A Word for Our Sponsors I ncome from sponsors has been the lifeblood the media business since the earliest newspapers. A penny a copy turned a tidy profit in the 1800s, but much greater riches were there to be mined once

Love for ‘The Drive’ I am writing this in response to your page-9 article entitled “The Drive” in the December 2016 issue of TF&G. Your article resonated with me due a couple of factors. One is that I, too, recently

Feeding the Need I have always craved any connection to the outdoors. Without hesitation as a little boy, I would ask my mom to take me in to Wingate’s Meat Market in Orange every single time we passed by. And about

The Phases of Angling I t’s been said that a serious angler goes through four phases during a fishing career. As time passes, I’m inclined to support this evolutionary theory. During the first stage, the young beginner just wants to catch

Breaking the Bass (and Buck and Speck…) Ceiling F ebruary, since it’s the month of Valentine’s Day, seems an appropriate time to churn some fresh discussion of women in the outdoors. Groundwork for this topic was laid a couple of decades

Cafe Ingratitude G rowing up in a central Texas family that ate meat at almost every meal, a large percentage of it wild, I was entirely unaware of vegetarians. Until I left home for college I believed everyone ate meat, and

Ethics…When No One is Watching T he glorious Michigan bowseason had been blazing along ferociously for just 20 days. Well, maybe not actually blazing everyday, and I guess not really all that ferocious most of the time either. But with maximum

—story by Matt Williams I’m not sure when I caught my first Florida-strain largemouth bass, or one with traces of the fast-growing gene in its DNA. If I had to guess, it was probably way back in the early 1980s.

Reeling in Some Sense in a Fishing Report I f you’re an avid reader of this magazine and others like it, chances are you’re a sponge for information that might provide some sort of edge next time you head to the woods

How Coastal Floods Affect Saltwater Fishing The Texas coast is prone to experiencing freshwater deluge every few years. Last year represented some of the most epic flooding in the history of Texas with the Sabine, Neches and Trinity all pouring

A Chance to Heal M y wife thought I was nuts.  You’re going fishing? NOW?” “Yes,” I said as I grabbed a rod and stuffed lures into a bag (I didn’t bother looking at what they were).  “I need to go.”

The Lone Star State’s Mysterious Exotic El Diablo!” “El Diablo!” A man came screaming through a South Texas work camp at night frantic and pointing toward the brush. One of the workers grabbed a big Q-Beam flashlight and shined toward

Flounder are moving into bays along the Gulf Coast right now. In a super slow fashion, they are coming through the jetties and filtering into the inland ecosystems after spawning in the Gulf of Mexico. I know this is a

Pint-Sized Leopards Appear to Be Returning to Texas Wildlife biologists in December trapped an ocelot kitten at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, just east of Rio Hondo according to officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service).  “The kitten

Memories of a Hunt I t was opening day of bow season and dawn found me perched in my tree stand as I waited for another beautiful sunrise. It was unusual to have the wind come from the south, but the

Profiles of Texas Catfish Recently the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) has taken a renewed interest in catfish. A big part of their strategy for growing fishing interest in urban and suburban areas is the stocking of the highly

Mulefoots and Other Strange Hogs of Texas For all practical purposes the hogs we hunt are sus scrofa but there are a number of regional variations that some people are adamant are a different species entirely. Take the “pineywood rooter,”

More on Night Vision N ew night vision products are being introduced at an ever-faster pace, which is good news. Even better news is that prices are steadily easing downward. A good example is the new Echo1 thermal reflex sight by

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WMA Whitetail Research D eer hunting operations making use of the Managed Lands Deer Permit system will be able to continue hunting through February, while most average deer hunters have already stowed their gear weeks ago. Although you may know that