March 21, 2013

Louisiana Angler Lands Latest ShareLunker

ATHENS—Donald Deville of Ville Platte, Louisiana makes regular visits to Lake Fork with friends and family to fish for big bass, but he had never landed a double-digit fish.

March 20, 2013

Get Ready for Summer Fun at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center April 6

ATHENS—The annual Outdoor Fools Day event at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens has two goals: To let you know what’s out there to enjoy, and to teach you how to do it.

Lake Amon G. Carter Produces Toyota ShareLunker 546

ATHENS—Once again an angler has proved it’s not the size of the lake that counts, it’s the size of the fish in the lake—at least when it comes to catching big bass.

March 14, 2013

Possum Kingdom Fish Survey Results

ATHENS — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Inland Fisheries office in Wichita Falls recently completed fall electrofishing and spring gillnet surveys on Possum Kingdom Reservoir. Fisheries biologists use information from these surveys to develop plans for managing fish populations.

March 12, 2013

Smartphone App Now Available for Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center

ATHENS—More than 50 percent of Americans depend on mobile devices to communicate, navigate and recreate, and the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center now has an app for that.

April Events at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center Feature Food, Fun, Fishing

ATHENS—There’s no better example of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department motto “Life’s Better Outside” than April events at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center.

March 7, 2013

Latest Zebra Mussel Test Results Reinforce Need to Clean, Drain, Dry Boats

ATHENS—The latest tests and monitoring looking for zebra mussels in North Texas lakes yielded mixed results.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Turns 50 This Year

AUSTIN – In the late summer of 1963, the most popular show on television was “The Beverly Hillbillies,” a gallon of gas cost 29 cents, the University of Texas Longhorns were headed toward their first national football championship, “My Boyfriend’s Back” was the top hit on AM radio and Texas had a new state agency called the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

March 4, 2013

Lake Palestine Joins Ranks of ShareLunker Lakes

ATHENS—Lake Palestine produced its first Toyota ShareLunker March 2, becoming the sixty-fourth public reservoir in Texas to allow an angler to land a 13-pound or larger largemouth bass.

March 1, 2013

Operation Shark Fin targets illegal gill netting and long lines along lower coast

AUSTIN — Operation Shark Fin, a four-day, around-the-clock Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement effort along the lower coast aimed at disrupting trans-national criminal organizations engaged in illegal commercial fishing and other activities in the Gulf of Mexico, the Rio Grande, and Lake Falcon has resulted in the seizure of 17,500 feet of long lines, two vessels and 15 citations or arrests.