It is important to be prepared when fishing. Sometimes, because we are fishing within sight of land, especially when fishing in a bay system, we slack on safety. This person did the right thing and stopped to ride the storm out. Some boats tried to make port.

Coming back from a great day fishing in the bay off Rockport, to a bunch of beautiful boats. I think the brand on this one is "Ventura", it had 3x300hp outboards. Probaby goes at least 25 knotts :-)

7lb largemouth bass caught in Falcon Lake

Have you heard of KidFish? I saw them at a convention and took this photo (which doesn't do it justice because the kids were going crazy!) Their website is www.kidfish.com, and the phone number is in the photo. Looks like a nice group of people doing a good thing.

Trinity River alligator gar

Nice catch.

Junior angler Weston Cordell Hardin, of Farmers Branch, Texas, USA, landed a smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus) on June19. The youngster used chicken liver as bait to entice the fish that weighed 2.38 kg (5 lb 4 oz) while he was fishing Catfish Creek, in the Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area at Tennessee Colony, Texas. If his record is approved Weston will be the first IGFA boy’s junior class record holder for the species.

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Congratulations to James!!!  Just a few days ago (Sept. 7) James Bryant of San Antonio brought in a 10.86 at the 2nd Annual Anchor Marine Big Bass on Choke Canyon! His grand prize was a New Skeeter SX 190-Yamaha 150 HPDI and $500 cash! Um, yeah...that's awesome.

Jaime Reyes and daughter Abbey shared a day casting the Barbie fishing rod and lucked into this largemouth near McKinney, TX.