April 2019

In This Issue: Ride the Texas Striper Trail • Offshore Optics: Glassing for Fish • Three Speeds of Bass Fishing • Pirates of the Texas Coast! • West Texas Aoudad: Round Two … and more! [button title=”Return to CONTENTS Page”

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The First Thirty-Five Years  It’s hard to believe we’ve been at this for thirty five years now. Along the way, since that first issue rolled off the presses of the local newspaper in Marble Falls, Texas, in May 1984, we

Turkey Talk It was great getting the newsletter with the turkey information. Turkey hunting is vastly overlooked in Texas and I like what you are doing for these magnificent birds. Do you think turkeys will ever get the attention they

The Higher Calling The higher you climb, the farther you can see. I learned this as a 12-year-old visiting Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee. The claim is that seven states are visible from the summit. Although I’m not sure about

B-Team Trout The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s old monthly magazine, Texas Game and Fish, did a remarkable thing for the cover of the August 1961, issue. They ran a full-page image of a sand trout. Even more impressive, the

Kids, Kids and More Kids! Another day, another kid! Just how lucky can an old bowhunter get than constantly receiving one of the greatest joys available in life; hearing from kids from all over America every day celebrating hunting and

Round-Up of the 5 Top Striper Lakes in Texas LARGEMOUTH BASS HAVE HAD a stranglehold on freshwater popularity polls in Texas for as long as I can remember. To hear Bill Carey of Pottsboro tell it, that may be because

Be on Guard for Bad Guys Offshore JUST HOW WELL CAN you protect your boat–and yourself? There hasn’t been a documented case of maritime piracy in Texas waters for generations. You’re much more likely to be a victim of porch

Glassing Options for Offshore Fishing WHEN YOUR’E FISHING OFFSHORE, what’s the best fish-finding instrument aboard your boat? You might immediately think of your fishfinder, but if you carefully contemplate the question, you might realize that your own eyes probably find

Bass Eats Bass–What if It’s a Record? Big bass are well known for their voracious appetites when the dinner bell rings. That’s why anglers who are serious about catching them frequently use big swim baits upwards of eight inches long,

Peanuts for Elephants One of the most common mantras among inshore fishermen who have their eyes set on trophy-sized gamefish has been, “Big baits, BIG FISH!!!” For the most part, that premise is true. A trophy speckled trout or a bull

Slow, Medium and Fast Strategies for Big Bass GROWING UP IN THE LATE ’70s and early 1980s, I lived the pursuit of big bass vicariously, watching bass television legends such as Bill Dance, Jimmy Houston, Roland Martin and Orlando Wilson

May There Be Fawns  Shall we say, I was a bit shaken—perhaps better described as shaking! Moments earlier I had stepped on a cottonmouth moccasin. Cottonmouths scare me! It had been lying right next to several dark oak limbs and