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Texas duck hunters searched the lakes, rivers and bays for ducks this season and mostly found very few birds. It was a big-time disappointing season overall. Photo by Robert Sloan

Texas duck hunters searched the lakes, rivers and bays for ducks this season and mostly found very few birds. It was a big-time disappointing season overall. Photo by Robert Sloan

Outdoors with Robert Sloan

Robert Sloan
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Thank goodness this duck season is over. It was absolutely the worst that I can remember after over five decades of chasing these wonderful waterfowl. I don’t know what happened, it’s anybody’s guess. Its’s not that we have an acute shortage of ducks.
Fishing along the coastal jetties that can be found from Sabine Pass to Galveston can be very good for sheepshead during the late winter months. Best bait is freshly peeled shrimp.

Fishing along the coastal jetties that can be found from Sabine Pass to Galveston can be very good for sheepshead during the late winter months. Best bait is freshly peeled shrimp.

Sheepshead are easy to catch, fight hard and are good to eat

Robert Sloan
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Catching a fish these days is not the easiest thing to do when temperatures go from one extreme to another. Crappie are easy to catch right about now on the Angelina River on the upper part of Sam Rayburn Lake.
'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.
The city of Beaumont offers a wide range of activities with no cost to the participants

The city of Beaumont offers a wide range of activities with no cost to the participants

Free Beaumont attractions, services to chase away boredom

News Staff
Thursday, January 13, 2022
In stark contradiction to the argument that there’s nothing to do in Beaumont, the city has released a list of dozens of activities for Southeast Texans to participate in that won’t break the bank for the entertainment budget.
Catching reds like this one on Sabine Lake has been good lately, with one of the best lures being a red shad Assassin rigged up on a 1/4 ounce jig head.

Catching reds like this one on Sabine Lake has been good lately, with one of the best lures being a red shad Assassin rigged up on a 1/4 ounce jig head.

Major League Fishing to have first tourney of the season n Sam Rayburn

Robert Sloan
Thursday, December 30, 2021
The 2022 professional bass fishing season will launch early next year, with the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Stop 1 at Sam Rayburn Lake, Jan. 27-30. Major League Fishing (MLF), the world’s largest tournament fishing organization, and Bally’s Corporation, a leading U.S.
Volunteers walk among sparsely populated forest growth in the Big Thicket National Preserve

Volunteers walk among sparsely populated forest growth in the Big Thicket National Preserve

Big thicket volunteer tree planting

News Staff
Thursday, December 30, 2021
Big Thicket National Preserve is expanding the volunteer longleaf pine tree planting efforts to multiple events this coming winter. Volunteers can join park staff and partners to plant over 20,000 longleaf pine trees in January and February.
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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