The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department on Thursday announced a multi-million dollar public-private collaboration that will result in turning the iconic Powderhorn Ranch along Matagorda Bay into a state park and wildlife management area.
Native wildlife that calls the area home includes bobwhite quail, Rio Grande turkeys, white-tailed deer and...
The premier inshore sport fishing target in Texas is a prehistoric monster.
It’s not fit to bring home for supper. It’s ornery and downright stubborn for anglers. And, most of all, it’s simply hard to locate.
Meet Megalops atlanticus, the “silver king.”
Big tarpon are distinctive to say the least. Cloaked in...
The Cedar Bayou restoration effort aimed at reopening the pass that previously divided Matagorda and San Jose islands continues to net funding, including a $1 million allocation announced Thursday by the Texas General Land Office.
The funding is derived from offshore drilling in federal waters.
The project, which is aimed at...
The Texas A&M System Board of Regents recently approved the creation of the Center for Sportfish Science and Conservation within the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
Recreational saltwater fishing in Texas generates more than $981 million dollars in retail sales each year...
The red snapper debate has Texas and other Gulf states seeing red over what they view as federal intrusion on a recreational fishery that adds millions of dollars to local economies.
And the argument has gotten legal.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has added another public hearing in Corpus Christi to gather input on proposed hunting and fishing regulation changes, including alteration to the speckled trout bag limit that would encompass much of the coast.
The department originally scheduled one public meeting in Corpus Christi for...
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...
Spring on the Texas Gulf Coast is a time of plenty for hunters and anglers alike.
Thanks to a temperate climate that other portions of the state lack, March, April and into May provide better weather conditions conducive to pursuing numerous fish species from trout, redfish and flounder in the...
Spring means turkey hunting season in Texas.
It's also synonymous with prime time for trout fishing along the coast.
South Texas remains the top location, far and away, to find the biggest whitetail bucks in the state. That’s true, regardless if you’re hunting under a high fence, low fence or even...