A Lake Fork Fishing Report from Mike McFarland, The Lake Fork Guide. In this Lake Fork Fishing Report, I give you Lake Fork’s current water conditions: Lake Fork Lake Levels, Lake Fork Water Temperatures, Lake Fork Water Clarity and what is Seasonal Pattern, what pattern I believe fish are currently on at Lake Fork. Also I will give you what lures and techniques I believe will be the most effective for fishing Lake Fork.
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Between the spraying, and every tournament on earth fishing fork, the lake is very difficult to catch bass.
When you think of schools, I picture the bass with graduation caps on.
They have seen every lure on the planet. There educated.
I fish this lake a lot, only because I have a dear friend that lives there.
In reality, I hate lake fork. It's been raped to death.
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Thank you for your honest assessment of Lake Fork. You are the only one I've heard that talked about the eradication of the grass on Fork. I used to say "they will never kill the grass on Lake Fork". Boy, was I wrong.
The SRA has screwed up this lake as far as vegetation . They had unqualified unsupervised minimum wage labor spraying anything and everything green in the lake. You would have thought the TPW and the SRA would have worked together on the spraying that occurred several years ago. Then add in the many uneducated home owners who sprayed to kill the hydrilla in their coves, we are now fishing a lake with minimal natural grass cover. There also used to be many more dairy farms around the lake than there is currently. I think that is one of the reasons we are not seeing the grass come back in areas it once thrived. The increased development around the lake is also not helping. You have more homes around the lake these days and that means more man made fertilizer and herbicide (more nutrients in the water) runoff in the lake resulting in less vegetation. Just look at the water around Land's End golf course … It used to be full of hydrilla in that area and nothing for the past many years. I live in LE and I actually had some hydrilla aggressively coming back in my cove , but with the lake falling and the heat this summer that was the end of that.
Thank you for the spraying info! We had no idea that happened other than the disappearance of vegetation. We duck hunt on Fork and in 2018, with the high water level, was amazing. Since then there are next to zero ducks every year, terrible hunting. Now we know why. Also, it’s apparently back in the lake, if it was ever actually gone. It’s a truly terrible vegetation that kills lakes. Best of luck to you.
Hey, if those giants were born in 2015 I probably caught them when they were babies!
The releases into Lake Fork Creek are around 57-60 cfs recently, compared to 10-40 cfs normally in the past. Who knows why.
I haven't found schools I could catch on jigging spoons in the fall for five years. Not enough fish? Too much bait? Who knows why.
I know they have been really hard to catch lately, and that's one at a time in fairly deep water.
Your right on Mike!!! Lake Fork is fishing tough!!! Lake Sam Rayburn on the other hand (with healthy grass) is fishing well, BTW it’s 6’ low itself!!!