Texas Fish & Game

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May 28, 2014

Catfish Summer

Matt Williams School’s out, summer is here and the catfish are ready to chomp. Whether you are an angler hoping to fill a void in the freezer or a parent with plans to turn a youngster […]
May 26, 2014

Slimers & Hardheads: Saltwater Cats are More Popular than Ever

Chester Moore It did not take long to figure out what was on the other end of the line. At first I thought it might have been a shark because it hit hard and fast, but […]
May 21, 2014

Sand and Teeth: Catching Sharks from Shore

Calixto Gonzales The three old men were a fixture on the South Brazos Santiago jetties. They had an old red oilskin tarp set up as a sort of lean-to for shade, a banged up Coleman camp […]
May 12, 2014

Doodlesocking Cats

Chad Ferguson There’s no better time to use a technique called “doodlesocking” than late spring and early summer, when channel catfish are spawning. This is a sure-fire way to load up on channel cats and have […]
May 7, 2014

‘Hoo Do You Love? Why You Relax and Embrace the Ballyhoo over Ballyhoo

Calixto Gonzales Conditions were not what you’d call fisherman-friendly.  The wind was blowing straight south at a steady 25 knots with gusts pushing 35.  Foam lines streaked the water of Lower Laguna Madre, which looked like […]
May 5, 2014

Snakes in Texas

Chester Moore Texas has some 113 species and subspecies of snakes ranging from the tiny earth snake to the massive indigo. This month we will look at some of the diverse species of serpents found in […]
May 1, 2014

Thirty Years of Fish & Game, 1984-2014

Roy Neves The year 1984, like the year 2000, was once used as a sort of symbolic shorthand to describe the world of a distant future. In the case of 1984, that world was always dark […]
April 30, 2014

Post Spawn: Is it really bass fishing’s toughest time?

Matt Williams For as long as I can remember post spawn bass fishing has gotten a bad rap. The theory among many anglers is that *Micropterus Salmoides* goes into some kind of a weird funk during […]
April 25, 2014

Trigger-Unhappy: How A Fish Goes From Unwanted To Endangered

Mike Holmes My first experience at offshore fishing came at the end of my freshman year in high school. Growing up in East Texas, a class trip with my Vocational Agriculture group on Capt. Tee Boy […]
April 23, 2014

Strange Bay Tales

Chester Moore “Strange things are done ‘neath the midnight sun.” Had the author of that line, Robert Service, lived in Texas, he might have penned similar words about fishing the bays. Robert Sanchez and party could […]