As far as all out fun, Holbrook back in the 2nd half of the 70’s was awesome - bass, ski, annoy girls at the beach, more bass. After that Monticello and Fork w/o the skiing and other stuff.

Falcon, Amistad and Caddo. Fishing Flacon during one of its peaks is hard to beat. The bass you catch there could almost be classified as an offshoot sub-species. They are aggressive and fun to catch. Amistad and Caddo are cool because they are both so unique in their own way. Fishing Amistad all day, then jumping in the water to cool off and snorkeling the crystal clear water while watching bass 20+ feet down is hard to beat. As for Caddo, the scenery is just amazing.

This one too, I forgot about it.

Caddo is fun and beautiful

Fork in the 80's

Most fun has to be Squaw Creek the month before it would get beat to death by tournaments. Watching 50+ fish between 2-4 lbs eat your bait is about as much fun as it gets for me.

Monticello from mid 80’s until it closed during late September until mid December. Mill creek from late 80’s to early 2000 during prespawn, and night fishing Fork from 80’s to when LMB virus hit.

that is how my son learned to bass fish is at Squaw Creek.. Started when he was 4 years old...My 8 year old caught his first bass there also..

Fork
Monticello
Rayburn
T-Bend
Early Purtis Creek

But just for fishing fun, the Northlake powerplant lake in N. Irving before it got shut down. Very little fishing pressure and because of that you could catch 1-2 lbers all day. And every once in a while a big girl would provide some fun. Even saw Jerry Dean filming a Honey Hole episode there. It was a great place to take the kids to teach them how to fish a plastic worm.

Was lucky and got to fish four days the first week Gibbons Creek opened. Wore them out on homemade spinnerbaits and six inch blue flake worms.

Amistad is next fishing a white 100 series Bandit over grass.

Last is flipping the reeds on Fayetteville.

First 5 to 7 years on Fork was magical. The lake was a jungle and the schoolers and grass and big fat footballs. And the fishermen were nicer back then. Lol. It was a fisherman’s paradise.

Cooper when it first opened. Easy 100-150 fish a day. Most were in the 13–16-inch range. Every once in a while, you would get a 3-5 pounder but that was pretty rare. You could use up any odd colored worm that you had. The bass did not care.

Purtis Creek was a real fun lake to fish back in early 90's. Until they (or the carp) killed off all the grass.

Ray Roberts was fun when it first opened and for maybe the next 7-8 years. All you had to do to catch fish was drag a Carolina rigged French Fry down the railroad tracks or down one on the many old sunken roadbeds which we pretty easy to find as the grass lined the edges and came up to the surface. Around Wolf Island was awesome.

I learn how to bass fish, on T-Bend while the trees still had leaves on them. Back then you couldn't do anything wrong.
After T-Bend would be Falcon, but it's only fun if you can find them. And when they have more water. But when you find them, Fun, Fun, Fun.
I've had the same days as the others on Rayburn, but it has always been the most fun. Every year is different.

Night Fishing On Fork early 90's ..

Hilderbrandt Spinnerbait Black/Gold #5 Colorado Blade

Gene Larew Hawg Craw Black/Blue T-Rig

Black Buzzbait

all with Braid.

I’ve had phenomenal days on a bunch of lakes. Eagle Mountain and Bardwell stand out. EM was a freezing Jan. day and Bardwell was on a mid summer day and it was flooded. 3rd best day was on Joe Pool…the day I couldn’t catch anything but overs flipping flooded stuff. I’ve had a few 80+ fish days on Clark. Had a day on Fairfield throwing a frog where I tore up 6-7 frogs.

….then there was waxahachie yesterday. I caught a keeper. A 1lb 8oz beauty that was the fruit of 6 hours of labor.