The Holidays are Special for Fisherman Too he holiday season for most Americans—Texans proudly among them—begins in earnest with the approach of Christmas. This is a time to spend with family and friends. However, there is […]
Try One More Cast; It May Be Turn-On Time o you have your honey hole, a fishing spot that has produced for you many times. You know the water temperatures and tidal movements that you like, and […]
Cold Water Trophy Bait he end of November and the beginning of December is when a lot of occasional coastal anglers clean their rods and reels and store them until they are ready to use them again in […]
Getting Ready to Fish ost people don’t catch my attention as I find most are running hard at the speed of light and their brains are at the outer limits of what we call sanity—all trying to keep […]
Fronts Push Fish, and Fishermen, into the Deep he first significant cold front struck the Lower Texas Coast in late October this year, which hinted at an earlier winter than in recent years. Though it is rare […]
Christmas dinner is a very special occasion. As family gathers to celebrate the most wonderful time of year, old family recipes are cooked and special attention is paid to all things culinary. Christmas is a perfect […]
Empty Nests had the privilege recently, of taking a friend of mine, Allen Foster, and his 12-year-old son, Justyn, fishing with Captain Carlos Garcia. A 60 pound stingray—the largest I’ve seen in some time—took both Allen and Justyn’s baits […]
Help Me Help You or weeks on end I’ve been floating in the brine. My throat, skin, and lungs have been seared by exposure to salty water and air, and I itch all over. Both inside and outside, […]
Fly Knots to Know admit, I forget a lot of stuff. I’m getting older, there’s a lot of useless junk rolling around in my head (like the fact that Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras) I have no […]
Guns I Wish I Had Kept n my early years as a confirmed gun lover my normal financial life was one of being flat busted. Because of this, if I wanted a new gun I generally had […]