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The Merriest Weekend With the First Ladies of Texas Fishing
Dawn’s plum-colored skies slowly fade as a windy day of semicompetitive leisure nears its first cast. At 6 a.m. sharp, more than eight hundred fisherwomen drop baits into the Coastal Bend’s shallow waters to compete in Texas’s largest all-woman fishing tournament, Babes on the Bay.Among 247 four-woman teams—many with bawdy names like Gills Gone Wild, Fish & Tits, and Nibble on This—I’ve been co-opted into the more decorous Fisha Ritas, captained by Houston resident Kristen Faleski. An accountant by trade, she’s participating in the tournament for the fifth year. Faleski got hooked on saltwater angling in 2014 by her former boss, John Blaha, assistant director of the Coastal Conservation Association of Texas (which runs Babes on the Bay) along with his now wife, Jen Blaha,…The post The Merriest Weekend With the First Ladies of Texas Fishing appeared first on Texas Monthly.