As the youngster carefully cranked the Zebco, the jack-in-the-box anticipation took hold that accompanies bass fishing in Texas.
He knew something might happen. It was just a matter of when.
And how loud.
The pale, gray Slug-Go at the end of the line fluttered and twitched as it skittered along the surface...
The Texas flounder fishery has certainly seen better days.
As a result of a longtime downward trend in population estimates, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is reminding both recreational and commercial anglers that the flounder fishery will be closed for the month of November and through Dec. 14. During...
Huge changes are coming to the Texas fishing and hunting landscape beginning Sept. 1, 2019, including a statewide five-fish limit for speckled trout, a new mandatory kill-switch law for motor boats 26 feet or less in length, and a change to feral hog hunting license requirements on private lands.
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Water, and more importantly water-quality issues, have never been more important in Texas, and state biologists are hoping that an assessment of South Texas and coastal locales provides insight into improving inflows and estuaries.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department fisheries biologists began the two-year study of the Arroyo Colorado, a...
Baffin Bay is unlike any other ecosystem in Texas.
The hypersaline bay in what once was considered the Wild Horse Desert on maps is famous for its “rocks” -- ancient living structures constructed over thousands of years by tiny tube-building serpulid worms.
The bay system also is notable for the prime...
ROCKPORT, Texas -- You can’t touch it, taste it, smell it or even see it, but it’s there looming just below the shimmering surface -- a rare fishing catch.
You can call it the great unknown.
It’s the masked uncertainty dripping with luminous anticipation that drives anglers of all ages to...
The Texas speckled trout bag limit along much of the coast drops to five fish per day beginning Monday, Sept. 1, a move that was hotly debated at multiple public meetings and through online comments.
The Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission in March voted to adopt rules extending the five-fish...
Red snapper issues have been contentious in recent years, especially in 2013 when Texas, Louisiana and other Gulf states pushed back against proposed federal rules, urging that snapper regulation be left up to the discretion of states, citing scientific research supporting the stance.
Gov. Rick Perry and other Gulf state...
There’s an epidemic sweeping the nation’s lakes and rivers, and though it’s not bacterial or viral in nature, the pain from this particular affliction can take root and resonate for days or even weeks in extreme cases.
There’s no telling when the scenario might play out, but the more time...