Amistad Strikes Gold with Budweiser ShareLunker 400
ATHENS, Texas — Jason Baird hit the jackpot Feb. 28 when he caught Budweiser ShareLunker No. 400, a 13.1-pound largemouth bass worth $5,240 in cash.
TPWD News Releases
April 24, 2006
Participation in State-Fish Art Contest Skyrockets with TFFC Sponsorship
ATHENS, Texas — Last year Lulu Fang of McAllen submitted the winning illustration and composition about the Texas state fish, the Guadalupe bass, in the grades 10-12 category of the State-Fish Art Contest.
April 17, 2006
TPWD Releases First Flounder Fingerlings
ROCKPORT, Texas — When two years of careful work went down the drain April 4, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department coastal fisheries workers quietly cheered.
Texas Rivers Center Progress Hailed in San Marcos
SAN MARCOS, Texas — Texas State University and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department are inviting partners and news media to attend an April 26 grand reopening event to mark completion of $3.1 million in renovations to create a major educational and research facility devoted to Texas springs and aquifers and the river watersheds that feed them, as well as the lakes, bays and estuaries into which they flow.
April 10, 2006
TPWD Adds 40 Counties to Special Buck Harvest Rules
AUSTIN, Texas — Deer hunters in 40 counties in East and Central Texas will be under new special buck harvest regulations this fall as part of changes to this year’s hunting and fishing regulations adopted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.
Once-Maligned Carp Coming On as Coveted Catch
AUSTIN, Texas — Pity the lowly carp no more.
Coastal Forecast Offers Few Excuses for Not Catching Fish
AUSTIN, Texas — Coastal fisheries biologists say conditions are looking good for coastal anglers looking to hook their limit of red drum, black drum, spotted sea trout, and even an exotic visitor to coastal waters, the mangrove snapper.
Prop 8 Funds Set for Rita Repairs, State Park & WMA Projects
AUSTIN, Texas — About $18 million in bond funding for critical repairs to Texas state parks, wildlife management areas, fish hatcheries has been approved, the latest installment of about $101 million in Proposition 8 bond funding approved by Texas voters in 2001.
Bragg Named NWTF Wildlife Officer of the Year
AUSTIN, Texas — Brian Heath Bragg, a six-year veteran Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Game Warden, has been named 2005 Texas Wildlife Officer of the Year by the Texas State Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation.
April 6, 2006
Mitigation Agreement To Benefit Wildlife, Highways
AUSTIN — Texas transportation and wildlife officials today announced an agreement to increase large-scale wildlife habitat protection while also facilitating new highway projects.