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Tips for Fishing for Winter Trout: When to Watch the Ocean
If fish adjust their strategies to changing weather patterns, Texas ‘ winter speckled trout fishing can be very profitable. The temperature of the water affects how quickly the temperature changes in winter, and how to handle small warm spells or long great spells differs. Understanding how and where trout position themselves and how they eat
Drone fish is permitted, right?
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ( TPWD ) has noticed an increase in inquiries relating to their use in relation to fishing and wildlife as a result of technological advancements with Unmanned Aircraft Systems ( UAS ), also known as drones, now widely available. The legality of using drones to deploy fish by sea
Start public access points for trout
Thanks to a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ( TPWD )” no fee” access lease on the Guadalupe River, anglers have access to a top location for rainbow trout fishing during the peak of the winter stocking season. Almost a half mile of bank accessibility along overlapping pools and revolvers on the Guadalupe River is
Groups Concerned Over Menhaden Issues
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has voted to allow an Atlantic menhaden catch that will not leave enough menhaden in the water for striped bass. Catch was set at 186,000 MT, when scientists said that a quota of 108,000 MT was necessary to have a 50% chance of success of rebuilding the striped bass
TX Chenier Refuge Complex Welcomes Hunters
As fall migration peaks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reminds hunters that the Texas Chenier Plains Refuge Complex on the Texas coast are open for public waterfowl hunting. The National Wildlife Refuges in the Complex offer broad hunting opportunities focused on species like the blue-winged teal, green-winged teal, gadwall, northern pintail and northern shoveler.
What’s The Weirdest Trail Camera Photos You Have?
Texas Fish & Game is calling on outdoor enthusiasts, hunters, landowners, and trail-camera fanatics across Texas and beyond to send in their strangest, funniest, and most unbelievable trail-camera photos and videos. If you’ve captured something weird, wild, or completely unexpected, this is your chance to show it off — and everyone who submits will receive
A History of Great White Sharks in Texas Waters
For years, the idea of Great White Sharks roaming the Texas coast has been treated as dock talk—interesting, exciting, but not taken too seriously. Yet the history of whites in the Gulf of Mexico, including Texas waters, is more extensive than most people realize. Your ongoing effort to compile old reports, newspaper accounts, and modern
Door To Door Poaching Scam Hits Kerr County
Residents in the Texas Hill Country have reported a troubling pattern: individuals going door-to-door claiming to be wildlife researchers and asking for permission to shoot deer on private land. Authorities are concerned it is a poacher scam. The men say they are studying deer diseases, including Chronic Wasting Disease, and they present themselves as being
Whitetail Populations Stand Strong Going Into Hunting Season
To hunters, springtime in Texas is often viewed as chasing turkeys through hot, humid weather, or hanging up the firearm for a fishing pole. For white-tailed deer, spring represents a time for growth: body growth, antler growth and population growth. Texas began the growing season under widespread drought in March, but most of the state
Late Season Whitetails
Proven Tips for Hunters Who May Not Have Used All Their Buck Tags Feature Article by MATT WILLIAMS WHEN I THINK ABOUT late season deer hunting in eastern Texas — that time period when winter ushers in some of the coldest weather of the year and bucks are run down, hungry and slowly regaining their
TEXAS BOATING by Lenny Rudow
THE COOLER’S FULL OF ICE, the livewell’s full of baits, and you’re ready to launch that boat and enjoy a day of fishing. There’s just one problem: you still need to get the boat from the trailer into the water. And at the end of the day you’ll need to load it back up. No big
FORECAST CENTER: Saltwater Hotspots – Upper Coast Nov/Dec 2025
HotSPOTLight: Palacios Point LOCATION: Sabine LakeHOTSPOT: Coffee Gound CoveGPS: N 29 58.179, W 93 46.16(29.9697, -93.7693) Sabine Lake: Coffee Gound Cove SPECIES: RedfishBEST BAITS: Spoons, shrimp, soft plasticsTIPS: Troll down shoreline with red/white jigs under cork. . . . LOCATION: Sabine LakeHOTSPOT: Coffee Ground CoveGPS: N 29 58.179, W 93 46.16(29.9697, -93.7693) Sabine Lake: Coffee
