Free Rainbow Trout Harvest at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center
ATHENS—Visitors to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) are invited to harvest rainbow trout at no charge from now through the end of the season in late April.
TPWD News Releases
March 15, 2011
March 14, 2011
Texas Fish Records Program Sets Its Own Records
ATHENS—For many people, second only to the thrill of landing a trophy fish is seeing one’s name go into the record book for the catch.
March 10, 2011
Golden Alga Fish Kill on Lake Granbury Spreads Downriver
ATHENS — A toxic golden alga bloom on Lake Granbury that began the first week of January 2011 appears to be heading down the Brazos River toward Lake Whitney.
March 7, 2011
Toyota ShareLunker 516: Falcon
ATHENS—Falcon International Reservoir produced its third Toyota ShareLunker of the season, its fourteenth overall and the twelfth entry into the ShareLunker program for the current season March 6.
Feb. 28, 2011
Toyota ShareLunkers 514, 515 Come From Lake Austin
ATHENS—Just when you thought this Toyota ShareLunker season was going to be all about O.H. Ivie, along comes Lake Austin.
Feb. 25, 2011
Wanted: Spring Break Trout Anglers in Tyler
ATHENS—The Nature Center in Tyler has about a thousand rainbow trout that need a home on one’s dinner table.
Feb. 23, 2011
Fly Fish Texas: You’re One Day Away from a Lifetime of Fun
ATHENS—Tie a fly. Cast a fly. Catch a fish.
First Signs of Spring Arrive at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center
ATHENS—The first signs of spring have arrived at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, and they are not what you might expect.
Feb. 22, 2011
Falcon, O.H. Ivie Singing Toyota ShareLunker Duet
ATHENS—Toyota ShareLunker program manager David Campbell might well be putting new words to the song “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” before the current season ends.
Feb. 17, 2011
Freeze Impacts hit Fish, Turtles along Entire Texas Coast
AUSTIN – Preliminary assessments by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department coastal fisheries biologists suggest the damage from back-to-back freeze events that impacted marine life from Galveston to Brownsville could have been much worse.