When I began fishing, Texas had one hatchery—Heart of the Hills near Mountain Home. A rising human population required more ...

Pictured is a TPWD Inland Fisheries employee releasing Guadalupe bass fingerlings into the South Llano River. When Inland Fisheries staff discovered the State Fish was becoming hybridized with ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

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

Angler Ross Gomez caught a Texas trophy largemouth while crappie fishing in 2023. Two years later, he caught the same fish in ...

For most bass anglers, reeling in a trophy largemouth is a lifetime achievement. Ross Gomez, a fifty-year-old corrections officer and musician, can lay claim to two catches in that size class: a 13.22 ...

In 2022, licensed anglers spent an estimated $9.2 billion on food, lodging, transportation and equipment while fishing Texas freshwater and coastal waters, and sportfishing supported an estimated ...

Texas is home to some of the biggest fish ever caught, from ocean predators to freshwater giants. But with new deregulations ...

Undated photo of a bream fish at a river lock in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, Netherlands, where a "fish doorbell" was ...

Bass are thick in the shallows and fun to crank in, with good numbers of largemouths taking advantage of warm waters and ...

Both were proud Texans whose vast contributions to the sport made them easy choices to receive the Meritorious Service Award from the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame. Golding was a Waco-based sportswriter ...