5550 Flat Creek Rd
Athens, TX , 75751

Phone: (903) 676-2277

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The museum area showcases replicas of state record fish and the equipment anglers use, including an example of the first bass boat ever built, a 1948 Skeeter. Exhibits in the hatchery gallery give an overview of how hatcheries produce the millions of fish stocked into public waters each year. Adult admission is $5.50 and children's admission is $3.50. They are open Tuesday-Saturday 9-4 and Sunday 1-4.

Machine 1 is located right outside the gift shop doors near the theater.
Design: Leaping Bass. The machine is outside of the theater doors.

Machine 2: (2022) Designs are:
1) New Texas Freshwater Fisheries bass logo
2) Diver feeding catfish
3) Catfish
4) Freshwater Gar

7/19/25 - Machine 2 in the gift shop. If you don't want to go through the museum and pay, go in through the exit only door (on the left of the facility as you look from the parking lot). The gift shop is just to the right as you clear the doors. - 84