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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials are forecasting that this spring will be prime white bass fishing season in East Texas. White bass can be found from banks, motorized boats or ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Inland Fisheries Division has stocked nearly 27 million fish, comprising 17 ...

White bass, or sandies as they are often called, are a popular species for fishermen in Texas, but at this time of year their popularity peaks. Spots like the Neches River above Lake Palestine can be ...

The latest Texas Fishing Report for March 15 from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, featuring selected areas from around ...

Bass are thick in the shallows and fun to crank in, with good numbers of largemouths taking advantage of warm waters and ...

White bass, also referred to as sand bass, are heathens when the dinner bell rings. Get on the right spot and it's possible to sack up a 25-fish, 10-inch limit in just as many casts. Texas folks ...

Fishing guide Ben Matsubu says bass are scattered but some big ones have been reported. Several 10 to 12 pounders pounds ...

A Texas lake just produced its first-ever Legacy Class largemouth bass, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) announced. Angler Clayton Braddock recently caught ShareLunker 676 from Lake ...

At the time, the bass weighed 13.22 pounds. The fish was transported to the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center, where a DNA sample was taken for genetic analysis, and it was tagged and spawned ...