Mid-Winter Eagle Count

01/09/2021   8:00 am - 11:00 am


Location
Oak Ridge Marina
Quitman, Texas

More Info
903-440-2797




Join the Lake Fork Sportsman's Association for the Mid-Winter Eagle Count on Lake Fork.

The volunteers meet at Oak Ridge Marina at or before 7 AM and have breakfast prior to forming up in groups to go and count the birds. While we have to buy our own breakfast and lunch the bird watching is FREE.

So before 8 AM and after having been assigned to a boat, bus or car the volunteers go out to the areas we have divided into seven sections of the lake. Each section has a map. Each group leader must be familiar with his/her section so when an eagle is seen you can mark the map where it was located. Each group should be in their area and ready to start counting by 8 AM.

Groups count eagles for three hours and stop at 11 AM. They make there way back to Oak Ridge Marina (SH 154 at Lake Fork) where the coordinator for the whole event goes over the map and fills in his forms regarding the number of eagles seen. And then we do it all over again on Sunday.

If you plan to stay overnight you can call Oak Ridge Marina at 903-878-2529.

For more info contact the coordinator Sanford Valentine at 903-985-9825 or Bruce Allen at 903-440-2797.

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Lake Fork Current Weather Alerts

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Lake Fork Weather Forecast

Sunday

Chance Rain Showers

Hi: 69

Sunday Night

Slight Chance Rain Showers

Lo: 59

Monday

Patchy Fog

Hi: 78

Monday Night

Clear

Lo: 62

Tuesday

Mostly Sunny

Hi: 87

Tuesday Night

Mostly Clear

Lo: 73

Wednesday

Mostly Sunny

Hi: 95

Wednesday Night

Mostly Cloudy

Lo: 75


Lake Fork Water Level (last 30 days)


Water Level on 5/11: 403.43 (+0.43)



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Fishing Report from TPWD (May 7)

GOOD. Water Stained; 73 degrees; 0.73 feet below pool. Good early morning bass bite around shad spawn areas and with topwater frogs over grass. Midday to mid afternoon work flukes and yum dingers around grass good1-3 feet. New wave of spawners pulling up this week. Carolina rigs fair in 5-10 feet of water on secondary points. Report by Marc Mitchell, Lake Fork Guide Service. Black bass are post spawn and the top water bite is on! Frog patterns are working in the shallow vegetation. The crappie are moving shallow, small clousers are producing well. 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. Crappie fishing is settling into the post spawn and summer patterns we should see for the next few months. We are seeing incredible numbers of small black crappie right now loading up on brush piles, lay downs, bridges and docks. The larger black crappie are a little hard to find but you can find some nice groups of them or pick a few out of the smaller fish. The bigger white crappie are beginning to load on the summer pattern trees. We have a tremendous amount of fry covering up a lot of those trees and making it very hard to see those bigger white crappie on forward facing sonar or for them to see your bait. You can find fish in 10-30 feet of water and some may only be 2 feet under the surface or right on the bottom. Minnows and any colored jigs are both producing extremely well. Report by Jacky Wiggins, Jacky Wiggins Guide Service.

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