Twelve-year-old Taylor Raley was tired of long waits to get photos of game and fish he took in magazines. As one of the editors of Texas Fish & Game, I can say it takes us a long time to get them in print due to the vast amount we receive. In response, Taylor created...
Ambush. The very word conjures up images of a predator patiently lying in cover waiting to pounce on unsuspecting prey. Mountain lions often perch themselves on tree limbs overlooking game trails, waiting for deer to make the fatal mistake of walking by. Crocodiles position themselves in the shallows with only their eyes breaking the...
Over the last few years I have been actively involved through TF&G and my radio show in promoting bear awareness in Texas. I would love to see a comeback of bears and was proud when TF&G initiated its “Don’t Shoot That Bear!” poster campaign. This is the kind of thing that makes working for...
(This is the first installment of a series of blogs I will be doing during the spring about obscure angling techniques for fresh and saltwater fishing. It will involve seldom talked about strategies, locations and angling philosophies. Enjoy.) Now is a pretty good time to catch big crappie in the big river systems in...
Coastal fisheries history was made twice this week. The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) staff at Sea Center Texas gave flounder anglers a huge jolt of enthusiasm and our bays a big boost of baby flatfish. On Tuesday the first-ever flounder stocking occurred in the Galveston Bay Complex off of Bob Smith Road...
Residents in Orange County have been happy to get to observe a beaver family that took up residence in a canal right off a main road. I had the great pleasure of going by and photographing one of them at a very close distance and was amazed just how long I was able to...
A reader of my Port Arthur News column, Ron Wehmeyer, sent in this amazing shot of a huge cougar standing over its recently killed javelina on his ranch out in the Trans Pecos. Having worked around cougars quite a bit I can tell you this is one big specimen. Do not believe any of...
Kids say the funniest things. This is especially true when the subject is wildlife and the kids are from the inner city where the only connection to nature is through a television set. A while back, my wife Lisa and I taught kids how to identify animal tracks at the Texas Wildlife Expo in...
The Dallas Safari Club (DSC) has announced they learned of allegations that certain outfitters exhibiting at sporting shows and expos across the U.S. are offering “child sex tourism” as part of their international hunting and fishing excursions. DSC announced today that it will aggressively enforce zero tolerance for those participating in these types of...
This is part 1 of a 3 part wrap-up of the 2010 SHOT Show.) Vendors called it the “dungeon”. At this year’s Shooting, Hunting and Outdoors Trade (SHOT) Show in Las Vegas, many of the smaller, upstart companies as well as some still hungry veterans displayed their goods in the basement floor of the...