MARCH AND APRIL CAN BRING great opportunities for both trophy hunting and meat hauling and filling up the icebox. For most of March I am either drifting or wading. When fishing the flats, in attempt to catch giant trophy, like speckled trout and hard pulling redfish, I like using artificials like jigheads with your favorite soft plastic lure…
LOWER COST FOCUS—Lower Laguna Madre Read More »
Upper Texas Coast HotSPOTLight: Christmas Bay • • • LOCATION: Christmas/Bastrop Bay HOTSPOT: Cold Pass GPS: N 29 4.834, W 95 8.335 (29.0806, -95.1389) Christmas/Bastrop Bay: Cold Pass SPECIES: Speckled Trout BEST BAITS: Soft plastics, mullet TIPS: Fish soft plastics
FORECAST CENTER: Saltwater Hotspots – March/April 2025 Read More »
Reported by TF&G STAFF More Hotspots Available in the 2024 Texas Lakes & Bays Fishing Atlas www.FishGame.com/fishgamegear CURRENT WATER LEVELS • • • East Texas HotSPOTLight: Lake Conroe • • • LOCATION: Lake Bob Sandlin HOTSPOT: Monticello Cove GPS:
FORECAST CENTER: Freshwater Hotspots – March/April 2025 Read More »
The following tables contain TIDE and SOLUNAR predictions for Galveston Channel.
SPORTSMAN’S DAYBOOK-Tides & Prime Times – April 2025 Read More »
WHITETAIL | Stephenville | Seven-year-old Henson Compton with his first buck, taken on a ranch near Stephenville owned by a family friend. Henson has been hunting with his dad and older brothers since he was four. AXIS DEER | Kendall
Fish & Game Photos March/April 2025 Read More »
IT WASN’T A big fire, really. Well, I guess that depends on what you call big. It started out small, and wasn’t my fault, no matter what one individual might say. All we wanted to do was fry some catfish we’d caught that afternoon. I’d considered cooking it like we used to do when I was a kid by dumping some lard in an old wash pot propped on three bricks with a real wood fire under it, but that seemed like too much trouble…
OPEN SEASON by Reavis Z. Wortham Read More »
The Fish & Game Playbook: 3 Steps to Pull in More Red & Speck Catches • Spring Turkey: 10 Things You NEED to SUCCEED • Go Big or Go Finesse for Bass • Conservation VS. Coastal Development • A Cheat Sheet for Bowfishing • Profile: TF&G’s Man of Mystery • Plus … Columns, Saltwater Focus Reports and Much More…
ISSUE PREVIEW – March/April 2025 Read More »
Technology is changing how anglers approach fishing, offering tools that enhance efficiency and success. From GPS navigation to weather forecasts, these advancements provide insights for a better catch. As technology evolves, it remains a key part of modern fishing practices.
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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…
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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…
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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.
