TWO INSTITUTIONS HAVE BEEN toiling in the trenches as advocates for Texas coastal anglers for more than forty years. One of them has been doing it as part of its for-profit business plan. After all, endorsing protection of the very field ...

A Perfect Shot MY GRANDDAUGHTER, Taylor, her Uncle Bret, and I were in a tower stand in the Texas Hill Country when Taylor saw the buck through the spotting scope. The deer was about 50 yards away, slipping into and ...

SEVEN TAILS. Seven beautiful bronze tails with a dot in the middle. That’s how many I counted before shooting a white shrimp-patterned fly their direction.

WE’VE HAD SEVERAL MONTHS now to consider and reconsider, to hash and rehash the new speckled trout limits. To those of you who still consider the changes somehow unfair or ineffective or otherwise unsuitable to you—without consideration that their purpose ...

Catching Biodiversity on a Jetty Safari Feature Story by CHESTER MOORE   LISTEN: (5 minutes, 49 seconds)   JETTIES EMERGE AS PRIME spots for reeling in sizable catches from modest vessels throughout the summer season.  Attracting a diverse array of ...

…is a State Record in the Cards? Feature Report by TF&G STAFF LISTEN: (8 minutes, 19 seconds)   THE 2024 TOYOTA SHARELUNKER program was full speed ahead and produced an exceptional collection season for the fourth consecutive year. Anglers contributed ...

New Carcass Disposal Rules Plus… Venison-to-Human Transmission? Feature Story by TF&G STAFF LISTEN: (6 minutes, 25 seconds)   OFFICIALS WITH THE NATIONAL DEER ASSOCIATION are urging caution about a report from the University of Texas Health Science Center published in ...

Not Quite the Best Time of the Year by LOU MARULLO | TF&G Hunting Editor LISTEN: (5 minutes, 43 seconds)   MANY PEOPLE WOULD AGREE that the summer months are the best! I am not one of those people. No ...

Experiencing the Thrill of Fly Fishing for the First Time Feature Story by GRAYSON HIGHFIELD LISTEN: (5 minutes, 14 seconds)   LATE AUGUST IN THE Northern Wyoming mountains never reached more than seventy degrees. A cool afternoon found me in ...

What Makes This AR Unique? It Folds in Half LISTEN: (3 minutes, 24 seconds)   THE FIRST THING I ASK when I’m shown a new AR15 model is “what’s unique about it?” With so many different models being so similar—a manufacturer ...

Feature Story by CHESTER MOORE LISTEN: (2 minutes, 41 seconds)   LAST MAY, I JOINED my friend Gray Thornton and Capt. Eric Glass for three days of fly fishing for redfish in Lower Laguna Madre out of South Padre Island. On ...

How Will New Limits Affect Trout Fishing? Special Report by TF&G STAFF LISTEN: (1 minute, 27 seconds)   RULE CHANGES to bag and size limits for spotted seatrout are now in effect across the Texas coast. The new statewide changes consist ...

5 Tips for Boosting Your Boat’s Resale LISTEN: (6 minutes, 32 seconds)   THE COST OF A BOAT seems spectacularly high these days, but truth be told, boat prices have never exactly been cheap. And in reality, few people “spend” the ...

Time to Get Ready for the Best Seasons of the Year Feature Story by BRIAN JOHNSON LISTEN: (4 minutes, 28 seconds)   IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE that even though the temps are soaring outside, hunting season will begin shortly with dove ...

First Major Lake in 30 Years Opens in North Texas LISTEN: (4 Min 57 Sec)   WHEN BOIS D’ARC LAKE in Fannin County officially opened for use in April, Texas got its first major reservoir in more than 30 years. ...

SABINE LAKE & PASS Reported by CAPT. EDDIE HERNANDEZ Email Eddie Hernandez at GHGS.Eddie@gmail.com ONLINE: GoldenHookGuide.com Opportunity Knocks LISTEN: (3 Min, 23 Sec) THE WAIT IS OVER. It is now officially summer. Well, it actually has been officially summer for a little ...

GALVESTON Reported by CAPT. DEREK YORK Email Derek York at spotstalkerfishing@yahoo.com Online: SpotStalkerGuideService.com Beating the Heat LISTEN: (3 Min, 2 Sec) EARLY MORNINGS and late evenings may be the theme for a lot of us during July and August, with temps nearing ...

MATAGORDA Reported by CAPT. MARK TALASEK Email Mark Talasek at MarkTalasek@sbcglobal.com Online: TalasekGuideService.com A Good Day LISTEN: (00 Min, 00 Sec)   WHAT CONSTITUTES A GOOD DAY on the water?  Full limits?  Trophy fish?  The definition can have different meanings for everyone.  ...

PORT O’CONNOR Reported by CAPT. KIM GOULDEN Look for Something Different   LISTEN: (2 Min, 42 Sec)   JULY AND AUGUSTin the Port O’Connor area bring us many opportunities for inshore and nearshore targets. Our water temps are certain to ...

Aransas Bay-Upper Laguna Madre Reported by CAPT. RICHARD THOMPSON   Deep in the Heat of Texas   LISTEN: (3 Min, 59 Sec)   SUMMER IS HERE and we are feeling it as the temperature and heat index are brutal. It ...

CORPUS CHRISTI Reported by CAPT. JAKE WHEELIS   Calm, Hot Days   LISTEN: (2 Min, 47 Sec)   THE DOG DAYS of summer are upon us once again. I’m fortunate to live, in my opinion, in the best place on earth. ...

BAFFIN BAY Reported by CAPT. GERAD MERRITT   Email Gerad Merritt at GeradMerritt@gmail.com Visit Online: ParadiseGuideServices.com   Fallout of New Trout Limits   LISTEN: (3 Min, 46 Sec) THERE ARE A FEW different ways to look at how effective the new sea ...

LOWER LAGUNA MADRE Reported by CAPT. BRIAN BARRERA   Email Brian Barrera at CaptBrianBFishing@gmail.com Visit Online: InshoreFishingSouthPadre.com   Gear Up for Big Fish   LISTEN: (2 Min, 52 Sec)   TIME TO PUT AWAY the light tackle and gear up for some big ...

HotSPOTLight: UPPER TEXAS COAST •  •  • LOCATION: Christmas/Bastrop Bay HOTSPOT: Bastrop Bay Shell GPS: N 29 6.033, W 95 10.271 (29.1006, -95.1712) SPECIES: Speckled Trout BEST BAITS: Topwaters SOURCE: Texas Lakes & Bays Fishing Atlas FishGame.com/fishgamegear TIPS: Catch 2000’s, ...

[photo_box title=”CURRENT LAKE LEVELS” image=”” align=”” link=”” target=”_blank” greyscale=”0″ animate=””] [heading tag=”h4″ align=”left” color=”#0153a5″ style=”lines” color2=”# 0153a5″]Source: Water Data for Texas[/heading] [/photo_box] Reported by TF&G STAFF HotSPOTLight Email us at ContactUs@fishgame.com •  •  • LOCATION: Lake Bob Sandlin HOTSPOT: 21 Bridge ...

The following pages contain TIDE and SOLUNAR predictions for Galveston Channel (N 29.3166°, W 94.88°). TIDE PREDICTIONS are located in the WHITE SPACE above the TIDE GRAPHS on the Calendars. Use the Correction Table in the RIGHT TAB BELOW, which ...

The following pages contain TIDE and SOLUNAR predictions for Galveston Channel (N 29.3166°, W 94.88°). TIDE PREDICTIONS are located in the WHITE SPACE above the TIDE GRAPHS on the Calendars. Use the Correction Table in the RIGHT TAB BELOW, which ...

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Aging Out OPEN SEASON | by TF&G Humor Editor REAVIS Z. WORTHAM LISTEN: (5 minutes, 26 seconds)   I WAS FEELING PRETTY GOOD that morning, sitting around the large corner table in Doreen’s 24 HR Eat Gas Now Café with Jerry ...