Bow and rod-and-reel anglers will remove excess carp to aid native aquatic vegetation restoration ATHENS—Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Inland Fisheries staff has partnered with the Texas Bowfishing Association (TBA) and the Texas BASS Federation Nation...
Bass fishing heats up in summer, but extra effort is required by tournament anglers to maintain the health of their catch this time of year. Dissolved oxygen is the single most important factor for keeping bass alive, and an understanding of factors that affect oxygen...
Tournament anglers encouraged to consider oxygen injection in livewells ATHENS—The hotter the weather, the more difficult it is to keep bass in livewells healthy, especially during tournaments, when heavy limits of fish may be held for several hours until weigh-in....
AUSTIN – The Llano River in Texas has been named one of 10 “Waters to Watch” for 2011 in the National Fish Habitat Action Plan. The watch list doesn’t necessarily indicate waters in trouble, but points to those that will benefit from strategic conservation efforts to...
Going into May the lake is about 8ft below high pool and it looks like unless we have a real gully washer it will continue to drop. In the summer we can lose a half- inch or more a day through evaporation plus the amount of water that is released at the dam. No...
ATHENS — A recent cooperative effort between Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD Inland Fisheries management staff, the City of Waco, Cameron Park Zoo, and some local scouts from China Spring deployed new fish habitat into Lake Brazos on Wednesday. Twenty fish...
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ATHENS—Faron McCain of Sweetwater went fishing at O.H. Ivie Reservoir April 14 intending to catch a big largemouth bass on her spawning bed, and he did just that. What he did not expect was to catch the same fish that was last year’s new lake record, when it was...
Bass Grabbers Bank Tournament Trail 2011 is looking for more competitors! BassGrabbers is looking for more people to join in our 3 hour once a month bank fishing tournaments in various areas in the north Texas region. We have three divisions to fish in ponds, streams,...
BassGrabbers Bank Fishing Tournament Trail is looking for competitors!! A 3 HOUR ONCE A MONTH BANK FISHING TOURNEY IN VARIOUS PLACES IN NORTH TX IS LOOKING FOR MORE COMPETITORS! VISIT WWW.BASSGRABBERSTRAIL.COM. THREE DIVISIONS TO FISH IN OR YOU CAN FISH ALL THREE....
Bass fishing on Caddo Lake is great with water temps ranging in the low to mid 60’s water color is stained to clear the main lake bite has been the best for me there are a lot of bites to be had fishing windy points of islands and main lake points in 2 to 4ft of...
Replace with lead in paragraph. Include key phrase. Bass fishing is incredible right now on Caddo with the spawn heating up lot of male Bass shallow some females we are catching have already spawned but most females are staged up on the weed lines out off of the banks...
ATHENS—Christopher Wright proved again Saturday, January 15, what has become obvious to anglers: O.H. Ivie is the hottest bass lake in Texas right now. Wright caught Toyota ShareLunker 507 from the lake while fishing in a tournament. Using a swim bait, Wright was...
The weather has been frigid these past few days as Texas experienced a cold blast of snow, sleet, and ice in most areas of the state. I was able to escape the brunt of the storm as I headed south to begin pre-fishing for the FLW Ever-Start tournament at Choke Canyon....
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Fishing has been good at both Lake Fork and Lake Monticello the past couple of weeks. With the weather and water cooling off, I have been splitting trips between the two lakes. The action on Monticello has been best early on most days with Fork being the afternoon...
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ATHENS—Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will begin accepting entries into the Toyota ShareLunker program October 1, 2010. Anyone legally catching a 13-pound or bigger largemouth bass from Texas waters, public or private, between October 1 and April 30 may submit...
ATHENS, Texas—The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center’s annual Bluegill Family Fishing Tournament awarded about $3,000 in donated prizes to winners Saturday. The tournament awards prizes for the heaviest stringers of sunfish and for the biggest sunfish. Prize packages...
AUSTIN – Aquatic plants offer both beauty and functionality in landscaping and aquaria, and the use of algae to produce biofuels has recently received increased attention. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wants to ensure the introduction of any non-native...