Lake Fork Report 08/05 and 08/06

[bighed]

Made it back out to Lake Fork for some summer break fun fishing with my son and his friend from school the last two days. The weather has been mostly sunny, highs around 95, and a bit on the windy side. Water temps have been running in the lower to mid 80's. We we're able to pick up on a pattern yesterday and it held up today as well. Fish were suspended in 16-25 feet of water and relating to large schools of shad on humps and points, and particularly between two humps that were only about 70 yards apart. Throw some timber in the area and you were a cast away from a nice fish. We ended up with about 30 fish caught over Sunday and Monday, all very nice fat fish. The dinks were not present, almost all our fish ran from 3-8 pounds. Other than a few jig fish, all were caught on Norman's DD14's in any color we had that included white. Here's a few pics. bighead

[Gatorbassman]

Bighead, It's good to see you and your son back out on Fork and catching some fish. Those are some nice hot weather bass.

[RWHusker.]

Hi Bert,

Great fish, makes me jealous.  I am trying to get my son down there in Oct or November depending on football playoffs.  Any suggestions for which month and do you think you can get out with us?

Rod

[YaHoo]

95?

you guys look comfortable out there.

then again if iwas on fish it might as well be 120 cuz im not goin anywhere:)

[bighed]

Rod, come on down in Nov. and we'll go. I'm usually off early in the week, Sun-Tues. I'll be busy as heck in Oct. I've got a 4 day tuna trip out of Fourchan, La, two club tournys, and prep and tournament for Chad at Amistad. Nov. fishing is usually good with good numbers of fish caught as the fish are feeding for winter.

YaHoo, if it wasn't for the breeze it would have been smokin hot. We'd tuck in out of the wind at times and it wasn't long before I'd get us back out into some air. It's easy to forget about when the bite is hot. ;D We went again today and the bite was off and we were crying more than before, lol. The fish seemed to have gone into hiding today, much tighter to cover. Chad pulled a nice one out from under a dock skipping a spot remover. That kid can skip it in one side and all the way out the other side. I try but end up with a birds nest. Here's Chad's best for today, around 5 or 6 pounds. bighead

BTW, that dock area behind Chad produced about 10 nice slot fish and a few dinks the last two days.

[RWHusker.]

Thats awesome Bert, we will get a date and I will yell at you.  Tell Chad good luck at Amistad.

GO BIG RED