Texas Outdoor Nation “A re you from Texas?  The question came from a tall gentlemen across the table at a beautiful fishing lodge on Mexico’s Lake Agua Milpa. I was a little taken back because I don’t have much of

Limiting Out on the Regs T he combination of a green tide and a bent rod can bring many pleasant surprises along the Texas coast. But an unexpected catch might pose a difficult question: Is it legal? Several years ago, while

Early, Old, Young and Empty T here are stark differences between young and old, early and late, empty and full. And nowhere are those contrasts more vivid than in the outdoors. If you’re 40 miles offshore late one afternoon and your ice

Celebrate The Spirit A s I jettison ferociously into the soul cleansing, spirit intoxicating month of September with fresh Rocky Mountain elk blood on my Buck knife and hands, please excuse me while I attempt to control my over-active emotion glands! Lord

Right to Lose I f I were pressed to put my finger on a date in history, a specific moment when we lost the battle, I would say it happened on June 26, 1934. That was the day the Second Amendment was

Stalking Striped Bass with Topwaters The striped bass may not rank at the top of statewide popularity polls with Texas freshwater anglers, but it certainly isn’t for a lack of effort. Pound for pound, ounce for ounce and inch for inch,

Where to Catch S.T.A.R. Winning Specks, Flounder and (Hopefully) Tagged Reds Catching a tagged redfish has become the dream of many anglers along the Texas Gulf Coast. And while they are dispersed all over the state and move around plenty

Making-Have Tools for Making Your Own Lures A few months back I ran series of columns on at-home lure making. I was pleased with the response the columns got from readers who were excited with the idea of “slinging goop” and making

Just Because It Didn’t Fall Doesn’t Mean It Wasn’t Hit A few years ago I was guiding a hunter from back east. He was new to the sport, was a fair shot, but a bit short on experience. Up front he

Lou’s Believe it or Not I f you are a hunter, you have stories of crazy things that have happened to you either in the field or on your way to the woods. Me too . I think I love the

 480 two-man teams. That is how many fished a recent tournament on Sam Rayburn put on by the Southeast Texas High School Fishing Association (SETX). That is nearly 1,000 kids on the water, actively competing to catch bass in a

Cheaters Never Win L ots of things about Bass fishing I will probably never fully understand. Perhaps the most perplexing of all is how a guy can go strutting into a tournament weigh-in with a fish he didn’t catch, or one

Back around 1997, I was running a trotline in a deep hole in the Sabine River. My cousin Frank Moore and I had trotlines about 200 yards apart and we had been catching a few blue catfish. This was in

The Ideal Live Well L ive wells are tricky little beasts; one design flaw can be ruinous. Very few livewells out there have all the different features that add up to the ideal. For a live bait angler, this can be

Tough Mudder A re you a tough mudder? British commandos devised an event combining distance, typically ten or more miles, with a muddy obstacle course to test the mettle, strength, and stamina of participants. Recreation runners adopted the concept and competitive

Gear got Pronghorns T exas is not normally thought of as one of the premier states for hunting pronghorns. It is, however, one of the states that the hunter looking for a trophy pronghorn should seriously consider. Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana)

Mountain Home—As a youngster, I had a couple of scrapbooks full of photos cut out from hunting magazines that my father and I put together.  One of these shots was from a now defunct Texas publication and had a photo

  Flooding Pushes More Hogs into Populated Areas    As the human tragedy of the massive historical flooding experienced along the Sabine River basin continues to unfold through reconstruction of homes and other dwellings and will continue for months, the