So what black eyes?

DFW will get another Classic. The time of year impacted those weights.

Plant hydrilla and spend some money on fertilizer. Way more important than stocking.

Let the natural vegetation grow. Stock the lakes with more LMB. Make recommendations to the Texas legislature to limit the number of tournaments on bodies of water. Delayed mortality is killing our lakes.

Drain Ray Roberts and actually put in some boat lanes with marker buoys.

Randy B suggest that we ban livescope.

More stocking in other lakes besides Fork, share the love. I live near Cooper as most of you know and have spent quite a bit of time running sonar on it the past year. It is over run with shad; probably has one of the best populations of shad in the state. In its hay day it was producing DD LMB's but due to droughts and other influences the LMB population all but disappeared. It got 250k of Florida strain LMB's about two or three years ago and before that it had probably been over ten years since it had any LMB stocking. If it was stocked every other year with 250k in fingerlings it would probably give Fork and OH Ivie a run for their money. The forage is there, it just needs something to eat it.

leave the hydrilla alone and u dont have a leg to stand on tpwd when u label hydrilla as invasive when you put invasive fish in

While Fork is low, I would like to see TPWD & SRA do an experiment. Scrape about 8 inches of topsoil off of an acre of bank & then plant Hydrilla to see how it will grow.

I would like to know why game wardens go to Squaw Creek?

That is a private lake.

spend more time in oklahoma, and help with our lakes!

More boats to ticket? I don't get it either, rolled up to the gate one morning and our warden from several counties away was there. He's like you drove this far to fish?, I'm thinking to myself why are you in Hood county and not patrolling the county your assigned to.

+1 I agree totally with all three suggestions.

Will get roasted for this, but how about trying this. Each year, select one or two major creeks at Fork and make them off limits to fishing during the spawn. Just give it a shot to see if it improves the number of fish per acre in that area. If it does, use the stock that was going to Fork and spread the wealth to other lakes. If it doesn't, no harm done.

You guys don't know how good you have it!

Not saying there aren't challenges and some things that could improve, but being from MN I can say we're jealous of you. The TPWD outclasses the rest of the country when it comes to fishery management, particularly for bass. This isn't a slam on the MN DNR necessarily, they do a decent job with the limited funds they receive (another topic for another day). But up here we have closed seasons in which we CAN'T EVEN LEGALLY FISH FOR bass, walleye, or other gamefish. There is almost zero attention paid to managing bass period. We're fortunate that through the sheer number of natural lakes MN has there are still plenty of great bass fisheries, but they play second fiddle to walleye.

Mille Lacs being a good example. One of the few lakes in the state they actually regulated to improve size structure of bass, it worked, they turned it into a trophy smallmouth fishery. But now, they're going away from those policies to appease the walleye community and tribal politics (not a slam on either one of those communities either, just facts).

I have no doubt there are vegetation mgmt, boating regulation issues, political issues, etc. in TX like everywhere else.

But as an outsider looking in......we dream of the DNR helping improve bass fisheries around our state. Much less creating a program like Sharelunker to promote and grow trophy fish! That's just a pipe dream around here !!