May 2018 Cover
In This Issue: Time to Be a S.T.A.R.; Best Paddling Trails in Texas; Texas Smallmouth & Walleye?; Exotic Mysteries; Camping in the Wild; King of Texas Snakes.
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INSIDE FISH & GAME by Roy and Ardia Neves
Entering Our 35th Year W OW. This month marks our 34th anniversary, and with this issue we begin Volume 35. They say the older you get, the faster time passes, and we cannot argue with that. When you think about it,
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Partially White Turkey Editor:In response to our article on white turkeys in the March issue reader Bob Noah sent in this game camera photo of a partially white jake at a feeder near Montague City. If you have any photos
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EDITOR’S NOTES by Chester Moore
How Bass Changed it All T HEY SEEMED A LITTLE OUT OF MY LEAGUE. Pictures of famous professional anglers like Rick Clunn and Larry Nixon holding a beautiful, huge largemouth bass haunted my imagination. I thought the anglers I read about
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DOGGETT AT LARGE by Joe Doggett
Think Big, Rig Big, to Catch Big T HE LARGEST BASS I have seen hooked probably weighed 15 pounds—maybe 16 if it took a deep breath. I believe that to be an honest estimate because I was a neutral observer.
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NUGENT IN THE WILD by Ted Nugent
I Just Wanna Go Huntin’ I WAS ALWAYS DIFFERENT, nobody understood. I didn’t play follow the leader, cuz I was always in the woods. They hadn’t invented peer pressure yet, seems I stood alone. But My daddy had a vision;
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WALLEYE & SMALLMOUTH IN TEXAS?
LARGEMOUTH BASS, channel catfish and crappie dominate freshwater fishing in Texas. Those are by far the most popular and abundant species on reservoirs, streams, creeks and rivers across the state but there is more. Did you know that Texas has good
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TEXAS FRESHWATER by Matt Williams
R.I.P. Ray Sasser T EXAS SPORTSMEN LOST a powerful and colorful friend on February 21 when veteran Dallas Morning News outdoor writer, Ray Sasser, passed away after a multi-year battle with lymphoma. He was 69. Well known as “Sasser” among
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TEXAS SALTWATER by Calixto Gonzales
Liven Up the Joint I HAVE BEEN A HUGE DEVOTEE of jointed plugs (or broken-back, if you prefer) since I was a teenager, over grumble-grumble-grumble years ago. If you look in one of my myriad tackleboxes, you will find broken
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CCA MADE GAFFTOP A STAR
GROWING UP ON THE TEXAS COAST, I literally knew no one that ate gafftopsail catfish. Even the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department data on the species said, “The fish is edible, but difficult to prepare and not usually eaten by
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EXOTIC MYSTERIES
A Surprising Number of Non-Native Species Roam Wild in Texas… and Many Can be Hunted Year-Round AS I CRUISED DOWN HIGHWAY 12 between Mauriceville and Deweyville, my eyes were fixed on the woods as they always are while traveling areas such as this. Few things
TEXAS GUNS by Steve LaMascus
Handloading 101 A FEW YEARS AGO I had an old Remington Model 700 ADL .222 Remington rebuilt into a wildcat .222 Remington Magnum Ackley Improved. The gunsmith who did the work had no experience with wildcat calibers, but I looked over
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TEXAS WHITETAILS by Larry Weishuhn
A Tame Buck, for Name’s Sake I AM NOT PARTICULARLY IN FAVOR of giving whitetail bucks names other than possibly “the front gate buck,” “the creek bottom buck” or “the cemetery buck”. After all, there always seems to be a big
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CAMPING IN THE TEXAS WILD
Texas Has Some Spectacular Options for Getting Away From It All NEED TO UNWIND from the stresses of modern American living? A trip to the wilderness is the best way to purge the negativity and get things back into focus.
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BEST PADDLING TRAILS IN TEXAS — Hill Country
TEXAS HAS A GROWING number of official paddling trails for kayakers and canoe enthusiasts. These are great areas to simply get out and paddle but they also provide access to fishing in areas that would in many cases be off
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HIGH-TECH GAME WARDENS
Using State-of-the-Art Gear to Enforce Game Laws I’VE ALWAYS BEEN SOMEWHAT INTRIGUED by the job Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens do. My respect for the men and women who drive the green trucks is immense, but not just
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THE TF&G REPORT
TPWD Approves Changes to Fishing Regs for 2018-19 T HE TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE COMMISSION adopted a suite of changes to this year’s fishing regulations that includes standardizing harvest regulations for largemouth bass to the statewide limits at 12 lakes