Winter weather has finally arrived in the Lone Star State, and with it came that long awaited influx of waterfowl that has been a bit slow in arriving. Those fat mallards and pintails that have been …

As an outdoors writer for the past 40 years and a lifelong outdoors person, I have more than my share of downright comical things that occurred while spending time hunting, fishing and kicking around …

Love them or hate them, cormorants have flocked to lakes and private waters in Texas to spend the winter months roosting on standing timber on our lakes and devouring both baitfish and gamefish as …

Hunting seasons are well under way and chances are good many of you already have a freezer well stocked with everything from venison steaks and ground meat to dove breasts. Let’s not let …

It’s been a great week, and I’ve been blessed to spend time with fine friends that share my love of the outdoors. For those of us that love to hunt, this is most definitely our time of …

I was setting among a group of very veteran outdoorsmen at an event this past weekend and the subject of great shots made and missed while hunting through the years was brought up. Without exception …

Through my many years, I have hunted from all sorts of deer stands, everything from a couple of two by fours nailed to a forked tree limb to later in life elevated stands with all the amenities of a …

Thanksgiving and turkeys go together like, well, bread and butter. I seldom think of Thanksgiving that my mind doesn’t conjure up a plate full of roasted turkey setting atop a plate full of …

Thus far, this October is on record as being one of the warmest (hottest) in recent years and if the current high-pressure system continues to dominate, we Texas deer hunters might have to endure the …

Many people think of catching catfish as a summertime endeavor, but some of the best blue catfish action begins about this of the year when water temperatures begin to fall. While the red-hot …

The Lake Livingston Fishing Club aka The Happy Hookers will welcome Onalaska Outboards to its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. “They are an outboard motor repair shop with a wealth of …

It’s been said we have a little bit of everything here in Texas and I think that is pretty close to a true statement. From a hunting perspective, we have just about every big game species as …

Off of FM 1988, on Recreational Road No. 5 next to Lake Livingston Dam and hydroelectric plant, you will find a 33-acre tract of uncultivated land which is the Gazebo Nature Preserve. It is sometimes …

As an outdoors writer for almost four decades now and weekly author of this outdoor column, as might be expected I have been exposed to a great deal the outdoor lifestyle has to offer. This week, I …

Roy and I were blessed with several outstanding pets. I guess our favorite was George Mutt, our adventurer. You’ve met him earlier in my story about my famous Lithuanian Fish-Finding Dog. …

I remember like yesterday my introduction to PCP (pre-charged pneumatic) air rifles over a decade ago. My good friend Larry Weishuhn and I had a booth at the Predator and Wild Hog Expo in Waco and a …

This week, I’ll tell you about the encounters I’ve had through my many years with a few really big boar, animals weighing in excess of 250 pounds. I can feel the adrenaline pumping as I …

The old man had just settled into the makeshift wooden ground blind from which he had hunted since the early ‘60s. Oh he had doctored up the blind many times with sheet metal and plywood, but a …

Boater Kaden Mueck of Livingston, who finished runner-up at the Toyota Series at Sam Rayburn Reservoir in January, will again be among the competitors fishing for up to $100,000 on Sam Rayburn …

I thought it would be fun to visit this week about scouting and learning land that you are not familiar with. For a quarter century, I made my living first working on and later running survey …