Copperhead are without a doubt the masters of camouflage. While all wildlife has a measure of disappearing ability it seems as if the southern copperhead blends in better than the others and is a contributing factor to numerous bites, especially […]
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No animal symbolizes the marshes of coastal Texas better than the American alligator. Once an endangered species, the population rose enough to open a hunting season in 1984 and now thanks to solid management by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
How the Texas Hog Problem has become the state’s fastest growing Hunting industry It is a question we get every few months here at Texas Fish & Game. Out-of-state readers and visitors on fishgame.com want to know where to go hog hunting. “I
When All ElseFails (and even when it doesn’t) Live bait is the most effective means of catching speckled trout. This is not true in every scenario, but if a person were starving and had to catch specks to survive, live bait
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“Mr. Crappie” is the perfect nickname for Wally Marshall. Yes, he has his own line of top-selling crappie fishing videos, a television show and dozens of crappie-related fishing products to his name. The man lives, eats and breathes crappie fishing.
Saltwater Cats are More Popular than Ever 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,
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A television documentary featured the sad story of Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell who was killed by coyotes in a park in her native country. The 19-year-old’s tragic death in 2009 via the recent program has spawned lots of questions
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When I was around five years old my late father, Chester Moore, Sr., had his own mysterious aquatic encounter. While fishing with a friend on Conway Bayou on the Louisiana side of the Sabine River, a gigantic gray-colored creature surfaced
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Natural Options for Better Management and Better Hunting If you want to be consistently successful hunting whitetails, gaining a broad knowledge of their natural food habitat is important. The time to start thinking about it is now. It is easy to rely
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The great passion of my professional career is sharing with you the amazing wildlife of our state. The following photos show serious biodiversity on our quest for encounters. I had the amazing opportunity to photograph Florida panthers at Bear Creek
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High-fenced hunting operations, often called “preserves,” are a major force in the hog-hunting world. Some people have ethical concerns about any kind of hunting behind the confines of a high fence, but to do a complete treatise on hunting feral
Black Bear Sightings are on the Rise in Parts of Texas. The eyes always tell the story. Having encountered thousands of wild animals over the years, my attention is always drawn to their eyes because they reveal so much about demeanor and intelligence.
Last weekend while visiting YO Ranch Headquarters in Mountain Home, TX, I had the encounter of a lifetime. We had just completed granting a “Wild Wish” for a little boy named Amos who got to encounter a giraffe and many
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The Truth About Catching Trophy Fish is Out There… story by Chester Moore Despite being the most sought-after species on the Texas coast, many of the facts about the lives of speckled trout and the tactics that work best for catching
5 Keys to Catching Trophy Crappie Program Developed by Chester Moore Four years ago, I developed a system for targeting big fish of any kind. It is called F.L.E.X. Fishing® and it involves a scientific, systematic approach to angling. F.L.E.X. stands
The regional management plan of the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission (GSMFC) sheds light on an often-misunderstood part of speckled trout behavior: feeding. It shows that one researcher examined stomach volumes and concluded that spotted seatrout fed more heavily in
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Coywolves As storm clouds loomed over the coastal prairie and low, rumbling thunder echoed in the distance, I quickened my pace. Having placed a motion-sensing camera near a small, brackish marsh, there were still several hundred yards left to change
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Texas has some 113 species and subspecies of snakes ranging from the tiny earth snake to the massive indigo. Lets take a look at some of the diverse species of serpents found in the Lone Star State. The cottonmouth is
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It was a beautiful moment. A sweet, young girl who had recently lost her father, got the opportunity to pet and interact with her favorite animal-a zebra. A few months earlier at church, the Holy Spirit put it on my
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