Update on Lake Fork fish attractors





Fisheries staff recently checked up on the PVC fish attractors that we partnered with the Lake Fork Sportsman's Association to help build and sunk back in February.

Here is an underwater image of five PVC structures recorded with side-imaging sonar, where we observed fish of various sizes! Staff spoke with one angler fishing the attractors that said he caught some bass and sunfish. Staff also confirmed small crappie were using the structures with one of our more sophisticated sampling gears (i.e. rod & reel and a dozen minnows).

There are currently 22 fish attractors at four locations on Lake Fork, and we will be building 40 more PVC fish attractors to place at new locations around Lake Fork soon. Funding for the fish attractors has been provided by Friends of Reservoirs and restitution funding provided by TPWD's Kills and Spills Team. Visit our website for the locations of these and other fish attractors in Texas lakes: 

http://tpwd.texas.gov/…/recreat…/lakes/fish_attractors.phtml




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Partly Sunny

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Lake Fork

Fishing Report from TPWD (Apr. 23)

GOOD. Water Stained; 63 degrees; 0.25 feet below pool. Bass fishing has been slow with some early morning catching near areas with the shad spawn using DieZel chatterbaits. Once bass move off the shore, switch to squarebill crankbaits in 3-5 feet, or Yum dingers and flukes around grass, and frogs in the grass. Report by Marc Mitchell, Lake Fork Guide Service. Black bass are post spawn and the top water bite is on! Frog patterns are working in the shallow vegetation. The crappie are moving shallow, small clousers are producing well. Large bream have moved shallow, wooly buggers are producing good fish. Channel catfish are cruising 2-4 feet biting clousers. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service. The crappie fishing on Lake Fork is moving rapidly into the post spawn pattern. Fish are loading up on brush piles, ledges, underwater bridges, road beds, bridges and post spawn trees in 14-25 feet. The fish are hungry after the spawn and they will bite just about anything you out in front of them. We are having great luck with small hand tied jigs but minnows and soft plastics will also work for the next few months until water temps heat way up. Seeing a lot of small fish this year mixed in so some days you will catch and release a lot of short fish. Report by Jacky Wiggins, Jacky Wiggins Guide Service.

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