General Outdoor

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Toyota ShareLunker season is off to a slow start. The program began in October and there’s just one entry so far, a Sam Rayburn Lake 13.2-pounder caught Nov. 2 by Ray Euper of Lufkin.

Toledo Bend continues to produce big bass. The biggest bass in the Toledo Bend Lake Association Lunker Bass Tournament so far since Jan. 1 is Louis Slaughter’s 13.15 lb trophy caught 02.02.16. In second place is John Dickerson’s 12.39 lb

The Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program’s Nueces Bay Marsh Restoration Project is moving along to completion. When completed it will return this area to a productive natural habitat with enhancements for recreation. Planning for this $5.3 million project began

Largemouth bass: Anglers who fish in the near-coastal fisheries of four counties in the southeast corner of the state, or the Sabine River downstream from Toledo Bend Reservoir will see a new definition of “legal” largemouth bass if a proposed

Travis McKee and Leroy Navarro, were winners of the Baffin Classic, with a reported weight of 21.87 lbs. Second place winners had 21.03 pounds. Round two of the Classic is this weekend. McKee said he and Navarro have been fishing

Texas hunters may see more liberal regulations and increased opportunities if state wildlife officials adopt changes to hunting regulations that have been proposed. DOVE: Under recently approved federal framework governing hunting of migratory game birds during the 2016-17 hunting seasons,

Areas TX-19, 20 and 21 of Lavaca Bay is closed to all oyster harvest effective January 23, 2016 due to low abundance of oysters in these areas. Chapter 76, Parks and Wildlife Code, and the Oyster Management Proclamation, Section 58.21(c)(1),

Capt. Tommy Countz reports catching trout and redfish while drifting in West Bay. “We found a few birds and caught fish under them,” referring to trout. “It’s not real consistent but you can find enough to put a decent box

An 18-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been arrested for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales. Trey Joseph Frederick was arrested pursuant to a criminal complaint issued by the U.S. District Court charging

The people of Button Township, a rural area just outside Paxton, Ill., are sick and tired of hitting deer with their cars. As a novel way to get drivers’ attention, the town is installing new “suicidal deer” signs to curb

National Weather Service Meteorologist Brandi Hughes said Lake Fork was releasing 1,900 cubic feet per second from its dam at the end of last week. “Tawakoni is still running over the spillway,” she said, reporting 2,500 cubic feet per second

A mountain lion with a rare physical abnormality has wildlife officials in Southeast Idaho stumped. The yearling cougar, which was harvested near Weston last week by an unidentified hunter, had a separate set of teeth growing out the side of

The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department fisheries office in Wichita Falls recently completed crappie surveys on lakes Arrowhead, Bryson, Buffalo Creek, Cooper, Iowa Park, Millers Creek and Palo Pinto. The drought negatively affected crappie populations at most of these lakes,

\\ As this year’s comes to a close in east Texas it’s looking like it was good year for quality, but not so much in numbers. A considerable amount of deer hunting country has been under water or inaccessible. A

Did you realize that you can cause significant harm to a bass just by how it gets landed and held before release? Over-extension of the lower jaw can result in damage to the jaw bone and permanent injury to the

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), as it’s known, isn’t caused by a virus, bacteria, or parasite but by an abnormal protein called a prion that can destroy a deer’s brain and spinal cord. Deer contract it by interacting with infected animals

Friends of Lydia Ann Channel, Port Aransas, accuses the Army Corps of Engineers as having fast-tracked approval of a South Texas barge terminal with no regard for its impact on eight endangered species. Port Aransas boasts five bays, estuaries, marshes

Although it’s not fishing or hunting, it is a chance for the whole family to get into the Texas outdoors on Jan. 1. Participate in a First Day Hike at a Texas State Park: “The First Day Hikes initiative has

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council reminds anglers that the recreational seasons for gray triggerfish, red grouper, and greater amberjack open in federal waters January 1, 2016. All three recreational seasons closed earlier this year because the annual catch