The Louisiana/Texas Division of the $8.8 million Walmart Bass Fishing League® will visit Sam Rayburn Reservoir in Jasper, Texas, September 20-21 for its final regular-season event. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $67,500 in cash, including a top award of $9,000 in the Boater Division.

The BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water honored Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, NY with its 2007 Clean Water Grant Excellence Award as it announced over $50,000 in new grants to 19 groups across the country for its 2008 Clean Water Grant program.

BASS has pledged $15,000 to the Reservoir Fisheries Habitat Partnership, a new group whose top priority is the conservation of man-made U.S. lakes.

Boater Ronnie Bickham of New Boston, Texas, won the Walmart Bass Fishing League Louisiana/Texas Division Super Tournament on Sam Rayburn Reservoir with a two-day catch of 10 bass weighing 37 pounds, 4 ounces. The victory earned Bickham $4,678.

Boater Dicky Newberry of Houston, Texas, earned a fully rigged Ranger 198VX and a new Chevy truck Saturday as the winner of the Walmart Bass Fishing League Regional Championship on Lake Ouachita in Mount Ida, Arkansas. The top 40 boaters and the top 40 co-anglers from the Cowboy, Louisiana/Texas, Okie and Ozark divisions competed in the three-day event.

BountyFishing.com, home of the world's largest fishing tournament, announced today that it will be holding a charity fishing event to benefit Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA), the only non-profit organization dedicated solely to patient support and advocacy for those living with or at risk for lung cancer.

Leading tackle manufacturer Daiwa Corporation presented FishAmerica Foundation with a $10,000 donation at the recent 2008 Sportfishing Summit in Denver, Colorado. Fish America Foundation will use Daiwa's contribution to enhance family fishing waters and ensure that future generations of anglers will have access to fishing areas.

The Sportsman Channel (TSC) announced today that it has reached a distribution agreement with DIRECTV that will make the network available to DIRECTV customers by the end of January 2009. TSC will be available in the CHOICE XTRA™ package. The Sportsman Channel is owned and operated by InterMedia Outdoors, Inc. (IMO), the largest media company in the outdoor-enthusiast category.

Goodwill Industries International announces a partnership with FLW Outdoors, the world's leading tournament-fishing organization. As part of the Walmart FLW Tour and Walmart FLW Series, professional award-winning anglers Chad Grigsby and Wesley Strader will represent Goodwill® at various events across the country beginning today at Lake Okeechobee in Clewiston, Fla. Goodwill Industries® will collect donations at each FLW Tour event to be sold in its retail stores.

FLW Outdoors announced a star-studded professional angling team for Chevrolet for the 2009 Walmart FLW Tour. Team Chevy features veterans Luke Clausen, Dion Hibdon, Larry Nixon and Kim Stricker. Two new additions feature Anthony Gagliardi and two-time Land O'Lakes Angler of the Year Jay Yelas.