Hi, its me, fishnman, this is a palmetto bass also known as a hybrid striped bass. This 'was' a ten pound bass.....until I actually weighed the fish ; then it became only seven pounds. As the fish can't reproduce they are stocked from time to time by the Texas Parks and Wildlife dept. Thanks guys, a great fish to catch!

This is the nine inch long shad the palmetto bass had tried to swallow.

This is a 'palmetto bass' with a gizzard shad he had just eaten, see forked tail of shad protruding from the fishes throat.

A mother swift (left) prepares to feed her 2 chicks on right at Lake Palestine Tx

Guess what? there are swifts nesting under this bridge along with pigeons at Lake Palestine Tx

Pigeons nesting under the hwy 155 bridge on Lake Palestine, Tx

This blue heron greets us at Lake Palestine Tx

Fuether up the lake, yet another bridge crosses the far reaches of a creek at Lake Tyler, Tx

Time for the babies to eat.

Lake Tyler is actually 2 lakes connected by a canal; Im under a bridge that crosses the canal, many birds (swifts) nest under the bridge building their nests with mud.

Lake Tyler Tx

Dawn at Lake Tyler, Tx