TPWD TV - FISHING PIERS: Fishing with your peers on piers 
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PTT from TPWD and the Sport Fish Restoration Program

This month the Texas Parks and Wildlife Television 
series, on PBS stations statewide, airs a segment 
Production Manager Don Cash says, is a road trip that will 
open your eyes about pier fishing. 

It's traveling all the way from Galveston all the way down to 
Corpus Christi, hitting the fishing piers along that area of the 
coast just to see who's out there fishing and what they're 
fishing for. Everybody thinks seems to think you have to have a 
boat to fish along the coast, but a lot of people take advantage 
of the fishing piers that stick, sometimes, 2-thousand feet out 
in the water, and catch everything from sharks to speckled trout 
to hard head catfish to huge red drum, all off a fishing pier. We 
didn't see any really big fish caught, but we did see a lot of fish 
caught. So, you get just a huge variety of fish that you can catch 
off a pier, and you get a huge variety of people who are fishing 
off a fishing piers: it's kids, it's older folks, it's men, women, 
children ... . And what I found was they were really nice to each 
other. Everybody's talking, 'What have you got ... want to see 
what you've got ... I want to see what you're fishing with ... oh 
here's an idea ... why don't you try this. If you're pulling up 
something you don't know how to deal with it, somebody's 
there to help you get it off the hook. So, the people were really 
friendly and get along and have a great time whether they're 
catching fish or not. 1:06

Check your local listings. 

That's our show ... supported by the Sport Fish Restoration 
Program ... providing funding for the operations and 
management of Sea Center Texas ... .

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti

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