Jackson and his brother-in-law had been fishing for crappie in Lake Conroe outside Houston when his brother-in-law got a call from an 800 number.

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But rain forecast for Tuesday afternoon could hamper the clean-up by carrying oil sheen towards nearby Lake Conway, a popular destination for bass, catfish, bream and crappie fishing.

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