GOOD. Water Stained; 81 degrees; 0.05 feet above pool. Anticipate increased recreational boater traffic for the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Bass are good shallow in the mornings on chatterbaits and flukes until about an hour after sunrise. Then there is a decent bite in 5-8 feet on crankbaits and light Carolina rigs. High spots are best with deeper water close by. June bug or green pumpkin are best on plastics and bream pattern square bills in a 2.5 are best. Offshore the bite continues to improve, if you can find the group of fish that wants to bite. Target humps, roadbeds, and long points in 18-25 feet of water with Carolina rigs with big worms. Blue fleck or watermelon red are best. Crankbaits are still good over deeper points. Report by Marc Mitchell, Lake Fork Guide Service. Black bass are chasing topwater patterns early in the day and later in the day when it is dark. Check out the brush piles as big bass are using them to feed on crappie. Bream are excellent in the shallows on wooly buggers and small poppers. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service. Lake Fork crappie fishing continues to be excellent going into the dog days of summer. Fish are in all the places they should be for this time of year. Look for crappie holding on brush piles, summer time trees, lay downs, bridges and docks. You can find fish in 14-30 feet right now but it seems like those fish will be above 14-16 feet as that is where the thermocline is showing up. One of the biggest keys to loading the boat with crappie has been finding the fish that haven’t been pressured as much. We are still having a lot of success with very small hand tied jigs in 1/16 ounce. Cut the tails down shorter to get those finicky bites to hook up. Minnows are producing bites but it seems the hook up ratio is much lower and we end up losing a lot of minnows to those finicky fish. Soft plastics will work on the more aggressive crappie too. Staying off huge groups of fish, pitching and swimming j