Rains County Eagle Fest

01/20/2018   7:00 am - 5:00 pm


Location
Rains Elementary School / 372 FM 3299
Emory, Texas

More Info
903-473-2465





This year marks the 23rd Annual Rains County Eagle Fest.

The first festival was held following a resolution in 1995 when the 74th Legislature of the State of Texas declared Rains County "The Eagle Capital of Texas" as an effort to protect and preserve the American Bald Eagles in the area.

The Rains County Eagle Fest hosts visitors from all over the country. It is a full day festival celebrating and highlighting the American Bald Eagles that live around Lake Fork, Lake Tawakoni and in Rains County. The festival includes a line-up of live bird shows, educational exhibits and displays, entertaining wildlife presentations, interactive Aztec Dance performances, nature tours, craft and food vendors and more!

A highlight of the festival is the bus and barge tours at Lake Fork and the special bus tours at the old Iron Bridge Crossing at the Sabine River Authority on Lake Tawakoni. The tours provide a special opportunity to view eagles and other birds and wildlife native to the area in their natural habitat.

General Admission is $5 for adults and teens. Children under 12 are free. Bus and barge tours are available at an additional cost - Bus tours are $5 per person; Barge tours are $35 per person. Tickets are available in advance online. General Admission and Bus Tour tickets will also be available at the door (however, due to limited seating on the barge tours, tickets usually sell out in advance).

Full details and links are available at www.visitrainscounty.com under the "EVENT" tab.

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Lake Fork Current Weather Alerts

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Lake Fork Weather Forecast

Thursday

Decreasing Clouds

Hi: 82

Thursday Night

Slight Chance Thunderstorms

Lo: 66

Friday

Thunderstorms

Hi: 77

Friday Night

Thunderstorms Likely

Lo: 57

Saturday

Partly Sunny

Hi: 75

Saturday Night

Mostly Clear

Lo: 53

Sunday

Mostly Sunny

Hi: 75

Sunday Night

Mostly Clear

Lo: 55


Lake Fork Water Level (last 30 days)


Water Level on 5/1: 403.26 (+0.26)



Lake Fork

Fishing Report from TPWD (Apr. 30)

GOOD. Water Stained; 73 degrees; 0.21 feet below pool. Shad spawn is decent in the early morning with diesel chatterbaits and small spinnerbaits on points with birds. Flukes and wacky rigs are good around grass and the edge of grass in 1-3 feet. Work topwaters over the bass guarding fry in the pockets. 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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