Texas Tasted
Chowhound Chicken Tenders (Serves 3 to 4 regular eaters or a couple of chow hounds) I have a couple of bottomless pit chowhound teenagers at home who are good for a cook’s ego, but hard to fill up at the dinner […]
Hotspot Focus: Lower Coast
Braving the Elements Humans for the most part prefer comfort over hardship. If we wake up one morning for a fishing trip and the Weather App tells us that isn’t just cold, but DANG COLD outside, we’d as soon call
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Hotspot Focus: Rockport
Climate Realities Even the most ardent critics of climate change have to admit that our planet is changing and, for the most part, not for the better. Acidity levels in our oceans are rising due to carbon dioxide uptake. Ocean
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Hotspot Focus: Upper Mid Coast
Chasing Coldwater Fish Just because Christmas is over doesn’t mean you have to give-up on fishing. The coastal regions of Texas will still have plenty of speckled-trout, redfish, and even some flounders available this month for those anglers wishing to
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Hotspot Focus: Matagorda
Weighing Key Winter Fish-Finding Factors In the winter, finding where the fish are feeding requires consideration of tidal flow, wind, water temperature, depth, underwater terrain, air temperature and the degree of sunshine. It was January 15th and both the air
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Hotspot Focus: Galveston
Starry Nights, Cold Weather and Hot Fishing As always, the weather in January on the Texas coast could bring just about anything, from a hard freeze to temperatures more suitable for shorts and sandals. Even though I personally feel I
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Hotspot Focus: Upper Coast
The Promise of a New Year The time has come once again to bid adieu to another calendar year and welcome the promise of a new one with open arms. 2013 is now a thing of the past but I
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Fish and Game Gear
Academy Launches New Season of Game Winner Camo Game Winner has made high quality, affordable camo gear for years, but its latest line of camo is easily the best yet. New “Dura” technologies woven into each product stand up to
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Texas Kayaking
Becoming a better kayak angler is quite easy. All it takes is time; however, if you were thinking this means years of experience, you would be wrong. Noted basketball coach Bobby Knight was fond of saying: “The will to prepare
Paul’s Tips
Marshmallows and Maggots Let’s go ahead and get this out there, we’re Texans and we’re proud of it. We think we have the biggest and best of everything. World-class deer? Yep, we’ve got them. Bass big enough to eat your
Texas Boating
Looking Up, Down, and All Around Side-scanning sonar has now been around for several years, down-scanning units have come to incorporate CHIRP technology, and for 2014 even more new ways to find those fish have been released on the
True Green
Scientists Create New Oyster Reef Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi researchers have fine-tuned a method to create oyster reef by charging sea water with electricity, something that officials said is a way to replenish the coastal ecosystem. In some areas of
The TF&G Report
Grants Awarded for Texas Coast The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) today announced $8.8 million for five Texas projects that address high priority conservation needs. The projects, developed in consultation with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Commission
Texas Saltwater
Resolution The last two years have been rough on me. At no time was I more reminded of my mortality than during the stretch from March of 2012 to last October. In those 20 months, I said goodbye to three
Pike on the Edge
Pulling the Plug It wasn’t until November that I realized how dependent we all are on electronic communication. More important, I also realized that even without it the world around us doesn’t skip a beat. Not that there’s anything wrong
Ted’s TexasWild
Most Mystical Flight of the Arrow Skunked! And skunked again! I think this was my 15th or 16th day of nothing. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Backstrapless. Empty handed. Like nuthin! But alas, ol Nuge never gives up. I never say never,
Letters to the Editor
A Disturbance in the Force For several weeks, I have discerned a disturbance in the force but, have not been able to determine its source. I am not going to say it has haunted me, but I have definitely noticed
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Hunt Texas
Shedding Some Light I found my first shed deer antler when I was a youngster slipping up behind a stock tank dam on my grandparents’ dairy pasture in Comanche County with the anticipation of bagging a bullfrog or two with my
Open Season
Tagged Wrong Willie and I were sitting in a large deer stand, admiring the south Texas countryside. “Did Cash say we could both take a buck?” he asked. I glanced out the window on my left side. “He said one