I've seen where they do that up north with a fishing season; if they did something like that around here during the spawn we'd have folks jumping from bridges or sinking the GW's boat that tried to enforce it. Some would just get real creatve with their reasoning and go fishing for LMB's anyway.
Could you imagine how many more crappie fisherman we'd have? Of course fishing with the biggest crappie jigs they could find. You could create a whole new product market for king size crappie jigs.
Fork might could benefit from having a few spawning zones but another thing I wish TP&W would do is a deep water survey. I don't know how deep the shock system reaches and don't know if they are reaching fish out past 10 feet or so. I spent a couple of years fishing it out of a jon boat with a trolling motor and a fish finder when the weather would allow. With that extra stealth I was seeing fish the guys in the bass boats weren't. It is highly over populated with something that isn't bait fish.
Now that leads to why folks aren't catching them. My two cents........the fish in Fork are terrified of bass boats and they are very lure educated as well because of the fishing pressure it sees.
I've been watching you tube a video by the The Zaldaingerous One where he is using massive size swim baits; on Fork, complete with the equipment to launch them properly and making football field size cast and he was catching fish. I think part of what makes that work is the distance he is getting the lure away from his own boat.

I don’t like the idea of spraying poison in or near our water source. Regardless of fishing.

I hope TPWD reads these types of threads online. Here and other areas. Most people here post because they think. It’s usually not a bashing mentality.

Regarding how good we have here in Texas, yes, it’s great. That’s why we live here. But, we can always get better. I have to believe that TPWD shares that idea.

reduce the numbers of cormorants and alligator gar in Falcon lake....only allow spraying within 100 feet of docks on any lake....do not allow stocking of striped bass in any lake...

Broken record here, but it just points to how important we fisherman understand it to be--do anything and everything you can to promote hydrilla growth, not stop it.

The dudes in here who think the tournaments aren’t negatively affecting bass quality and population are really delusional or plain ignorant. Look up delayed mortality. All those bass that are weighed in with dark red tail fins are dead within 48 hours.

All of them are dead?

Since we can just make stuff up. Not a single bass has ever died that was caught in a tournament

Hahaha

+1 Who said the bass died??? They were just in shock and swam off a few minutes later and have now grown to over 10+ pounds each.

I've never seen a Bass Champs 200+ boat tournament worth of dead fish on LBJ. Just saying.

trust the science?

Reduce the numbers of cormorants statewide. Stop stocking stripers and hybrids!

LOLOL #delayedmortality

had a fisheries biologist tell me once that he liked to see summer tournaments on Eufaula because the lake was over populated and it helped the fish population by killing off some of the smaller fish.....if you think tournaments hurt a lake,look at Lake Sinclair,a relatively small (15,000 acres)lake in Georgia which has had 2-4 tournaments a week for past 50 years and fishing is just as good as it was 40 years ago....same for almost every lake in the USA....they have up and down years but it's usually due to some factor other than fishing pressure....

Your right. We should limit highschool tournaments to one per year on every lake.

I knew the tournament brigade would be mad LOL