flood Victims, His Dealer and the Manufacturer Stepped Up WHEN THE FLOODWATERS OF HURRICANE ...

Catfish from Creeks and Bar Ditches SMALL CREEKS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES (bar ditches) can hold a surprising number of catfish. In fact, when looking for ...

IT’S LATE SPRING AND THE WEATHER isn’t the only thing heating up around here. Water temperatures are on the rise at lakes all across the state ...

Shooting from a Tripod [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]B IPODS ARE A POPULAR shooting aid usually mounted to a rifle. Depending on the leg ...

It’s Turkey Time in Texas [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]T URKEY TIME WILL SOON BE here, and that means it is time to start ...

A Chance Find on an Arkansas Hunting Trip Launches a Search that Solves a 73-Year-Old Mystery ON OPENING DAY of the Arkansas rifle deer season ...

Bulk Up in April with Matt Herren [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]I N A TYPICAL YEAR, throughout most of Texas, the spawn is ...

Let’s Talk [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]T HESE DAYS, JUST ABOUT EVERYONE stepping aboard your boat has a cell phone in a pocket. ...

Catching Spring Redfish in Windy Waters WIND IS CERTAINLY NOT AN EVIL FORCE, but you would be hard pressed to find an angler on the coast ...

THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY about inadvertently getting poked by the business end of fishing hook. Just ask Longview bass pro Jim Tutt. Tutt has accidentally ...

Hot and Cold Running Sea Turtles [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]I ‘M A PROPONENT OF HUNTING, not only as a source of healthy protein ...

Have Fun While Keeping Your Job [dropcap font=”” size=”2″ background=”” color=”” circle=”0″ transparent=”0″]A CROSS THE REGION where I live, the first months of the year are ...

The ‘Green Movement’ is Killing Wildlife I T’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY. It always has been and always will be. The cash cow of the “green ...

Animal ID and Fish Question My name is Robert Lyons and I live just outside of Beaumont. I’m 47 years old and have been reading ...

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April 2018 Cover Volume 34, Issue 12 • In this issue: Reds Against the Wind; Watch Those Hooks!; Livin’ the Bream; Ditch Digging Catfish; Helping ...