Fork Fishing Report
- Sep 25, 2024
- GOOD. Water Stained; 81 degrees; 1.62 feet below pool. Shallow bass bite is good early to mid morning around grass and smaller points in 2-4 feet with topwaters, flukes, or shaky heads and minus 1 type crankbaits. Carolina and Texas rigs are good on points and humps in 10-14 feet near drop-offs. Smaller baits catch numbers, but big worms will catch bigger bass. Crank baits such as DD 22,XD 5,XD 6 still fair, but have slowed down during the full moon. Best places are long points and over or around road beds in 15-20 feet. Report by Marc Mitchell, Lake Fork Guide Service. Bass are aggressive on top water and shallow. Windy banks can provide schooling action so be ready with a small top water or streamer. Catfish are shallow around boat houses. Bream are excellent in the shallows, wooly buggers and small poppers should bring a strike. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service. The Lake Fork crappie fishing continues to be excellent as we head into fall. You can find fish in a very large range of depths from 12-40 feet. Timber still has some great white crappie if you cover water and pick off those fish. Brush piles are holding decent numbers with a combination of white and black crappie. You can find black crappie on underwater road beds and bridges. We should see more and more black crappie on the tops of timber in deeper water over the next month. Minnows are a great bait but we did catch fish on small hand tied jigs this week. Soft plastics will work and that bite will get better as water cools off. The catfish bite is on fire in 18-28 feet around timber along creek channels. These fish are following bait migrations and will load up under your boat as you begin to fish. They will even elevate off the bottom as they load up so you can fish up and down the water column to find the larger fish. Use any prepared bait of choice to catch this fish. Using some cattle cubes or sour grain will attract and hold even more fish. Report by Jacky Wiggins, Jacky Wiggins Guide Service.
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