-
1 week ago | 
panolawatchman.com | Steve Knight
It was one of those days fishermen live for, catching one fish after another on lizards for a couple of hours straight on the 15-acre private lake. I was lucky because I had apparently hit on the right color combination from the beginning, and the action was so good I never had time or desire to try another option. It was getting close as I was getting down to the last few when the fish finally slowed down.
-
2 weeks ago | 
tylerpaper.com | Steve Knight
It was one of those days fishermen live for, catching one fish after another on lizards for a couple of hours straight on the 15-acre private lake. I was lucky because I had apparently hit on the right color combination from the beginning, and the action was so good I never had time or desire to try another option. It was getting close as I was getting down to the last few when the fish finally slowed down.
-
3 weeks ago | 
tylerpaper.com | Steve Knight
Not nearly as common as car wrecks, boating accidents can occur anywhere and are often more devastating. A recent example happened just over a week ago during a Major League Fishing Tackle Warehouse Invitational on Alabama’s Lewis Smith Lake. According to reports three people were killed and three injured in a collision between an MLF competitor’s boat and another driven by a local guide.
-
3 weeks ago | 
panolawatchman.com | Steve Knight
Let’s be honest, when you think of fishing with a spinning rod your mind pictures someone on the bank, maybe fishing a worm or cricket, for bream or honestly anything that bites. And in my mind’s eye at least 20 percent of them will be holding the rig upside down. Then again it might be a young fisherman, or someone learning to fish, but have not conquered the use of a baitcasting reel. In most cases it does beat Zebco 202.
-
4 weeks ago | 
news-journal.com | Steve Knight
Let’s be honest, when you think of fishing with a spinning rod your mind pictures someone on the bank, maybe fishing a worm or cricket, for bream or honestly anything that bites. And in my mind’s eye at least 20 percent of them will be holding the rig upside down. Then again it might be a young fisherman, or someone learning to fish, but have not conquered the use of a baitcasting reel. In most cases it does beat Zebco 202.
-
4 weeks ago | 
tylerpaper.com | Steve Knight
Let’s be honest, when you think of fishing with a spinning rod your mind pictures someone on the bank, maybe fishing a worm or cricket, for bream or honestly anything that bites. And in my mind’s eye at least 20 percent of them will be holding the rig upside down. Then again it might be a young fisherman, or someone learning to fish, but have not conquered the use of a baitcasting reel. In most cases it does beat Zebco 202.
-
1 month ago | 
tylerpaper.com | Steve Knight
East Texas has been lucky. While Central Texas and the Panhandle have been hit with some devastating wildfires in the past decade or so, East Texas has only had to deal with smaller outbreaks. It is not that East Texas is not ripe for a big fire in the late winter and fall when the coastal fields turn brown and the winds pick up. Where there are hay fields or pine forests there is always plenty of tinder.
-
1 month ago | 
tylerpaper.com | Steve Knight
I have hunted spring turkeys across Texas, and there was never a location I did not like. However, if I had to pick one as a favorite it would probably be the Graff Ranch in Red River County. I have been lucky enough to hunt there several times, but it was the first trip that stands out the most. It was 1995, the first year the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department had opened a season in Northeast Texas after years of restocking eastern wild turkeys.
-
1 month ago | 
tylerpaper.com | Steve Knight
Here I thought a bill making it illegal to manipulate the weather so hurricanes and tornadoes would never hit Texas again was going to be the strangest bill of the Texas legislative session. Then walked in State Rep. Pat Curry (R-Waco) who seemingly said hold my beer. Curry, who represents the Waco area and is a deer breeder (hold that thought for a minute), has introduced legislation to do away with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Unfortunately, this is not a joke.
-
1 month ago | 
tylerpaper.com | Steve Knight
Since its opening Lake Fork has certainly gotten its due as one of the premier bass fisheries not only in Texas, but throughout the United States. The trophy bass fishery has been so dominate that the lake’s other good fisheries, like catfish and crappie, are often an after-thought. They should not be, especially in the case of crappie. “I have fished all over the country, and as far as I am concerned it is the second best (lake) in the country behind Lake Granada (Mississippi).
