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Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Frogs/Toads
Structure
Matted Grass
Water Temperature
78°
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Spinnerbaits
Structure
Stumps
Pretty slow, the water level is really low but it is pretty clear. The bass in the picture is one of two that I caught in three days of fishing. Both were caught on spinnerbaits with Googan Squad Bandito Bugs as trailers. Most fish that we were marking were at around 8-13 feet down, suspended in about 20 feet of water around all the stumps.
Species
CrappieSeason
Summer
Technique
Crappie Sniping
Structure
Brush Piles
Forage
Crappie
Water Temperature
67°
Crappie are stacking up on brush piles and some of the bigger girls are stacking up on lay downs and standing timber 18 to 24 ft of water
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Spinnerbaits
Structure
Baitfish
Forage
Shad
fished a booyah covert with orange blade and a zoom brushbog in black with blue flake.With the rain water is high and fish are shaalloow holding tight to the buck brush and the reeds
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Stumps
Late May Bassmaster Elite tournament and lots of things were going on at Lake Fork. In practice I caught fish cranking offshore, on topwater walking baits shallow, jerkbaits on points, and flipping trees and docks. In the tournament, my most consistent bite was flipping trees and stumps in 2-8ft of water with a jig or big plastic worm. I also caught some key fish on docks. Fishing tree lines or isolated trees/stumps around points were key. The fish I was targeting seemed to be coming off the spawn and were pulling out into these areas on their way offshore to summertime areas. I was finding them in transition so new fish seemed to show up each day.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Football Jigs
Structure
Stumps
Forage
Bluegill
The water is up right now. Early morning we threw poppin frogs in grass. The farther back in the grass, the better the bite got. Afternoons when the sun came out, we started getting bites on trees and stumps in 2ft - 6ft with a 1/2oz football jig (bluegill colored) shad were around the edges of grass. Bluegill are up shallow starting to spawn in protected coves.
