Bass Lakes Texas

Lake Fork Portable Cabins: Ben’s Barns

Location: On the Sabine River in Hopkins, Rains and Wood Counties, 5 miles northwest of Quitman
Surface area: 27,264 acres
Maximum depth: 70 feet
Impounded: 1980

Lake Fork in East Texas is indisputably one of the best bass fishing lakes anywhere in the United States!>>>

Lake Fork is in the Sabine River basin on Lake Fork Creek in the East Texas counties of Wood, Rains and Hopkins, and covers about 28,000 acres in those counties. That translates into around 675,819 acre feet of water. An acre foot of water is the amount of water need to cover an acre to a depth of 1 foot.

Lake Fork was impounded in 1980, covering over almost 30 thousand acres of farm, ranch, and timber land.
For more details on Lake Fork see the Texas Parks and Wildlife website.
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From Wikipedia:

Lake Fork is one of the premier trophy bass fishing lakes in the world, and serves as a reservoir for Dallas and its suburbs.^[1]

It holds 15 of the top 20 Texas State Record Largemouth Bass. It was impounded in 1980, and reached is normal pool surface elevation of 403.0 feet (123 m) above mean sea level in 1985. It consists of 27,690 acres (112 km²), situated in Wood and Rains County in Northeast Texas, between the towns of Quitman, Alba, Emory, and Yantis, Texas. It offers 315 miles (507 km) of shoreline, and has a drainage area of 493 square miles (1,277 km²). The dam is 12,410 feet (3,783 m) in length and impounds Lake Fork Creek, a tributary of the Sabine River, and other major creeks are Big Caney and Little Caney.

Fishing

Lake Fork was created as a textbook fishery, including initial stockings before the lake filled. Lake Fork was established, by the Texas Parks and Wildlife, as a premier bass fishing lake, with 732,514 Florida Black Bass being stocked from 1979 through 1987. Lake Fork offers excellent fish habitat with 80% standing timber left intact, and hydrilla, milfoil, and duckweed being the predominant vegetation. Other species of fish include Catfish, Black and White Crappie, Sunfish, and Bluegill. The predominant food source for the larger fish is Shad, Minnows, and Crawfish.

To preserve the great Lake Fork bass fisheries, the Texas Parks and Wildlife implemented a protected slot limit of no bass between 16 and 24 inches will be kept, and will be returned back into the waters of Lake Fork immediately. A 5 bass per day limit can be kept, consisting of 5 under 16 inches (406 mm), or 1 over 24 inches (609 mm), and 4 under 16 inches (406 mm).

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