I agree:)

Here's the rest of the story on the one share linked turned in this year. I personally talked to the TP&W employee that took the fish back to Mr. Euper. I also spoke with a guy that was at the ramp and witnessed the fish being handed over to Mr Euper. Both said the fish was in very good shape and was upright when it was put into a cooler full of water in Mr Euper's boat. He was going to back down the ramp and release the fish right then out of the cooler.

http://m.itemonline.com/sports/outdoors-...b.html?mode=jqm

Seems awfully convenient huh. Wasn't even a problem before last year. . .and all of the sudden. . .

I've read the same in multiple places. He better be careful or he'll end up being investigated for misappropriation of funds like this other jackwagon who's been going to Oklahoma to get "jesus shots" for his chronic pain.

3 of 5 Sharalunkers with broken bottom jaws


Sucker punched????

I can't believe a Lake Fork guide would openly criticize a program that is the reason for his living. Lake Fork didn't happen by accident. With out the Share-a-Lunker program and the funding from many major corporations that paid for the pure Strain Flordia bass that started the program; Lake Fork would be nothing but another Lewisville. Go ahead, kill the program and in 10 yrs. let me know how many 10 lbs. are going to be coming out of Fork, Palestine or anywhere else. I don't think it is an accident the number of Share-a-Lunker bass caught each year is declining at exactly the same rate as the program funding. Don't be na�ve enough to believe the pure strain bass who become the biggest fish get into the lakes by themselves. They have a finite life, when they are gone, the size of the bass will start to diminish. And just FYI any lake or private lake could request to have Fingerlings from the state hatchery put in their waters.

This is America. We are free to speak our mind based on our opinions. And by the way, Lake fork today isn't the Lakefork that benefited from the share a lunker program. It's just a 27,000 acre grassless lake with a bunch of skinny white fish in it

I completely respect your right to voice your opinion. I was just astounded to hear it. Everyone in this state and most states around knows Lake Fork was the playground for TPW fisheries before it was dammed. And once dammed received the lions share of the Florida strain bass the state was importing from Florida. The roots for the fish hatchery was to stop relying on transporting Fl. strain bass. The Share A lunker program was Campbell's continuation of that idea. Take the best of the best and make it better. I just personally fail to see why people have a problem with a program that has shown such great rewards statewide. From the Mexican border to the Oklahoma border to the Louisiana border numerous lakes have benefitted from this program. Double digit fish are turning up everywhere. I remember the days when a 10 fish limit in a tournament rarely made 20 lbs. Now DD fish are being caught in lakes where 5lbs use to make the sports page. Of all Taxpayers money Texas has wasted this is one of the few I have seen rewards from. Just my opinion.

The fish that started share lunker came from Fork so how can you say that Fork is what it is because of sharelunker?

TPWD puts 500,000 fry in Fork every year and those are not sharelunker fry. That is why fork is fork.

I keep hearing people talk about how Lakefork the majority of this and the majority of that but that lake isn't kicking out any bigger fish than any other lake.

Those Sandbass are getting nice and fat on all of those share a lunker fry

You just said it yourself. Where do the 500,000 pure strain fingerlings that gets put in Fork come from? I am sure not all are coming from the Share Lunker bass because fewer and fewer are being turned in. But do you believe these fingerlings are still be brought from Fla.

They come from TPWD hatcheries. Those hatcheries produce fish that do have nothing to do with the sharelunker program.

We are blessed to live in the great state of Texas and to have such a great parks and wildlife department managing our fisheries. IMO they do a phenomenal job!

If you think about it, either the big fish aren't being caught or turned over to the TP&W. So it looks kind of bad for the 2016 spring fling share a lunker program.. Isn't it over in April, I know they have extended it a few times. But man, where are the SAL's ??? looks bad for the whole state imo... Might just be an off year, but it seems to decline a little every year..jm2c's