June 2016

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Balancing the Books W e’ve been publishing books for almost twenty of our thirty-three-year history. Starting in 1998, the Texas Fish & Game library has grown to include 15 published titles, balanced between fishing and hunting. All but one of them

Cougar Conversation I enjoyed your article on Cougar Encounters, as well as many other previous articles. We recently found this photo in a stack of photos kept by our mother. We had never before seen the photo, which probably was

Celebrating Red, White and Blue(bobbers) T here is something special about watching a bobber start moving and then disappear below the surface. In fact, I daresay if you can’t get excited about seeing that, you should consider taking up badminton or

Hang on Tight T here area many ways to look bad when you’re fishing. One of the worst is to have the rod yanked from your hands by a big fish. Forfeiting your equipment and being rendered a non-combatant in the

Read Between the Lions I f it weren’t for the scores of other issues on Americans’ minds these days, maybe we could put some heat on animal-rights activists to either learn about wildlife management or quit meddling in it. This past spring,

The Great White Buffalo Lives The Great White Buffalo Lives           Well listen everybody to what I got to say: there’s hope for tomorrow if we wake up today. It happened long time ago in the

Sacred Honor H eroes, it has been said, are ordinary men who do extraordinary things. Maybe that’s true. Or maybe some are a little more extraordinary than others. When our Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and edited by the

People don’t just stumble upon Port Mansfield, or go there for the nightlife. In a town remote even by south Texas standards, deer and turkey outnumber humans and freely roam through the village. People go to Port Mansfield to fish

Grasping Grass T here is a reason why experienced Coastal Bend anglers look for grass beds and grass line when they seek out Laguna Madre’s bruiser reds and speckled trout. There is a reason why the better guides from the Sabine

Not long ago, several people fished together. One angler used shiners to catch white perch. A Louisiana Cajun corrected him on the species identification and used jigs to catch sac-a-lait. Others caught papermouths. The biologist in the group caught Pomoxis

One of my most memorable experiences in the bowfishing world was when bowfishing guide Marty McIntyre from GARQUEST Bowfishing Adventures (www.garquest.com) and I went on a 24-hour, four lake bowfishing marathon in the spring of 2012. We started very early