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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Inland Fisheries Division has stocked nearly 27 million fish, comprising 17 ...

The final weigh-in of the Toyota Series event at Sam Rayburn Reservoir was one for the record books. Three different pros weighed over 30 pounds on the day, and nobody was safe on the leaderboard.

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Nothing was certain on the final day of the Bassmaster Open at Kentucky Lake/Lake Barkley, but this much was true — Japan’s Yui Aoki, who led by more than 6 pounds when the day began, would have to ...

The win marks the first of the season for an LSUS team and the first since September 2023, when Tew and Brayden Nichols won an MLF event at Sam Rayburn Reservoir in Texas. LSUS, ranked No. 3 in ...

Pipkins was fishing from shore at Lady Bird Lake. Gomez was casting from a public boat dock at Lake Alan Henry. Gomez’ 14.78 pounder is the heavier of the two bank bass. There is a whopper of a ...

Out of the Jasper office good areas to fish the spawning run are the Sabine River above Toledo Bend Reservoir using the Logansport /Joaquin boat ramp, Yellow Dog ramp in Louisiana and McFadden’s Ferry ...

The win is the first of the season for an LSUS pair and the first since September of 2023 when Tew and Brayden Nichols pulled out an MLF win on Sam Rayburn Reservoir in Texas. LSUS is ranked No. 3 ...

These Texas cities all boast costs of living well below both the state and national averages, meaning you can get by on ...

The two-lake system, consisting of Marion to the ... long history including places like Sam Rayburn and Okeechobee. While stories of 10s aren’t uncommon at Santee Cooper, a bass well over ...

He frequents big reservoirs like Sam Rayburn and Toledo Bend ... The key to catching largemouth bass, he says, is understanding the available forage in any given lake and keeping in mind that their ...