Texas Parks and Wildlife Stocking More Fish Than Ever Before

 

SAN ANGELO, TX – The Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife will be placing more fish than ever before this year.

On May 21, The TDPW started placing fish into waters all around the Concho Valley. They started at the Champion Creek and the Brady Creek Reservoir and placed in 70,000 fingerling Florida strain Largemouth Bass. Then the next day they went to the O.C. Fisher Reservoir and placed 32,000 Largemouth Bass.

Today they will be at Lake Nasworthy and Twin Buttes placing Hybrid Striped Bass into Nasworthy and Largemouth Bass into Twin Buttes.

The following is the stocking plan for largemouth bass in the San Angelo District:

O.H. Ivie - 200,000
E.V. Spence - 99,670
Twin Buttes - 75,300
Oak Creek - 49,140
Brady Creek - 38,800
Champion Creek - 32,600
Winters-Elm Creek - 31,600
O.C. Fisher - 25,000
New Ballinger - 10,000
Balmorhea - 10,000

"We are stocking more reservoirs this year than we have ever stocked in one year," said the Texas Parks and Wildlife. "We are doing this to take advantage of the all the new flooded habitat."

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