Texas Fish & Game

The National News of Texas

January 25, 2017

PIKE on the Edge

Breaking the Bass (and Buck and Speck…) Ceiling ebruary, since it’s the month of Valentine’s Day, seems an appropriate time to churn some fresh discussion of women in the outdoors. Groundwork for this topic was laid a […]
January 25, 2017

COMMENTARY by Kendal Hemphill

Cafe Ingratitude rowing up in a central Texas family that ate meat at almost every meal, a large percentage of it wild, I was entirely unaware of vegetarians. Until I left home for college I believed everyone […]
January 25, 2017

NUGENT IN THE WILD by Ted Nugent

Ethics…When No One is Watching he glorious Michigan bowseason had been blazing along ferociously for just 20 days. Well, maybe not actually blazing everyday, and I guess not really all that ferocious most of the time either. […]
January 25, 2017

THE FLORIDA TEXAS STOCK EXCHANGE by Matt Williams

—story by Matt Williams I’m not sure when I caught my first Florida-strain largemouth bass, or one with traces of the fast-growing gene in its DNA. If I had to guess, it was probably way back […]
January 25, 2017

TEXAS FRESHWATER by Matt Williams

Reeling in Some Sense in a Fishing Report f you’re an avid reader of this magazine and others like it, chances are you’re a sponge for information that might provide some sort of edge next time you head […]
January 25, 2017

FRESH WATER TIDES by Steve Schaffer

How Coastal Floods Affect Saltwater Fishing The Texas coast is prone to experiencing freshwater deluge every few years. Last year represented some of the most epic flooding in the history of Texas with the Sabine, Neches […]
January 25, 2017

TEXAS SALTWATER by Calixto Gonzales

A Chance to Heal y wife thought I was nuts.  You’re going fishing? NOW?” “Yes,” I said as I grabbed a rod and stuffed lures into a bag (I didn’t bother looking at what they were).  “I […]
January 25, 2017

TEXAS BLUE DEVILS by Chester Moore

The Lone Star State’s Mysterious Exotic El Diablo!” “El Diablo!” A man came screaming through a South Texas work camp at night frantic and pointing toward the brush. One of the workers grabbed a big Q-Beam […]
January 25, 2017

10 THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT TEXAS SALTWATER FISHING AND THE GULF COAST by Chester Moore

Flounder are moving into bays along the Gulf Coast right now. In a super slow fashion, they are coming through the jetties and filtering into the inland ecosystems after spawning in the Gulf of Mexico. I […]
January 25, 2017

OCELOTS OF SOUTH TEXAS by Chester Moore

Pint-Sized Leopards Appear to Be Returning to Texas Wildlife biologists in December trapped an ocelot kitten at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, just east of Rio Hondo according to officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]