A ‘Classic’ Comback t’s been said many times that a guy can’t win the Bassmaster Classic on the first day, but he can certainly put himself out of contention with a crappy performance in the tournament’s […]
Hog Hunting is Banned or Limited on Millions of Acres of State and Federal Land in Texas. No Wonder We Have a Hog Problem. Warfarin. That was not a word the hunting public was familiar with […]
Hunting Merriams in South Dakota (Part 1) requent readers of this column know by now how much of a turkey -hunting fanatic I am. Whenever I have a free morning during turkey season, I am out there […]
A 1972 Robalo sportfishing boat pulled up to an oil platform off the coast of Corpus Christi. As the waves rose and fell around this giant manmade structure, Capt. Bill Sheka lowered a big hunk of […]
The easiest way to catch speckled trout in Texas bays is to look for gulls diving over the shrimp and shad that specks send to the surface. But can anglers specifically target large speckled trout under […]
Playing Well With Others his is a column that I occasionally moved to compose, but some other seemingly more pressing subject pops up that demands my attention. Even so, the grist for this piece never dissolves or blows […]
It was one of the few times Dad did not want to take me fishing. Every day mom and I drove by a little gully on the way to school, and every time we passed it, […]
Mottled Ducks Being Forced into the Open Gulf The mottled duck has always had a soft spot in my heart. They are a native duck of the Gulf Coast and always symbolized the brackish-intermediate wetland I […]
The Scout Rifle he late colonel Jeff Cooper, USMC Ret., was, and is, a familiar figure in the art of combat shooting. He founded the American Pistol Institute in Arizona, now called Gunsite Academy. There, he pioneered modern […]