The Next Mega Bass: Where to Fish for a Double-Digit Lunker • TF&G Saltwater Playbook: Topwaters for Speckled Trout • Poaching in Texas: The Hidden Crisis • Floating Options: Kayaks, Paddle Boards and Inflatables • Doggett & Pike: Fish & Game Icons, Texas Outdoors Legends • High Tech Optics for Hogs … plus Columns, Outdoor News, Saltwater Focus Reports from Coastal Guides, Tide & Solunar Forecasts and more…
ISSUE COVER – January/February 2025 Read More »
FOR THOSE OF US OLD ENOUGH to have looked ahead to “The Year 2000” as a doorway to futuristic wonders, it’s almost surreal to realize we’re now standing at the quarter-century mark of the 2000s. Yet here we are: Happy 2025! …
INSIDE FISH & GAME by Roy and Ardia Neves Read More »
Thanks, Doug, for the Katy Memories. THANK YOU FOR writing this great article. (Doug Pike’s column, “Pike on the Edge,” November/December 2024 issue) So many great memories I had hunting the Katy/Brookshire rice fields with my dad and brothers…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Read More »
A MONTANA MAN has been charged and sentenced to six months in prison for trafficking and conspiracy under federal law for cloning a Marco Polo sheep as well as breeding and selling its offspring and DNA across several states, including…you guessed it…Texas …
EDITOR’S NOTES by Chester Moore Read More »
WHEN I WAS A KID in Houston during the mid-50s good old Santa delivered a classic lineup of young-boy presents: a Lionel electric train set, then a Schwinn bicycle, then a Zebco Model 33 spincast reel and a fiberglass Shakespeare Wonderod. On my eleventh Christmas I hit the jackpot, a Daisy Model 25 BB gun.
DOGGETT AT LARGE by Joe Doggett Read More »
ANGLERS LOOKING TO JOIN the Mega Bass Club this year—recording official catches of eight, ten and thirteen-plus pounders—can look to three Texas lakes as the most promising places to apply their efforts: OH Ivie and JB Thomas in West Texas, and the grandpappy of ShareLunker production, Lake Fork in the east. Here is a profile of each…
COVER STORY: The Next Mega Bass Read More »
THE TEXAS COAST offers prime opportunities for topwater fishing for speckled trout, especially given the unique geography and diverse estuary systems found along its shores…
The Fish & Game Saltwater Playbook Read More »
FROM “FLIPPER” THRILLING FAMILIES on television in the 1960s to modern-day dolphin encounters at aquariums and resorts, the love affair families have with dolphins is a strong one. So, when game wardens in Orange County, Texas, found a dead dolphin impaled by a fishing arrow, it sent shockwaves across national media outlets.
FEATURE ARTICLE: Poaching in Texas Read More »
IT HAPPENED LAST JANUARY, after I had spent several days at the 2024 DSC Convention visiting with hunters who, like me, were headed to their deer camps as soon as the festivities completed to finish out their deer season on properties under Texas’ Manage Land Deer Permits…
TEXAS WHITETAILS by Larry Weishuhn Read More »
MANY ENTRY-LEVEL ANGLERS are hitting the fishing market not in a high-powered bass boat or big bay boat, but in kayaks, paddleboards and other more easily portable and affordable vessels…
FEATURE ARTICLE: Floating Options Read More »
THE STORYBOOK FISHING TRIPS to shock the imagination continue to unfold at Lake J.B.Thomas near Snyder. To hear Christian Gladfelter and Brandon Burks tell it, it’s been like the Wild, Wild West out there…
TEXAS FRESHWATER by Matt Williams Read More »
THIS ISSUE WE BEGIN a series honoring our columnists, who provide us with such valuable content and inform us about their adventures in the great outdoors. We are going to start with two of the first people I met when I began my career: Joe Doggett and Doug Pike.
Doggett and Pike: Fish & Game Icons… Texas Outdoor Legends Read More »
WINTER ON THE TEXAS COAST is a special time especially for those in heavy pursuit of an elusive breeder speckled trout. Wading shorelines scattered with Spanish daggers and cactus while keeping your eyes peeled for any kind of bait movement and casting into sandy potholes…
GOING COASTAL by Kelly Groce Read More »
THE IDEA OF BANNING hunting, as advocated by some animal rights activists, is based on the belief that protecting individual animals will result in a flourishing wildlife population…
APTITUDE OUTDOORS by Paul Fuzinski Read More »
THANKS TO BREAKTHROUGHS in high-tech optics, hog-hunting tools have come a long way. These innovations are giving hunters new advantages, making night time hog hunting more effective, and helping keep feral hog populations in check…
FEATURE ARTICLE: High-Tech Optics for Hogs Read More »
IN THE EARLY HOURS of March 17, five Texas Game Wardens played a critical role in rescuing a man who had slipped while fishing off the Port Aransas jetties and had gone into the water. The day brought strong winds, and the jetties were wet and slippery due to recent rains, creating hazardous conditions…
THE FISH & GAME REPORT Read More »
