1604April

Cougar Encounters T here are moments in your life you cannot unsee. I wrote about that a few months ago One of those amazing times for me came in 1997. My friend and hunting show host Keith Warren invited me out

There are all kinds of fish finning around in our freshwater lakes and rivers. If I were among them, I’d want to be one with long whiskers, a fat belly, dapple olive skin and a head shaped like a gravel

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Gunning for You A few readers have recently asked, and more of you may have wondered, why a fishing and hunting magazine such as texas fish & game would devote regular space each month to tactical weaponry and self-defense. These topics

Dwarf Deer The story in Chester Moore’s column about “dwarf deer” in Texas was very interesting. I have personally never seen one, but have always found it interesting that in any species you can have absolutely huge specimens and tiny

  Parks to Get Most of Sport Sales Tax Legislation passed by the 84th Texas Legislature is providing a significant increase in dedicated funding for Texas state parks. House Bill 158 dedicates 94 percent of state sales tax revenue attributed

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Snakes! M ost big snakes, like many big deer and all big fish, tend to grow with the telling. Put another way, there’s no such thing as a 10-foot snake this side of a Central American rain forest. Or, realistically, even a

Snapper SNAFU W ere not quite there but are closing the gap daily on what promises to be a major battle over red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. Best possible outcome is that a legitimate solution, entirely unforeseen at the

Never Give Up; Never Give in; Never Backdown D eer hunting surely represents one of life’s greatest challenges. In fact, more than just a sporting challenge, my lifetime of gungho deerhunting proves beyond a shadow of a doubt to this old backstrapper

The Cecil Effect O nly those with extremely short memories, such as politicians and goldfish, could have already forgotten the most publicized and criticized African death in recent years, that of Cecil the Lion. According to a Washington Post piece written

The Texas Bass Fishery… Best in America? At the time of this writing, the Toyota Sharelunker season was slow. In fact, it only had one entry, leaving some anglers to wonder what was going on. While the Sharelunker program is

Jetties are huge granite piles placed strategically along the edge of shipping lanes in the Gulf to aid large vessels entering a channel or bay system.  For Texas anglers, jetties represent easy to target structures that draw in fish from

Other Lures S o there I am, sitting one rainy Saturday in January, watching westerns on INSP. During a particularly gripping episode of The Virginian (more gripping for Sandie, since it featured a very young Robert Redford), there was a commercial for a

Creature of the Cactus No animal is more symbolic of the arid regions of Texas than the collared peccary more commonly known as javelina. An animal enshrouded in mystery, these medium-sized mammals have a reputation that precedes them. For starters,

Turkey Fever i t is hard to believe, but it is turkey time again—already! I love turkey hunting. I have to admit that when I am out in the woods, hunting turkeys is even more exciting than hunting whitetail deer. I know

Handguns for Practice I learned most of whatever skill I have with a handgun by shooting targets, and most of that was in practice for matches we once had at the Uvalde Gun Club. Back in the 1970s the UGC was

During the flounder regulation debate in 2008, an interesting theory was being propagated on the Internet. It was a way to help boost flounder numbers without changing bag limits, and I got to hear it in person. “They are always

The Pig Problem  I’ve seen them while hunting Rio Grande turkeys in the spring, my back pressed squarely up against an oak tree, hoping that they wouldn’t scare off a mature gobbler. I’ve seen them while hunting whitetails in the

Seeing Sports or Alabama Bass? A tip of the hat goes out to Josh Helmstetler of Big Spring.  For those who may not have heard, the 29-year old angler was fishing at Lake Alan Henry Reservoir near Lubbock on January 9 when