Lake Fork, Texas

Lake Fork, Texas
Facts & Features

Photo: Doug Lay © 2003 all rights reserved

Lake Fork is on the Sabine River was impounded in 1980 and has 27,264 acres of water with a maxium depth of 70 feet.

Largemouth bass fishing on Lake Fork is a wildly popular activity and is excellent year-round. Lake Fork has placed 34 out of the Top 50 Largemouth Bass caught in the entire state of Texas including the current state record of 18.18 lbs. (sorry Lake Amistad and Lake Falcon) making Lake Fork one of the country's premier trophy bass lakes.

Lake Fork is also an excellent crappie and channel catfish fishery. In fact, when Barry St. Clair caught the state record largemouth bass, he was fishing for crappie with jigs when his lunker slammed the line. This excellent fishing lake is due to a combination of restrictive harvest regulations, stocking of Florida strain largemouth bass, and good habitat that have all contributed to Lake Fork's development as one of the country's premier trophy bass lakes.

Note: Boating Caution Advised!
Flooded timber is found throughout Lake Fork and provides excellent fish habitat. Although access through the reservoir is provided by numerous buoyed boat lanes, submerged timber represents a substantial hazard, so care should be exercised while boating in all areas, even in open water. Many tree tops and stumps lie just below the surface and can easily take your prop of of service if you are not paying attention.

Lake Fork, Texas
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Lake Fork, Texas
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Lake Fork, Texas
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Largemouth bass and crappie at Lake Fork are subject to special regulations:

• Largemouth Bass: Length limit is a 16-24 slot. Bass 16 inches and less or 24 inches or greater in length may be retained. Only one bass 24 inches or greater may be retained each day.
• White & Black Crappie: Caught from Dec. 1 through the last day of Feb., there is no minimum length limit, daily bag = 25 in any combination, and all crappie caught must be retained.
• Largemouth Bass State Record
• White X Yellow Bass State Record
• Black Crappie State Record
• White Crappie
• Channnel Catfish
• Flathead Catfish
• Blue Catfish
• Yellow Bullhead State Record
• Coppernose Bluegill
• Longear Sunfish State Record
• Orangespotted Sunfish State Record
• Redear Sunfish
• Bowfin State Record
• Current Lake Fork Level
• Hawg Blawg - Big Ones that got away! Fun stories & fishing news.
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• ShareLunker Program

Lake Fork, Texas
Lake Map & Directions

On the Sabine River in Hopkins, Rains and Wood Counties, 5 miles northwest of Quitman.

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Lake Fork, Quitman, Texas
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