Free Fishing Day Set for June 4
Texas is one of the best places in the nation for fishing and on June 4, you can wet a line anywhere in the state for free.
TPWD News Releases
May 18, 2011
Go Fish! Summer Events Held Across Texas
Get your kids hooked on the outdoors this summer with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Go Fish! summer event series. Free fishing lessons for the young and young at heart will be hosted around the state at selected state parks throughout May, June and July.
May 17, 2011
Long-term, Wildfires have Positive Impacts for Wildlife
AUSTIN—Despite the hardship endured by those closest to the recent wildfires, time will eventually illustrate the positive ecological role that fire plays. The scarring left by wildfires that consumed more than a million and a half acres in Texas so far this year will continue to fade, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists; replaced eventually by a landscape in much healthier condition for wildlife.
May 16, 2011
Big Fish Stories Can Have Happier Endings
ATHENS—When Joseph Williams of Cleveland went fishing in the Trinity River below Lake Livingston dam April 14, 2011, he was prepared to catch a big fish—a big alligator gar, the biggest freshwater fish in Texas.
Eggfest Organizers Scrambling
ATHENS—With 22 teams already signed up to fire up Big Green Eggs and serve samples of the results at the May 21 Green Eggs and Ham…burgers Eggfest at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC), event organizers are making plans to be sure no one goes home without being egged.
National Campaign Yields Tree Planting at Garner State Park
CONCAN, TX—Thanks to thousands of votes by Texans this past year, Garner State Park is receiving dozens of new, healthy trees from the annual Odwalla plant-a-tree promotional campaign.
May 11, 2011
Lasers to be Used to Help Document, Preserve Ancient Rock Art
COMSTOCK – Fragile and fading rock art painted thousands of years ago in rock shelters and caves by indigenous peoples at Seminole Canyon State Historic Site will soon benefit from the latest in laser technology.
Biologists Complete First Guadalupe Bass Stocking on South Llano River
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Parks and Wildlife Department inland fisheries biologists today completed the first stocking of Guadalupe bass in the South Llano River. The release of fish here marks a new chapter in a decades-long effort to save the state fish of Texas. It’s also the first, prototype effort of a new watershed scale approach to water resource conservation in Texas.
May 10, 2011
Mountain Lion Tranquilized, Shot in Downtown El Paso
EL PASO — A mountain lion that authorities first had tried to tranquilize led law enforcement officers, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden captain and city animal control officers on a wild chase through central El Paso that ended with the animal being shot and killed.
Lake Fairfield Tilapia Fishery Flourishing
ATHENS—An old saying—“It’s an ill wind that blows no one good”—points out that there are two sides to almost everything. Bow fishers are finding that despite an extensive fish kill at Lake Fairfield in August, 2010, that devastated the largemouth bass, catfish and red drum fisheries, there are still recreational angling opportunities to be had.