Atlas Plugged

BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS, copies of the 2023 Edition of our Texas Lakes & Bays Fishing Atlas will be shipping out to your nearest newsstands and racks in many of the state’s Academy locations.

Lakes & Bays has been around for almost as long as Fish & Game It has evolved and grown over its long life and that evolution continues with the new edition.

e 2023 Texas Lakes & Bays includes four new lakes, pushing the total number of fresh and saltwater shing locations up to the nice, fat gure of 75. Another tweak is the addition of a lake level trend chart on most of the fresh water bodies.

Look for the new edition in stores soon, or go online to FishGame.com/FishGameGear and order your copy now.

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DOUG PIKE • SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

LENNY RUDOW • BOATING EDITOR

MATT WILLIAMS • FRESHWATER EDITOR

PETE ROBBINS • BASS FISHING EDITOR

KELLY GROCE • CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

LOU MARULLO • HUNTING EDITOR

LARRY WEISHUHN • WHITETAIL EDITOR

DUSTIN ELLERMANN • SHOOTING EDITOR

REAVIS WORTHAM • HUMOR EDITOR

GRANT GISEL • DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR

MORIAH FORMICA • DIGITAL CONTRIBUTOR

STAN SKINNER • CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

LISA MOORE • CONTRIBUTING PHOTO EDITOR

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Turkey Coverage

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR your continuing coverage of the wild turkey. No one else is really covering all of the angles you are with these birds. I have been impressed to see work on Eastern turkeys, Merriam’s and even talk about Gould’s.

:: by TF&G READERS

NWTF banquet in Nacogdoches. I appreciate his stories about wild turkeys and turkey hunting and even appreciated his spending

Marlin in Texas Waters

I CAUGHT SOME OF THE STORIES you have published about marlins in the Gulf of Mexico. I appreciate it because I have always wanted to catch a bill sh. It would even be be er to do it in the Gulf instead of way out in the Paci c somewhere. I have a question—do we have striped marlin in the Gulf? I can nd no records of them.

Editor: No, striped marlin are a Paci c sh. We have blue marlin and white marlin in Texas Gulf waters. anks for your support!

Hog Poisoning

I’M DEAD SET AGAINST PLANS TO poison hogs using sodium nitrite, warfarin or whatever they come up with. It’s just a bad idea. Do you think we will see some poisoning of hogs here in Texas in the future?

Editor: Yes, I do. Wealthy landowners have a huge in uence on anything to do with wildlife in Texas due to the state being 97 percent privately owned and many of them are dealing with huge hog problems just like small landowners and leaseholders. ere is an outcry om this sector for some kind of hog poison. In my opinion, we will see this come to uition in the next couple of years. It’s a complex issue and there will be much debate.

ank you for your dedication to an important conservation topic.

James Burton

IT WAS GREAT MEETING TF&G

Editor-In-Chief Chester Moore at the

several minutes talking with me about these birds. He had a lot of people coming up to him and I thought it was great he took time with everyone, especially me.

Kevin Samuelson

:: by CHESTER MOORE, JR. TF&G Editor-in-Chief