TPW TV HOF WHITESIDE: This Texas Freshwater Fisheries 
Center Hall of Fame inductee has his priorities: 06 [“…order 
of things.”] …details ahead on Passport to Texas… 

This is Passport to Texas (June 1)

Dr. Bobby Gene Whiteside taught at Texas State University 
for 33 years; for 18 years he directed the aquatic biology 
program there. He calls himself an outdoor oriented 
country boy. 

06— My family, and then my teaching and then bass fishing was 
sort of the order of things.

Dr. Whiteside is the first academic inducted into the TFFC 
Hall of Fame, which honors individuals and organizations 
for their contributions to freshwater fishing in Texas. A 
longtime member of the Canyon Bass Club, fellow club 
member, Carl Adkins, says to know Whiteside is to learn 
from him.

13—He basically teaches fishing and how to fish just like he 
taught species and all the other things when he was actually 
teaching in the University. Anybody that meets him or is around 
him very long picks up knowledge from him.

Roy Klein-laster, a retired aquatic biologist from TPW, 
gives this professor high marks.

14—Educators can really be judged by the network they create. 
He has had students go into academia, he’s had them work for 
different conservation agencies, water quality agencies, Parks 
and Wildlife, EPA. 

Dr. Bobby Gene Whiteside is in the spotlight next week on 
the TPW TV series 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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