ZAPATA — Casting aside both warnings of deadly peril and gunbattles just across the water, anglers are once again pouring onto Falcon Lake, the border reservoir many of them insist offers the finest ...

ZAPATA, Texas (CBS/AP) A Texas sheriff has requested the help of Mexican authorities to find the body of American tourist David Michael Hartley, who was believed shot in the back of the head on Falcon ...

Texas bass pro Keith Combs led all four days at the Bassmaster Elite Series Rigid Industries Falcon Slam to earn his first Elite Series victory and $100,500 on Monday. Combs a former Falcon Lake ...

McALLEN — Heavily armed Mexican freshwater pirates have been shaking down U.S. boaters on Falcon Lake, a reservoir and bass fishing haven that straddles the Rio Grande. At least three such incidents ...

ZAPATA, Texas – Nearly two years after David and Tiffany Hartley's fateful encounter with drug smugglers on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake, returning U.S. sport fishermen said there haven't been any ...

Falcon Lake holds a world-class trophy fishery for a freshwater species growing in popularity among recreational anglers, and it isn't the one most people associate with the 84,000-acre reservoir on ...

Zapata, Tx. - There is a sleeping giant that lives along the outskirts of this remote town in deep South Texas. Some of the locals call it Lago Halcón, Spanish for Lake Falcon. East Texas bass pro ...

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On September 30, David Hartley, 30, disappeared on Falcon Lake while jet skiing. According to his wife Tiffany Hartley, David was shot in the head by cartel members patrolling the lake in boats ...

A few days before a late winter bass fishing tournament, a steady stream of anglers backed their motorboats into the chilly waters of Falcon Lake and zipped away in hopes of finding a lucky spot among ...