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

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.
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.
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 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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