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

Trout Unlimited (TU) strongly opposes the appropriations bill for Interior, Environment and Related Agencies passed Thursday by a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

How long can you fish? Find out in the 2011 24-Hour Fish-A-Thon, September 9 - 10, and you could also help improve the waters you fish in. In its third year, anglers across North America compete to see who can raise the most money - and catch the most fish - while creating awareness about the problems facing our waters. Teams also compete for prizes such as the fishing trip of the lifetime.

John Weaver, of Driftwood, Texas, and John Weaver Jr., of San Marcos, Texas, weighed in a two-redfish limit that totaled 17.14 pounds to win the IFA Redfish Tour event at Rockport, Texas, on May 14. To win the event, which operated out of Cove Harbor North, the team topped a large field of two-angler teams to take home a new, fully rigged Ranger Banshee Extreme powered by a 60-horsepower, four-stroke Yamaha outboard and equipped with a Power-Pole shallow water anchor, Minn Kota trolling motor, Humminbird electronics, Blue Point Fabrication metal work, Bob's four-inch Ultra Light Jackplate, an OPTIMA battery and a Loadmaster trailer valued at $30,000.

Tommy Martin of Hemphill, Texas, is the 1974 Bassmaster Classic champ and veteran of 306 Bassmaster events, but he's never competed on Texas' Lewisville Lake north of Dallas. Yet he's happy to hear that the lake is fishing tough, and is likely to continue doing so for the Feb. 24-26 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Central Open.

Fifty of the best professional bass fishermen in the country will attack Lake Ray Hubbard in April in the inaugural Bass Pro Shops PAA All Star Series tournament.

The committee consists of a very talented and devoted cross section of our fresh water sportfishing leaders.

Randy Hicks of Lumberton, Texas, caught 10 bass weighing 22 pounds, 5 ounces Aug. 28-29 to win $2,664 in the Co-angler Division. Over a hot and hazy weekend Hicks was deep dragging a Texas rig with a Red Bug Ole Monster to haul in his limit of five fish per day.

For those who cannot make it to Las Vegas from July 14-16 for ICAST, WFN: World Fishing Network, North America's only 24-hour fishing lifestyle network, is offering a front row seat to the premier event of the sportfishing industry.

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.