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Creation and Evolution Y ou may have noticed a different look to the tf&g logo on the cover of this issue. We have been contemplating a redesign for a while now, and felt that the best time to unveil it would be

Snakes The article about Austin Stevens (feature article, March 2016) and rattlesnakes was intriguing. It is interesting to hear a perspective on rattlesnakes from someone who deals with them so much. I agree that it is a shame these animals

Texas Outdoor Nation “A re you from Texas?  The question came from a tall gentlemen across the table at a beautiful fishing lodge on Mexico’s Lake Agua Milpa. I was a little taken back because I don’t have much of

Limiting Out on the Regs T he combination of a green tide and a bent rod can bring many pleasant surprises along the Texas coast. But an unexpected catch might pose a difficult question: Is it legal? Several years ago, while

Early, Old, Young and Empty T here are stark differences between young and old, early and late, empty and full. And nowhere are those contrasts more vivid than in the outdoors. If you’re 40 miles offshore late one afternoon and your ice

Celebrate The Spirit A s I jettison ferociously into the soul cleansing, spirit intoxicating month of September with fresh Rocky Mountain elk blood on my Buck knife and hands, please excuse me while I attempt to control my over-active emotion glands! Lord

Right to Lose I f I were pressed to put my finger on a date in history, a specific moment when we lost the battle, I would say it happened on June 26, 1934. That was the day the Second Amendment was

Stalking Striped Bass with Topwaters The striped bass may not rank at the top of statewide popularity polls with Texas freshwater anglers, but it certainly isn’t for a lack of effort. Pound for pound, ounce for ounce and inch for inch,

Where to Catch S.T.A.R. Winning Specks, Flounder and (Hopefully) Tagged Reds Catching a tagged redfish has become the dream of many anglers along the Texas Gulf Coast. And while they are dispersed all over the state and move around plenty

Making-Have Tools for Making Your Own Lures A few months back I ran series of columns on at-home lure making. I was pleased with the response the columns got from readers who were excited with the idea of “slinging goop” and making

Just Because It Didn’t Fall Doesn’t Mean It Wasn’t Hit A few years ago I was guiding a hunter from back east. He was new to the sport, was a fair shot, but a bit short on experience. Up front he

Lou’s Believe it or Not I f you are a hunter, you have stories of crazy things that have happened to you either in the field or on your way to the woods. Me too . I think I love the

 480 two-man teams. That is how many fished a recent tournament on Sam Rayburn put on by the Southeast Texas High School Fishing Association (SETX). That is nearly 1,000 kids on the water, actively competing to catch bass in a

Cheaters Never Win L ots of things about Bass fishing I will probably never fully understand. Perhaps the most perplexing of all is how a guy can go strutting into a tournament weigh-in with a fish he didn’t catch, or one

Back around 1997, I was running a trotline in a deep hole in the Sabine River. My cousin Frank Moore and I had trotlines about 200 yards apart and we had been catching a few blue catfish. This was in