April 2016

Making-Have Tools for Making Your Own Lures A few months back I ran series of columns on at-home lure making. I was pleased with the response the columns got from readers who were excited with the idea of “slinging goop” and making […]

Just Because It Didn’t Fall Doesn’t Mean It Wasn’t Hit A few years ago I was guiding a hunter from back east. He was new to the sport, was a fair shot, but a bit short on experience. Up front he

Lou’s Believe it or Not I f you are a hunter, you have stories of crazy things that have happened to you either in the field or on your way to the woods. Me too . I think I love the

 480 two-man teams. That is how many fished a recent tournament on Sam Rayburn put on by the Southeast Texas High School Fishing Association (SETX). That is nearly 1,000 kids on the water, actively competing to catch bass in a

Cheaters Never Win L ots of things about Bass fishing I will probably never fully understand. Perhaps the most perplexing of all is how a guy can go strutting into a tournament weigh-in with a fish he didn’t catch, or one

Back around 1997, I was running a trotline in a deep hole in the Sabine River. My cousin Frank Moore and I had trotlines about 200 yards apart and we had been catching a few blue catfish. This was in

The Ideal Live Well L ive wells are tricky little beasts; one design flaw can be ruinous. Very few livewells out there have all the different features that add up to the ideal. For a live bait angler, this can be

Tough Mudder A re you a tough mudder? British commandos devised an event combining distance, typically ten or more miles, with a muddy obstacle course to test the mettle, strength, and stamina of participants. Recreation runners adopted the concept and competitive

Gear got Pronghorns T exas is not normally thought of as one of the premier states for hunting pronghorns. It is, however, one of the states that the hunter looking for a trophy pronghorn should seriously consider. Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana)

Mountain Home—As a youngster, I had a couple of scrapbooks full of photos cut out from hunting magazines that my father and I put together.  One of these shots was from a now defunct Texas publication and had a photo

  Flooding Pushes More Hogs into Populated Areas    As the human tragedy of the massive historical flooding experienced along the Sabine River basin continues to unfold through reconstruction of homes and other dwellings and will continue for months, the

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Defensive Rifles T his will be my last  Department of Defense article. I have enjoyed writing this column, but have come to the point where I have said about all that can be said.  It is difficult to teach self-defense

Texas Gets Top Share of Fed Sporting Fund Again H unting and anglers remain the greatest conservationists of natural resources and game species — a fact rooted in actual numbers and hard data – specifically the billions of dollars that

Stepping it up in May A nglers in every major bay system along the Texas Coast should be excited that the month of May has arrived. Sabine Lake is no exception. We will reap the benefits of the ever-increasing water

Mayday, and Nights M ay is the transition month between Spring and Summer, and can usually be counted on as the start of excellent fishing conditions. The Texas coast again avoided tropical storms in 2016, which means the physical makeup of

Offshore & Inshore M ay fishing out of the Matagorda area offers plenty for anglers who venture into the Gulf as well as those who stick closer to shore. Offshore Going more than fifty miles offshore requires a boat designed for

May’s Coastal Warming I t’s that time again the time when waters along our Texas coast begin to warm to the point where we are once again allowed to shed those multiple layers of clothing and nagging chest waders that we’ve

Different Strokes I have to admit my outboard motor is getting old. Ten years to some may not be old at all but in the fishing guide profession it’s basically 10 lifetimes. Most guides get a new motor annually. My old