Texas Fish & Game

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June 25, 2018

INVESTING IN THE GUADALUPE BASS FISHERY

IN 2017, THE TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT (TPWD), the Llano River Watershed Alliance and Bass Pro Shops partnered to help celebrate conservation successes in the South Llano River and to recognize the ecological, recreational and […]
June 25, 2018

TEXAS FRESHWATER by Matt Williams

Keeping Your Cool in a Dicey Situation IKI PIKE HAS BEEN DRIVING bass boats longer than he’s been driving pick-up trucks. The 32-year-old angler from Silsbee claims he has bucked some big waves on some of […]
June 25, 2018

FREE RANGING NILGAI

Why Do They Keep to a Small Slice of South Texas? THE NILGAI ANTELOPE is one of the most sought after exotic species in Texas. According to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, nilgai are native […]
June 25, 2018

THE TF&G REPORT

How Texans Got an 82-Day Snapper Season EXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT (TPWD) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) have agreed on what is the longest red snapper season in many years. Under the Exempted Fishing […]
June 25, 2018

TEXAS HOT SHOTS

Catfish Lake Tawakoni Whitetail Goliad County   Post your own Action Photos and Check Out the TEXAS HOT SHOTS Photo Contest
June 25, 2018

COASTAL FORECAST: Sabine – July 2018

Take Advantage of July Conditions ‘M NOT QUITE SURE how it happened so fast, but somehow or another we’ve already made it past the halfway point of 2018. July has snuck up on us, and in case […]
June 25, 2018

COASTAL FORECAST: Galveston – July 2018

‘Hot’ Fishing Centers Around July N THE SOUTHERN COAST OF TEXAS —which for my purposes includes Galveston and Freeport where land ends and the Gulf of Mexico begins—July is usually the “middle” of the summer season. […]
June 25, 2018

COASTAL FORECAST: Matagorda – July 2018

Matagorda Offshore, in the Bay, and in the Surf ALLELUJA! We finally have a real red snapper season in federal waters, more than nine nautical miles offshore. Back in 2005, I fished for red snappers at the […]
June 25, 2018

COASTAL FOCUS: Upper Mid Coast – July 2018

Fishing the Signs, Not the Spot T’S HALF-PAST SIX in the morning, and you’re already behind schedule. You’re just idling-up to your first choice of a wading spot for the day, but you should’ve already been in […]
June 25, 2018

COASTAL FORECAST: Rockport – July 2018

Non-Zero Sum HESE COMMENTS AND MANY MORE are just a sampling of real life conversations I have been a part of the past several months. “The phone is just not ringing like it has this time of […]