• Fishing at Bolivar Peninsula — Surf, Jetty & Bay Complete Guide
    Fishing at Bolivar Peninsula covers three completely different environments within a few miles of each other — 27 miles of Gulf beach for surf fishing, the North Jetty for structure fishing into the Galveston Channel, and the bay side with access to East Galveston Bay’s marshes, flats, and channels. Each one targets different species with…
  • Fishing Sam Rayburn Reservoir — Best Spots, Seasons & Gear Guide
    Fishing Sam Rayburn Reservoir puts you on 114,500 acres of East Texas Piney Woods water — the largest lake located entirely within Texas and the one that Bassmaster Magazine ranked as America’s best bass lake. The lake hosts over 300 fishing tournaments annually. The lake record largemouth bass is 16.80 pounds. Crappie and catfish fisheries…
  • Kayaking Village Creek — The Complete Paddling Trail Guide
    Kayaking Village Creek is one of the best paddling experiences in Southeast Texas — a free-flowing creek with no dams, dark tannin water under towering bald cypress and river birch, white sand beaches around every other bend, and one of the most biologically diverse corridors in the entire Big Thicket system. It’s 21 miles from…
  • Crabbing at Bolivar Peninsula — How to Catch Blue Crabs in Texas
    Crabbing at Bolivar Peninsula is one of those activities that shows up on every family camping trip out here eventually — usually because someone walks down to the North Jetty, watches another family pulling crabs off the rocks with a chicken neck on a string, and decides they need to be doing that immediately. It’s…
  • Angelina National Forest Camping Guide — East Texas Complete Guide
    Angelina National Forest camping covers 153,000 acres of East Texas Piney Woods wrapped around Sam Rayburn Reservoir — the same Sam Rayburn that holds more bass fishing tournaments than almost any other lake in the country. The forest itself is a mix of longleaf, loblolly, and shortleaf pine with bottomland hardwoods along the creek drainages,…