Bass Eats Bass–What if It’s a Record? Big bass are well known for their voracious appetites when the dinner bell rings. That’s why anglers who are serious about catching them frequently use big swim baits upwards of eight inches long,

Peanuts for Elephants One of the most common mantras among inshore fishermen who have their eyes set on trophy-sized gamefish has been, “Big baits, BIG FISH!!!” For the most part, that premise is true. A trophy speckled trout or a bull

Slow, Medium and Fast Strategies for Big Bass GROWING UP IN THE LATE ’70s and early 1980s, I lived the pursuit of big bass vicariously, watching bass television legends such as Bill Dance, Jimmy Houston, Roland Martin and Orlando Wilson

May There Be Fawns  Shall we say, I was a bit shaken—perhaps better described as shaking! Moments earlier I had stepped on a cottonmouth moccasin. Cottonmouths scare me! It had been lying right next to several dark oak limbs and

The .45 Automatic Colt Pistol According to my current edition of the Hornady Handbook of Cartridge Reloading: “The .45 ACP was adopted by the United States Ordinance Department in 1911, six years after its introduction by John Moses Browning, a

Part Two of a West Texas Barbary Hunt WE WERE SET UP to glass long before first light. As black turned to gray we spotted two bull elk. One had antlers and the other was in velvet about a quarter

TPWD Commission Changes Trout Regs, Adjusts Gar Proposal THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT (TPWD) Commission approved all the proposed changes to the saltwater fishing regulations at their recent meeting in Austin. The following changes to the 2019-20 Statewide Recreational

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It Starts In May AS HARD AS IT IS for me to believe, we have somehow, already made it to May. Although it seems like we were just ringing in the New Year, 2019 is almost half over and for that

This MAY be Our Best Coastal Fishing MAY ALWAYS BRINGS fond fishing memories to my household. Several years ago, a warm Mayday weekend yielded the best “Bull” redfish I ever caught—a fish right at four feet long and weighing 42 pounds.

Little Tarpon I PADDLED MY KAYAK into a bayou on the south shore of West Matagorda Bay, stopped 50 feet from a bend where the water dropped off to four feet deep, and cast my soft plastic lure into the undisturbed

May Spawns New Opportunity THE WINTER MONTHS are behind us, and school will soon be dismissed for the upcoming summertime break. Family vacations along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico have already been planned. Coastal anglers of all ages can’t

Conservancy? Or Rape of Our Natural World! THE INQUIRIES I RECEIVED about all the boats in Aransas Bay and Copano Bay were a bit overwhelming. Why so many boats? What are they doing? Where are they from? These boats were

Fish the Rocks STRUCTURE…the difference between catching fish or not. That’s an indisputable fact for the freshwater bass angler, but it’s important to the saltwater pro also. As Texas middle coast guide, Nick Mosley said, “target structure changes…sand to mud

The Allure of Alazan Bay ACRES AND ACRES of uninterrupted grass cover the shorelines of Alazan Bay, creating the most unspoiled and untouched body of water on Baffin Bay. It’s a mysterious place that feels like nothing much has changed for

The Roaring ’70s FISHING REALLY KICKS OFF in May on the Lower Laguna Madre. The weather has stabilized, although the wind can be a bit of a hassle when weather systems in the Great Plains suck air from the Gulf

UPPER TEXAS COAST LOCATION: East Matagorda Bay HOTSPOT: Tripod GPS: N 28 40.147, W 95 54.813 (28.6691, -95.9136) SPECIES: Speckled Trout and Redfish BEST BAITS: Norton Sand Eel and MirrOlure Lil Jon Contact: Capt. Nick Mosley 979-943-7497 nmosley79@gmail.com saltwateraddictionguideservice.com TIPS:

PINEY WOODS   LOCATION: Lake Conroe HOTSPOT: Main Lake GPS: N 30 24.57, W 95 36.834 (30.4095, -95.6139) SPECIES: Crappie BEST BAITS: Live minnows, crappie jigs Contact: Richard Tatsch 936-661-7920 admin@fishdudetx.com www.fishdudetx.com TIPS: The crappie are going to be close

The following pages contain TIDE and SOLUNAR predictions for Galveston Channel (N 29.3166°, W 94.88°). TIDE PREDICTIONS are located in the WHITE SPACE above the TIDE GRAPHS on the Calendars. Use the Correction Table in the RIGHT TAB BELOW, which

A Tribute to Outdoor Parenting I’LL NEVER FORGET the first time my father and I sat in a blind together on our friend Robert Scherer’s property in Jim Hogg County. Most years growing up, we could barely afford to hunt