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Hang on Tight T here area many ways to look bad when you’re fishing. One of the worst is to have the rod yanked from your hands by a big fish. Forfeiting your equipment and being rendered a non-combatant in the […]

Read Between the Lions I f it weren’t for the scores of other issues on Americans’ minds these days, maybe we could put some heat on animal-rights activists to either learn about wildlife management or quit meddling in it. This past spring,

The Great White Buffalo Lives The Great White Buffalo Lives           Well listen everybody to what I got to say: there’s hope for tomorrow if we wake up today. It happened long time ago in the

Sacred Honor H eroes, it has been said, are ordinary men who do extraordinary things. Maybe that’s true. Or maybe some are a little more extraordinary than others. When our Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and edited by the

People don’t just stumble upon Port Mansfield, or go there for the nightlife. In a town remote even by south Texas standards, deer and turkey outnumber humans and freely roam through the village. People go to Port Mansfield to fish

Grasping Grass T here is a reason why experienced Coastal Bend anglers look for grass beds and grass line when they seek out Laguna Madre’s bruiser reds and speckled trout. There is a reason why the better guides from the Sabine

Not long ago, several people fished together. One angler used shiners to catch white perch. A Louisiana Cajun corrected him on the species identification and used jigs to catch sac-a-lait. Others caught papermouths. The biologist in the group caught Pomoxis

One of my most memorable experiences in the bowfishing world was when bowfishing guide Marty McIntyre from GARQUEST Bowfishing Adventures (www.garquest.com) and I went on a 24-hour, four lake bowfishing marathon in the spring of 2012. We started very early

Spunky Spotted Bass Offer Texas Anglers a Fun Alternative It was the final morning of the March 2016 Costa FLW Series event on Sam Rayburn Reservoir. Montgomery bass pro Kris Wilson and I were looking for five good bites to

Texas Fish & Game believes in high school bass fishing. From its inception we have put winning teams on the cover, featured the sport on these pages, in our digital issue and at fishgame.com and have given opportunities for teams

An East Texas Classic J ust in case you haven’t heard, the Super Bowl of professional bass fishing is coming to eastern Texas next year. That’s the word from Alabama-based BASS, a powerhouse tournament organization that has played a key role in

World Class Game Ranch Hunting Comes to Possum Kingdom I  have always loved the area around Possum Kingdom Lake. With the Ranger Mountain Escarpment running through it, it really is a kingdom of fish and game. For the last seven

Strange Sharks The Texas Gulf Coast is robust in diversity and perhaps no other area is as diverse as the number of shark species found in coastal waters of the Texas Gulf of Mexico. Most anglers are familiar with blackcaps,

A Season Filled With Memories I t was a slow deer season. Nobody was seeing anything at all. The whitetails seemed to know it was hunting season and decided to hunker down someplace safe from any hunters. It was bow

More Great White Sharks Showing Up in Gulf Waters Scott Fitzgerald of Madfish Charters was fishing for amberjack last spring about 8.5 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico when he felt a big bump in his boat according to

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Pit bulls and Other Feral Dogs (Editor’s Note. Steve Lamascus wants to keep his focus on his “Guns” column, so over the next six months we will be looking at ways to defend oneself against wildlife, with guns and other

Boaters Advised to Hunt Zebras W ith summer boating and fishing seasons in full swing, be advised to check out your gear for alien invaders hitching a ride. Texas remains at the forefront of the effort to curb and even eradicate

Salt Equals Success in July I f you find yourself fishing Sabine Lake in July, you can pretty much expect the best of everything this bay system has to offer. From the Gulf of Mexico to the Neches and Sabine Rivers,

The Marvelous Mullet A nyone who doesn’t feel a baitfish qualifies as one of the most important species in the Gulf likely hasn’t fished enough. Although I am equally sure there are fishermen—successful fishermen—who use only artificial lures, or only live shrimp,