Thirteen-year-old Walter Jenke, left, caught and released this oversized black drum while fishing during Spring Break.

Blake Wolf with his first trout, caught while wadefishing West Matagorda Bay.

Elijah Schmadl of Baytown pulled his personal best fish out of Trinity Bay, a 24.5-inch speckled trout.

Fifteen-year-old Jack Kueser would rather fish than learn to drive, as this 40-pound black drum shows, caught at Tiki Island.

Five-year-old Evan Anderson holds the 31-inch trout he caught recently in Corpus Christi Bay.

Tony Bright caught a jack crevalle while wade fishing Texas City Dike. The fish was caught using live shrimp and took 30 minutes to land.

Bailey Jolene Gilstrap, of Santa Fe is an angler in training

Russell Polk of Allen shows off one of the many gafftopsail catfish that he and his family caught near the North Jetty in Galveston.

Eight-year-old Jackson Ray caught his first keeper, a twenty-inch speckled trout, while fishing in a canal off West Galveston Bay. He caught the speck on a shrimp and popping cork. Jackson had been trying for two years before landing this keeper.

Eight-year-old Elyssa Edmonds caught her first bass while evacuating from her home in Kirbyville during Hurricane Harvey. She caught the fish all by herself.