Ride along with our biologists as they collect striped bass from the Lake Livingston Tailrace. The bass are spawned at our hatcheries to produce fingerlings to stock in Texas public reservoirs. Striped bass congregate below Lake Livingston dam each April in an attempt to spawn. Biologists are looking for female fish which are between 6 -15 hours from ovulating ripe eggs, and males of mature sizes. The eggs are analyzed under a microscope and bass that don’t meet the criteria are immediately retu

TPWD inland fisheries biologists collected more than 90 striped bass from below the Lake Livingston Dam today with more planned tomorrow. These broodfish will be spawned in our hatcheries to produce more than 5 million fingerlings that will be stocked back into Texas lakes this year | Texas Parks and Wildlife

Join Ranger Joel for a virtual program featuring the best places to fish inside the park! We also share a few tips and different rigs you can use in a few of the spots. Program premieres at 9:00am on Sunday, Sept 27th with a live watch party. Here is a link to TPWD's "Beginner Fishing Guide" which is a nice booklet explaining a lot of the basics of fishing: https://bit.ly/3i7DuBa And a link to the TPWD Angler Education website: https://tpwd.texas.gov/education/angler-education | Lake Livingston

Tour of new fishing pier! | Lake Livingston State Park - Texas Parks and Wildlife

Winner winner catfish dinner! Thanks to Air Products for providing a $250,000 grant to LDWF to fund fish stocking operations in Lake Maurepas. On Tuesday, workers from American Sportfish Hatchery in Montgomery, Alabama, released more than 100,000 4- to 6-inch channel catfish fingerlings into Lake Maurepas. The 6,000 pounds of fish were split into deliveries to the lake in two separate locations, the Akers Boat Launch at North Pass in Tangipahoa Parish and a boat landing in Carthage Bluff in Livi