{"id":409508,"date":"2026-08-18T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409508\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:20:07","slug":"east-texas-tonight-east-texas-angler-turns-his-passion-into-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409508\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Tonight: East Texas angler turns his passion into a career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; When most people think of professional fishing, they picture tournament day \u2014 the boats, the competition and the excitement of bringing in a winning catch. But behind every angler is a story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Our guest tonight is Dakota Ebare, and he has turned a passion for the outdoors into a career, representing East Texas on some of the biggest stages in competitive fishing. While many know him for what he does on the water, tonight we\u2019re getting to know the man behind the rod and reel. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; When most people think of professional fishing, they picture tournament day \u2014 the boats,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[76991,2604,133173,39607,154,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-409508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-angler","tag-east-texas","tag-east-texas-tonight","tag-fishing","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}