2020

In This Issue: 10 Tips for Catching Summer Flatfish • Profiling Predators • Sleeper Bass Lakes • Saving the Bison • Baby Tarpon • New Salt & Fresh Regs • A Dream Ram Hunt • Covid-19’s Outdoors Impact [button title=”Return

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Taking a Hit, Still Standing  TWO ISSUES BACK, we wrote about the covid-19 crisis and the impact it is having on people’s lives, their lifestyles, and their livelihoods. This issue, we’re here to report on the impact it has had

America is Still Beautiful Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain. I’LL NEVER FORGET sitting alone on a rock on a distant hill in South Dakota watching the northern lights as a pack of coyotes sang in

Tactics for Catching Big Flounder FLOUNDER FISHING can get tough in the summer. Spring brings hungry fish a long journey into bays from the Gulf and fall has them feeding for the big migration out. In summer they settle in

Underrated Summer Bass Lakes TEXAS IS HOME to a passel of top-notch bass lakes, but names such as Sam Rayburn, Fork, Palestine, Toledo Bend, Amistad and Falcon have a way of grabbing most the attention. Here are three sleepers you

Whopper Found Dead LAKE NACOGDOCHES in eastern Texas was in the news a lot last spring. Local angler Joe Castle put the popularity ball in motion on February 29, his 28th birthday. Castle was out for a celebratory morning of fishing

TARPON BEGIN their lives looking like a clear worm. Adult tarpon spawn offshore: 80 to 100 miles in the Gulf of Mexico and 5 to 10 miles in the Atlantic Ocean. Once eggs fertilize and hatch, tarpon begin their larval

Drifting Away ADRIFT, BUT IN CONTROL No matter what type of fishing is your favorite, nor where you tend to do your casting, it’s a sure bet that at times you fish while adrift. Drift fishing can be incredibly effective,

Take Out the Right Coyotes and Hogs with the Right Rifle VARMINT HUNTING AIN’T EASY. Most hunters enjoy the pursuit not because of the bounty of the game but because of the raw challenge. Varmints whether coyotes, bobcats or feral

A Hunt in Central Texas Yields the Arapawa RamTrophy of a Lifetime “THWACK!” A loud crash broke the silence of a quiet morning in the rugged hills of Real County. “Thwack!” It came again but this time was followed by

Whitetail Cartridges WE DEER HUNTERS are truly the managers of whitetail deer. It is “us” who determine which individual deer are taken and which ones are allowed to advance the species. We too, directly and indirectly make certain the habitat continues

U.S. SECRETARY of the Interior David Bernhardt has announced the Bison Conservation Initiative (BCI), a new cooperative initiative that will coordinate conservation strategies and approaches for wild American bison over the next 10 years. The Department of the Interior (DOI)

THE TEXAS PARKS and Wildlife Commission in their May meeting made several changes to state saltwater fishing regulations, including updates to the recreational and commercial flounder fishery regulations and paddle craft all-water guide license. The following changes to the 2020-21 Statewide