The 2012 Oakley Big Bass Tour will feature tour stops in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

It is critical that sportsmen and sporting dog owners contact their state senators and ask them to vote no on House Bill 1451.

Boater Richard Cunningham of Ragley, La., caught nine bass weighing 25 pounds, 5 ounces during the three day tournament which was held Oct. 14-16 to win a Chevy truck and Ranger boat in the BFL Lake Texoma Regional Championship.

Between years of drought and years punctuated with flash floods, Texans' relationship with water reflects both the vital necessity of water and its destructive potential. For nine years, TP&W magazine has examined this relationship in a series of annual issues devoted to pressing water resource issues that face Texans. This includes covering major trends, ways people can conserve water and efforts to plan water use and balance the needs of people, industry, agriculture and the environment.

Coming in with a strong sack of 27.72 lbs, Spike Stoker and Justin Stone blew away the competition by more than a five pound margin to win over $20,000 at Choke Canyon May 22, 2010. Well over $43,000 was paid back in 21 places representing a 104% return for the anglers.

The impacts of the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has still not fully become evident, but the potential implications to the region known for its abundant and diverse fish and wildlife could be devastating, reports the Wildlife Management Institute. 

Giant Lake Amistad will be a fitting playing field for the April 8-10 season opener of the 2010 Bassmaster Central Open tour.  Signed up to compete on the sprawling impoundment that straddles the Texas-Mexico border are 204 pros and 204 co-anglers.