KID FISHING DAY AT FORT RICHARDSON : Reel in fun AND 
fish this month at Kid's Fishing Day ... details on Passport 
To Texas. 						(Week of Dec 11)

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

	Each winter, Fort Richardson stocks their catfish and bass 
	filled lake with coldwater fish. The state park, just 
	northwest of Fort Worth, then celebrates the event and 
	fresh supply by hosting an annual Kid's Fishing Day. 	 

We have an eight acre quarry lake that's directly behind the park 
headquarters. During December and January when the water 
temperatures get cold enough, we stock it with rainbow trout, 
and the first opportunity at those trout we kind of turn over to the 
kids. :13
 
Randy Ferris, Park Superintendent at Fort Richardson.

Trout come from the fish hatcheries either here in Texas or in 
neighboring states. They have to have a cooler water temperature than 
the bass or the catfish do. When the water warms up, the trout will 
either die off and become food for the catfish on the bottom or as the 
bass start to wake up, they'll start to eat the trout as well and that just 
helps our bass population. It's just something to keep a year round 
fishing scene going on in the park. :22 

Trout Stocking and Kids Fishing Day at Fort Richardson 
will be Saturday, December 16 from 9:00AM until noon.

It' just a great day to come out. This is almost a guaranteed chance the 
kid's going to catch something. The kids get excited when they catch 
something the first time and hopefully we're ingraining some future 
fishermen in there. :10

Details about Fort Richardson can be found on the Texas 
Parks & Wildlife website. 

That's our show for today ... with research and writing 
help from Loren Seeger ... For Texas Parks and 
Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti


Total sound bite time:		0:45.0
 Maximum Script time:		0:42.0	 Suggested show time: 87.0 = 1:27