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Grant Marsh
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2/22/25
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Hard Jerkbaits
Structure
Standing Timber
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
55°
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Ned Rigs
Structure
Docks
Z-Man Hula StickZ Coppertreuse / 4"
$3.37
$4.49
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Spinnerbaits
Structure
Flooded Brush
Water Temperature
68°
Fish still on beds.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Water Temperature
62°
The fish are up on beds heavily so it’s time to take off and look for some big ones. Though we couldn’t find any big ones on the beds (8-12 pounders) we still found some good ones. It probably had more to do with the big cold front that hit right when we got there. The baits listed are go to baits because I like a natural color and a visible color. Another thing I used that helped was a Texoma Tungsten no chip white tungsten weight. It helps you keep a bead on where your bait is which is awesome when you’re bed fishing. I use it no matter the color of bait I’m using.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)
Structure
Stumps
Swimming smaller swimbaits around spawning flats with stumps worked well. Also flipping weightless soft plastics
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Shad
Fish the front half of the weed lines and target area that have good water clarity. Water temp is ranging 58 -60 mid to lower part of the lake.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Crankbaits 7'-12'
Structure
Rock Pile
Forage
Crawfish
Water Temperature
58°
I went out to the lake on 03/09/24 with 2 buddies to try and get on some pre-spawn and spawning fish as the elites had just been there and absolutely smoked them. This day was about 50 degrees outside with a steady northwest wind at about 10-20 mph all day, and partly cloudy skies, with the sun popping out for a few hours at the end of the day and it warming up just a bit. Essentially, we were fishing during the cold front as it passed through the area, as it had been sunny and in the 70's and 80's outside the entire week before. Water temperatures on the lake ranged from about 56-61 degrees and water clarity ranged from about 3 inches of visibility to up to almost 2 feet of visibility, with the creeks and backwaters being more stained and warmer. We spent the day catching a few fish shallow cruising (and even a few on beds) on a jig, wacky rig, and swimbait up shallow around grass, docks, and standing timber, as well as catching several cranking a gravel dawg over a roadbed at the mouth of a spawning creek that was in about 10-12 feet of water. Overall it was a halfway decent day, with our best 5 going around 15 pounds (not special for fork, I know), and our biggest fish being around 4 pounds caught by my buddy Jeremy on the swimbait (pictured with the report). We saw several large fish on beds but they were very skittish and in the limited time that we had to fish for them at the end of the day we could not get them to bite. I hope to be back out there in a couple days so that I can try and get on one of those Lake Fork mega bags! Thanks for reading my reports and tight lines!
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Pre-Spawn)
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Standing Timber
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
60°
I fished the lake on March 4th for the first Team Trail Outdoors TX tournament of the year, and I also fished the lake the day before for practice for the event. The water temperatures ranged from 57-70 degrees depending on which area of the lake you were in, with the backs of big creek arms being the warmest water and the main lake being the coolest. The day was sunny with morning temperatures in the lower 40's and warming up to almost 80 degrees by the end of the day, with a slight breeze coming from the south throughout the day. The water clarity on the lake ranged from about a foot of visibility to about 3 inches of visibility, the water was cleaner on the main lake and dirtier in the creek arms and pockets. We spent the day as far back into the major creek arms as we could get knowing that the fish were on the verge of spawning back there, and we threw wacky rigs and chatterbaits around the standing timber, flooded brush, and grass in the backs of the creeks, keying in on flatter banks with a good amount of cover. Anytime we would find a hole in the brush or grass along the flats, there always seemed to be fish in them, and we caught a good amount of fish also rolling the chatterbaits by laydowns and standing timber out a little deeper than the bank in 3-6 feet of water. In the morning when it was a bit colder outside and the water had not warmed up yet, the wacky rig was the key, and in the afternoon when everything had gotten considerably warmer, they were chewing the chatterbaits. We were also able to find and catch a few bed fish on the lake during this trip, and we used a standard texas rig to catch those fish off the beds, switching between a summer craw bait or a white bait depending on the clarity of the water and the depth of the bed, as sometimes we could only see the white baits. We used an array of beaver baits such as the Missile Baits D Bomb, the Strike King Rage Bug, and the Knockout Craw from K.O. Baits (check them out on Instagram @k.obaits)! Overall it was a great day on the water, we caught a limit of unders for the tournament that went 8.41 pounds which was good enough to get us 17th place out of 197 teams and a nice check, and we were also able to catch several slot fish, our best 5 in that regard went around 19 or 20 pounds with several fish (including the one pictured with the report) in the 5 to 6 pound class! Lake Fork is the place to be right now if you want to catch them up shallow! Good luck everyone and tight lines, thanks for reading my reports!
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Bladed Jigs
Structure
Flooded Brush
Forage
Shad
Fish are moving up and are on the outside of the weed lines. Target pockets with 10-12’ of water to shallow flats
Yamamoto Zako Swimbait 4" / Cream White
Out of Stock
