BASTROP: Water clear. Black bass are good on watermelon red deep diving crankbaits and soft plastics. Crappie are good on minnows. Channel and blue catfish are very good on shrimp, minnows, and stinkbait. Yellow catfish are slow.COLORADO RIVER: (At Colorado Bend State Park) Water stained. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are fair on perch. more >>
TRINITY BAY: Trout are fair to good around the shell pads of the Sun Getty lease. Trout are fair to good while drifting slicks and deep shell. Redfish are good on the north shoreline on gold spoons. EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to good on mid-bay reefs on live shrimp and plastics. Trout are fair around the wells on live bait. more >>
Monday I stood chest-deep in the Matagorda surf as a lazy sun eased below the dunes. Trout were bashing She Pups on the edge of the third bar as the tide gently receded, blue-winged teal were buzzing the marsh just over my shoulder and my bare feet felt every undulation the current had created as I scuffled from guts to sand bars. more >>
A hunter education course will be held in September for those hunters who are required to complete the course in order to hunt. Every hunter, including out of state hunters, born on or after Sept. 2, 1971 must successfully complete the course. more >>
NORTH SABINE: Trout are fair to good in the river on shad. Redfish are good in the marsh on small topwaters. Trout have been taken in the middle of the lake under birds. SOUTH SABINE: Trout are fair while drifting slicks and birds on soft plastics. Trout are fair at the jetty on topwaters and live bait. Trout are fair while drifting the Reef on soft plastics and live shrimp under a popping cork. more >>
BASTROP: Water clear. Black bass are good on watermelon red deep diving crankbaits and soft plastics. Crappie are good on minnows. Channel and blue catfish to 5 pounds are very good on shrimp, minnows, and stinkbait. Yellow catfish are slow. CANYON LAKE: Water clear; 85 degrees; 6.48 feet low. Black bass are fair to good on JDC Skip-N-Pop topwaters and watermelon red Whacky Sticks along grassy banks early and late, and on Texas rigged blue flake worms and drop shot Devil’s Tongues along break lines and ledges. Striped bass are slow to fair trolling Gizz 4 crankbaits over and around humps, and jigging 1 oz. Pirk Minnows at daylight. White bass are slow. Smallmouth bass are fair on smoke JDC grubs and 3/16 oz. pumpkin Curb’s jigs with matching JDC craw trailers in 12-28 feet early. Crappie are slow. Channel catfish are slow. Yellow and blue catfish are good on live bait. more >>
Following are the results from the 2008 State of Texas Angler’s Rodeo as of Aug. 25: Starkids Scholarship Division more >>
BASTROP: Water clear. Black bass are fair on chartreuse spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and Rat-L-Traps. Crappie are good on minnows and white tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are good on shrimp, liver, and nightcrawlers. Yellow catfish are slow. COLORADO RIVER: (At Colorado Bend State Park) Water stained. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Catfish are good on trotlines baited with perch, and from the bank on rod and reel baited with perch. more >>
EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are good on the deep reefs on the incoming tide. Trout are fair to good around the channel on croakers. Trout are fair to good on shell pads on live shrimp and plastics. WEST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to good on the flats near San Luis Pass on Corkies and topwaters. Trout and redfish are fair to good in the back lakes on the incoming tide. more >>
Ten members of the Science and Spanish Club in Port Lavaca gave up a day of summer vacation and gathered at their school, Travis Middle School, for advanced training on phytoplankton found in our Gulf waters and how to identify them. Jeff Paternoster, Outreach specialist for the Phytoplankton Monitoring Network, explained to the students about the important roles that two kinds of phytoplankton play as the lowest level critters in a marine ecology. They learned one kind, called diatoms, are neither plant nor animal, but, like plants, they make sugar from carbon dioxide and sunlight, and produce oxygen as a byproduct. In fact they produce over half of all the oxygen we breathe. more >>
BASTROP: Water clear. Black bass are fair on chartreuse spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and Rat-L-Traps. Crappie are good on minnows and white tube jigs. Channel and blue catfish are good on shrimp, liver, and nightcrawlers. Yellow catfish are slow. CANYON LAKE: Water clear 85 degrees 5.91 feet low. Black bass are fair to good on JDC Skip-N-Pop topwaters, watermelon Whacky Sticks, and Texas rigged blue flake worms in flooded bushes and grass banks at sunrise and all day under cloud cover, and on drop shot Devil’s Tongues along break lines and ledges. Striped bass are fair trolling Gizz 4 crankbaits over and around humps and jigging 1oz. Pirk Minnows at daylight. White bass are slow. Smallmouth bass are fair on smoke JDC grubs and 3/16oz. pumpkin Curb’s jigs with matching JDC craw trailers in 12-25 feet early. Crappie are slow. Channel catfish are slow. Yellow and blue catfish are good on live bait. more >>
NORTH SABINE: Rain and wind has muddied the middle of the lake and the river. Redfish are good in the marsh on small topwaters, and in the middle of the lake under birds. SOUTH SABINE: Trout, redfish and jack crevalle are good around the jetty on live bait. Trout were taken in the surf, but stiff south winds have hurt water conditions. more >>
Following are the results from the 2008 State of Texas Angler’s Rodeo as of Aug. 4: Starkids Scholarship Division more >>
August 06, 2008
LOS ANGELES – Former No. 1 Marat Safin continued his slow climb back toward the top of the rankings with a 6-3, 6-4 win over John Isner in the first round of the Countrywide Classic on Tuesday afternoon. Safin, 28, the No. 5 seed in this 28-player ATP Tour event, started the season with a five-match losing streak and dropped from No. 57 to No. 93 before reversing the trend by reaching the quarterfinals of a tournament at Munich, Germany, in late April. more >>
Following are the results from Class “AA” 1st Place: Danny Webb (San Antonio) (hit 126 out of 135 targets) Class “AA” 2nd Place: Hank Shaper (San Antonio) (hit 125 out of 135 targets) Class “A” 1st Place: Mike Hessong (Victoria) Class “A” 2nd Place: Richard Mergele (Seguin) more >>
AUSTIN (AP) — Here is the weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for July 30. (Report also available on Web as www.txfishing.com.) more >>
EAST GALVESTON BAY: Trout are fair to good around the channel on croakers. Trout are fair to good on shell pads on live shrimp and plastics. Tides are below normal. more >>
AUSTIN – Here is the weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for July 23 (report also available on Web as www.txfishing.com.): CENTRAL more >>
