Lake Fork Fishing Reports
Lake Fork Fishing Report from TPWD (Jan. 25)
FAIR. Water Stained; 56-59 degrees; 5.47 feet below pool. Bass are more active on warmer days in the backs pockets and secondary points going into the pockets. Target the warmest pockets with chatterbaits and spinnerbaits in 2-4 feet of water. Fish are traveling in the creek towards the back on warmer days and moving outwards on cooler days . Those along the creek are best on red squarebill crankbaits in a 1.5-2.5 inch around the edges and big wood 3-6 feet of water. Texas rigs with creature type baits flipped at the big wood on creeks and ditches are good in black and blue colors and June bug in 3-6 feet of water. Report by Marc Mitchell, Lake Fork Pro. Black bass are beginning the early stages of pre-spawn. Try slow moving suspending streamers and sculpin patterns in 5-7 feet of water. Crappie are deep. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service. Crappie are really good around deep main lake timber in 38-56 feet along creek channels. Fish have been a little more scattered the past week, so it is necessary to cover more water to catch limits. Seeing big white crappie mixed in with lots of smaller black crappie. Minnows will work very well and small soft plastics and hand ties are working well. Best colors for my boat have been purple and chartreuse. Getting good reports of brush pile fish biting as in 20-30 feet. Report by Jacky Wiggins, Jacky Wiggins’ Guide Service.
Lake Fork Fishing Reports (161 - 180 of 835)
Today started out near perfect with light winds and fish biting, however the top water bite went away pretty fast. After that it was mainly drop shots, cs rigs and fish caught in deep water. Water temp in the...
by Bruce Allen on 6/19/2020
A creative angler is always looking for the edge that will help him or her catch more fish. Take for example the popular Fluke manufactured by Zoom. Fluke baits are long, narrow plastic bass lures with a soft,...
by Tom Behrens on 6/18/2020
It was a great morning. Hardly any wind and the bass were biting pretty darn good.. Drop shots, c-rigs, wacky rigs and shaky heads and won the day.
All fish 10" and up count as well as slot fish. Only...
by Bruce Allen on 6/15/2020
Ah, warm weather is upon us and we started our summer hours today. Fishing 5:45 AM to Noon. Great fishing and off the water before the sun fries out old brains.
Hard Core is what we call this...
by Bruce Allen on 6/5/2020
The bass fishing on Lake Fork is fire during the month of June! It’s absolutely my favorite month of the year. The big bass are in heavy post-spawn patterns and you can catch numbers of hungry fish using...
by James Caldemeyer on 6/3/2020
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) confirmed the presence of common salvinia on Lake Fork near Emory after conducting a vegetation survey on May 19, 2020. The common salvinia was found in the White...
by Tom Behrens on 6/2/2020
FROM: J & M Guide Service
DATES: 24 – 30 May 2020
It was a great week to fish Lake Fork. The water clarity in the upper creeks is stillstained but the lower lake is clearing up again. The water...
by John Morris on 6/1/2020
It started out calm, went to wind and rain, then back to calm, then back to wind from the other direction with more rain, then back to slight winds and then sun. Typical Texas Spring weather and the fish were...
by Bruce Allen on 6/1/2020
Today started off very windy out of the south east. Which really screwed up where I had a great day pre-fishing yesterday. The weather was warm and the fish were biting. Once again drop shots, c-rigs and...
by Bruce Allen on 5/26/2020
FROM: J & M Guide Service
DATES: 10 – 16 May, 2020
We had a few nice days to fish this week. The water temperatures are in the midto upper 70’s. The water clarity is still a little stained in...
by John Morris on 5/18/2020
After a good day on the lake, your putting everything in the right place, making sure the boat is secure. A part of my end of trip ritual was gathering up all the used or discarded soft plastic worms,...
by Tom Behrens on 5/15/2020
The Tournaments are beginning to return to Texas lakes, but with revised dates and "social distancing" instructions. The following information are rules set by Bass Champs (May 16 Lake LBJ) and Outlaw...
by Tom Behrens on 5/11/2020
Hold on...don't break out any type of firearms. Dock shooting is "Specialized Crappie Fishing Strategy", made popular by crappie fishing pro, Wally Marshall.
Marshall has learned some hard lessons during a...
by Tom Behrens on 5/7/2020
FROM: J & M Guide Service
DATES: 26 April – 2 May 2020
Beautiful Lake Fork was not kind to the anglers this week. We had severalweather fronts move through with everything from north winds changing...
by John Morris on 5/5/2020
May is here thank goodness! Did last month not seem like the longest month ever!? Now that a lot of the travel restrictions have been loosened it’s a great time to head out to the lake. My clients and I...
by James Caldemeyer on 5/2/2020
FROM: J & M Guide Service
DATES: 19 – 25 April 2020It was a windy week here at Lake Fork. The water clarity is still heavily stained tolightly stained depending if you are fishing back in the creeks...
by John Morris on 4/27/2020
According to the fishing reports, crappie fishing is rated good in just about all the lakes in Texas. Terry Sympson at Jackson Hill Marina on Sam Rayburn Reservoir recently reported that 16 year old Kobe Shird...
by Tom Behrens on 4/24/2020
FROM: J & M Guide Service
DATES: 12 – 18 April 2020
Post spawn is here at beautiful Lake Fork. We had more wind and rain whichmade for some interesting and challenging fishing. The water clarity is...
by John Morris on 4/20/2020
Spring is tradtionaly the best time of the year to catch a trophy bass in Texas. The following is the top 50 bass caught in Texas and shared with Texas Parks & Wild Life ShareLunker Program.Rank-Water...
by Tom Behrens on 4/16/2020
FROM: J & M Guide Service
DATES: 5 – 11 April 2020
It was a crazy week to fish beautiful Lake Fork. It was a challenge to keep up withthe wind changes and off and on rain showers. The water...
by John Morris on 4/13/2020
