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Byline: Bob Hood KNOX CITY, Texas _ They came in waves, heedless of the birds that had fallen before them. Each time we downed a duck or two or three, […]

Byline: Bob Hood Although President Bush has come under attack as having shown little interest in the environment until an election approaches, it was interesting to hear that he has […]

Byline: Bob Hood FORT WORTH, Texas _ I remember when I was a young teen sitting with my back to a tree in the bottomlands along the Leon River near […]

Byline: Bob Hood FORT WORTH, Texas _ Never mind that the temperature was beginning to rise toward the 109-degree mark, and never mind about the thousands of bluegills that had […]

Byline: Bob Hood FORT WORTH, Texas _ It looked like a nightcrawler. It felt like a nightcrawler. It even smelled like a nightcrawler. And for a big sunfish hiding in […]

Byline: Bob Hood In the intriguing world of duck hunting, it has been a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs throughout history, one fueled in good times by water and […]

Byline: Bob Hood In the underwater world off the Texas coast, piles of steel and concrete, a dozen old World War II ships and even an obsolete tugboat are stashed […]

Byline: Bob Hood FORT WORTH, Texas _ If there ever was a reason to have a sinking feeling about an unneeded fishing regulation, it's about a proposed limit on the […]

Byline: Bob Hood FORT WORTH, Texas _ If there ever was anyone who knew how to score a big white-tailed buck on the hoof, it was Ramiro Torres of Zapata, […]

Byline: Bob Hood GRAHAM, Texas _ From inside a box hunting blind in western Young County here one day recently, a hunter slowly picked up a pair of deer antlers, […]

Choosing a Christmas gift for someone who loves to hunt, fish, camp, hike or go boating isn't always a simple task, so we've done some early shopping to help speed […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ If there ever was a reason for the remote control being built for a television set, it's Mike Biggs' latest video: "Amazing Whitetails Video 2." No, […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ I remember a time many years ago when, as a small boy, I wandered the pastures of my grandfather's dairy near Comanche, Texas, hunting cottontail rabbits […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ I can't think of any hunting season opener that doesn't bring more than the opportunity to take to the woods. Saturday's opener of the archery-only season […]

MINGUS, Texas _ On a small lake nestled deep in a canyon of oak and mesquite just south of here, the dark, often placid waters have become a dream come […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ When Norm Tremblay told me about the Trinity River Fly Fest, it got me to thinking about experiences I've had with a fly rod, some of […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ When Chip Rice opened the glass doors to a wooden display case full of fishing lures Thursday, it was as if he had opened the pages […]

WHITNEY, Texas _ For Steve McVay, if anything is more exciting than watching a fishing rod being bent to its limit by a hungry fish, it is watching a youngster […]

Byline: Bob Hood FORT WORTH, Texas _ Near 100-degree temperatures accompanied by humidity might not excite many deer hunters, but this is one of the best times of the year […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ It's often been said that it is the little things in life that count most. That goes for camping, too. After sleeping for 31 nights on […]

GRAFORD, Texas _ To anglers like John Bryan of Graham, there isn't a prettier sight than a husky striped bass racing just inches below the clear surface of Possum Kingdom […]

FORT WORTH _ Beauty is not only skin deep. It is as deep as the attention you give to your surroundings. To me, there is no greater beauty than raw […]

FORT WORTH _ When sunlight poked through the limbs of a tree in Palo Pinto County one morning last week, the rays highlighted a motionless yet alert, red-eyed dove sitting […]

FORT WORTH _ Perhaps many people have dreamed of taking off on an outdoors adventure with limited provisions and living in the wild for weeks, exploring, fishing and camping. It […]

STUDY BUTTE, Texas _ An ember no larger than an ant brought a smile of confidence to David Alloway as he blew soft puffs of air and slowly brought the […]

Almost 70 years ago, George Perry caught the largest bass ever caught _ a 22-pound, 4-ouncer at Georgia's Montgomery Lake. Just who was George Washington Perry? What prompted him to […]

On a rainy June day in 1932, a young Georgia farmer put his plow and mule aside, climbed into a homemade boat built from scrap lumber and cast his only […]

ZAPATA, Texas _ As a warm southerly breeze stiffened at the approach of a weak norther here one morning last week, the thorny shorelines of Falcon Reservoir began to stir […]

FORT WORTH _ This is the 20th anniversary of Operation Game Thief, and I can't think of a better time to laud game wardens, who often go far beyond the […]

FORT WORTH _ Early in December, a big white-tailed buck with world-record-size antlers cautiously moved through the heavily wooded bottomland of the Richland Creek Wildlife Management Area, unaware that a […]

FORT WORTH _ If you haven't kept up with what's new in outdoors electronics, get ready for what might be a shocking tour through a world of innovations that are […]

FORT WORTH _ It might be true that you can't compare commercial crabbing with recreational fishing, but both of them have litter problems, both unsightly and potentially dangerous. Coming up […]

VALERA, Texas _ Big O was just where I thought he would be when I arrived at this small, quiet West Texas town with a population of 98. He was […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ Somewhere beneath the salad, there lies an intelligent answer to many perplexing outdoors experiences. One of the most amusing things about traveling the highways and byways […]

FORT WORTH _ Winter trout fishing in Texas is just around the corner, and several Fort Worth-Dallas area sites again will receive portions of the more than 250,000 rainbow trout […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ After more than 15 years of creating innovative avenues in the fishing industry, Jerry Dean of Fort Worth is still producing "firsts" for bass anglers. Fifteen […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ Road hunters, spotlighters and other poachers are discovering that stronger laws might provide them with bed and breakfast _ in jail. Not long ago, most Texas […]

A hunting-lease scam left several people with depleted wallets and no place to hunt. Few things outside of bagging a big buck are more exciting to deer hunters than acquiring […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ When daybreak creeps in from the piney woods of East Texas and begins to stretch westward across the remainder of the state Saturday, it will mark […]

JASPER, Texas _ Sam Rayburn Reservoir's calm waters awakened here recently to a scene reminiscent of the good ol' days, when Texas' largest inland lake held claim to being the […]

FAIRFIELD, Texas _ John Hope's patience seemed as calm as the mirror-like surface of Fairfield Lake just after daybreak here one day recently, but his dog, Peanuts, was in a […]

Learning to tent camp is a rewarding experience, but it sometimes takes years to learn the true value of crawling from beneath a crumpled piece of canvas that has been […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ I barely can remember the first fish I caught, but I have a great remembrance of the first big one I ever lost. I barely can […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ A recent incident at a lakeside cookout involving a friend who mistook a bottle of suntan lotion for mayonnaise while building a hamburger spawned some deeper […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ The difference between a small channel catfish and a big channel catfish is much like the difference between a baby rattlesnake and a five-footer. Even the […]

FORT WORTH, Texas _ You don't have to wear dirty clothes or a clothespin on your nose to enjoy catching catfish, Albert Guiterrez of Zapata once said while swinging a […]

Ray Scott is well-known for organizing the first professional bass fishing tournament, a Bass Anglers Sportsman Society event on Arkansas' Beaver Lake in 1967. Now, he's organizing one of the […]