Chris Cobb

National Free Fishing Day means that no fishing license is required, and not just in state parks where you can fish every day of the year without a license, but any Texas public waters!

One of the latest hot names among quarterbacks in the NFL — and a product of Tyler — will be showcasing his athletic skills to the city’s youth, when the second-annual Matt Flynn Tyler Red Raider Football Camp returns to Robert E. Lee High School on Saturday, June 30.

Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner, and Texas law enforcement encourages taking a minute to make sure you are up-to-date on all boating laws to ensure your safety.

TPWD/Facebook Blake Gentry set the new a lake record with his gigantic catfish caught on Twin Buttes Reservoir near San Angelo.

With the weekend almost over, this will surely bring back some memories, or just make you sick.  Watch YouTube user shoenice22 down an entire bottle of Jäger in 30 seconds.

John Lloyd Scharf, a Bigfoot fan from Oregon, emailed the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department last week about hunting unknown creatures, and according to Texas law, apparently it is legal to kill Bigfoot in the state of Texas — if, in fact, it does exist.

Here is just one example of one of the 13-plus pound bass donated this season. Gary Wingate of Amarillo donated this 14.39-pound largemouth, which he caught from Falcon Reservoir, to Texas’ ShareLunker program.

Joe Parks is in the seventh grade at All Saints Episcopal School in Tyler. He is also known on YouTube as SuperDominoJoe, and he holds the record for the world’s largest domino cube.

The Texas Rangers are letting fans pick who they think are the greatest Rangers to ever play their respective position. Even though the Rangers haven’t been around as long as most MLB teams, it was still tough to vote. See the team I voted for and show me yours after the jump.

Spirit Airlines is celebrating its Dallas-Fort Worth service in a big way and giving away millions of frequent flyer bonus miles in Tyler and Kilgore next week! Five hundred residents will receive 20,000 miles each!  That’s enough for a free roundtrip award ticket* (with taxes and fees from only $5 per award ticket).

Flickr, Craig O’Neal “Humans are the most ubiquitous predators on earth,” the Nature Conservancy’s Philip Kramer told Elisabeth Rosenthal of the The New York Times. “Instead of eating something like shark fin soup, why not eat a species that is causing harm, and with your meal make a positive contribution?” “The whole outdoors is li ...

The Nacogdoches Evening Lions Club invites you to the 2012 Sporting Clay Shoot Saturday, April 21 at Shooters in Nacogdoches.