Get your kids hooked on the outdoors this summer with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Go Fish! summer event series. Free fishing lessons for the young and young at heart will be hosted around the state at selected state parks throughout May, June and July.

Ever since rains refilled Falcon International Reservoir, TPWD Inland Fisheries biologist Randy Myers has been holding his breath, waiting for the Rio Grande reservoir to start turning out big bass. Myers is now breathing again.

Tomorrow's trout stocking at C.J. Kelly Park in Midland will be delayed one week. The new stocking date is December 22.  Beaumont anglers can look forward to two stockings at the LNVA Barrier Pond: December 22 and February 11.

Anyone interested in Lake Fork should save this date: February 4, 2010.  On that date the Wood County Industrial Commission and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will be hosting a public meeting at Lake Fork. This “State of the Lake” meeting will feature presentations by TPWD Inland Fisheries biologists and Sabine River Authority representatives.

Fish Records have been updated on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Web site.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials are reminding coastal anglers that during November flounder fishing is allowed by rod and reel only, with no gigging allowed, and the bag limit has been reduced to two fish.

Several changes to Texas fishing and hunting regulations will take effect September 1.

Texas Parks & Wildlife TV Program - Weekly schedule and show descriptions for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has recently been updated.