Hunting

Photo courtesy of Robert Sloan.

Photo courtesy of Robert Sloan.

Good time to hunt wild hogs

Robert Sloan
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Last week I was out on a friend’s ranch in the Hill Country and we were after pigs. I love hunting pigs; they are not nearly as stupid as a lot of folks think. For the most part they don’t come out until right at last light. So, one day last week I set up on a bass tank to see what would show up.
Big Thicket Natural Preserve will be issuing feral hog trapping permits on a first come, first served basis starting Feb. 7.

Big Thicket Natural Preserve will be issuing feral hog trapping permits on a first come, first served basis starting Feb. 7.

Hog hunting season

News Staff
Friday, February 4, 2022
Big Thicket Superintendent Wayne Prokopetz announced that the preserve will begin issuing this season’s free feral hog trapping permits on Monday Feb. 7, at the nature preserve’s visitor center, 6102 FM 420 in Kountze.
'Definitely not the best photo I've ever shot with my cell phone, this is the bobcat I watched eat a dead duck last Saturday morning' - Robert Sloan

'Definitely not the best photo I've ever shot with my cell phone, this is the bobcat I watched eat a dead duck last Saturday morning' - Robert Sloan

Bobcats and pigs save the day on a slow duck hunt

Robert Sloan
Friday, January 14, 2022
With the closing of the regular gun season on deer, some buds and I shifted gears and opted to go duck and pig hunting last weekend. As expected, the duck hunting didn’t work out too well. We made a hunt on a backwater slough off a creek and three of us got two teal and a spoonbill.
Phil Brannan holds a big bass caught on Falcon Lake in South Texas.

Phil Brannan holds a big bass caught on Falcon Lake in South Texas.

Cold weather has deer on the move, more ducks arriving with fronts

Robert Sloan
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Lumberton’s Phil Brannan is not only a world-famous carver of wooden fish, but he’s also in the hunt for big bass every day all day. And right about now one of his favorite places to fish is on Falcon Lake down on the U.S./Mexico border.
You never know where ducks are going to be along the Texas coast from one day to the other. So far, teal have bene filling out most limits.

You never know where ducks are going to be along the Texas coast from one day to the other. So far, teal have bene filling out most limits.

Duck hunters go from hero to zero

Robert Sloan
Friday, November 19, 2021
Opening weekend of the Texas duck season in the South Zone was one that had lots of hunters heading out of the field with a limit of teal and scattered pintails. Needless to say, there was a whole lot of high fiving going on.
The South Zone duck season opener was better than expected, with the best shooting taking place on flooded fields and small lakes. A whole lot of teal fills limits, with a scattering of pintails.

The South Zone duck season opener was better than expected, with the best shooting taking place on flooded fields and small lakes. A whole lot of teal fills limits, with a scattering of pintails.

Duck season opener best in many years

Robert Sloan
Thursday, November 11, 2021
The deer season across Texas opens this Saturday at first light, ditto that for the South Zone duck season and when you stack college football on top of that it’s going to be a busy day for thousands of hunters.
The deer season runs from Nov. 6 through Jan. 2, 2022 in the North Zone, and Jan. 16, 2022 in the south Zone. A special youth-only gun deer season is set for Oct. 30-31 and Jan. 3-16, 2022.

The deer season runs from Nov. 6 through Jan. 2, 2022 in the North Zone, and Jan. 16, 2022 in the south Zone. A special youth-only gun deer season is set for Oct. 30-31 and Jan. 3-16, 2022.

Deer season is opening soon and the outlook is excellent

Robert Sloan
Thursday, October 28, 2021
November the 6 is a big, big day across Texas. It’s the opening of the general gun season and thousands of hunters will be out and about looking to put a big buck on the ground, along with some tasty and very healthy venison in the freezer.
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