2021

In This Issue: Great White Sharks in Texas Waters!  •  Port Arthur: Where the Big 3 Are Really Big  •  Dove Hunting Done Right  •  Gunning for Upland Birds  •  Gear Up for Surf & Pier Fishing  •  Get Ready

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Getting Into the Spirit  THE WORD “spirit” occupies a lot of real estate in our language. It can have the deepest of deep religious meanings, when it defines the pinnacle of divinity, The Holy Spirit. Then, it can wade into shallower

Flounder Coins Thank you so much for the flounder coins you sent my son! Having his first-ever flounder recognized is a big deal. Thank you for what you are doing for our flounder fishery. Bruce Smith The flounder coins are

Thankful for Outdoor Friends IT STANDS OUT in my mind as if it were yesterday. A beautiful ringtail (ringtail cat) crawled out of a hole in the base of a live oak that had been cut nearly to the ground and

Keep Freeze-Surviving Trout Off Your Stringers NONE OF US will ever forget this past February’s freeze. In addition to killing people and wildlife and plants statewide, it also exposed the greed and self-absorption of people who don’t care much about Texas’s

Don’t Miss Out In What May Be The Best Opportunity For A High-quality, Low-cost Hunting Experience THE 2021 DOVE SEASON is just around the corner. For many of the state’s 300,000-plus dove hunters, the September 1 opener in the North

THE PRESENCE OF great white sharks in the Gulf of Mexico is undeniable. Now, a great white off the Texas coast has been confirmed. Last February, we broke the story about Acadia, a 1,000-pound female great white tagged by research

Big Flounder. Big Redfish. Big Speckled Trout. THOSE ARE THE THREE motivating factors for anglers along the Texas Gulf Coast, and for great action for super-sized specimens of the Big 3—and much more—Port Arthur should be on your radar. On

Electro-Fishing GLANCING AT THAT headline you might guess we’re about to get into an ill-fated conversation about batteries, jumper cables, and fish floating belly-up. You’d be wrong. Not only because the practice of zapping fish into submission is both unsportsmanlike and

Getting the Best Boom for Quail, Pheasant, Dove & Chachalaca TEXAS IS LIKE its own country. With massive geographical boundaries and many unique cultures, Texas is as big and diverse as many nations. For wingshooters, Texas’s hunting diversity is second to

Rios on the Ranch IT WAS COLD. Very cold. Certainly, too cold for Texas. As I shivered in my blind, the wind seemed to blow right through me, but I was bound and determined to score on a nice Rio

SURF AND PIER FISHING is where the heart and soul of the coastal angling community resides. Most coastal anglers started on a lonely stretch of surf or spending summer nights on a pier catching trout, redfish, flounder, and sharks. Although

Get Prepared and Stay Safe in the Outdoors this Fall GETTING READY FOR a hunting or fishing expedition isn’t as easy as it looks. Oh, you can throw a few things together and head out the door. However, if you really