For 38 years, National Hunting and Fishing Day has been celebrated from the smallest hometowns to the highest offices in our nation's capital. An official public reminder that conservation in America depends on leadership and funding from hunters and anglers, NHF Day now aims to deliver its message year round through a free and newly updated variety of educational resources.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) officials are asking all users of Lake Texoma to assist in stopping the spread of invasive zebra mussels to other water bodies in Texas and Oklahoma.

Some will call Craig Schuff a fast learner. After all, the Watauga, Texas, angler had never thrown a swimbait before coming to Lake Amistad for the Bassmaster Central Open this week, but Saturday his 24-pound limit with one of the big swimming lures propelled him to his first Open win with a three day total of 68 pounds, 9 ounces.

Sportsman Channel's Hunt.Fish.Feed.SM initiative is coming to Houston's Star of Hope Mission to help feed local residents in need on Friday, April 16 at 4:30pm. The Hunt.Fish.Feed.SM initiative is a unique outreach program that taps an underutilized food source-game meat and fish donated by sportsmen-to feed those struggling with hunger across America.

A DIFFERENT LOOK: There's change in the air surrounding the Bassmaster Central Open tour: The roster for the April 8-10 season opener on Texas' Lake Amistad includes 20 women.

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.

"Fishing is one of America's greatest pastimes, and the more than 30 million anglers in the United States alone spend $45 billion a year of gear, travel and related services," says Ned Desmond, President and founder of Go Sportn.

Excitement has been building and finally time the time has arrived for the 4th Annual Berkley Big Bass Challenge on Lake Fork in Texas. The tournament, based at Lake Fork Marina, and hosted by Bass Champs takes place October 17th - 18th on Lake Fork.

The second of three Bassmaster Central Open tournaments this season, the September 3-5 Open event on Sam Rayburn Reservoir out of Jasper, Texas, will be decisive for quite a few anglers.

Henry Ford is credited with saying that people could buy any color Model T they desired "so long as it's black."  Likewise, Sam Rayburn Reservoir will give anglers a chance to fish any way they want to - as long as it's in the grass - in the September 3-5 Bassmaster Central Open presented by Oakley out of Jasper, Texas.