Billfish are not an oddity in the Gulf- they are a documented and managed part of the offshore ecosystem, including waters off Texas. What often deserves more attention is how and where these species occur in the western Gulf, and […]
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For the past 24 years, countless volunteers band together in February to search the Texas coastline for abandoned crab traps. The abandoned traps can foul shrimpers’ nets, snag anglers’ lines, and create unsightly views. In addition, lost or abandoned fishing
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Every few years, stories of black cougars make the rounds again — sightings in the brush, a shadow crossing a ranch road, somebody swearing they saw a jet-black mountain lion in the timber. It’s a fascinating campfire tale. Check out
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This year marks more than 30 years since one of the most celebrated catches in Texas saltwater fishing history, the day Jim Wallace forever changed the way anglers viewed speckled trout in the Lone Star State. On February 6, 1996,
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The Houston Fishing Show at the George R. Brown Convention Center will host a special seminar by Chester Moore, Editor-In-Chief of Texas Fish & Game and founder of the Gulf Great White Sharks Society. Moore’s seminar, titled “Giant Sharks of the Texas Coast” is set
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The 2025 Toyota ShareLunker season rewrote the record books again thanks to 469 anglers who entered a record 1,071 lunker largemouth bass into the program throughout the year from 93 Texas public waterbodies. The total included 714 in the Bass
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The 2026 Toyota ShareLunker program kicked off its 40th anniversary season this past week at O.H. Ivie Lake and Lake Alan Henry. Legendary reservoir O.H. Ivie has produced 59 Legacy Class largemouth bass over the past six years, and at
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Spend enough time in the hunting world and you’ll learn something pretty quickly: the woods don’t just grow animals—they grow stories. Over the years, I’ve seen and heard just about everything. Hunts advertised for “Vietnamese mountain hogs.” Rumors of exotic
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