Guadalupe bass are pure Texans. The fish live nowhere else, having eons ago tied their fortunes to a relative handful of mostly small, clear, rocky streams on central Texas' Edwards Plateau — the Hill ...

Guadalupe bass have had 10,000 years or so to develop behaviors allowing them to survive and thrive in the handful of Central Texas waterways to which the modest-size members of the black bass family ...

Most people people with paddles anyway know we have things pretty good here in the Texas Hill Country, lots of water, lots of good water and plenty of places to get a canoe or a kayak into a clear, ...

Kerr County’s own Guadalupe bass, which also happens to be the state fish, is getting special attention at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s fishery in Mountain Home Nate Smith, Kerr County ...

He's our official Texas state fish, a dapper little fellow about 12 inches in length and a pound in weight. He has green spots and lateral lines that make him look as though he's wearing a pinstripe ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Did you know Texas has a state fish? And according to Texas Parks and Wildlife, we have one because in 1989, a group of third-graders decided we should. That official state fish of ...

HILL COUNTRY – Four months after major flooding in the Hill Country, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department began a year-long fish recovery and habitat survey in October on the Guadalupe, Llano, ...

Another species is making a comeback in the San Antonio River. Guadalupe Bass have been successfully restored in the local waterways after struggling to thrive many years ago, according to the San ...

Shea McClanahan/Courtesy Fishing with a fly rod Austin’s Bryan Townsend set a new Guadalupe bass record with this 3.71-pound fish. Fish to be displayed at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens.

The Guadalupe bass, like other "black bass" including largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass, is not a true bass at all but a member of the sunfish family Centrarchidae. Micropterus is Greek, ...

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