Texas Fish & Game

The National News of Texas

June 25, 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

White Turkey Response ABOUT 25 YEARS AGO, on my grandfather’s farm in Wilson Co. along the Cibolo Creek near La Vernia, TX, there was the largest group of gobblers I had ever seen before or since […]
June 25, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTES by Chester Moore

Poaching Must End HE SHELL OF an alligator snapping turtle is unmistakable. Giant ridges rise up giving the species an ancient look. In reality, these creatures are not much different from dinosaurs of the past. Seeing pieces […]
June 25, 2018

DOGGETT AT LARGE by Joe Doggett

Bugging for Bass HE SHAKESPEARE FIBERGLASS fly rod was my great pride during the summer of 1959. I stood on the bank of Houston’s Hermann Park duck pond and again admired the trim, white blank and […]
June 25, 2018

NUGENT IN THE WILD by Ted Nugent

Let Us Never Forget Our Daily Lessons THOUGHT FOR SURE I would tumble out of my stand the way my body was trembling and quivering so violently. Without a doubt the biggest buck of my life was […]
June 25, 2018

TAKE BASS FOR A SPIN

Why Spinning Rigs Belong in an Angler’s Arsenal SPINNING REELS HAVE BEEN AROUND for decades. I fished with one a lot when I was a kid shagging grasshoppers around farm ponds back in the 1960s. One […]
June 25, 2018

COASTAL BOW FISHING

What’s Legal to Stick with an Arrow… and How to Do It BOW FISHING IS BY FAR one of my favorite outdoor pursuits. It combines many elements into one relatively simple sport of arrowing non-game fish […]
June 25, 2018

TEXAS SALTWATER by Calixto Gonzales

In the Bag CAN SAFELY SAY that I am the saltwater angler that I’ve become largely from the mentorship of one fishing guide: Captain Larry Corbett. He taught me to fish with artificial lures at a time […]
June 25, 2018

TEXAS DOVE HUNTING

Prepping for the Biggest Dove Hunt in America DID YOU KNOW THAT 30 PERCENT of all of the doves bagged in America are taken in Texas? Annually, close to 400,000 Texas hunters take to the field […]
June 25, 2018

TEXAS WHITETAILS by Larry Weishuhn

Summertime Whitetail Pursuits HANKFULLY IT IS FINALLY MID-SUMMER. Whitetail fawns are on the ground, some starting as early a mid-April continuing on through August—and antlers on bucks are once again interesting. As deer hunters we sometimes […]
June 25, 2018

TEXAS GUNS by Steve LaMascus

Semi-Auto or Revolver? HE REVOLVER WAS the preeminent handgun for well over a hundred years, but in the late-1980s or early ‘90s, the semi-auto caught up and then passed the revolver as the most likely to succeed. […]