Posted: 10:14 AM The annual Cinco de Mayo celebration at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. May 7.

Posted: 7:42 PM The University of Florida team of Jake Gipson and Matthew Wercinski, both of Niceville, Fla., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 14 pounds, 4 ounces Saturday to win their second National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship title in as many years.

Posted: 8:18 PM The University of Florida team of Jake Gipson and Matthew Wercinski, both of Niceville, Fla., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 14 pounds, 12 ounces Friday to lead day two of the National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship on Kentucky Lake.

Posted: 10:50 AM Authorities estimate it could take 10 days or more to extinguish a natural gas drilling rig fire that started yesterday in the southeastern corner of Village Creek State Park in Hardin County near Lumberton.

Posted: 9:41 AM Visitors trekking to dozens of Texas state parks to take advantage of pleasant spring weather will find new restrooms, revamped playgrounds and campgrounds, and a host of other park upgrades .

Posted: 10:16 AM Life’s better outside, especially during springtime in Texas. And nowhere will it be better on April 9 than at Outdoor Fools Day at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC).

Updated: 2:26 PM Gilmer Reservoir sent a new lake record largemouth bass to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) March 17, and the next day Caddo Lake sent the existing lake record largemouth to Athens for the second year in a row.

Posted: 10:52 AM It’s time to turn off the TV and power down the laptop. It’s time to get back outside and reconnected with nature.

Posted: 10:19 AM TPWD Inland Fisheries office in Wichita Falls recently completed a gill net survey of hybrid striped bass and channel catfish populations at Lake Wichita, and the results are very encouraging.

Updated: 12:58 PM Visitors to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) are invited to harvest rainbow trout at no charge from now through the end of the season in late April.

Posted: 1:45 PM The state of Texas is facing looming budget cuts. There is a possibility that funds received from Hunting and Fishing License Revenue may be diverted to uses other than for which they were originally intended and outdoor programs may be cut.

Updated: 3:41 PM Just when you thought this Toyota ShareLunker season was going to be all about O.H. Ivie, along comes Lake Austin. The urban lake on the northwest side of the state capital has produced three ShareLunkers so far this season. One, the 16.03-pound lake record, came January 27. Two more came this last weekend. Lake Austin has now produced 12 entries into the ShareLunker program, tying it with Lake Amistad and lagging Choke Canyon and Falcon International Reservoir by only one.

Posted: 3:55 PM Tie a fly. Cast a fly. Catch a fish.

Updated: 5:14 PM Toyota ShareLunker program manager David Campbell might well be putting new words to the song “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” before the current season ends.

Updated: 3:44 PM The Sam Houston State team of Seth Brittain and Tanner Walker won the National Guard FLW College Fishing Texas Division event on Sam Rayburn Reservoir Sunday with five bass weighing 18 pounds even.

Posted: 10:46 AM With an inflow of funds, the Midland's I-20 Wildlife Preserve and Jenna Welch Nature Study Center expects to add trails, bridges and bird blinds by this time next year.

Updated: 5:01 PM Falcon International Reservoir kicked in its 12th entry ever into the Toyota ShareLunker program January 31, a 13.22-pound fish caught by Ky Martin of Grandview, Texas. The fish was 25 inches long and 20.5 inches in girth.

Updated: 5:08 PM O.H. Ivie produced its fourth Toyota ShareLunker of the season Sunday. Wimberley angler Terry Capps caught the 13.01-pounder about 9:45 a.m. from 10 feet of 48-degree water. “It was just blind luck,” Capps said. “We were just fishing, not having a very good day. I was throwing a white spinnerbait and just happened to find the right spot and the right fish.”

Posted: 10:17 AM Fly-fishing experts and wannabes will gather at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) in Athens March 12 for a day of teaching, learning and fishing.

Updated: 3:47 PM T.J. Nissen of Austin holds the new record for Lake Austin after catching a 16.03-pound bass late in the day on January 27.

Posted: 11:03 AM Feral hogs in Texas could be targets for high-flying hunters.

Posted: 11:02 AM A bill pending before the state Senate would authorize the raising of genetically enhanced deer on breeding farms in Mississippi.

Updated: 10:58 AM Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) geneticist Dijar Lutz-Carrillo is conducting DNA analysis on a 5.62-pound bass caught from Lake Alan Henry January 15 to determine if it is a spotted bass.

Posted: 8:26 AM COLLEGE STATION – Ranch Management University, scheduled April 12-15 in College Station, is a workshop designed to help new and novice landowners improve their understanding of managing resources on the ranch.

Posted: 2:08 PM Whether it's a single death or a mass die-off, experts from Texas A&M AgriLife and other agencies say almost all bird mortality in Texas and elsewhere is due to natural – or at least explicable – causes.