Texas Fish & Game Magazine
January 2020
Issue Articles
ISSUE COVER – January 2020
In This Issue: Action in the Lunker Pool • Vanishing Flounder • Hunting Texas Timberdoodles • Fishing Boat Tech • Bighorns Across the Border • ...
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TEXAS TASTED – January 2020
Venison Chili THERE ARE MANY ways to cook venison. This chili recipe will warm you up on a cold winter day and makes for great ...
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FISH & GAME PHOTOS – January 2020
Bass Lake Naconiche Black Drum West Matagorda Bay Fourteen-year-old Maddie Croix hooked this 42-inch black drum while fishing for speckled trout in West Matagorda ...
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OUTDOOR DIRECTORY – January 2020
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SPORTSMAN’S DAYBOOK-Tides & Prime Times – January 2020
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 ...
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HOTSPOTS: Freshwater – January 2020
PINEY WOODS • • • SPOTLIGHT • • • Location: Toledo Bend Lake Hotspot: Chicken Coop Area GPS: N 31 17.3219, W 93 45.6659 (31.2887, ...
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HOTSPOTS: Saltwater – January 2020
UPPER TEXAS COAST • • • SPOTLIGHT • • • Location: West Galveston Bay Hotspot: North Deer Island GPS: N 29 16.9639, W 94 56.223 ...
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FISH & GAME FORECAST CENTER – Hunting – January 2020
Mule Deer Foundation Wants Wolves Delisted IT IS THE POSITION of the Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) that the gray wolf in the northern Rocky Mountains is ...
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COASTAL FORECAST: Lower Coast – January 2020
Bang a Wintry Drum JANUARY IS CONSIDERED a tough month among anglers. Unless you are a truly dedicated grinder looking for that ONE trout that ...
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COASTAL FORECAST: Baffin Bay – January 2020
Life Does Go On I USUALLY LIKE new beginnings. A new year usually brings a sense of freshness, of leaving old things behind, about closing a ...
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COASTAL FORECAST: Rockport – January 2020
The Best Anglers AS I SAT waiting in the doctor’s office for a procedure I was quite nervous about, I heard the dreaded words “Mr. ...
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COASTAL FOCUS: Upper Mid Coast – January 2020
Wade Fishing for Cold-Water Specks JANUARY’S EVER-CHANGING conditions mean anglers will most often need to look for fish in different spots each day. You might find ...
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COASTAL FORECAST: Matagorda – January 2020
The Fish’s Point of View LOOK AT IT FROM the fish’s point of view; fish are most comfortable when the water temperature is between 70º and ...
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COASTAL FORECAST: Galveston – January 2020
A New Year Still Favors Traditional Methods AS ALWAYS, January will probably be a mixed month for coastal Texas. Often this month brings us the coldest ...
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COASTAL FORECAST: Sabine – January 2020
Wintertime Fishing on Sabine: Day by Day IF YOU HAVE ANY intentions of making a trip up the coast to fish Sabine Lake in January, it ...
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TEXAS HOT SHOTS – January 2020
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THE TF&G REPORT – January 2020
Game Wardens Contend With Poachers THE FOLLOWING items are compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife law enforcement reports. HOW TRASHY On Nov. 20, a ...
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OUTDOOR NATION – IF IT’S WINTER, IT’S SHOW TIME – January 2020
January is About Outdoor Trade Shows TIS THE SEASON for outdoor trade shows. This month is loaded with shows involved with everything from boats to ...
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SPECIAL HUNTING REPORT by Chester Moore – January 2020
The Truth About the Feral Hog Problem LAST MONTH’S DEATH of Christine Rollins, 59, of Anahuac, was officially been ruled to have been caused by feral ...
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TEXAS WHITETAILS by Larry Weishuhn – January 2020
Late Season WHATYA THINK—field or woods?” questioned my brother. Before I could answer, he continued. “With this hard north wind? I’d say woods, but the ...
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HORNS ACROSS THE BORDER – January 2020
DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP were nonexistent in the mountainous regions of Sierra El Alamo in Sonora, Mexico 30 years ago. At the time of this writing ...
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HUNTING TEXAS TIMBERDOODLES – January 2020
Experts Say Migrant Woodcocks are Way Underutilized Wintertime Hunters THERE DOESN’T SEEM to be much glamour in the life of a timberdoodle (woodcock). These peculiar-looking ...
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TEXAS SALTWATER by Calixto Gonzales – January 2020
Infectious Subject SO, LET’S DISCUSS WOUND CARE. If you fish long enough, you are going to get some kind of wound. It can be a ...
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TEXAS FRESHWATER by Matt Williams – January 2020
Taking it to the Bank Houston County Lake kicks out biggest bass in nearly 30 years IF YOU LIKE big fish stories, you’ll love the one ...
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FISHING BOAT TECH – January 2020
SAYING THAT boating-related technology has come a long way, is a huge understatement. This is especially true when it comes to fishing-related tech. The last decade ...
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VANISHING FLOUNDER – January 2020
Inside the Decline of Southern Flounder THE SOUTHERN FLOUNDER (Paralicthys lethostigma) is an extremely important fish in Texas and along the Gulf Coast. It is ...
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LUNKER GENES – January 2020
Bass DNA Profile Proves Sharelunker Genetic Potential IN FEBRUARY 2017, Marine Creek Lake produced the first ever-confirmed Toyota ShareLunker offspring entered in the program, a ...
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NUGENT IN THE WILD by Ted Nugent – January 2020
Quicksand! NO REALLY! QUICKSAND! I often rave about my sacred swamp on our old Michigan family hunting grounds, and it is indeed a wildlife paradise ...
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DOGGETT AT LARGE by Joe Doggett – January 2020
Waterfowl Glory Days HALF A CENTURY AGO, the waterfowl hunting opportunities within an easy hour of the outskirts of Houston were remarkable. I know. I was ...
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EDITOR’S NOTES by Chester Moore – January 2020
Texans Hunting Across North America SEVEN DEGREES IS COLD. It is especially cold for someone who lives in Southeast Texas and the chill is taken ...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – January 2020
Pike On The Edge AS SOMEONE who will hit 59 next month I sure could relate to your latest column. I miss some of those ...
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INSIDE FISH & GAME by Roy and Ardia Neves – January 2020
Twenty-Twenty Vision WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR. In fact, welcome to a new decade. Before proceeding, we acknowledge that the year 2020 is considered ...
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TEXAS FISH & GAME Staff – January 2020
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BACK COVER: Blue Wave Boats – January 2020
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INSIDE COVER: Minn Kota – January 2020
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