Big hogs! I see Texas Fish and Game is looking for photos of monster hogs. Here are some I took with my bow. Enjoy! Mike Ray Host “The Wild Life with Mike and Heather” Thanks for the Rattlesnakes In 1968

We’ve Got a Texas-Size Poaching Problem A 17- year-old Harris County  teen has been charged in connection with the February 22 shooting of a bald eagle near White Oak Bayou. It was one of a pair that actively nested in

Far Bend Fever B ack in the spring of 1983, Guinder Edwin Velasquez-Clark guided me to my first fly-rod tarpon. We were fishing out of Archie Fields’s old Rio Colorado Lodge on the northeastern coast of Costa Rica. Guinder was young

Unstoppable Hogs I N FEBRUARY Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller approved the first chemical weapon for use in the war against the state’s seemingly unstoppable population of wild hogs. My guess is that in a year or five we’ll still

Heal Thy Brother S ix year old Makon Lynn struggled to walk to the archery range. After a year of chemotherapy and tortuous radiation to treat his agonizing cancer, the courageous little guy had to give all his fragile body could

Spring turkeys are frustrating—especially in Texas. The reason I say this is that temperatures can vary so much in that crucial period when the birds decide to get frisky that it can cause an early breeding period or a late

There are a passel of good ways to catch crappie. On a scale of one to ten, soaking shiners or casting jigs around brush piles has to rank right near the top. This holds especially true from summer through much

Takin’ It To The Bank O ne of the biggest misconceptions  in fishing is you need a boat of some kind to get off the bank to catch fish—especially the big ones. I call it a misconception because that’s exactly

The State Has Approved the Use of Poison for hogs Control. Right or Wrong? Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has announced a rule change in the Texas Administrative Code (TAC) that classifies a warfarin-based hog lure as a state-limited-use pesticide. 

I wasn’t feeling any pain, yet. I was numb and enraged in my adrenaline high, still feeling the sharp sting of fear and anger. There I was, flat on my butt in a prickly pear cactus with a 10mm auto

Though redfish are year-round hitters, with the warmer weather, there is even more potential for some action-packed fishing in Texas. Captain Chris Martin, owner of Bay Flats Lodge on San Antonio Bay, provides his best tips for successful half shell

The long and Short of It S o, the bass anglers Sportsman Society has decided that beginning this past January, tournament anglers may use rods up to 10 feet long, up from the long-standing eight-foot limit. The rule, C8 to be

The Growing Reputation of Texas Calvin Carter It’s all about conservation. It’s about inspiring people to take care of our precious wildlife resources.” Those are the words of Calvin Carter, a man many call a “wildlife artist extraordinaire.” And I

I Thought I Saw a Sea Snake? It emerged from a weedline that covered the edges of the 18-mile light out of Sabine Pass. “It had white/bluish and black bands and came from under the weeds and then swam to

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Nostalgia for a ‘Favorite’ M ost of us who grew up  in the first half of the 20th Century, remember our first gun fondly. For many of us that first gun was a Stevens Favorite. The Favorite was a lever-action, falling-block,

Texas Big Bass I t’s big bass time in Texas,  which means plenty of photos of big fish will be shared on social media near and far. I always enjoy inspecting pictures of big fish, especially lunker largemouth bass, those

Sabine’s Hotspots W armer air and water temperatures are gradually becoming the rule rather than the exception as the spring season slowly but surely begins to take hold of the Texas Gulf Coast. With the arrival of April, anglers across

April Brings More Than The Easter Bunny W ith the prospect of a mild winter again and rainfall levels more normal than in recent years, April should see the start of serious fishing action on our part of the Gulf

Fishing in Off- Colored Water O n April 25th, 2016, I was trying to figure out where my wife Janet and I could go fishing. We had received about three times the normal April rainfall, and most of the rain had