Texas Fish & Game

It’s rut time in the Texas Hill Country according to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD). “Conception dates for this region ranged from as early as October 9 to a late date of January 30. The Edwards Plateau, Texas’ highest deer production region, was divided into three areas for the study. The eastern part

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North American Light Goose Numbers Are Exploding. Why Aren’t We Seeing Them in Texas? Bill Stransky could not believe his eyes. The dedicated waterfowler and founder of Wharton-based conservation group Texas R.I.C.E. was stunned at the number of snow geese he saw before him. “I had heard about all of the birds that had started

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As another year come to a close, we start to take this time to reflect on the current year and all of its events. This year marks the resurrection of the Texas Fish & Game podcast which originally started in 2013 under the late Don Zaidle and now TF&G editor-in-chief Chester Moore. When I joined

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Young Barrett caught this 12.46 striper while fishing with me on Lake Whitney, Texas, breaking and setting the Lake Whitney junior angler lake record for Striped Bass.

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In the past couple years I’ve introduced thousands of kids to shooting pellet rifles and archery through our summer camp and scores to rimfire rifles in our hands on marksmanship camps.  Here are several tips to help you teach your youngster to safely shoot straight: Baby Steps
 Take it slow, take it safe.  First step

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Think carefully before you answer the above question, because your boat trailer may not be exactly what you believe. Unless you bought your boat new, with a trailer matched by your dealer, there’s a good chance it wasn’t properly matched to the boat. And just because a dealer put the package together isn’t a 100-percent

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My son, Johnathan Lindsey, shot his first deer ever while on a hunting trip at his father’s hunting lease in Cisco. This is being mounted due to the size and the antlers growing down.

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One of the unique products I have recently field tested this hunting season is Nutri-Plot by KenCor Outdoors. I met the owner of this company through a mutual friend we both knew in the outdoor industry marketing realm. Since my father owns 80 acres of land which he uses for both ranching goats and other

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Seems like every year the week before opening day I get inundated with dozens of guys who have waited until the very last minute to get a scope mounted or a rifle sighted in. I call these guys last minute Barneys. As I sat in my office yesterday my phone rang and on the other

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November. When hunters hear that word, most will immediately think of the rut or breeding season for whitetail deer. I have to admit it is and has been for as long as I can remember, my favorite month of the year. I am sure that many hunters reading this right now will agree with me.

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Has the fall “flounder run” been cancelled? Has the unusually warm weather short-circuited what is typically the best flounder fishing of the year? The answer is no and yes. The “run” is not canceled but the weather has changed things a bit. We have yet to experience the strong Arctic cold front that will get

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Prairie dogs have returned to Kaufman County. Mark McDonald, Chief Wildlife Biologist at Beacon Hill on Cedar Creek Lake is proud to announce the arrival of a family of Prairie Dogs to the Community’s Nature Trail. “We are delighted how quickly the Prairie Dog families have adapted to our Nature Habitat. They have become a

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In this show, Dustin interviews Rick Ward "The Urban Airgunner" on hunting small game, big game, and predators with airguns. Rick is part of the  American Airgunner TV Show which airs on the Pursuit Channel. Rick is a frequent "Round Table" expert on the show. Dustin and Rick discuss predator strategies, urban airgun hunting, AR-15 platforms

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My wife, Carol Pyfer caught this nice 10′ Sailfish while fishing about 40 miles out in the Pacific from Los Suenos, Costa Rica. Seven of us caught 28 Sailfish 8′-10.5′ in two days of fishing out of Los Suenos. On the way back in on our last day, the Captain stopped on a rock hump

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After searching high and low for an ideal pellet rifle for volume shooting and marksmanship training, I finally settled on the IZH 61 pellet rifle. We shoot thousands of pellets per year at our youth Marksmanship Camps (www.marksmancamp.com) and summer program at Camp His Way (www.camphisway.com).  In the past we had a collection of beat

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Texas has a Cornucopia of Natural Alternatives to Corn and Other Artificial Deer Enticements. Let’s face it, Texas deer hunters pursue the wary whitetail in two basic ways―baiting and playing on the sexual urges of rutting bucks. Deer hunters, like deer, are creatures of habit and over the last 20 to 30 years, they seem to have gotten

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TF&G has just learned that Jim Wallace has passed away at age 66. Wallace was the angler who broke the state record for speckled trout in Baffin Bay in 1996 with a monster 33.13-inch 13 pound, 11-ounce sow. “Jim was a true wade fishing machine for big trout. Arguably the best big trout fisherman ever,”

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Debbie caught this red on a curly tailed gulp while sight casting in a narrow bayou off of Trinity Bay. Great fight in a confined space, hooked reds were charging the boat and actually running out in the marsh grass during the fight.

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33″ Redfish caught on light tackle. It took 20 min. to land this hard fighting Lake Calcasieu Red.

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Oysters and fishermen rate it as a Texas Coastal Hot Spot One of the more popular fishing spots in West Matagorda Bay is the Half Moon Reef. The reef is one of the largest, innovative, and hugely successful oyster reef restoration project along the Texas Gulf coast. Half Moon Reef was one of  more than

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