Lake Fork Anglers twice monthly Thursday daytime tournament for August 24 and the fish are biting with lots of slots showing up. But unfortunately the bigger ones are getting away. Drop shots, square bill, c-rigs and t-rigs caught the most fish.

Only the five largest count:

First Place Angler went to Galen Smith of Alba with a 6 fish bag of 14.79anchored by a 6.4 lunker.
Second place went to Dennis Bubinas of Lake Fork with 8 fish coming in at 14.28 with THE 6.89 lunker.
Third place went to Mike McWhorter of Lake Fork with 4 fish at 9.72 lb with a 5.08 lunker.
Fourth place went to Bob Roberts of Longview with a 5 fish bag at 9.04 with a 3.95 lunker

Co-Anglers

First place went to Don Cox of Arlington with a 5 fish bag for 8.64 with a 3.02 lunker
Second place went to Mac McDaniel of Sulphur Springs with 5 bass for 5.93 lb with a 1.45 lunker..
Third place went to John Berech of Garland with 4 bass for 5.28 lb with a 2.02 lunker.
Fourth place went to new member Jerry Krone of Hawkins with 3 fish for 4.11 lb with a 2.42 lunker.
The co-angler lunker went to Butch Grove of Sulphur Springs with a 3.31.


Fishing has improving with the cooler weather and the lake coming up an inch or or two and the fish starting to school fall is on the way early. 87 total fish were caught on Thursday.

For info on fishing with the LFA e-mail me at sjbasser@aol.com or PM me on here. We are looking for boaters right now but will take co-anglers who have boats and will fill in in that capacity when needed..
Dues is $5 a year. Tournaments are $12 with an optional $5 lunker pot and an optional $10 big bag pot.
In 2016 the LFA fished 25 times, You have to fish at least 8 to maintain membership. And you have to fish 8 times to be eligible to fish our other two formats: Major league Fishing (known as Hard Core) and the team format known as Faze 4.