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What's up everybody it's Simon from LakeHub. Today we're out at the big bass
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haven at the legendary Lake Fork in Northeast Texas. Lake Fork is a bass
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fishing lake through and through. Every year it holds half of the trophies trophy
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bass records in the state. Every year it plays host to some major fishing
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tournaments including Bassmaster events on the regular. Bass fishing is Fork. Fork
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is bass fishing. Lake Fork is about 28,000 surface acres. It has over 300
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miles of shoreline and it is an hour's drive from Dallas. That makes it a great
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weekend fishing spot for anyone in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Because it's
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such a big bass fishing lake fishing clumps and tournaments are out here
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pretty much every week of the year. And because of that there are plenty of
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amenities for boaters. There are lots of marinas, really good marinas. There are
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lots of boat ramps that are accessible. RV parks kind of hit and miss. Other camping
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kind of hard to do. Tent camping and so forth. If you're into that then you'll
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want to go up the road to Lake Tawakeney. But if if you're into the RV park thing
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waterfront RV park you'll find plenty here at Lake Fork. You're watching
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Lake Hub, the home of boating, fishing, camping, traveling, exploring all of our
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lakes. We love our lakes. If you do too go ahead and subscribe right now so you
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don't miss out on future lake reviews. One thing that anybody who's been here
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knows is that Lake Fork is chock full of tree stumps. There are probably 80% of
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the trees in you know the lake bottom were left by the engineers who built the
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lake. And it is a stumpy lake. You have to be really cautious when you're out
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boating. There are lanes marked out by the Sabine River Authority who manages
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the lake, owns the lake. But even then one of our one of our guides on
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lakeforktexas.com reported last week that he hit a stump right in the middle
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one of the lanes. I don't know if the buoy shifted or what but you got to be
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cautious even when you're in the lanes you got to be cautious. When you're outside of the lanes you're on your own and they call it getting stumped. Right
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now we're out here in fall and it is gorgeous. It is clear bluebird skies, a
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little breeze on the water you can see behind me. Trees are changing color. It is
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gorgeous. Just saw a couple deer driving in here. There's plenty of wildlife here
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There are even reported alligators in this lake. Again it's not a party lake
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It's not a swimming lake. It's not a boating lake. It is a fishing lake. In
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January every year there's a group of volunteers who go out and do an eagle count. And they do it over two days over over a full weekend. They do they do a
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two-day count and report how many eagles are in the area. Mostly bald eagles. They
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tend to winter down here and I'm guessing because of you know the warmer
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weather, plenty of fish resources, great spot for eagles to winter. So every year
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they do an eagle count. It includes Lake Tawakonee right up the road here. And I
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think that's pretty cool that eagles like to winter here. If you like bass
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fishing you've got to check out the legendary awesome Lake Fork in Texas. I'm
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Simon with Lake Hub. We'll catch you next time
