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May Features
 Mike McBride
Talking Topwaters
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 It was one of those special times where you could feel the magic in the air, a reminder that you were standing in a world far more complex than we might ever imagine. Nature was very busy for the moment, both living and dying...
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 Kevin Cochran
When the Going Gets Tough
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 When bites are coming regularly, fishing with focus is relatively easy. In fact, when the action is fast, a heightened state of intensity sometimes allows anglers to believe they are actively willing their way to catching...
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 Billy Sandifer
This one is for Joy, and the men who fought at Belleau Woods
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 I rarely sleep at night anymore so some weeks back I pretty much quit trying. For the most part I sit quietly and think and relive old memories or study various subjects concerning the natural world in my small library of...
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 Martin Strarup
Favorites
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 "Throttle back and ease up just past that old post straight ahead" was the order from my fishing partner. "There's a really nice reef here that I rarely see anybody fishing and it can hold some really nice trout." I put the boat into a good position...
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 Chuck Uzzle
Surviving a good case of the hardhead
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 Sometimes it's difficult to just get out of your own way. For some unknown reason things continue to clutter our path and keep us from achieving a particular goal. Some clutter cannot be helped but...
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EDITORIAL
There can be no status quo.
I was on a mission. I used to hope, even believed for a time, that if I could preach to enough people and create enough passion, encourage enough "thinking beyond the box"
- a play on a tired cliché and my reference to the ice chest full of fish brought to the dock for bragging more than needed food - a new and better conservation ethic
would emerge and TPWD would update their spotted seatrout management plan.
The obvious short term benefit would have been a steadily increasing number of "exciting" fish landed as the fishery improved; "exciting" being five-plus-pounders.
Long term benefit would have been increased spawning biomass in each of our bay systems which biologists say is the quickest ticket to a speedy recovery following widespread
natural mortality, such as was seen during the historic freezes of 1983 and 1989.
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