Texas Fishing News & Reports TPWD Set to Graduate 41 Game Wardens AUSTIN – After seven months of training in everything from water rescue and state-federal law to alligator handling, the 41 cadets of the 55th Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Game Warden class will close one chapter of their lives and start a new one with their graduation Tuesday as state game wardens. The ceremonies, open to the public, will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the E1 auditorium at the Capitol in Austin. The new game wardens will then report for duty at stations spanning the state from East Texas to El Paso. Game wardens’ duties include responding to natural disasters and conducting public outreach on a variety of topics in addition to enforcing hunting and fishing laws and water safety regulations...Read More _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Lifetime License Winner AUSTIN – Daniel Hidalgo won $1,000 in Las Vegas many years ago and hadn’t won anything since. So when he went to his local Big 5 Sporting Goods store in Midland to buy a fishing license and saw a display advertising Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Lifetime License Drawing, the last thing he thought was that his single entry would win. But he didn’t leave Lady Luck behind in Vegas as he had thought. Hidalgo’s was the winning entry in the June 30 drawing. “I was thrilled when they called me and told me I won,” he said. “Luck was with me.” Hidalgo won a lifetime super combo hunting and fishing license and will be able to hunt and fish in Texas for the rest of his life without having to purchase another Texas state hunting and fishing license."....Read More _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ REPORTS Salt Water Upper Coast Middle Coast Lower Coast Offshore Report Fresh Water by Region East Texas Lakes South Texas Lakes Central Texas Lakes North Texas Lakes