The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council on Thursday voted to enact an emergency rule gutting the recreational red snapper season and allowing only an 11-day summer framework.
The daily bag limit of two fish per person and minimum size requirement of 16 inches are unchanged.
The council in December set...
The average man always knows where he's going.
He doesn't need a map, compass or directions from the old-timer at the gas station. Then again, the average man might wander around, taking time to compose where he is, where he has been and where he's going.
It's a process, really. Sometimes...
Hunting frameworks for a number of Texas species ended recently -- adding to the number of seasons we’ll have to wait until next fall to again enjoy.
That means fishing is likely your new aim. However, boating maintenance should be the first thing you think about before pursuing lunker largemouths...
Most Texas outdoorsmen and women dream of big whitetail bucks this time of year, but it’s time to give thanks for winter inshore saltwater angling opportunities and take part in what could be some of the best fishing of your life.
Texas’ Gulf Coast stretches from a state border with...
Allen Lane Kruse, of Nacogdoches, caught the fish of a lifetime April 13 from Lake Naconiche, a new impoundment near the East Texas city.
The 12.54-pound largemouth bass was submitted as a water body and catch-and-release record for the lake. However, this isn't just any big fish tale.
After testing, it...
There's a vast difference between "fishing" and "catching."
That statement is especially true for bass anglers. Even if you've got the time and money to put in the days needed to truly get on a pattern, fishing typically is done a whole lot more than catching.
For the weekend warrior, knowing...
HOMER, Alaska -- You would be hard-pressed to find a more picturesque and stunning corner of this planet or any other than the end of the road on the Kenai Peninsula.
Each wandering glance elicits another image fit for a postcard, including snow-capped volcanoes looming on the broad horizon, swarms...
Everyone along the Texas coast knows someone who has been affected by skin cancer.
However, those among us who enjoy spending time on our many bay systems and in the Gulf of Mexico seeking redfish, speckled trout, flounder and numerous other species are more familiar with the risks of spending time in...
Texas anglers looking to fill their freezers with red snapper are urged to head to their local H-E-B or other local seafood-selling establishment.
At least that's what NOAA Fisheries and the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council would urge you to do.
In the most stunning move it may ever make, the fisheries governing...
Texas speckled trout fishing has undergone numerous regulations changes during the past decade, notably the move to enact a five-fish limit along the entire coast, in an order to promote conservation of what's our most sought-after saltwater species.
As a result of February's severe freeze across the Lone Star State...