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Corn and Crab Bisque Sometimes on the weekend, we like to make up some type of a soup, or a gumbo and just kind of ...

IF DEAR OLD DAD loves the great outdoors—and if you’re reading this right now we figure there’s a pretty good shot he does—what could be a ...

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 Fork HOTSPOT: Coffee Creek GPS: N 32 56.6039, W 95 30.3606 (32.9434, -95.5060) SPECIES: Largemouth Bass BEST BAITS: Top water lures: ...

UPPER TEXAS COAST LOCATION: West Matagorda Bay HOTSPOT: Golds Bayou GPS: N 28 35.328, W 96 2.286 (28.5888, -96.0381) SPECIES: Speckled Trout BEST BAITS: Small ...

Beach Brawl M AY IS WHEN THE SOUTH TEXAS coast ends its brief spring and starts settling into summer patterns. Warm southeaster lies, puffy white clouds, ...

Baffin Bay Shines in May A FTER THE BIG TROUT FRENZY of the early spring, Baffin Bay settles down to a great early summer pattern that ...

Road Rage on the Bay I N MAY A LOT OF different locations along the mid coast are holding fish. It’s a transition period from spring ...

Drone Fishing T HE TITLE MAY SOUND like something from Star Trek. Yes, I am a bit of a Trekie … BEAM ME UP SCOTTY! ...

May’s Situational Trout T HOSE ESPOSED TO TODAY’S corporate America know that anyone who is considered a leader in dealing with ambiguity is one who can ...

Turn a Hit into a Catch I FOUND FISH IN A four-foot-deep trough that was up against the side of a bayou in the backwaters ...

No MAY-be’s About It, Time for Fast Fishing! E VEN THE MILD WINTERS we normally experience along the Upper Texas Coast have a negative effect ...

Late Spring Tactics for Sabine Success T HE MONTH OF MAY has arrives in full force, and every major bay system along the Texas coast should ...

Grouper Corpus Christi Whitetail Anderson County   Post your own Action Photos and Check Out the TEXAS HOT SHOTS Photo Contest [button title=”GO to Hot ...

TPWD Approves Changes to Fishing Regs for 2018-19 T HE TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE COMMISSION adopted a suite of changes to this year’s fishing regulations ...

Using State-of-the-Art Gear to Enforce Game Laws I’VE ALWAYS BEEN SOMEWHAT INTRIGUED by the job Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens do. My respect ...

TEXAS HAS A GROWING number of official paddling trails for kayakers and canoe enthusiasts. These are great areas to simply get out and paddle but ...

Texas Has Some Spectacular Options for Getting Away From It All NEED TO UNWIND from the stresses of modern American living? A trip to the ...

A Tame Buck, for Name’s Sake I AM NOT PARTICULARLY IN FAVOR of giving whitetail bucks names other than possibly “the front gate buck,” “the creek ...

Handloading 101 A FEW YEARS AGO I had an old Remington Model 700 ADL .222 Remington rebuilt into a wildcat .222 Remington Magnum Ackley Improved. The ...

A Surprising Number of Non-Native Species Roam Wild in Texas… and Many Can be Hunted Year-Round AS I CRUISED DOWN HIGHWAY 12 between Mauriceville and Deweyville, my eyes were fixed ...

GROWING UP ON THE TEXAS COAST, I literally knew no one that ate gafftopsail catfish. Even the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department data on the ...

Liven Up the Joint I HAVE BEEN A HUGE DEVOTEE of jointed plugs (or broken-back, if you prefer) since I was a teenager, over grumble-grumble-grumble ...

R.I.P. Ray Sasser T EXAS SPORTSMEN LOST a powerful and colorful friend on February 21 when veteran Dallas Morning News outdoor writer, Ray Sasser, passed ...

LARGEMOUTH BASS, channel catfish and crappie dominate freshwater fishing in Texas. Those are by far the most popular and abundant species on reservoirs, streams, creeks and ...

I Just Wanna Go Huntin’ I WAS ALWAYS DIFFERENT, nobody understood. I didn’t play follow the leader, cuz I was always in the woods. They ...

Think Big, Rig Big, to Catch Big T HE LARGEST BASS I have seen hooked probably weighed 15 pounds—maybe 16 if it took a deep ...

How Bass Changed it All T HEY SEEMED A LITTLE OUT OF MY LEAGUE. Pictures of famous professional anglers like Rick Clunn and Larry Nixon holding ...

Partially White Turkey Editor:In response to our article on white turkeys in the March issue reader Bob Noah sent in this game camera photo of ...

Entering Our 35th Year W OW. This month marks our 34th anniversary, and with this issue we begin Volume 35. They say the older you get, ...

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In This Issue: Time to Be a S.T.A.R.; Best Paddling Trails in Texas; Texas Smallmouth & Walleye?; Exotic Mysteries; Camping in the Wild; King of ...