Best Crappie Fishing Gear for Texas Lakes: Rods, Reels, Jigs & Minnow Rigs If you grew up in Texas, you didn’t call them crappie — you called them white perch, and you learned early that a spring fish fry with a cooler full of slabs is about as good as life gets. Texas has some…

Best Deer Hunting Scopes for Texas (2026 Guide) Texas deer hunting happens in three different worlds, and your scope has to work in whichever one you hunt. In South Texas brush country, you’re glassing down a sendero — a long cleared lane cut through the mesquite — where a mature buck might step out at…

Elk live where the air gets thin. Hunting them means climbing ridges before daylight, glassing basins the size of small towns, and — if everything goes right — packing several hundred pounds of meat off a mountain on your back. The gear that works for whitetail out of a box blind won’t cut it out…

Best Fishing Apparel for Texas Heat: Stay Cool and Sun-Safe on the Water A July afternoon on Toledo Bend or Lake Texoma is a special kind of punishment — 102 degrees, sun bouncing off the water from below, not a cloud in the sky, and humidity thick enough to chew if you’re anywhere near the…

Best Fishing Line for Bass — Mono vs. Fluorocarbon vs. Braid for Texas Waters Ask ten Texas bass anglers what line they use and you’ll get eleven answers, all delivered with total confidence. Here’s the truth: there is no single best bass fishing line. There are three kinds — monofilament, fluorocarbon, and braid — and…

Fly fishing looks complicated from the bank — the vest, the line whipping around, the Latin names for bugs — but strip it down and it’s just fishing with a different delivery system. Instead of throwing the lure, you throw the line, and the line carries a nearly weightless fly to the fish. A 9-foot…