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After nearly two years of renovations, the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens has reopened with updated aquariums, exhibits, fishing piers—and a new Hall of Fame.

The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens reopens July 1 after a major renovation. New exhibits, aquariums, fishing piers, and kid-friendly fun await!

Texas youth earned awards, scholarships, and state recognition for their fish-themed artwork in the 2025 Wildlife Forever Fish Art Contest.

A popular belief in Japanese culture is that the presence of an oarfish in shallow waters means a natural disaster is imminent.

All residents of the Lone Star State have pride about this area. But what about the sea life loving the state?

Raining fish is a real thing, rare as it may be, but it can and does rain fish, even in Texas.

This Saturday, you won't need a fishing license to fish.

Texas Parks and Wildlife will be stocking the Lakeside Park Pond with speckled trout for the kids to go after.

If this fish is caught today and posted on social media, it might go viral. But this monster was pulled out of a Texas lake so long ago no one seems to know about it. Til now!

Fish apparently like chicken. One Texas couple had a chicken McNugget to spare, so they used it as bait and hauled in a record-breaking catch.  This might give you some ideas for next year's Big Bass Bash at Lake Palestine.

Isinglass, a gelatinous substance that comes from fish bladders, and you might have been drinking it this whole time without realizing it.  Yum.

If you caught a huge fish, would you eat it?  Stuff it and put it on the wall? One Lufkin man is donating it to a program that is helping to create more huge fish. Here's the story.