Fall and winter provide some of the liveliest angling opportunities for anglers willing to spend a day at the beach for Texas saltwater fishing pursuits.
From Sabine Pass to South Padre Island, the Texas coast spans hundreds of miles and features myriad surf fishing options.
Here’s a look at what’s biting...
MUSTANG ISLAND -- No matter what the square said on the calendar, school was in session.
The surface in the summer shallows popped and squished as horse mullet zoomed back and forth amid stands of waving seagrass and sandy potholes dotted with the occasional oyster shell or crab. The rising...
“Want to see pictures of my deer?”
That phrase invariably invokes a variety of responses from the average hunter, but for me it always sends icy chills up my spine.
I’ve seen hundreds, more likely thousands, of photos snapped from a range of devices provided by readers, friends and others in...
Fishing during the middle of the day isn’t just tough — it’s downright dangerous.
It doesn’t take much to overheat and take all the fun right out of the pastime.
However, if you’re looking to find the magic hour, any success you have clearly will be both audible and visible.
Concentrating early...
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...
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...
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...
The Texas coastline stretches from the Louisiana border to the Mexican border and harbors game fish of all shapes and sizes -- and tastes.
With that in mind, here’s a summer saltwater fishing guide, featuring more than a few reasons why it’s worth making the trip south or east, at...
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...
The Texas saltwater fishing community is entering uncharted territory when it comes to speckled trout fishing: an overall reduced daily bag limit that spans roughly 400 miles of coastline.
The now-statewide five-fish bag limit -- which takes effect beginning Sept. 1, 2019 -- is years in the making, mostly due...