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June 30, 2026

Fishing and boating shows will often have the latest line of vessels, whether kayaks or center-consoles.

Time to be a show-off

The Christmas holidays signal an unofficial end of the fall saltwater fishing season. […]

Fishermen using underwater video cameras can position their boats directly over structure to find where sheepshead are holding.

Catch more fish using underwater cameras

Capt. Robert Olsen fed a black cable over the side of his boat by hand, announcing, “We’re anchored over livebottom now, and sheepshead are typically here this time of year. […]

A hybrid between stew and soup, blackened venison stoup is a filling, satisfying dish.

Soup + stew = Stoup

Jerry Dilsaver

I don’t know about for everyone else, but last year flew by for me. It seems like it was only a few weeks ago I was hoping winter would break and the temperatures would rise. […]

Gunsmoke: Netters’ video is informing

Craig Holt

In today’s combustible political atmosphere, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) may not ring a bell. He was the Congressman who resigned in 2011 after admitting he sent “sexting” images to women. […]

Split the screen on your depth finder when doing winter preseason scouting to get a better idea of what you’re idling over.

When it comes to deer hunting, none of us mind spending a few days in the woods before the season, doing our scouting, setting up trail cameras, getting a bead on where that big buck might show up. […]

Paddleboards like the Flatstalker are excellent vessels for getting into hard-to-reach places during waterfowl seasons.

Paddle up waterfowl

Bill Howard

Years ago, in the back of a lake near home, my father took me on my first duck hunt. The water was cold, the world was dark, and paddling the wooden johnboat deep into the swamp was tiring. […]

When water temperatures get down to 50 degrees or below, a jig can be your best bet for winter bass.

Be a weather watcher

David Fritts

There are a lot of good reasons to fish in December, chief among them, most everybody else is deer hunting, and you’ve pretty much got the lake to yourself. […]

Mister Twister Poc’it Hawg Raiser

Don Shoopman

A Texas bass angler’s bid to get back to the Bassmaster Classic depended heavily on a soft-plastic creature bait that few, if any, others had in their arsenal when they fished the B.A.S.S. Nation Championship on Nov. 6-8 on the Ouachita River. […]

The author learned the point of aim on a running deer is the nose, whether crossing perpendicular to you or quartering away from you.

The running shot

Gordon Hutchinson

The small herd of does burst out of the woods and cut across the soybean field, the howling of the hounds behind them in the swamp. […]

First published in 1981, Thayne Smith’s book, “In a Time of Need” detailed the use of Lowrance paper chart recording sonar units for search and recovery work.

Electronics serving in times of need

Allan Tarvid

Search and recovery divers were pretty much on their own back in the early 1980’s; I know because I was one of them. I spent 10 years on the Dallas Fire Department’s dive team and worked from the department’s drag boats before the dive team came to be. […]