Lake Fork Fishing Report for January 2018




Lake Fork is about to be great again! Fishing is about to get hot so now is the time to book your trips with us. After this last cold front the surface temperature of the water fell to 39 degrees in the creeks. The deep water didn’t change much, and that’s where the big girls are living right now. If we stay after it in the deeper water, you can catch a bass of a lifetime. To catch these big bass, we are going to use a jig, spoon, and swimbait. On jigs, we use either a Johnson’s Custom Baits bass jig, a football jig, or sometimes a hardhead jig. When fishing jigging spoons, we like the Johnson Custom Baits jigging spoons with our favorite color being the Chartreuse and Chrome in several sizes and the flutter type spoons in several brands but especially Weedless lures. There are so many brands of swimbaits that we like, but one of our favorites is the Lake Fork Trophy lures Live Magic Shad with our homemade weighted hook.

Right now in the deep water, numbers of smaller bass can be caught on drop shops and Carolina rigs with four or five inch worms. The jigging spoon is especially fun to use this time of the year because you never know what you’re going to catch. Fishing some of the road beds and humps you may catch bass, crappie, sand bass, yellow bass, and catfish all in the same area. We will be staying with this deep pattern for the big bass for the next three weeks for the most part. Some days you can catch some in the shallow water on Traps and swimming jigs, but for us the deep pattern is just more consistent.

If you want a shot at a big bass, call and set up a trip for some big bass action. We do have some weekend days open in February. We will give a new report soon.
P.S. Surface temperature on Friday at 4 pm was 48 degrees.

Hope to see you soon,
Mark and Barbara




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Lake Fork Current Weather Alerts

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Lake Fork Weather Forecast

Saturday

Chance Thunderstorms

Hi: 93

Saturday Night

Chance Thunderstorms

Lo: 73

Sunday

Chance Thunderstorms

Hi: 93

Sunday Night

Chance Thunderstorms

Lo: 75

Monday

Chance Thunderstorms

Hi: 93

Monday Night

Partly Cloudy

Lo: 75

Tuesday

Mostly Sunny

Hi: 95

Tuesday Night

Mostly Clear

Lo: 75


Lake Fork Water Level (last 30 days)


Water Level on 7/12: 403.23 (+0.23)



Lake Fork

Fishing Report from TPWD (Jul. 9)

GOOD. Water Stained; 82 degrees; 0.23 feet above pool. Fork : Top waters early around pond weed and grass with frogs and poppers still working . Mid morning chatter baits on the outside edge of grass in 3-5 ft is good as well as shaky heads . Best bite is Carolina rigs off shore on points , road beds and humps in 12-25 ft . Big worms and flukes are good . Deep Cranks are good over the same area when the fish are suspending 19-23 ft . Report by Marc Mitchell, Lake Fork Guide Service. Lily fields are filling in, hydrilla and milfoil are reaching for the surface. Fish this type of cover at mid day when bass are seeking cover. Frog patterns are working in the shallow vegetation early and late. Small fish patterns like a dock knocker are producing bass and crappie shallow near grass. Large bream have moved shallow, wooly buggers are producing good fish. Channel catfish are cruising 2-4 feet biting clousers. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service. Lake Fork crappie fishing has been super up and down this past week. The fish are stacked up on brush piles, lay downs, tire reefs and some trees. The bite is the tricky part. Some days the bite is good and the bigger fish show up. Some days the bite is just off and the short fish show up. Seems like the bite may be better on days we have a little breeze. If the winds are calm the bite is very slow. Minnows will get some bites but small 1/32nd ounce hand tied jigs with small bodies and tails are working well on fish that don’t want to bite. Best depths have been 18-13ft with most fish suspended on trees and loaded in the brush. Report by Jacky Wiggins, Jacky Wiggins Guide Service.

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