July 13, 2016

E15 is Available in Texas; Check the Pump Before You Pump

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is asking for comments on a proposal to increase the amount of ethanol that must be blended into the nation’s gasoline supply for 2017. If adopted, these proposed levels will require […]

June 29, 2016

Freshwater runoff doesn’t affect the bite that much in Matagorda Bay

Does freshwater runoff affect the Matagorda Bay system? “The west end East Bay salinity almost never changes,” says long time Matagorda fishing guide, Tommy Countz. “First time I ever seen this,” continued Countz, “drift fishing down […]

May 10, 2016

Proposed Port Mansfield Fishing Pier in the Works

Possible new 630 foot fishing pier for Port Mansfield Last month, a storm damaged the old pier at Fred Stone Park, where local anglers have boasted some of the best redfish, flounder and trout fishing on […]

May 5, 2016

Galveston Area Anglers Survive at Sea

Galveston area anglers survive two days in the water after boat capsizes One of the anglers, Raymond Jacik describes what happened when a giant wave hit their boat. “It went right here, boom! And we went […]

April 17, 2016

Lake Fork listed as “suspect” for zebra mussels

TPWD standardizes zebra mussel classification system Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is updating its system of classifying zebra mussel presence in lakes to better describe the level of impact and align with standards used by […]

April 17, 2016

Second ShareLunker of the season

After 4.5 months with no entries into the Toyota ShareLunker program, Bruce Butler of Amarillo ended the dry spell with a 13.13-pound fish from Lake Alan Henry. Butler caught the season’s second ShareLunker about 4:00 p.m. […]

April 15, 2016

First striper for the Coastal Bend area?

Striper catches in the other saltwater areas are reported regularly, but not so much along the Texas coast. There have been a few caught out of Galveston Bay, Sabine Bay and Matagorda Bay. But the latest […]

April 15, 2016

What will happen when you concentrate fish in one area?

On Jan. 11, 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced the publication of a groundbreaking rule implementing the Fishery Management Plan for Aquaculture in Federal Waters of the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf Aquaculture Plan). […]

April 11, 2016

WSFR money being used on Texas

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced the nationwide distribution of more than $1.1 billion in revenues generated by Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Acts. All four states in the Service’s Southwest […]

April 8, 2016

Everything is bigger in Texas

Wildlife officials monitoring Lake Conroe found a huge lake resident during routine sampling this year. A 52-inch Blue Catfish weighing at least 60 pounds turned up in the gigantic catching device known as a “gill net.” […]

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