Texas Fish & Game

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June 9, 2021

DOA Lures Founder Talks Speckled Trout

DOA Lures founder Mark Nichols knows a thing or two about speckled trout. Having created numerous lures that have caught literally millions of trout from Florida to Texas including the DOA Shrimp and DOA Bait Buster, […]
June 3, 2021

Strategies For Catching Big Sabine Trout

Sabine Lake is the northernmost bay system on the Texas Coast. Situated near Port Arthur on the Louisiana border it is a solid trout fishery. Join Chester Moore on Higher Calling Gulf Coast as he gives […]
April 28, 2021

Did Freeze Kill Potential State Record Trout?

The massive coastal freeze that hit Texas in February killed more than four million fish. Speckled trout, especially mature fish, were killed by the tens of thousands from Upper Laguna Madre to the Mexico line. That […]
March 23, 2021

Coastal Freeze: More Catch-And-Release?

Everyone knows about the Big Chill that beset Texas in mid-February. But not everybody understands the severity of fish loss on the coast. Most bay fish cannot survive the frigid temperatures Texas endured. And dead fish […]
March 17, 2021

Freeze Kills 3.8 Million Fish-Trout Hit Hard

Winter weather the week of Feb. 14, 2021 led to fish kill events on the entire Texas coast. If fish do not make it to a refuge in deeper, more temperature stable water during cold weather, they may […]
February 17, 2021

TX Coastal Freeze Kill-Update & Interview

The record-setting freeze event that struck Texas Sunday, has taken a dark turn along the coast as fish kills have been reported from Lower Laguna Madre to the Port O’Connor area. In his latest Higher Calling […]
February 4, 2021

World Record Speckled Trout! Plus An 11-Pound Sand Trout!

Where is the next world record speckled trout likely to live? What about the Texas state record? Will it be broken? Join Chester Moore in the conclusion of a three-part series on trophy speckled trout as […]
January 28, 2021

Trophy Trout Strategies Revealed

Trophy speckled trout are the most prized inland sportfish on the Texas Gulf Coast. Catching these elusive and quite quirky fish can be a challenge so anglers need all the information they can get to score […]
January 5, 2021

Strange Cork Tactics that Work

There’s no denying that traditional popping cork fishing is effective for catching speckled trout. Does it always work? Of course not. But when the usual “pop-pop-pause… pop-pop-pause…” isn’t working, that doesn’t mean you should ditch the […]
December 23, 2020

Migration Of Laguna & Galveston Trout

Make no mistake about it, the speckled trout is the most important saltwater fish on the Texas coast-from Laguna Madre to Sabine Lake. Catching trout is what drives most Texas anglers to spend their spare time […]