TEXAS FISHING REPORTS
No matter how you fish—with live bait under a bobber, ripping crankbaits along the edge of boat docks, teasing Texas-rigged plastic lizards through submerged brush, or walking topwater baits over grass beds—few things are more relaxing than a day on the water.
According to a survey conducted by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in 2001, some 1.68 million Texans age 16 and older fish in Texas lakes and streams. Most of those, 1.52 million, fish in ponds and reservoirs. Those anglers generate $690 million in wages and salaries annually and pay $79 million in sales tax.
Texas is particularly rich in inland waters. The drought of the 1950s brought home to Texans the fact that a growing state had to grow its supply of fresh water, and a burst of dam-building followed. Today a state whose popular image smacks more of deserts and plains than of lakes and streams enjoys more surface acres of water than any other state except Minnesota.
The proliferation of lakes built mainly for water supply and flood control sparked a revolution in outdoor recreation. Fishing became the outdoor activity of choice (anglers in Texas outnumber hunters two to one), and bass fishing took off as Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) stocked new lakes with both native largemouth bass and bigger-growing Florida largemouths, as well as a variety of other species. But appropriately for a state known for its lack of shyness when touting its assets, largemouth bass are king.
Texas Fishing News
Texas Fishing Report: Aug. 20, 2008
Here is the weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for Aug.
Texas Fishing Report
Here is the weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for Aug.
East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of Aug. 17: ATHENS - Lake Athens is at normal level and clear.
Richland High School senior Jordan Lane will fish in a world...
Jordan Lane, 18, a senior at Richland High School in North Richland Hills, will compete in the National Guard Junior Angler World Championship Tournament this weekend at South Carolina's Lake Monticello.
East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of Aug. 10: ATHENS - Lake Athens is at normal level and clear.
South Texas Fishing Guidelines: 08.10.08
Wadefishing has been tough since Dolly, but we've found decent trout between the Dimmit Pier area and the Boathole.
Panhandle / West Texas Fishing Report
Here is the weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for Aug.
East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of Aug. 3: ATHENS - Lake Athens is at normal level and clear.
South Texas Fishing Guidelines: 08.03.08
I've been finding trout and reds up and down the west shore of the Laguna Madre, starting with the flats by Bluff's Landing Marina all the way to the causeway.
The East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of July 20: ATHENS - Lake Athens is at normal level and clear.
Outdoors briefs
Diane and Hector Delagarza of Garland became the first husband and wife to finish in the top 10 of an FLW Wal-Mart Tour tournament Sunday.
The East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report, for the week of July 14: ATHENS - Lake Athens is at normal level and clear.
The East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of July 6: ATHENS - Lake Athens is at normal level and clear.
South Texas Fishing Guidelines: 07.06.08
We've seen lots of good catches coming from the Bird Island area, mostly with live shrimp or soft plastics.
The East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of June 29: ATHENS - The lake is at normal level and clear.
East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of June 22: ATHENS - The lake is at normal level and clear.
Corpus Christi, TX
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The East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of June 17: ATHENS - Lake Athens is at normal level and clear.
The East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of June 9: ATHENS - The lake is at normal level and clear.
The East Texas Fishing Report
The East Texas Fishing Report for the week of June 1: ATHENS - The lake is at normal level and clear.
