Texas Fishing News

Boating, Fishing & Hunting Fees AUSTIN, Texas - Faced with increasing demand for services and rising costs, the Finance Committee of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission today authorized publishing in the Texas Register a proposal to raise selected hunting and...

High-Tech Plastic May Revolutionize Your Fishing!! The bait I held in my hand looked and felt like an ordinary 6-inch plastic lizard, however, according to Bliss Murski tackle representative Will Murski … looks can be VERY deceiving. 'This is the most incredible...

I Bought Fancy Clothes And An Expensive Fly Rod ...And Still Can't Catch Any Trout!! Trout Fishing! To an elite group of individuals the art of catching these little fish is a passion superseded only by the need to breathe. It is a combination of tippets, line...

Mercury OptiMax 200XS Outboard Sets 102.099 MPH World Speed Record --McClain Breaks 200 EFI Outboard Kilo Speed Record by More Than 1.143 MPH --OptiMax 200XS is the World's Fastest 200 h.p. Low-Emissions Outboard --Record Set On First Set of Passes Clifton, TN,...

Travel Mate Pack Rod Kits Shakespeare's new Travel Mate® Pack Rod Kits are perfect for the angler on the move. Whether it's for backpacking, camping, hiking or just to keep in the car, these quality combos with durable, hard body carrying case will always be there...

Help Society: 'Take A Kid Fishing" This time every year people everywhere are making resolutions for the new year. We say that we are going to cut back on our spending, spend more time with family, slow down and enjoy life more, and the list goes on and on. I have...

Classic World Championship of Women's Bass Fishing Slated The WBFA Tour has chosen lake Eufaula as the site for their fifth Classic World Championship. Lake Point Resort will serve as the venue for housing and all functions of the weeklong event, scheduled for the...

Circular Bass Fishing It’s not the Sports Illustrated magazine of bass fishing that BassMaster is. It’s not the how to or the when and where that is usually portrayed in other bass fishing magazines. It is an in depth look at the heart, mind, and soul of real bass...

Boat Show Basics The January Boat Show is one of the biggest sport shows of the year. Just about every boat manufacturer is represented by a Houston dealer at the show. Also fishing guides from all over the world will be on hand with information on guided fishing and...

Rig'N Up For The Big Ones The tip of the fishing rod bounced twice, and then headed south. The hook was set, and Keith Kocurek of Pier 45 Marine in Houston let out a whoop. "Fish On!! Fish On"!!, he cried out to fellow fisherman Darren Landry. But Darren had problems...

Crappie & Cookies Crappie and Cookies -- what more could an angler want? As we pulled away from the beautiful Lake Fork Marina docks, and rode out onto the revered waters of Lake Fork, I could tell that the weather forecaster was right on the money predicting high...

Spring Fishing With the Sunday Morning Tournament held out of ~StowAway Marina reaching five fish limit weights of over twenty five pounds it is obvious that the bass fishing in Conroe is improving. Various attempts seem to be paying off for an improvement in Lake...

Split Shotting SPLITSHOTTING One of the types of finesse fishing for black bass is called splitshotting. This rig is designed for fishing a worm through mossy areas. This rig consists of a worm rigged on a hook without a weight directly on the worm head. Instead of...

To Braid or Not to Braid By now most of us have had experience with the new versions of braided line. Opinions of the line vary from each fisherman of its uses and applications. Many fishermen use the line for a few special techniques and use monofilament for the rest...

Carolina Riggin Basics The Carolina Rig is a method of plastic worm fishing that is very effective for structure fishing for black bass. There is a wide variety of structures in the lakes of East Texas. On Lake Conroe there are pond dams, old road beds, old railroad...

Fishing Trip from Hell Last spring I was guiding everyday on Lake Conroe during my two week off limits for the Texas Invitational at Lake Sam Rayburn. I had been counting down the days before the event and running bass fishing trip after bass fishing trip, either two...

East Texas Duck Hunting Being more of a fisherman than a duck hunter I was unaware, until recently, that this year marks a year of record setting duck populations. The “pot hole” region of North Dakota and Southern Canada was in perfect breeding condition for the...

Texas Angler in Africa December 19th, 1995 I was standing in line at Houston Intercontinental Airport waiting to board a flight to London, England. From there I would catch another flight to Lagos, Nigeria in Africa. I was anxious get this trip underway so that I...

Duck Hunting Lake Livingston The second split of duck season is always greeted with eager duck hunting locals of Lake Livingston’s north end. On Friday December the 8th two friends of mine, Chris Swift and Brian Broadus and I watched over the Jungle and Robbs Lake,...

Living on Lake Livingston Living on Lake Livingston for the past six years has lead me to several understandings about bass fishing and this lake itself....change. Because of the "change" that I am referring to this lake sometimes gets a bad rap from bass fishermen...