The oyster docks are quiet. Instead of bustling activity that typifies a Texas oystering operation, the fishermen sit idly by their boats, and the talk isn’t very uplifting.  A monstrous bloom of toxic algae looming across the Texas coast has shut down oyster season.

Talk to any wildlife biologist in the southern United States about wild pigs, and you’re likely to hear something akin to at least one of the following, “They’re the four-legged equivalent of fire ants;” “If the average litter is six, typically eight survive;” “Only a fence that will hold water will hold feral hogs.”

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an important self-defense measure that would enable millions of Right-to-Carry permit holders across the country to carry concealed firearms while traveling outside their home states.

Texas Hunters for the Hungry, a program administered by the Texas Association of Community Action Agencies, Inc., has exceeded two million pounds of venison donated over the last 20 years.

A bill that could put many sporting dog owners out of existence has been passed by the Texas House of Representatives and is moving to the Senate.

Surely Davy Crockett, Sam Houston and Jim Bowie are rolling over in their graves.  It is hard to believe that these patriots in the fight for a free and independent Texas would ever have foreseen that a legislature full of supposed conservatives would vote to permit warrantless searches of the homes of those folks who might sell a few puppies at the end of their driveway.

Ninety-nine of the most talented anglers in bass fishing-representing 27 states and one foreign country-are headed to Toledo Bend Lake on the Louisiana-Texas border for one of America's premier fishing competitions, April 14-17.