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B. J. Tarr Takes Top Honors on Lake Livingston

May 20, 2013 By

The 5th event for the Southeast Region is in the books. We visited Lake Livingston on Saturday, May 18th, and 105 anglers were met with some windy and somewhat hot temperatures. Due to the forecasted wind conditions for Saturday the Southeast Region Tournament Director, Daniel Davis, decided to implement the trailering option to all anglers [...]

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Jason Parsons Claims LBJ Victory

May 19, 2013 By

Windy conditions didn’t seem to play into the season’s final West Region tournament. Byron Albrecht, Brian Bollinger, and Jason Parsons were all in a battle to see who would be the West Region points champion. All three anglers finished in the top three places. Jason Parson was nudged out by one point to give Byron Albrecht [...]

Matt McCallister Wins Fourth Stop of the Panhandle Region 2013 Schedule

May 9, 2013 By

 04/14/13 Possum Kingdom No. 2 Twenty two anglers fished the fourth tournament of the Panhandle Region TBN schedule under clear conditions. Improving weather following a severe cold front brought more fish shallow as a bed fishing pattern emerged. Matt McCallister came out on top with four fish weighing 15.46 pounds. Second went to Mickey Carter [...]

Cecil Carter Wins Third Stop of the Panhandle Region 2013 Schedule

May 9, 2013 By

 04/13/13 Possum Kingdom No. 1  Twenty anglers fished the third stop of the Panhandle Region TBN schedule under clear conditions at Possum Kingdom Lake. PK was about 11 feet low at the time and with a 16 inch minimum, quality fish were hard to find. Those that found concentrations of keeper fish reported that they were [...]

May 1, 2013 Wednesday evening The Texas Environmental Excellence Award from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) was presented to Ron Gunter (SCBC) and Mark Webb (TPWD) during a banquet at the TCEQ convention/expo at the Austin Convention Center.  Other partner recipients in attendance were SCBC President Derek Taylor, Dave Terre, Craig Bonds, Rick Ott, Gary Saul, and Carter Smith with TPWD, [...]

THE ANGLER’S ROLE IN IMPROVING SURVIVAL OF RELEASED BASS Black bass can be “recycled.” They can be caught in tournaments, weighed-in, released, and caught again another day. Occasionally, however, fish die during a tournament. Biologists understand these consequences but studies have shown that tournaments generally have negligible impact on bass populations. However, it is without [...]

FROM TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE “Giant salvinia was discovered today on Lake Wright Patman. It is a Tier 1 situation and we are planning to treat it as soon as possible. We are planning to use a mixture of a glyphosate-based herbicide labeled for aquatic use (such as Aquamaster) and a diquat-based herbicide labeled for [...]

 

The Canyon Bass Club of San Marcos has applied to become the newest Friends of Reserviors Chapter. The CBCSM will be adopting Lake Dunlap and Canyon Lake. Chapter partners, work with controlling authorities and state agencies to enhance habitat and improve fishing on their home lakes. Friends of Reservoirs Friends of Reservoirs (FOR) is established [...]

If you or your club has participated in or organized a conservation related project or activity in the last year, B.A.S.S. would like to know about it. We are compiling our Annual Achievment Report which will include information about all the projects and activities our organization and its chapters have conducted for the benefit of the resource. [...]

Habitat is again under attack on Lake Conroe, and those responsible have little regard for fish, wildlife, or public safety. A group of local anglers have discovered some large areas of standing timber that have been recklessly removed by yet unidentified individuals in Live Branch on the South end of the lake. There are some [...]

TPWD proposes regulation changes for lakes from time to time based on scientific data and public input. If you fish Lake Jacksonville, please take just a couple minutes to fill out this quick survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N5LJ3B8 Here is some background information from TPWD. We have been hearing discontent from some of the anglers in the Jacksonville area [...]