Over 1 million red drum fish stocked in two lakes near San Antonio
BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – More than 1 million red drum, also known as redfish, have been stocked in two popular Bexar County lakes this week. Calaveras Lake and Braunig Lake were stocked with over 1 million fingerlings - approximately 650,372 fish were stocked in Calaveras Lake and for Braunig Lake approximately 363,503 fish were stocked, according to TWPD spokesperson Mitch Nisbet. Red Drum have arrived in San Antonio! This week we stocked 1,000,000 red drum fingerlings, creating a unique freshwater... Posted by Texas Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday, October 7, 2020Red drum are stocked in the lakes annually, officials said. “When coastal red drum are young they spend a portion of their life in brackish water, which is a mixture of salt and freshwater.
On San Antonios South Side, Fish Thrive In Power Plant Lakes
With the white stacks of a natural gas plant looming in the background, a white tractor trailer pulled up to the edge of Braunig Lake on San Antonios South Side. Braunig Lake cools the utilitys V.H. Fish Transport, an Arkansas-based fish supplier, was filled with 145,000 juvenile catfish, about 43,500 of which were bound for Braunig. The elevated water temperature makes the lakes productive habitats for all fish, including the red drum, which do very well in here, Myers said. Cmielewskis phone has plenty of pictures of red drum, catfish, and other fish species hes pulled from the lake.
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