February 27, 2012
Most pond and lake owners want ways to improve their bass fishing. For those looking to grow bigger and better bass, your ship may have come in. Private bass pond managers will get a behind-the scenes look at how Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) inland fisheries biologists monitor fish populations and care for trophy ...
May 3, 2011
The Toyota ShareLunker fishing season as set by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ened and in was a good run. Some really big bass were produced out of many Texas lakes. In addition, the ShareLunker bass program hit a milestone, concluding its 25th anniversary. Over the past quarter century, a total of 523 fish bass ...
April 16, 2011
Bass fishing at O.H. Ivie has been pretty good over the past few years, and the lake has produced a number of ShareLunker bass over that time. And now, it’s produced another big largemouth bass! Angler Faron McCain of Sweetwater, Texas, went fishing at O.H. Ivie Reservoir in mid-April intending to catch a big largemouth ...
April 5, 2011
The state of Texas known for great bass fishing, but the crown jewel of Texas’ largemouth bass fishery is still Lake Fork. Sure, the Toyota ShareLunker Program entries from Lake Fork have been overshadowed this year by reservoirs in other areas of the state, but the Lake Fork Trophy Bass Survey’s eight year history shows ...
March 7, 2011
Lake Austin is not the first lake that comes to mind when an angler thinks about catching big bass, but the urban lake has really been on a run lately, producing more some big ole bass! In the past month three Texas ShareLunkers have come out of this lake, located adjacent to Austin. The 16.03-pound ...
January 24, 2011
The bass fishing at O.H. Ivie Reservoir has been phenomenal over the past 12 months, and Texas anglers are taking notice! In the last year, the lake has produced 14 ShareLunker bass weighing more than 13 pounds! And as for anyone that has spent some time on the water knows, that is some serious bass ...
January 5, 2011
I grew up catching Guadalupe bass in the beautiful waters of the Texas Hill Country over 20 years ago. Even then, I found it strange how the Guadalupe bass, native to these clear-water rivers, co-existed with largemouth bass that I believed were stocked in these waters–or at least found themselves there otherwise. After all, largemouth ...
October 12, 2010
Bass fishing can be really good at Lake Conroe, but nobody knows that better than Brian Snowden, winner of this year’s Toyota Texas Bass Classic world championship at Lake Conroe. Snowden won for catching a lot of bass, with a 3 day catch of 48 pounds, 4 ounces! He defeated the second place finisher by ...
September 30, 2010
Who doesn’t love bass fishing? I don’t know anyone—especially when you can have fun catching bass and have the opportunity to win some awesome money and prizes! Yep, it’s time once again for the Toyota Texas Bass Classic! This fishing tournament is a Professional Anglers Association-sanctioned event and it will return to Lake Conroe from ...
September 26, 2010
The ShareLunker program kicks off on October 1 in Texas each year, so that means Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will begin accepting those big bass entries into the Toyota ShareLunker program October 1, 2010. If you plan on being the first for this go around, grab your fishing gear and be on the ...