Will | Outdoor Writer

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Here’s an A to Z look at turkey hunting in Texas, including tips, tactics and regulations for the crafty birds.

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Aggies-Longhorns tickets currently 😳

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The Texas flounder fishery has certainly seen better days and it’s uncertain if we’ll ever see the “good-old days” again. Here's an in-depth look at how we got here with flatfish.

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While shotgun shooting is primarily geared toward an adult audience, don’t overlook youth hunters and youth shooters when focusing on the impact of how the sport can help impart plenty of life lessons.

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From under my rain suit, I can tell the window has closed.

Mother Nature is in control, no doubt about it.

Eerie crackles spring forth from unseen hiding spots in the ghostly gray followed by a monstrous boom that carries near and far. Puffs of black stitched with creepy green hues hover precariously above the building chop. A slight breeze has given way to bristling gusts, the kind that chill and dishearten even on lukewarm days.

“We’ve got about two more casts.”

The taunt does not fall on deaf ears.

A lure retrieve later, a misshapen mass of white-hot energy materializes near the horizon, its radiant gleam burning a stirring glow on the landscape and leaving a shadowy warning in its wake.

“We done.”

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HINT: Snakes & ladders are bad 😁

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“Why do you hunt?”
It’s a straightforward question, but if you’re asked to reflect deeply on the query, it can be difficult to come up with a profound answer worthy of articulating.
Pose the inquiry to most hunters and you’ll get any number of good answers, ones that should generally suffice standing on their own merit: I hunt because I enjoy the outdoors; I hunt because I enjoy eating wild game and fowl; I hunt because I enjoy the pursuit of deer, doves, ducks or turkeys.
However, those responses and other similar replies are just pieces of a multi-layered pie, the easiest explanations for those among us who share our outdoor passions and the most common justifications when talking to those who don’t.
FOR ME PERSONALLY, THE BEST SUMMATION IS UNCOMPLICATED AND UNCOMPROMISING: “I HUNT BECAUSE I’M SELFISH.”
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Texas has its own running of the bulls each fall and the most savvy of anglers know that when it's time to lock horns with a beast, you need look no farther than manmade passes that intersect the Gulf of Mexico for a stampede of fishing action.

October is big redfish time in the Lone Star State, with the annual fall migration of big bull reds underway as those fish head from our multitude of bay systems into the Gulf to spawn.

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The area centering on Corpus Christi is prime real estate for a great combination of hunting and fishing exploits that simply don’t exist anywhere else on the planet

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Living in South Texas, this is precisely why we stay strapped.

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No matter your politics, these new numbers are shocking. Of the 7 million migrants that ICE released while their cases are being processed, 663,000 have criminal histories, 13,000 were convicted of homicide, 16,000 of sexual assault, and 1,845 face homicide charges. 😬

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BREAKING: In a stunning letter sent to @RepTonyGonzales by ICE, the agency reveals there are currently 13,000+ noncitizens convicted of homicide & 15,000+ noncitizens convicted of sexual assault who are roaming the US as part of ICE’s non-detained docket.

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Texas is home to the largest and most diverse habitat complex in the entire country. From the meandering canyons of the Panhandle to the rippling bay systems of the coast north to south, and from the dense Pineywoods thickets to the rugged mountains of the Trans-Pecos east to west, the Lone Star State harbors ecological wonders spanning an entire range of natural splendor.

That being said, the vast majority of our overall Texas landscapes exist on private land. However, one of the crown jewels of public outdoor opportunities open to the masses is the state’s Wildlife Management Area system.

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The story of the Texas speckled trout fishery certainly is one of many ebbs and flows. It’s a history dotted with tales of the “good old days” when anglers who ventured into the back reaches of the Laguna Madre could land untold numbers of 30-inch plus trout all day long and those who ventured onto piers at night anywhere could fill an entire cooler with legal 12-inch fish.

My how times have changed.

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The misidentification occurred years ago by a teenage deer hunter, but the mistake still rings true many more seasons well into adulthood.

Every time I think about the scenario I still get a sinking feeling, and while I broke no law and did nothing illegal, I perpetrated a cardinal sin in hunting: I pulled the trigger on the wrong target.

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