Deer Hunting
War of attrition — maximizing your public-land hunting
The Friday after Thanksgiving 2011 found Lyle Savant of Central locating an active scrape near an oak flat deep within the interior of Sherburne Wildlife Management Area.[…]
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Inshore Fishing
Stick, Move and Communicate — Catch more redfish on tough fishing days
As a soldier in a field-artillery unit based in Baumholder, Germany, three words drilled into my government-issue brain were shoot, move and communicate.[…]
Deer Hunting
Going coastal: Up your odds of deer-hunting in the marshes
The suspicious speck of white flickered some 200 yards away, resembling what might have been simply a bird flying or the cotton-like puff from the head of a cattail bursting its contents in the wind.[…]
Deer Hunting
Food facts: Target the best deer foods to kill more deer
As we all know, the 2011 mast crop was tremendous, but the overall statewide deer harvest was way down from past years.[…]
Other Hunting
Start with squirrels: Hunting busy-tails is a great way to initiate young hunters
Squirrels aren’t sexy.
They don’t have 12-inch beards and 1 ½-inch-long spurs that hunters just can’t wait to measure.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Highway robbery: Catch plenty of reds and specks within minutes of Highway 1
There are some pretty cool perks to being an outdoor writer. One is that opportunities sometimes present themselves to step out of your comfort zone and try something new.[…]
Hunting
2012-13 WMA Forecast
Did you know when mast-producing trees are stressed, as they are in a drought, they produce a bumper crop of acorns?[…]
Inshore Fishing
Blood on the Border: Tips for catching big speckled trout on the lower Sabine River
No Man’s Land!
It has a romantic ring to it.[…]
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In Plain Sight: Tips for duck hunting from layout boats
You hear it all the time when it comes to duck blind concealment: Low profile is key.[…]
Bass Fishing
Made in the Shade: Catch more bass by fishing the shade
My Lucky Craft Sammy topwater landed less than its length from the base of a cypress tree. I mindlessly snapped it back and forth a couple times to impart that lazy walk-the-dog action that big bass just can’t seem to ignore.[…]
Offshore Fishing
Ling Lessons: Catch more lemonfish with these tips
With the motor idling to keep the boat in position against the running tide, the captain nosed toward a small oil-field structure in the Gulf of Mexico and tossed some fish pieces under the barnacle-encrusted legs supporting this steel island.
As the succulent chunks of fish slowly disappeared into the aquamarine water, larger shapes materialized to create a frenzy just below the surface. Soon, various other fishy objects, large and small, appeared.
Aggressive fish darted out from under the platform to snatch their share of morsels.[…]
Freshwater Fishing
Cranked! Tips for catching summertime marsh bass
“So uhhh — Dad. Why do we have to leave again?” my son Jason asked, while he was setting his crankbait with a solid jerk into another little marsh bass.[…]
Deer Hunting
Promise Keepers: Tips for opening-morning bow hunts
Bowhunters spend all summer promising themselves that things are going to be different this year.[…]
Bass Fishing
It’s always football season
Much more than a chunky, lumbering bottom bumper, the football jig offers a diverse tool for probing deeper spots — especially those with lots of hard stuff on the bottom.[…]
Bass Fishing
It’s always football season
Much more than a chunky, lumbering bottom bumper, the football jig offers a diverse tool for probing deeper spots — especially those with lots of hard stuff on the bottom.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Calcasieu Heat: Tips for Big Lake speckled trout success
Ten-year-old Phillip Rue was scrunched up on the bow seat of the boat, torquing the handle of the spinning reel ferociously.[…]