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The Fish Rapper IT SEEMS LIKE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Technically, it was the previous century. Way back in the nineteen-nineties, before Wars on Terror, Great Recessions, and rabid non-debates on Gun Control, Immigration, Race, Religion, the Climate, the Kardashians and

Skunk Encounters THEY HAVE A BAD REPUTATION, but they are really docile animals. They won’t bother you unless they are attacked. When I was in the Air Force at Laredo AFB we would practice off road driving and the trucks

Honoring Outdoors Influencers A CULTURE WITHOUT HONOR is a culture that will quickly crumble. Sadly, we’re seeing that all around us and the concept of honor is one that few people understand much less practice. I think we have all been

Speckled Dreams SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE OUTSIDE HOPE of shimmering green and the inside sandbar of rolling surf runs a fleeting school of speckled trout. Intercepting such a bounty is the dream of every beachfront wader on the Texas coast. And late

This Old Hunting Dog Can Learn New Tricks I WAS JAMMING AWAY on my Gibson Byrdland guitar again this morning after doing my chores, shooting a few arrows, running my varmint trapline and working my Labrador retrievers. Something very different happens

Texas Native Brian Robison: Flippin’ Jigs and Tackling Ball Carriers WHEN BRIAN ROBISON IS NOT TRAINING or playing with the Minnesota Vikings, he can usually be found flipping a Texas-rig around a dock or working a crankbait over deep structure.

Hard Core Flounder Anglers Get a Jump on the Fall Run DID YOU KNOW ONE of the best times to catch flounder is right now? Very few anglers other than we real hardcore flounder fans target them other than during the

Our Best Defense IN MY 20 YEARS AS AN OUTDOOR WRITER, one of my great pleasures has been meeting and getting to know the men and women who serve as wardens of the Enforcement Division of the Texas Parks and

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Alligator Gar IT WASN’T THAT LONG AGO that alligator gars were considered by many to be the ugly ducklings of the Texas freshwater scene—trash fish, so to speak. They weren’t of much use

Deer Management by Rifle THE WHITETAILED DEER is a truly amazing creature. In 1900 there were only an estimated 500,000 whitetailed deer scattered throughout North America. Now three times that many inhabit the Edwards Plateau of Texas—alone. Good management of

Big, Old, Slow, Still Lethal I REMEMBER MY GRANDPA LAMASCUS telling me, when I was a kid, about a trapdoor Springfield .45-70 that he had for a while when the family lived near Tucumcari, New Mexico. Grandpa said he tried

At Last… Fall “TWO OF THOS FOUR BUCKS look like they’re legal,” my brother Glenn said. “The eight-point on the right, when he looked our way, his inside spread is at least an inch beyond his ears. Probably a bit

Strange Bowhunting Tricks That Work for Whitetails BEFORE YOU START to read this story, allow me to make a few suggestions. Grab a pen and paper to take down a few of these ideas for a quick reference so you

Return of the Croaker and Sand Trout Runs? I RECENTLY RECEIVED an email from a reader who said they caught what they thought at first was a decent speckled trout but when they took it out of the net they