Last week was the first week of March. I’ve been starting with my annual Lake Fork trips that week. But there was a flooding rain early in the week, then a couple of cold windy days, so I didn’t make it to Fork until that Thursday. The water temp at the part of the lake I fish was just 49 degrees, and there were no bedding bass to be found anywhere. So I wrote it off as an exploring trip, and scouted some areas of the lake I hadn’t been to in a long time. And I decided I was going to give the lake another full week to warm up before I came back, and just fish Cedar Creek this week.

I launched mid lake Tuesday morning and went back to my best jig and bobber spot. The crappie were biting there, but not as well as two weeks earlier. I didn’t find a good jig and bobber bite anywhere else that morning, and the wind got up so much I wasn’t able to fish the dock and bridge spots I wanted to try out later. I ended up just doing some bass fishing in protected areas, but only caught one small bass. I ended up with 15 crappie.

Tuesday’s jig and bobber crappie were definitely flying their spawning colors.

I went back to the same part of the lake Thursday morning. The jig and bobber bite was very tough, and I only managed a couple of crappie. The wind wasn’t bad on this day, and I was able to spend some time fishing docks and a bridge, but that was a very tough bite too. I ended up with 8 crappie for the day, and one bass. But the bass was a nice one, almost 4 pounds.

This bass from Thursday morning weighed 3.85 pounds.

This week was mostly warm weather, so I’m thinking those Lake Fork bass should be on beds in the part of the lake I like to fish, so I’m planning on going back and trying it again this week. It looks like a windy week coming, not good when you’re trying to see and fish for bedding bass, but I’m going to give it a shot anyway.