Texas Fish & Game

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November 25, 2017

PIKE ON THE EDGE by Doug Pike

One Gun, Two Guns, Three Guns, Four… friend who doesn’t own a gun and has never fired a gun (who is still a friend despite those shortcomings) asked recently how many guns one man needed. In hindsight, I’d […]
November 25, 2017

NUGENT IN THE WILD by Ted Nugent

Be A Wildlife Army of One here is a vast, stunning, towering, soul cleansing forest in the swamplands of southern Michigan that an uppity guitar player planted by hand. With many indigenous coniferous and deciduous species of […]
November 25, 2017

COMMENTARY by Kendal Hemphill

A Christmas Story cold north wind took advantage of the opportunity when I opened the back door of the house, swirling into the warmth of the laundry room and giving me a taste of what my morning […]
November 25, 2017

Rattle Dem Bones

Rattling Up a Crafty Old Buck Fit, fit, ffffeeeeeeeeeeeeee!” I hissed, then slammed my rattling forks together with a loud crash and immediately started meshing and grinding them together like two big-bodied, mature whitetail bucks engaged […]
November 25, 2017

Winter Sheep and Black Drum

It’s time to catch sheepsheads. Texas coastal waters are filled with these hard-fighting, excellent tasting fish that get little respect despite the aforementioned attributes. These fish congregate in the greatest numbers in our jetty systems. Right […]
November 25, 2017

TEXAS SALTWATER by Calixto Gonzales

Dancing a Different Jig or years, jigs were a mainstay of offshore anglers up and down the Texas Gulf Coast. Deepwater anglers knew that the secret to pinning a larger than average red snapper or tempting a […]
November 25, 2017

Christmas Crappie

When winter sets in across eastern Texas, Jack Frost sends water temperatures on area lakes into a gradual nose dive. That’s when paper mouth junkies across the region know it’s time to bundle up warm and […]
November 25, 2017

A Crossbow for Christmas

Finding the Right Gift for the Archer in Your Life The realm of crossbows has expanded in so many wonderful ways in the just the past decade alone. Crossbows are easier and safer to shoot today […]
November 25, 2017

Waterfowl

There’s More to Waterfowl than Meets the Eye How many times have you argued with your friends in the blind about which duck species is the fastest or pondered just how quickly those specklebellies migrated down […]
November 25, 2017

TEXAS FRESHWATER by Matt Williams

A Good Way to Get Wet Feet in a Tournament f you’ve been thinking about trying your luck in bass tournament fishing, but have yet to take the leap, the time is ripe to get it done. […]