B.A. Steinhagen FAIR. Water stain; 84 degrees; 0.27 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Bob Sandlin GOOD. Water stained; 83 degrees; 0.55 feet above pool. Water level 6 …

  For decades at Lake Tawakoni, the “trophy” blue catfish season began with the first cooling north winds in October and ended with the spring warm up. Fall and winter was the …

B.A. Steinhagen FAIR. Water stain; 80 degrees; 0.27 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms. Bob Sandlin GOOD. Water …

As far back as I can remember, I longed to fish the remote waters of a “fly in “lake in Canada. As a youngster, I thumbed through the pages of outdoor magazine, paying close attention to …

B.A. Steinhagen FAIR. Water stain; 75 degrees; 0.27 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms. Bob Sandlin GOOD. Water …

This past week was a good one for your old outdoor scribe. I’ve enjoyed some red hot catfish catching, spent time setting up a corn feeder on my little place in hopes of keeping a sounder of …

B.A. Steinhagen FAIR. Water stain; 75 degrees; 0.27 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms. Conroe GREAT. Water …

B.A. Steinhagen FAIR. Water stain; 75 degrees; 0.27 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms. Bob Sandlin GOOD. Water …

Lake Ray Hubbard fishing guide Brandon Sargent with Lead Slingers Guide Service eased the throttle back on his big 27 foot custom guide boat and studied our route to a fishing hotspot on his GPS. On …

For the past several months my friends Jeff Rice, Larry Weishuhn and I had looked forward to our annual trip to Lake Texoma to catch topwater stripers with Bill and Chris Carey’s Striper …

B.A. Steinhagen FAIR. Water stain; 75 degrees; 0.44 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms. Bob Sandlin GOOD. Water …

B.A. Steinhagen FAIR. Water stain; 75 degrees; 0.44 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms. Livingston GOOD. normal …

It’s been one of those weeks that I’ve stuck pretty close to home and caught up on some past due writing, mostly on an article I’m working on pertaining to predation by raccoons. …

When I crossed the Red River north of Paris last week, heading north to spend a couple of days at the Choctaw Hunting Lodge with some great old friends and a few new ones, “Ole’ Red was …

B.A. Steinhagen FAIR. Water stain; 70 degrees; 0.11 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms. Bob Sandlin GOOD. Water …

Last week was a quiet one for me. With intermittent rain throughout the week, I did a good bit of ‘inside’ work, catching up on some magazine articles and finally getting some of my more …

B.A. Steinhagen FAIR. Water stain; 70 degrees; 0.11 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms. Sam Rayburn GOOD. Water …

B.A.   Steinhagen FAIR. Water stain; 65 degrees; 0.39 feet below pool. Very few anglers on the water. Expect fish to start pushing shallow as the water warms. Livingston GOOD. …

I’ve got several topics I wish to share with you this week including a couple of tasty outdoor recipes as well as a fishing pattern that is currently underway on a lake near you. Shad …