Irving Bass Club is holding a tournament out of Lake Fork Marina that week, so y'all need to make reservations quickly.

Lake Fork Marina is booked.

Just a thought. You could stay in Quinlin or Sulpher Springs ,then just a short drive to check-in.

Anyone got any practice in yet?

I will be doing good to get one trip to Fork in this month. Wish I could get out there in the next week or so being as how I have never fished it.

Going to pre-fish on the 14th. Hey anyone ever eat at the chicken shack? the sign says "Nothing fancy Jus good chicken" yes it says "jus" . and it is pretty good.

Never tried the shack. I can tell you that Tiffany's is great food though!!! Grab a piece of Chocolate pie while your there... MMMMMmmmmmmm!!!!

Hey everyone, new to the forum and just recently got a kayak from mariner sails and I'm loving it. Looking forward to the tourney to meet some of you guys and learn some tips and tricks. Would love to do some prefishing as well if I can get away, just let me know when and were.

Welcome Matt, we look forward to meeting you as well. If you can, come out to the get together on the 14th at Grapevine Lake,
Murrel Park. Here's the thread: http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/7249133/1

Hey Matt welcome to the board. There will be many opportunities to come join us on the water. As Mark was saying the get together will be a great place to meet Kayakers in the area. I hope you can make it.

Who all is heading up to Fork on the Friday before? Maybe we could meet for dinner somewhere.

Wish I could make it on the 14 but girlfriend has to work that weekend so it's out, maybe next time. I'm good for the Friday before the tourney though, just let me know when and where. Also I live like half a mile from the tourney meeting area so let me know if anyone wants to prefish and if I'm not at work I should be able to go.

I will be going Friday, you are not able to pre fish for 5 days prior to the tournament. Not sure where to stay, guess I need to start looking.

Im still undecided when Im going. I'll definitly be there and I want to stay somewhere but I may just leave early that morning and make it a long day.

My plan is to run out there that morning...

BTW... prefished there yesterday and caught about 25 bucks from 12-15 inches but not a single decent fish... I think most of the big girls have all been wined and dined and moved out at this point... Either that or I just really suck at bed fishing, which is very possible... Saw lots of fish up shallow but none of them were females... I was thinking that the the fish down near the dam might have just started to spawn, but that water is really clear and all I saw and caught were little guard males there. I could be wrong. They could just be starting to build the nests but I'm thinking it's the backside... I did have one really nice one shake me off in an area that was far from the shore on a big flat in one of the far northern creeks. I think that one was just roaming after the deed... I dunno... Fork has been very stingy to me the three days I've fished it this year... I haven't caught one over 18 inches there in those three days. I seemed to be the only one catching anything in the areas I was at yesterday, but they were all teensy. At this rate no one should worry much about me on tourney day...