Texas Fish & Game

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April 25, 2018

This Bait Will Catch Bass In The Spring

Proven Bait There are very few absolute facts when it comes to bass fishing in the spring when it comes to bait and lures.  However one absolute fact is that fish WILL bite a lipless crankbait.  […]
April 25, 2018

TPWD Takes Deep Look At Alligator Gar

Gar The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) unveiled a new website April 13 to educate and inform Texans about alligator gar – the largest freshwater fish in Texas and one of the largest freshwater fishes […]
April 24, 2018

Did You Know Texas Has Swift Foxes? (Video)

Swift Foxes Texas outdoors lovers are likely familiar with the red and gray foxes but there is another species. Swift foxes are a small variety indigenous to western Texas and the Panhandle that is facing some […]
April 23, 2018

A Tribute to Roger Parks

Roger Parks, a dear friend to this magazine and especially to us personally, passed away on April 19 at his home in Seminole, Oklahoma. Roger and Pam, his wife of more than forty years, recently retired […]
April 20, 2018

The Real Reason TPWD Shut Down Proposal To Extend Deer Season

No Extended Deer Season For You Citing concerns that it could have adverse impacts on Texas’ quail hunting heritage in the Rolling Plains region, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission nixed a wildlife staff proposal to […]
April 19, 2018

How To Get Started Kayak Fishing

Let’s play the dream game of kayak fishing. Close your eyes…that’s a little too tight…there you go. You are standing on the beach, on the bay, sand between your toes, gentle breeze in your face, rod […]
April 16, 2018

Disease That Has Killed Millions of Bats Hits Central Texas

The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats, detected for the first time in Texas in early 2017 in the Panhandle, has now spread into Central Texas. Though no bat deaths have been attributed to […]
April 15, 2018

Rescue Dogs Vs. Pure Breds

Purebred Vs. Rescue Dogs In the day and time in which we live it seems that everyone has an opinion! I guess it has always been this way, but keep in mind that we all are […]
April 10, 2018

Sam Rayburn Produces “Legacy Class Sharelunker”

Sharelunker Sam Rayburn Reservoir produced the final Toyota Sharelunker Legacy Class largemouth bass entry with just hours left in the 2018 donation season March 31.  Angler Stacy Spriggs of Huntsville caught the 13.06 pound, 27 inch […]
April 5, 2018

CWD Checkpoints Expand for TX Hunters

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission has approved expansion of the state’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) Panhandle Containment Zone following the discovery of the disease earlier this year in a roadkill white-tailed deer. The Containment Zone […]