If you think about it, either the big fish aren't being caught or turned over to the TP&W. So it looks kind of bad for the 2016 spring fling share a lunker program.. Isn't it over in April, I know they have extended it a few times. But man, where are the SAL's ??? looks bad for the whole state imo... Might just be an off year, but it seems to decline a little every year..jm2c's

I keep hearing people talk about how Lakefork the majority of this and the majority of that but that lake isn't kicking out any bigger fish than any other lake.

The fish that started share lunker came from Fork so how can you say that Fork is what it is because of sharelunker?

TPWD puts 500,000 fry in Fork every year and those are not sharelunker fry. That is why fork is fork.

The program has not done anything IMO for Lake Fork but take out all our genetics. Here is the deal.How many fish in the Texas top 50 are from SAL program off spring ?
Not even 1 percent my guess.

The Fish that made Fork Famous were bought $$$ as pure Florida Strain. NOT fish from a SAL program !

Second thing is this What lake has produced the most SAL. Fork ! Ok now you take lets say 10 fish from Fork over 13 lbs. Lets say in one year which I think it did back in the days. Now lets say they have 10,000,000 off spring.

One million per fish ? Their numbers are not that high but using this as a example. No matter how many fish Fork puts in the program or how many fry the program has from those fish Lake Fork will only get back 500,000 to 692,250 even if the Lake Fork entries produced 10 million a year.

Now you call that even ! Nope.So we lost 9.5 million that should have stayed in Lake Fork not spread all over TX. TP&W will only stock for 25 fish per acre for Lake Fork. Now we have water turkeys,white bass eating up all the fry and even if the 1 percent survive we are going backwards in the stocking program due to preditor threat alone.

Back 35 years ago there was not many white bass and water turkeys like there is today. Now back to the program. If you keep dipping into your genetic pool sooner or later you will have nothing to dip into.

If you had a Trophy Ranch and were raising 200 class deer would you loan them to all the other ranchers in TX ? Not if you are smart. Keep your genetics to your self and keep producing giants.

I know enough about the program that there is no way I would put a fish in it nor would I recommend my customer to do so. They have had 30 years to make Fork better and I can tell you it is not better because of the program but much worse and the numbers dont lie.

Let nature run its course and it will be better if man dont mess with it. All the fish that died from the start of the program to now should not have had to die for the glory of a fisherman or for a program that dont work for the better of a Trophy Lake or World Class Fisheries. IMO

One last thing if this was such a great program then why are California and Florida not doing it ? Or other states. They produce bigger fish than we do ! It is cause they do not mess with it other than limits.

The fish that started share lunker came from Fork so how can you say that Fork is what it is because of sharelunker?

TPWD puts 500,000 fry in Fork every year and those are not sharelunker fry. That is why fork is fork.