Texas Fish & Game

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopted multiple changes to the freshwater fishing regulations for the upcoming 2021-2022 season at the meeting held virtually March 25. Changes to length and bag limits for blue and channel […]

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Bridges are natural-born fish havens. Their pilings provide structure, they’re often built at choke-points where the current is accelerated, and those with lighting draw in fish after dark. If you wanted to improve the fishing in […]

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Anglers added two more Legacy Lunkers to the 2021 Toyota ShareLunker season totals over the weekend. The run at O.H. Ivie powered on, reaching double digits with 10 Legacy Lunkers this year courtesy of ShareLunker 603 […]

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Cue the “Jaws” theme. A great white shark has been confirmed by officials with Ocearch to be swimming off the Texas Coast. Acadia, a 10 foot, 9-inch, 1,600-pound female, quietly pinged near Nansen, one of the big […]

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Tuna was on the minds of the anglers on Galveston Party Boat’s The New Buccaneer and Capt. Matt Smith as they traversed the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico on a 30-hour offshore trip. But […]

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Texas State Parks have begun a strategic and thoughtful process of expanding capacity statewide, tracking Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest reopening order, and allowing more Texans the opportunity to visit their favorite parks. Masks are strongly encouraged for […]

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When angler Wyatt Frankens of of Wyatt Frankens Guide Service hit the waters on lake O.H. Ivie March 1, he was hoping to get in on some of the incredible monster bass action that has taken […]

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Kevin Collier caught this strikingly beautiful albino rainbow trout while fishing below the dam at Canyon Lake on the Guadalupe River Jan. 1 Albinos of any species are rare but some rainbow trout fisheries like the […]

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Winter weather the week of Feb. 14, 2021 led to fish kill events on the entire Texas coast. If fish do not make it to a refuge in deeper, more temperature stable water during cold weather, they may […]

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Much of the Rio Grande wild turkey range in Texas experienced two great years of turkey production and recruitment in 2019 and 2020, and this means that hunters this spring turkey season can expect to see […]

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With spring around the corner, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists are asking residents with bird feeders to routinely clean them, and the areas surrounding them, in order to help slow the spread of potentially […]

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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and other wildlife agencies around the country are urging stores who sell aquarium products to remove a “moss ball” aquarium plant product from their shelves and for customers to […]

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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two major gun control bills. H.R. 1446: This bill revises background check requirements applicable to proposed firearm transfers from a federal firearms licensee (e.g., a licensed gun dealer) […]

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Last Tuesday the beautiful, Eastern turkey jake was in Maine. On Thursday a box labeled National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) was opened by Sean Willis of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD). Out of it, that same young male […]

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As spring hits many anglers along the coast are going to have cobia fishing on their minds. Few fish are as exciting to catch and as tasty to eat. And, few baits are as likely to […]

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Anglers and paddlers have some new options for their next fishing and paddling trips. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is pleased to announce two new opportunities to hit the water on the Brazos and San […]

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The Wild Sheep Foundation announced a cause for celebration as a new wild sheep population was reintroduced into Montana’s Tendoy Mountains. “This was a historic couple of days for wild sheep conservation and an experience I […]

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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is now taking public comment on the following proposed changes to the 2021-2022 Statewide Hunting and Migratory Game Bird Proclamations: Add crossbow to the definition of lawful archery equipment Remove the […]

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With the recent Executive Order (EO), recreational fishing gear, bottom trawls, and pelagic longline are viewed the same as all other fishing gear when it comes to designating Marine Protected Areas (MPA). The EO, signed by […]

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To help address growing wildfire-related challenges in America, the U.S. Geological Survey is rolling out a new Wildland Fire Science Strategy that lays out the critical needs for wildfire research over the next five years. Released today, this […]

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