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A quick look in the backyard confirms it.
The Easter lilies are blooming.
There’s your sign, coastal angler.
It’s trout time.
Capt. Tom Holliday has been gone for several years now. Still, every March, when the blood-red blooms of the lilies burst forth from the greenery below the big tallow tree outside the master bedroom window, I think of […]

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If you would like to make a concrete contribution to Texas saltwater hatchery efforts, and have a bunch of fun while you are at it, check your calendar for upcoming Coastal Fisheries Bay Team events. Through this year’s program, volunteers will catch, and contribute, spotted seatrout (speckled trout) and southern flounder for the Texas Parks […]

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AUSTIN, Texas — How does a $14.4 billion Texas-based industry go unnoticed? Easy, when you consider most of its participants go about their business cloaked in camouflage or tucked in some secluded backwater hideaway.
Despite not appearing on the stock market rolls, hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers in Texas collectively are a major economic force, according […]

Read: HOW MUCH? Hunting and Fishing a $14.4 Billion Industry in Texas »

Artist Jack Cowan captured it in his paintings as best as any man could.
But with all due respect to Cowan’s legendary talent, there’s still no
substitute for the real thing. Nothing even comes close—not to what I’m
looking at right now, anyhow.
Their blue-fringed tails shimmer brightly in the velvet-soft glow of a
blazing sun. The big orange ball […]

Read: Thank God for Texas Saltwater »

I’ve edited several major fishing magazines in the past three decades-plus, and of all the challenges I faced, one of the greatest was the perennial attempt to come up with an original headline wordplay about the annual spring drum run.
 “Beat the Black Drum” (I’ll bet you a dollar that one has already made print, or […]

Read: The Steady Roll of Springtime Black Drum »