General Outdoor

  Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens located an illegal long-line over 37,000 feet long approximately seven miles north of the Mexico border and approximately four miles off Boca Chica Beach. The net and line are believed to have […]

  Capt. Adam Jaynes, 409-988-3901, amjaynes@gmail.com, www.justfishsabine.com, says November fishing on Sabine Lake is some of the best fishing of the year. Trout and redfish are dining on shrimp coming out of the marshes and rivers; The birds are pointing

In the Aransas Pass area, gill net surveys on flounder are producing positive results. “We had a nice cold winter last year. We saw good recruitment of juvenile young flounder. We are just half way completed with our surveys, but

Cedar Bayou, which runs from the Gulf to Mesquite Bay is again open along the Texas middle coast. Up until 1979 Cedar Bayou allowed fish, crabs and shrimp to pass from Mesquite Bay into the Gulf of Mexico. The Bayou

    The new flounder daily bag limit, two fish, goes into effect Nov. 1 and continues through the 30th. Fish can be taken only by rod and reel. The move is a result of a long steady decline in

  “I was out in (Matagorda) West Bay wading in about calf deep water, and the tide started moving around 8 – 9 a.m.,” reports Matagorda fishing guide, Tommy Countz (281-450-4037). By noon is was ripping and the redfish were

Good redfish action is reported in Dickinson, Burnett, and Scott Bays located in the north end of Galveston Trinity Bay. Galveston East Bay is also producing good catches of redfish along the  north shoreline. “It’s unusually good in Dickinson,” says

  “The fantastic fall fishing that everybody likes to do is on at Sabine Lake,” says Capt. Bill Watkins. “I have similar reports from my friends over in Trinity Bay. In East Galveston Bay anglers are catching 14-16 inch trout

  Capt. Mike O’Dell reports that he’s catching fish, but it’s kind of weird. O’Dell fished the Upper Laguna and Redfish Bay last weekend. “Kind of weird…everything is a month or six weeks behind what it was last year. Out

  Capt. Randy Best reports that heavy rains over the past weekend made fishing a little tough. Best fishes from Corpus Christi south to the Land Cut and north to Seadrift. He predominantly fishes using a fly rod, a visual

    Matagorda fishing guide, Ken Marshall reports that in October bird action over shrimp starts to pick up. “We will be throwing a lot more plastic under diving gulls for the speckled trout, and redfish action should get a

In October Capt. Eddie Hernandez says he’s primarily running birds for trout and redfish on Sabine Lake. “If we are not doing that we are up in the bayous on the Louisiana side of the lake. Sometimes the birds will be

TPWD reports a ship sinking in the Gulf of Mexico, off shore from Mustang Island, but everything is good. The 155-foot Kinta S slipped to her watery grave Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico. The nearly 40-year-old freighter will foster

As one of the most sought after fish in the gulf, red snapper became the subject of a new reporting system that has shown favorable results The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Coastal Fisheries Division staff asked Texas anglers to

TPWD reports that September marks the one-year anniversary of a law passed by the 83rd Texas Legislature prohibiting the uprooting of seagrass with the propeller of a boat within the coastal waters of Texas. Seagrasses are important as they stabilize

The very recent acquisition of the 17,351-acre Powderhorn Ranch along the Texas coast in Calhoun County is an exciting example of how restoration money from NFWF Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund is being used in Texas. Through a fundraising effort led

Richard B. Richardson Jr. of Houston blew away a 1988 state record when he caught a 972.72 pound blue marlin from the Gulf of Mexico fishing out of Port Aransas. The huge fish measured 132.25 inches. Richardson in red cap,

Seamus Caskey’s kingfish currently leads the STAR tournament. Seamus is 14 years only; the fish weighted 56 lbs, 12 ozs. Seamus, fishing with his father and some his friends, were trolling blue runners around Rig 681 when the big kingfish

Guides Tommy Countz (www.matagordafishing.com) and Ken Marshall (www.fishmatagorda.com) share where and what to fish in the Matagorda Bay area in August. “If I’m wading, fishing for trout, I will be in West Matagorda Bay,” says Countz, “wading the grass beds,