Lake Fork Fishing Guide

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Lake Fork Fishing Guide If you are looking on
the internet for Lake Fork fishing guides, you
have seen there are many to choose from. Some are
good full time guides and some are part time
guides that do not really care if you come back
and fish Lake Fork or not. So just do me a favor,
when you call a guide ask if they are full time
Lake Fork fishing guides and if you book trip
with them will you be fishing with them. Before
I get to the Lake Fork fishing report, I have
been guiding on Lake Fork for 15 years and
furnish everything for your trip. Just come get
in my boat and go fishing. If you are bass
fishing with me we will be fishing out of a
Legend bass boat. If you are crappie, white bass
or catfishing with me you will be fishing out of
a 22 foot bay boat and have plenty of room for
groups. I start fishing for crappie, sand bass
and catfish in May through December.
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Lake Fork Bass Crappie Fishing Fall is almost
here and the bass crappie fishing on Fork will
just get better as we go. Cooler weather is
suppose to be here tonight which will start
dropping the water temperature just in time for
the Big Bass Splash which is next weekend. The
bass bite has been some what slow but I expect
the cooler weather to wake them up. I have been
catching bass several ways. Starting with a spook
early in the morning, as soon as it is light
enough to see. Make sure it has a white belly.
Once the sun gets up, I am throwing a Carolina
rig and keeping the spook handy incase of a blow
up with in casting distance. I am fishing the
Carolina rig out to about 18 ft using a
watermelon red baby brush hog. I am also catching
bass in the new growing grass you will find up
north above the 515 bridges.
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Lake Fork Seasonal Patterns I talk to fisherman
that want to hire one of the Lake Fork bass
fishing guides, and one question comes up more
than any other, is when is the best time to
come fish Lake Fork? So as you read the patterns
for the different months, think about when you
might like to come fishing on Lake Fork and give
me a call to set up your trip. These reports by
month has the approach we are having a normal
summer and winter for our region. January Probab
ly the hardest month to catch bass of all 12.
Lake Fork water temperatures will be their
coldest of all months. Most bass will be deep and
not very active as the water reaches low 40s. It
is like when the water temperature is below 45
very tough fishing.
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Lake Fork Seasonal Patterns February The first
half of this month is usually cold and the Lake
Fork water temperature will be still in the lower
40s. But the big female bass start moving this
month. So search the creeks close to spawning
flats in the 8-15 ft range. Bass will start
suspending around wood this month, so the baits I
like to throw will the jig black/blue, the A rig
on the deeper main lake points, and the
suspending jerk bait. March This is the month
the big females really start to move around
thinking about spawn. They will be feeding as
they move towards the spawning areas starting at
the north end of the lake first. They will follow
creek channels, road beds, ditches and fence rows
as they move and feed on their way.
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Lake Fork Seasonal Patterns April The spawn
starts on the north end of the lake very early in
April and moves south as the month goes on. I
continue using those baits I use at the end of
March and if I am looking for bass on the south
end of the lake (still pre spawn) the chatter
bait works good along with the big spinner baits.
May This is a fun month to fish and my
favorite month of the entire year. You will find
bass spawning on the main lake areas that are
protected from the wave action of a north wind or
strong south wind. Areas like Chaney will have
bass on the beds in May.
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Lake Fork Seasonal Patterns June This is a
month where the bass, crappie and sand bass move
to deeper water. Not all the bass move as some
spend most of their time in 10 foot or less. But
most move to the deeper creek channels and main
lake points for the summer. They feed on the many
schools of bait fish moving around this time of
the year. July/August I lump these two month
together as they can be hard months to catch
bass. They will be moving around a lot and can be
hard to find from day to day. Spoons and swim
baits along with chrome rattle traps will catch
these bass. They will start schooling and so you
will want to have a top bait tied on just in case.
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Lake Fork Seasonal Patterns September The
shallow bass start feeding shallow on carolina
rigs, crank baits, swim baits and top water
baits. Deeper bass are still doing what they were
for the August time frame. This is a great time
for numbers and also a great time to learn to
fish with plastics. October One of my favorite
times to bass fish, the bite is aggressive and
you can catch them deep or shallow. Also this
time of the year most any bait will work. Bass
are feeding up for the fall and will hit almost
any thing. Same for the crappie and sand bass.
Jigs for the crappie and spoons for the sand bass.
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Lake Fork Seasonal Patterns November
/December I also put these two months together
and they will be weather driven. If we have a
warm fall, the bite will be good on carolina rig,
jigs, crank baits and rattle traps as well as
spoons. Main lake points, creek channels is a
great place to check out.
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