TOYOTA TEXAS BASS CLASSIC, 3: Big fish and a big time for the family ... we'll explain on Passport to Texas
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

While most of the action at the second annual Toyota Texas Bass Classic at Lake Fork -- April 18 through 20 -- takes place in the middle of the water, there is plenty on shore to keep attendees occupied.

The Toyota Texas Bass Classic was built around families. :04

Dave Terre is chief of Inland Fisheries research and management at Texas Parks and Wildlife. 

We're enticing families to come in -- mom and dad -- and all their kids to come in and see bass fishing, to see exhibits, to hear concerts, to have a picnic. We have a family fun zone, where kids have the opportunity to come in and explore things like we see at our Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo, things like how to fish, big bass displays, we have casting contests, archery contests, displays on our state parks, and just millions of different things for kids to do while they're there. :29

Day passes and weekend passes are available, and children under seventeen are free with paid adult admissions.

I would really just like people to come out and see this tournament. It's really a spectacle. It's the biggest bass fishing tournament, of course, in Texas. It'll teach people about what we do as an agency, and what we're doing to make fishing better on Lake Fork. Come see an awesome partnership between industry, Texas Parks and Wildlife department, and the professional anglers to work together to help promote fishing everywhere. :25

Find details at passporttotexas.org.

That's our show ... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.