A friend and I went out to fork under the 154 bridge. We caught a decent amount of crappie. About 3 hours into it the sandbass starting going crazy because of the shad being brought in my our lites. As soon as the sandies came the crappie left, or so it seemed.


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so i spelled lights wrong. I am a fisherman my friends. Not a spelling bee champion.

Sandbass or yellowbass there are not any sandbass in Fork or there have not been any reported but by and account that is a good mess of crappies good job Brett

Be Careful What You Wish For

Sorry sir but you are incorrect.

Yes Slim there are now sandies in Fork I have personally caught a 2lb'r

Umm....you learn something everyday. I did't know there were sandies in Fork.

Brett were using green or white lights?

IBFishing i would have liked to see it because i no that fork is full and i mean full of yellowbass sandies have not been stocked into fork not to say that they didn't get in there but i haven seen them and i fish fork quite often

we were using white lights.

Slim it is becomeing a regular occurence lately, I know all the bar fish(yellow bellies) but these are true white bass. There has been some pic posted on the bass page a few times.I think guide richie white has (maybe the record) It is true that they didn't stock them but you know how that goes. Tawakoni is just down the road and full of them.Between the ducks and the other birds those eggs stick to there feet and here we go, a whole new breed is born.

Folks, Lake Fork is built on a tributary to the Sabine River and the Sabine River has plenty of Sandies in it. You all know about how they run up stream in the early spring for the spawn. No doubt these fish have always been in the lake but are just now gaining enough dam locked population to become more common. I caught a sandie from fork way back in 1996. I used to live in Hawkins, Tx. and Fork was my usual fishing hole. I do know the difference between the barfish (yellow bass) and the sandies (white bass).

Cliff you definitely have a good point there

I live on private Lake Cherokee impounded in 1949 on a tributary of the Sabine River. White bass started showing up here after the floods of early nineties. Speculation is they swam up the spillway. There is a very healthy population of them today and we catch them quite often now. I just hope the shad population can sustain them without hurting the black bass population. Any thoughts?