Thread: Salt Fork Lake

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    Salt Fork Lake

    Fish a couple days out there...caught a 4lber and a couple small bass along with a bonus smallmouth. Tried crankbaits, swimbaits and drop shot and they all ate a 3/8 ounce jig and pig...all in about 12' of water.

    That lake has absolutely no weeds or grass...just rock/gravel bottom flat as a pancake..haha...found that the gradual slope to deeper water or a channel did the best.

    Wife dropped shot a nightcrawler and caught quite a few bluegill. About half the size of your hand and extremely skinny.

    Tried for saugeye/walleye in the evenings. Tried deep shallow off beaches and not one bite. Was hoping to at least catch one.

    Just visually you'd think the fishing would be better there, but was hard going. Didn't see any birds either...thought I saw bigfoot though....;)

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    rocky fork lake is the only good bass lake with a fork in it!!!
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    Ha!

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    salt fork blows goats. I hate that lake. Used to be decent about 15 years ago, before the had to fix the damn and drained it like 8'. Since then it's been the dead sea. the ONLY reason I go there is to actually run my boat. Other than that, I steer clear like the plague.
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    Wrong Mac, Clear Fork is awesome.
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