Wardens Report Wild Circumstances AUSTIN — The following items are compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife law enforcement reports from the game wardens patrolling Texas wild lands. Bare Necessities While patrolling near Lake Sam Rayburn, a Sabine County game
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According to officials with the NRA-ILA, a recurring theme is the claims of anti-gun activists is that the gun community opposes “gun safety”. And that gun activists are pushing the narrative of “biometric guns” being a reality that needs to
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The July 4th Holiday arrives this weekend and Texans may be getting out on the water. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) inland fisheries and law enforcement staff are urging boaters to do their part to fight back against
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When people hear about hurricanes most immediately think of high winds. But it’s the water that’s responsible for nearly 90% of fatalities – and half of those are due to storm surge. Do you know if you’re at risk? Thanks to
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The Bass Champs 2020 Techron Texas Shootout is complete, with the team of Kris Wilson and Bryan Lohr taking home the top prize of more than $50,000. To do so, they had to beat 250 teams from across Texas, Louisiana
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Obedient Duck Dogs As a professional trainer of duck dogs for over 25 years, I have been asked many questions about training. Many times clients want to know our training methods and the order of progression that we will be
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Because overfished Atlantic marlin receive no government research funding priority, large data gaps relating to their life history characteristics remain. Satellite tagging provides a means to fill some of the data gaps by recording a marlin’s location and movement in
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OCEARCH the organization that helps track movements of marine creatures has revealed some fascinating details on a great white shark that moved into the Gulf of Mexico in 2020. “Miss Costa”, a great white tagged a few years ago pinged
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Any time you troll with long leaders or “gang” lures like spreader bars of daisy chains, a “wire-man” will have to haul in the fish the last few feet by hand. And wiring big fish is often when they’re lost.
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Since 2012, Bassmaster Magazine has released annual rankings of the country’s best bass fisheries. While tournament data could not be gathered because of the COVID-19 pandemic, crunching numbers gathered over the past eight years revealed a surprising Best Bass Lake of the Decade —
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For the first time in its 20-year history, a lucky winner has a chance to claim not one, but two one-of-a-kind experiences through the same package as part of the Big Time Texas Hunts drawing. One fortunate outdoorsman or woman
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Duck Habitat Conditions Officials with Delta Waterfowl have released a video discussing in-depth aspects of duck habitat conditions in the vital prairie nesting region. l Last week we reported the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s spring survey indicates a
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The following text is from a recent Instagram post from Capt. Eric Herstedt @capt_eric_herstedt. This is a post about mishandling bonefish and tarpon for pictures by guides and recreational anglers. It’s 2020 and the way we all treat fish seems to
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Since April, there has been an uptick in black bear sightings in Bowie, Grayson and Titus counties in northeast Texas. The bears are thought to originate from the neighboring states of Oklahoma and Arkansas, or possibly Louisiana, where resident bear
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Last year, as temperatures soared into the triple digits in Texas, 48 Texas State Parks handled 129 heat-related illnesses in humans and pets. Now that the summer has officially begun and temperatures are steadily climbing, the Texas Parks and Wildlife
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Just this past week, I had the opportunity to go check out a new place for deer season and off-season hog hunting. And it reminded me of the need to prepare for fall. As the sweat poured off of me,
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Ducks Unlimited released the latest film in its online series. In “The Sporting Chef,” Scott Leysath shares his love of wild game cooking and the sporting lifestyle. Leysath didn’t set out to be a wild game cooking authority. His path
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In a study published in Geophysical Research Letters, Florida researchers have discovered numerous tsunami risks in Gulf of Mexico waters related to submarine landslides. In the paper entitled Abundant Spontaneous and Dynamically Triggered Submarine Landslides in the Gulf of Mexico, they
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Global leader in boat control for over 85 years and maker of the Talon shallow water anchor Minn Kota® announces the upcoming release of Raptor shallow water anchor. With a host of new innovations and unmatched anchoring and durability, the Raptor is engineered
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Balmorhea State Park is gaining some elbow room after a 643-acre land acquisition was recently completed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. This acquisition, which was seven years in the making, will increase the size of the 108-acre park
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