Any reports on lake fork? Thinking about going out there in a couple of weeks! Also should I go ahead and reserve a room down there before it gets booked up? Would love to catch one of those legendary giants everyone speaks about! Any info appreciated.

The last few weeks there's been a fair bite in 25'-32' primarily on a drop shott. Also the last half of creeks with jig, lipless crankbait, and suspending jerk bait .

In 4-8 foot of water slow roll a 1/2 oz red rattle trap or cast a suspending jerkbait like the Rapala x-rap, in 8-12 foot flip a 1/2 oz black and blue jig to timber that is on the edge of creek channels. The best creeks have large trees on their edges and are usually in the back 1/3 of major creeks. Bass love sitting on the edges of these ditches. Sometimes keeping your boat in the creek, then casting the jig at a 45 degree angle out of the creek and very slowly dragging it back to the boat works great. Most of your bites will come right near the dropoff. These two techniques are best from mid lake to the north end.

On the south end of the lake, fish the tips of points in 25-30 foot of water using a tailspinner with a slow steady retrieve, or fish a small watermelon red finesse worm on a dropshot directly under the boat. You will catch some sandbass and barfish, but remember the the largemouth are most always nearby. Hope this helps and good luck.

Come on down! There are a ton of ways to catch fish right now, seems like a lot of fish are still in a deep late fall type pattern, a lot are up in the creeks, and a lot in between. Seems like the common factor is deeper water close by. Not getting a lot of bites, but they are quality fish. Yesterday, with the warm sunny weather the fish ignored jigs so we fished soft plastics around laydowns and stumps in 3-6' of water. A good option if it gets really tough is a big shakey head, use a heavy jig on 20lb line and big senko type worm and flip it like a jig.

These are from yesterday. They run on the small side of the average size you can expect this time of year but might help fire you up!

dang G-man, those "on the small side of average" fish would be ok with me right now

it didn't take you long to get right back where you were with that jig. let's see what you can do with a hudd next week?

You can see my full report on my website, click the fishing reports section or just look at my post history for my last report. Beautiful yesterday but fish were finicky. 39 degrees and 30+ mph N winds today but they bit better. 8-1 was my best today. Ran up and down the lake and didn't see a truck parked at any of the ramps that I went by, whereas the lake was pretty busy yesterday...

Where did Andrew go? Who is that guy wearing the fancy bass fishing attire. Nice fish man. Looking forward to getting down there with you.

Still many bass in 30 ft. of water close to the bottom,deep points,humps,ridges,roadbeds.And some of all size range out there feeding on shad and baitfish. "Good Fishin!"

yeah, I thought he was sponsored by Walls?

Im working on that deal with Walls Gonna break out the old coveralls in the morning... battery acid stains and all!

Man, you'll need them and the Guidewear in the morning when you make that first "run" from the ramp

Your right Tony

How'd did anyone do in fork today..? Any good fish caught, what baits working right now?

I just got off the water. Fish were stubborn today, I managed a 5lb and 6lb fish but lost my camera in the lake taking the pic of the second. Should be good tomorrow.

Sounds good. Thanks for the info. ! Bait?

Jigs or the big bait?

Caught this one this afternoon. Started about 3:30pm, had 14 bass with this one being the biggest.



Cheers,
Ray

Nice one Ray. What was the pattern for ya?

Nice feeesh Ray, congrats on the fat girl.