Texas Parks & Wildlife Field Notes

November 2018

Dr. Tiffany Hopper | Policy & Education Team

It’s a beautiful day and you’re out enjoying our wonderful Texas bays and marine waters when you notice Texas Parks...

As a state agency, Texas Parks and Wildlife has always emphasized the importance of getting people outdoors and enjoying the...

In 2007, Dr. Larry McKinney, who was the Director of the TPWD Coastal Fisheries Division at the time, wrote a...

Sharks: if you’ve spent time on the water in Texas bays or the Gulf of Mexico, odds are you have...

On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a category four storm in the small fishing community of Rockport....

Have you ever cast out into the flats or surf, felt a hard tug followed by a thrashing of water,...

Like many of you, in the summer of 2016, I spent a lot of time enjoying the great outdoors at...

If you’ve ever caught a snook in Texas, you’re among a select group of anglers. Fishes in the snook family...

Along the Texas coast, spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, are arguably the most highly sought after game fish, and the anglers...

While fishing in Texas bays you may hear an angler say about a catch, “That’s a hatchery fish.”Not to spoil...

TP&W Field Notes