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Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Real talk on Texas fishing and hunting. Join the conversation at texasfishandgamenetwork.com.
Episodes
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
The Real Story of Black Bears in Texas
Texas used to be bear country, until hunting wiped out the breeding population by the 1950s. Then black bears walked back on their own from Mexico into Big…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Dove Money
Dove hunters buy about 74% of the shotgun shells sold in America, and Texas has about one in four of those hunters. This episode covers what dove hunting is…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
The Invader: Eurasian Collared-Dove
Fifty Eurasian collared-doves got loose in a Bahamas burglary in 1974. Twenty-five years later they were nesting in Alaska. Starlings needed that long just to…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Where Texas Dove Actually Come From
Those opening-day doves didn’t ride the front down from Kansas. Most of them hatched within a few miles of the sunflower field you’re sitting on. White-winged…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Getting Your Kids Into Hunting
Texas has held steady at 1.2 million hunters for years while the state's population exploded — and about a third of license buyers don't come back the next…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Bass Vision: Your Tacklebox Needs Four Colors
A team from Illinois and Cornell measured 246 individual cone cells in largemouth bass eyes and found only two types — one green, one red. No blue cone at all…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
What a Speckled Trout Actually Sees
In 2008, researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science put an electrode on the eyeball of a live spotted seatrout and asked the fish directly. The…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Teal Season: 600,000 from No Season at All
Ponds went up 14%. Blue-winged teal went down 11%. Both numbers are from the same report, and neither one is a mistake. Texas gets nine days of teal this…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Swimbaits with Alan Bell
Alan Bell was one of the first anglers throwing big swimbaits on the Highland Lakes. Twenty-five years later he has 85 bass over seven pounds, and roughly 18…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Dove 2026: Texas Opens Statewide Sept. 1
Texas opens statewide Sept. 1 for the first time ever, and the Special White-winged Dove Days are gone. What changed, what'll get you cited, and why that Sept…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Is Axis Commercial Trapping Quietly Emptying the Free Range?
Axis deer numbers are reportedly cratering on some Hill Country ranches — not from disease, but from trapping. I investigate whether commercial trappers are…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
What Happened to Texas Quail?
Texas bobwhite populations have dropped more than 75% since 1980 — but it's not the fire ants, the feral hogs, or the hawks everyone blames. We dig into the…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Axis Deer: Are they a problem?
In parts of the Texas Hill Country, axis deer now outnumber whitetail — and I dig into why that's a bigger problem than most people realize. I pulled together…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Deer vs. Vehicle
Every year, 1.5 to 2 million deer-vehicle collisions happen across the U.S. — and Texas is one of the top five states for them. In this episode, I break down…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Scent Control for Whitetail Hunting
A whitetail's nose has 297 million receptors to your 5 million — and no carbon suit or ozone unit fixes a bad wind. I break down how a deer's nose actually…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Texas, We've Got a Hog Problem
Millions of feral hogs scattered across Texas are doing damage: rooting up floodplains, spiking bacteria levels in creeks, spreading tick-borne diseases to…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Oak Wilt: The Disease That Travels by Root, Beetle, and Firewood
It spreads underground through fused root systems, hitches rides on beetles drawn to fresh wounds, and moves long distances in firewood. Oak wilt is one of…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Tyler Jones of The Element — Faith, Public Land, and What Texas Deer Hunting Actually Looks Like
Tyler Jones of The Element sits down with me this week, and we get into all of it. Where Texas actually ranks as a deer hunting state. The feeder debate and…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Camo- What Deer Actually See
Every hunting brand in America wants you to believe that if your camo pattern doesn't match your exact terrain, the deer will bust you. They're lying — and the…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Coyote Management
That coyote howl at 3am — it means something different to every Texas land manager. In this episode, we dig into the actual science behind coyote predation and…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Is Baiting Even A Debate?
Everybody's got an opinion on baiting deer — but most of those conversations are less about science and more about ego. In this episode, I puts my cards on the…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Whitetail Management in the Hill Country
Two Texas Parks & Wildlife Biologists Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Managing Whitetail in the Hill Country If you lease or own land in Central…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Cable Smith of the Lone Star Outdoor Show: Pro-hunting, Pro-2A, and Not Apologizing for It
Cable Smith has been one of the loudest voices in the Texas outdoor world for over 15 years. As the founder and host of the Lone Star Outdoor Show, he's built…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Doe Management
If you're serious about managing a healthy whitetail herd, doe harvest isn't optional-it's essential. Whether you're managing 100 acres or 10,000, this is the…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Part 2- Texas Pond Fixes with Shan O'Gorman
Texas Pond Fixes with Shan O'Gorman. Fisheries biologist Shan O'Gorman (@aquatic_biologist), reveals why most Texas ponds are mismanaged—and how to fix yours…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
The Souther Flounder
The fall flounder run is one of the most iconic traditions in Texas coastal fishing. But most anglers chasing flounder through the passes don't know what's…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
The Bull Red Run
Every fall, mature bull redfish stack up on Texas Gulf beaches and near the passes to spawn. Most anglers know the run exists. Almost nobody knows the full…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
The Speckled Trout Spawn
In this episode we break down the Texas speckled trout spawn; much longer than most realize. Website: https://www.texasfishandgamenetwork.com Instagram…
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Texas Pond Fixes with Shan O'Gorman: Crappie Traps & Bass Health
Texas Pond Fixes with Shan O'Gorman: Crappie Traps & Bass Health Fisheries biologist Shan O'Gorman (@aquatic_biologist), reveals why most Texas ponds are…
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ATTENTION DEER HUNTERS: The Screwworm Fly Is Back
160 miles. That's how close the New World screwworm fly is to the Texas border right now. A pest we thought we defeated 60 years ago is back — and fawning…
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The Bass Spawn in Texas
The bass spawn is the best fishing opportunity of the year in Texas freshwater. In this episode I break down the full picture. The biology of what a largemouth…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Who Am I? The Story Behind the Texas Fish and Game Network
Before you spend any more time listening to me talk, you probably ought to know who's talking. In this episode I tell the story behind Texas Fish and Game…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
The Truth About Spike Bucks
Every deer camp has that argument — shoot the spikes or let them walk. But what if it doesn't matter as much as everyone thinks? In this episode we dig into…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
Where Did All the Ducks Go?
Duck numbers are down, migration patterns are shifting, and hunters across the flyway are noticing. In this episode, we dig into what's actually driving the…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
The Rio Grande Turkey: Conservation win, Warning Sign
Texas has more wild turkeys than any other state- 500,000 birds. The Rio Grande turkey is a genuine conservation win. But nationally, populations are down…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
The $15,000 Buck
High fence or low fence - it's the most divisive argument in Texas deer hunting. At what point does a hunt stop being a hunt and start being a transaction?…
- Texas Fish and Game Unfiltered with Kevin Burke
From Patterns to Pixels. What Happened To Bass Fishing?
Why forward-facing sonar is changing the sport forever. Website: https://www.texasfishandgamenetwork.com Instagram…
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Protein for bigger bucks?
Everyone is protein feeding, but does it actually work? I dove into the research from the Caeser Kleberg Wildlife Institute to find out what science says…