The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has taken a long-awaited first step toward addressing outdated allocations between the commercial and recreational sectors in the grouper and red snapper fisheries.

FLW Outdoors announced that it has agreed to a long-term sponsorship with Walmart to become the title sponsor of FLW Outdoors, beginning in 2011. Per FLW Outdoors' policy, terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Pro Bart Blakelock of Lake Charles, Louisiana, caught a five-bass limit weighing 18 pounds even Saturday to win the FLW American Fishing Series Texas Division tournament on Toledo Bend with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 66 pounds, 2 ounces. For his victory, Blakelock earned $21,943.

The Stephen F. Austin team of Robert Platt of Orange Park, Florida, and Ryan Watkins of Nacogdoches, Texas, won the National Guard FLW College Fishing Texas Division event on Toledo Bend Saturday with six bass weighing 19 pounds, 1 ounce.

Date changes for 2010 National Guard College Fishing Northern and Texas Regional Championships.

Would you like to have a chance to fish with a Professional Anglers Association (PAA) tour-level pro, or take a once-in-a-lifetime fishing getaway to a remote lodge?  Either one could be yours if you enter and win the second annual 24-Hour Fish-A-Thon slated for September 10-11.

Recreational fishing industry veteran Steve Levi has been appointed brand manager of BoatUS Angler , the membership and services program for boat-owning anglers, a division of Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS).

Date changes for 2010 National Guard College Fishing Northern and Texas Regional Championships.

Dicky Newberry of Houston, Texas, caught a 5-bass limit weighing 16 pounds, 7 ounces Saturday, May 15, 2010 to win $3,679 in the FLW BFL Cowboy Division tournament on the Red River. He was flipping tubes and lizards behind docks to catch his limit.

BASS, the worldwide authority on bass fishing, today announced that Bass Pro Shops, the world's leading supplier of outdoor gear, will build on the marketing alliance formed last year by assuming title sponsorship of the Bassmaster Opens in 2010-2011. With the agreement, final-day weigh-ins of select Bassmaster Open events will be held at Bass Pro Shops stores.