Rapid falling water is bad. Belton was still pouring it out. Largemouth are having to reposition a lot. The only thing biting here is the smallmouth. They seem to like the moving water. Also with so many of our lake having more off colored water, it heats up faster. We have water temps in the low 90s here. 11 lb won the night tourny sat. Night. 5 smallies in the bag. Still not much weight.

I've been working more the last month or so and house shopping so I haven't been as often lately. I really don't like fishing in this heat, I can take it until about 11am, but it gets miserable quick in the afternoon. And the lakes close to me are still closed so I haven't felt like driving to Fork for a few hours. I'm ready for the fall I guess

July - September, if I want to catch decent fish then I usually fish at night.

It's too dang hot even for a fish in Texas

Some of the best fall fishing I've had in a long while was "07" 8 an 9, on Roberts. I look for the fish to do the same this fall. Come on Oct.

Suppose to take a trip to Falcon in a couple weeks. Going to need a sumbrella for the boat! Its hot even thinking about it.

Those of us that have fished Fork for many years know that in years past the deep structure fishing is normally great in the heat of July & Aug.

I believe this year is tough due to all the new water in the lake. I make my living testing water chemistry. The average pH of rainwater is about 5.5 to 5.7. That is way below the normal lake's pH of 7.5. I believe the fish are in a "funk" due to the drastic change in water chemistry. I am not suggesting anything as drastic as LMBV but I do think the fish are sickly.

I could be wrong but the old timers that have fished the lake since 1983 know the fishing is way off compared to the summers of the past.

all the fish are now in the ocean.

Been going to a few smaller lakes I know well and heading straight for some of the deeper cover mid day. The bigger bass are usually predictably right there in the same places every year by now; but not this year--lots are suspended deep, but not relating to the deep cover and deep structure they usually do.

With all that newly flooded cover during the shad and bluegill spawns, there must be huge amounts of easy pickins small fry for the bass to eat. Bet they are gorging themselves on the small fry at night/early morning then resting, suspending deep during the day.

Love summer fishing. 20-25 fish the other night deep. Sat on one spot for 2.5-3hrs.

Predictable ......love summer

exactly, with a ton of new fast growing fish, and ample shoreline cover I hope for the next 2 years at least.

I've been to Fork about 3 or 4 times in the past two months. The spawn was somewhat decent for us. After that I've been at a loss. Went during the swim bait craze and struck out then. Been again during the heat and had some success later in the evenings but nothing till then. Then there was this past weekend where I caught 2 bass in 2 days and so did my buddy. Got lost looking and trying everything we could. 3 of the 4 came on FB Jigs in 15-20'. I did catch one in 38' on a 10" worm. I think the better ones are out deep but when I read the guides reports it just reassures what I already knew...I suck bad 60-75% of the time. Thank you sand bass for eating my flutter spoon...

I looked all over and found fish on my graph, could see them but they just were not feeding at all. It's like you gotta hit them in the head this year to make them bite. All the underwater structure spots that are the typical community holes I can't get bit. If I was smart I would have hired a guide this year and learned me something instead of burning gas and practicing my casting. Hats off to those guys for staying on them this year. They make it look easy but they are on a different level than most.

But I'll be back at it in s few weeks trying to find my mojo. Cause right now I'm at an all time low for catching fish. This has been the toughest year as a whole for me ever.

not as many out fishing in the heat so not that many people posting reports on what the did or didn't catch just maybe not as bad as most think its a numbers thing mostly.

This is way off year for my fishing. I think the high water has a lot do with it and now the record high temps

I'd say the vast majority of anglers don't catch them all that well this time of year in this type of heat.

Where the heck ya been bud? Hit me up if you wanna go out sometime.