Everyone start hauling & broadcasting hydrilla stems in. . .

And please no sandbass!

Excellent point Larry. Congrats again!

It was more than just timber that made Fork special. Wood County is the largest milk producer in the world. Hundreds of dairy farms around Fork. Every time it rained it fertilized the lake and everything in it. That fertilizer and the way the brood ponds were stocked prior to the lake filling were huge contributors to the lake's success.

Think about this: Fork finished filling and made final pool of 403' above sea level in 1985 and then in Nov 1986 Mark Stevenson caught Ethel at 17.67. That should tell you what kind of fish were swimming around in the brood ponds.

Please.

Not sure, You would want to get caught.

Based on the Tax rate in Fannin County, doubt I will be moving that way. 2.4, thats right up there with Houston, Dallas Austin if I read the property tax rate right.

I think there's some confusion. You might refer to a 13+ lb bass as a ShareLunker but only the pure Floridas are kept for breeding. In other words, stocking ShareLunker fingerlings is stocking Florida fingerlings. This might not have been the rule from the start but it's how they do it now. This lake won't be a Fork for a laundry list of reasons but there will be some great genetics swimmming around in your inaugural class of fish and they are doing it right by giving the bluegill a nice head start.





Most LMB swimming around in our lakes are intergrades of varying degrees. There's some "non-Florida" genetics in the vast majority and you can look at the results of years past to see that hasn't changed. ShareLunkers also spawn while in the wild so the presence of the same genetic material in your fish can mean a whole lot of different things.

J

They did electrofish everything out of the ponds before stocking. So the F1 genetics should be high
Sure, some native in the creeks may pass theough, but that's definitely not a bad thing!

Well Lake Bohnam is releasing water into it right now so chances are there are some natives getting in.

Guess Bonham Lake caught a lot of water last week. Drove down Saturday evening to look at Boisdarc and 1396 road was under water. They put a cable across the road at top of the hill to keep people from driving down it.

There is some High Rent Districts up in there!

If any of you are interested in signing up for email updates directly from North Texas Water District about the lake, the email updates are very informative. Here is the link.
https://boisdarclake.org/enewsletter-signup/
Here is a link in the email, and today's email had the story about the giant oxygenator they are installing by the dam, some pretty interesting information in the emails.
https://ntmwd.us19.list-manage.com/...36196&id=494e339062&e=420437bee3

lol, 95% of fannin is rural farm/ranch land, ag exempt stuff.

more coming for the creek.

don't think they want to let it flood fm 273 again, the locals may not tolerate it again. lol
very possible it could be full by next spring, open is another story.

the watershed for the lake directly is huge, add in bonham and you have some water. bonham was high yesterday when I went over so I expect they will keep feeding bois d'arc.
in 2015 the lake would have filled in 3-4 months, I ended up not being able to get to paris, honey grove or bonham for 3 days, bois d'arc ran well over 30' over flood for about 4 days, texoma overran the spillway for reference.