The Booming Texas Snook Population: Coming Soon To A Bay Near You?
If you’ve ever caught a snook in Texas, you’re among a select group of anglers. Fishes in the snook family...
TP&W Field Notes
Spotted Seatrout of Sabine Lake
Along the Texas coast, spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, are arguably the most highly sought after game fish, and the anglers...
Is That a Hatchery Fish?
While fishing in Texas bays you may hear an angler say about a catch, “That’s a hatchery fish.”Not to spoil...
Keeping Your Ear to the Ground: How SONAR is used to Monitor Aquatic Habitat in Texas Bays
The fishfinder has become standard instrumentation on even not-so-modern fishing boats. Colorful displays steadily advance across the LCD consoles of...
Texas Abandoned Crab Trap Removal Program
Lost fishing gear including fishing line, nets, and various types of traps represents 10% of marine debris littering the bottoms...
Release the Kraken!
The latest Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) artificial reef ship project happened earlier this year.The Kraken was released on...
Stow it. Don’t Throw It.
If you have ever enjoyed a day of fishing along the Texas coast, then you know the thrill you experience...
Restoration on Dickinson Bayou
This story begins in Dickinson Bayou, a water quality impaired watershed, located along the upper Texas coast within the Galveston...
Shoal Grass – A Texas Underwater Treasure
The next time you’re wading or paddling through your favorite fishing spot along the Texas coast, take a closer look...
Of Drones and Datasets: Glimpsing the Underwater World from the Sky
It’s a crisp and cool January morning on Redfish Bay. Tides are seasonably low (about a foot below normal) and,...
