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Virtual launch of fly fishing book by local author set for Saturday
A few months ago, I spent a few hours casting in Brushy Creek with local fly fisherman (and tugboat driver) Aaron Reed, and Chris Johnson, owner of Living Waters Fly Fishing in Round Rock. We waded through knee deep water, hiked alongside a gorgeous grayish-white...

A takeaway from chasing kayakers up the Texas coast? Our beaches are trashed
One thing I noticed as I chased the 3rd Coast Cowboys Epic Kayak Journey up the Texas coast the last two weeks? Trash. From the first night, when I camped at Mansfield Cut, the passage between North and South Padre Islands, to the finish point at Walter Umphrey State...

I singlehandedly fixed a flat on an F150 and it made me feel like Wonder Woman
Anybody got a truck tire they’d like me to change? I’m still smiling after single-handedly changing a tire on my husband’s Ford F150 pickup truck after flatting out on a remote stretch of two-lane road while chasing kayakers paddling up the Texas coast. I was zipping...

Third Coast Cowboys finish strong at Louisiana border
West Hansen pulled his kayak up the boat ramp at Walter Umphrey State Park in Port Arthur at about 5 p.m. Monday, stepped around a dead fish and greeted the small crowd of family members gathered there to cheer him in. “Well, that’s done,” he said, 13 days of stubble...