Lake Fork Fishing Report: Prime Time Action on Big Bass, Crappie, and Cats

Artificial Lure here with your June 4, 2025 Lake Fork, Texas fishing report.

Sunrise hit us at 6:16 AM this morning, with sunset expected at 8:27 PM. We’ve got warm weather on tap, highs heading for the upper 80s, and the water holding steady in the low to mid 70s after a string of cooler nights. Lake Fork is riding just above full pool, and the main water color is stained but with plenty of clarity in the creeks and on the flats. You’re looking at near-perfect conditions to wet a line.

The shad spawn is still rolling on the main lake points, and that’s got the big bass dialed in for an early morning feed. If you’re launching at first light, tie on a squarebill crankbait, white diesel chatterbait, or a spinnerbait—work those points and shallow flats to get the most aggressive strikes. Topwaters like walking baits and frogs are electrifying action in the flooded grass and lily pads, especially in the first two hours after sunrise. The topwater bite is on, with black bass slamming frog patterns and walking baits from 1 to 4 feet of water, especially around grass and pondweed.

After mid-morning, shift focus deeper. Mid-running crankbaits in the 5 to 7-foot range are picking up fish around secondary points. Once the sun climbs, the deep bite with Carolina rigs or deep-diving crankbaits over roadbeds, humps, and structural breaks in 12 to 22 feet is starting to pick up steam. According to Marc Mitchell with Lake Fork Guide Service, more and more quality bass are moving out to these deeper haunts as we settle into summer patterns.

If you’re fly fishing, large bream have moved shallow, and wooly buggers or small clousers are catching slabs around the edges of grass beds. Crappie anglers are having a heyday, with black crappie thick on structure from 12 to 28 feet deep—especially around bridges, laydowns, brush piles, and tire reefs. Reports from the past week tell of folks catching hundreds of crappie a day, though finding keepers over the 10-inch mark can be a challenge with the sheer numbers around. Minnows and small swimming jigs are the ticket.

Channel cats are cruising shallow too, mostly in 2 to 4 feet, and will hit cut bait or punch bait around the edges of the flats and creek mouths.

Hot spots to check today:
- The big reef just out from the 154 public ramp is loaded with crappie right now and is easy to find with electronics.
- Points and grass lines in Little Caney and Big Mustang are producing good numbers of bass, especially early and late.
- Offshore humps between the SRA and Caney Creek are holding quality post-spawn largemouth as the day heats up.

Overall, it’s a great time for both numbers and size, with Lake Fork fishing as well as it ever has. The recent successful spawns and abundant cover promise good fishing for months ahead.

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