Texas duck hunters searched the lakes, rivers and bays for ducks this season and mostly found very few birds. It was a big-time disappointing season overall. Photo by Robert Sloan
Thank goodness this duck season is over. It was absolutely the worst that I can remember after over five decades of chasing these wonderful waterfowl.
Fishing along the coastal jetties that can be found from Sabine Pass to Galveston can be very good for sheepshead during the late winter months. Best bait is freshly peeled shrimp.
Catching a fish these days is not the easiest thing to do when temperatures go from one extreme to another.
'Definitely not the best photo I've ever shot with my cell phone, this is the bobcat I watched eat a dead duck last Saturday morning' - Robert Sloan
With the closing of the regular gun season on deer, some buds and I shifted gears and opted to go duck and pig hunting last weekend. As expected, the duck hunting didn’t work out too well.
The city of Beaumont offers a wide range of activities with no cost to the participants
In stark contradiction to the argument that there’s nothing to do in Beaumont, the city has released a list of dozens of activities for Southeast Texans to participate in that won’t break the bank
Catching reds like this one on Sabine Lake has been good lately, with one of the best lures being a red shad Assassin rigged up on a 1/4 ounce jig head.
The 2022 professional bass fishing season will launch early next year, with the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Stop 1 at Sam Rayburn Lake, Jan. 27-30.
Volunteers walk among sparsely populated forest growth in the Big Thicket National Preserve
Big Thicket National Preserve is expanding the volunteer longleaf pine tree planting efforts to multiple events this coming winter.
Phil Brannan holds a big bass caught on Falcon Lake in South Texas.
Lumberton’s Phil Brannan is not only a world-famous carver of wooden fish, but he’s also in the hunt for big bass every day all day.
You never know where ducks are going to be along the Texas coast from one day to the other. So far, teal have bene filling out most limits.
Opening weekend of the Texas duck season in the South Zone was one that had lots of hunters heading out of the field with a limit of teal and scattered pintails.
The South Zone duck season opener was better than expected, with the best shooting taking place on flooded fields and small lakes. A whole lot of teal fills limits, with a scattering of pintails.
The deer season across Texas opens this Saturday at first light, ditto that for the South Zone duck season and when you stack college football on top of that it’s going to be a busy day for thousan
The deer season runs from Nov. 6 through Jan. 2, 2022 in the North Zone, and Jan. 16, 2022 in the south Zone. A special youth-only gun deer season is set for Oct. 30-31 and Jan. 3-16, 2022.
November the 6 is a big, big day across Texas.
