Today was the first day in a week and a half where temps were warm enough to fish in shorts and the wind wasn’t 20+ mph. I headed out at about 12:30 and was met by bluebird skies and a steady east wind, neither are considered real good conditions.

Happy Fishing. Remember the pros are in town this weekend and it will be busy. Be safe!

I went out this afternoon at about 5 and fished until dark. I boated about a half dozen with one over 4 pounds and lost a bigger one on a stump. I fished my favorite cove at Little Point with my trusty watermelon seed Fluke. This bait is about to be put on the shelf until next Spring, at least in the watermelon seed color.

When the sun went down the temps dropped like a rock. We will see mmid 40s tonight in East Texas. This weekend is the weekend of the Toyota Invitational tournament on Lake Fork and high temps Saturday and Sunday are slated for mid 40s to 50…brrrrrr.

This should be the last of the cold snaps for the year. I suspect we still have another 3 or more weeks before the post-spawn patterns start working.

The weather on Lake Fork on Thursday was windy and the water was terribly rough. I was fishing with my buddy Donuts who helped me move here from Florida. (I finally got my boat and my stuff here!) We hit the lake at about 2 pm and it was too rough to go far, so we went into the northernmost cove at Little Point, directly across from the Hwy 17 public landing. At the back of this cove is a single house with a green boat shed.

This spot was out of the wind and we knew the possibility of a big bass was less in this location, but I thought the smaller fish might be schooling in there…and I was right. It was slow when we got there and as we worked our way back in the cove it got better and better.

We ended up with, yep you guessed it, a watermelon Fluke. We used the small ones and the larger ones. The larger ones produced fewer fish but most of the larger fish we caught were on the larger Fluke.

There were Gar all over the place in this cove. We could see them schooling and breaking the top of the water all around us. Most of the bass we caught were in the 14-16″ range. Donuts caught a 4-13 (pictured below) and we had a few 3 pounders in the mix. Overall it was a great day considering the conditions. If the weather had been perfect we could have fished Birch Creek and had a better chance at a big fish, but that wasn’t a possibility with 3-4′ waves on the lake.

When you enter this cove, you will notice the point on your left is thick with stumps. If you will draw a mental line around those stumps you will see somewhat of a channel that goes in there and goes all the way to the back. You will need to idle, but once you establish this, you will be able to motor to the back of the cove if you wish.

Here’s a video recap.

Reliable tales tell me that fishing Birch Creek with a Culprit worm, motoroil color, has been producing some nice bass. While I have been out of town and unable to fish, they are biting on Birch Creek. Look for the clear water about 6 feet deep along the western bank of the creek and work the hydrilla. If they aren’t biting near the bank, be sure to back off the bank a bit and see if they are in the deeper water. I prefer to fish the 10 inch worm this time of year. When water temps are consistently above 65 degrees I move from 6 inch worms to the longer ones.
Big bass get stacked up in Birch Creek this time of year so be sure to visit it while you are out. It is just a short run north of the 515 bridge on the west fork. There is a public landing immediately south of the 515 bridge off of Hwy 17.
This area is busy this time of year. Remember to have some respect for other boats and your fellow bass fishermen.

Happy Spawn :)

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