TPW TV—CASTING CALL:  Find a fishing hole close to 
home…we tell you how… ahead on Passport to Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

Texas Parks Wildlife’s Neighborhood Fishing program 
creates convenient and close-to-home fishing 
opportunities for city-dwellers by stocking urban lakes. 

04—Our goal with the neighborhood fishin’ program is to bring 
the focus back to the outdoors.

Effie Dukes and her husband David took the bait. In a 
segment of the TPW TV show next week, viewers wait 
along with them at East Metropolitan Park in Travis 
County for the stocking truck to arrive.

08— I think they’ll be coming momentarily, because they said 
between 9 and 9:30. Yeah, look. They’re coming with the fish.

Marcos de Jesus is a natural resource specialist with TPW. 
He says the fish they stock are big, healthy, and fun to 
catch. As Effie and David discovered.

15—What we try to do is to actually bring fishing close to home.  
Most people in Texas are moving into bigger and bigger towns. 
Having these opportunities in your backyard, basically, is what 
it’s all about. [Effie] Yeah! Got a big one! [David] That’s what 
I’m talking about. 

The Neighborhood Fishin’ Program provides an outdoor 
experience with fishing at its core. Perhaps her successful 
experience means the program reeled in Effie Dukes as 
its newest recruit.

08—It’s a big catfish. And I caught it with a net. With the help of 
my husband. With a rod and reel that I don’t know how to use. 
[laughs]

Catch the segment, Casting Call, next week on the TPW TV 
show on PBS.  Check your local listings. The Sport Fish 
Restoration program supports our series.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti. 

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