Increased dove hunting opportunities across South Texas and expanded landowner-managed pronghorn permitting in the Panhandle highlight this year’s slate of proposed regulation changes for the 2017-18 Texas hunting seasons. TPWD will be taking public comment on the following proposed changes
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Changes to harvest regulations for bass in the Devil’s River highlight this year’s list of proposed freshwater fishing regulation changes. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) staff have also proposed regulation changes for lakes in Abilene and Dallas/Fort Worth and
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission at its Thursday, Jan. 26, public hearing approved changes to the regulations on the possession and sale of gizzard and threadfin shad collected from public waters. The change will require persons who use containers
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In this solo show, Dustin unpacks some tech tips on shooting a compound bow and why we should all get involved with archery, especially in the off-season. Dustin covers the importance of 3D archery as it prepares bowhunters for the
Once deer season ends in January it’s only a short time until another Texas tradition kicks off. Thousands of lone star state anglers drag bass boats, Jon boats, kayaks and anything else that floats down to Texas waterways to get
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State taking steps and following plan to deploy early detection and containment strategy Chronic wasting disease has been detected in a hunter harvested 1 1/2 –year-old white-tailed buck submitted for sampling within Surveillance Zone 3 in Medina County. This marks
First Case of CWD Detected in Free-Ranging Texas Whitetail Read More »
This time of year most bass fishermen have watched every DVR recorded fishing show they have trying to get ready for the upcoming spawn. Episodes of Mark Zona, Bassmasters and Major League Fishing have been played at my house quite
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The Smith and Wesson M&P has been around for a decade now as a contendor with Glock as a service pistol. Recently the M2.0 also debuted. It’s about time the M&P gets an upgrade, and I’ve finally made enough modifications
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is seeking public comment on proposed modifications to hammerhead shark and grouper regulations. The proposed changes would alter the current size and possession limits for hammerhead sharks and grouper to be consistent with
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At this point we’ve seen a number of boats designed for the 2017 model year. Many are prototypes and yes, there will be a few changes between now and next spring. And we’ll see another large crop of new models
2017 Model Year Boats Are Coming: 3 Trends to Look For Read More »
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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
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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
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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
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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
DOGGETT AT LARGE by Joe Doggett Read More »
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
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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
NUGENT IN THE WILD by Ted Nugent Read More »
—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.
THE FLORIDA TEXAS STOCK EXCHANGE by Matt Williams Read More »
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
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