SAN ANTONIO – Texas Parks and Wildlife stocked the Medina Lake with 204,000 largemouth bass from its hatchery in San Marcos on Tuesday.
"The community is just so excited about getting the water back here. I mean, everybody's coming up here," said Debra Hengst. "I've been here the last two weeks, and it's incredible just to see the excitement. I fish the bassmaster tour and travel all over the country, but this is my home lake."
She headed out to the lake to witness the restocking. First, the fish were acclamated to the water, then loaded onto a boat and taken 20,000 at a time to 10 different areas of the lake.
"It hasn't been a lake, and now it's a new lake, and there's so much flooded new habitat. The fish are gonna do really well here, and grow fast," said Randy Myers, a fisheries biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife.
It'll take two to three years for the fish to grow.
"We hope that they get over in all the new flooded growth over here, and grow up and turn into big bass, and not get eaten. But it's the circle of life," Hengst said.