December 2005 - Lake Fork Area News

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December 2005
“ The Little Paper With Big Bass Results”
Lake Fork Area News
On the twelth day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me
Twelve Tiki Sticks
Eleven Lizards
Ten Rattle Traps
Nine Yamamoto Kreatures
Eight Spinnerbaits
Seven Magic Shad
Six Joe’s Spoons
Five Baby Ring Frys
Four Lake Fork Frogs
Three Buzzbaits
Two G-Loomis Rods
And a gift certificate to
The Tackle Factory
“The Little Paper With Big Bass Results”
2 - Lake Fork Area News
TEXAS TOP 50
LARGEMOUTH BASS
MINNOW
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Welsh
Amistad Reservoir
Houston County Lake
Fork
Cooper Reservoir
WEIGHT LENGTH
LBS. INCHES
18.18
17.67
17.64
17.63
17.29
17.02
16.90
16.86
16.80
16.77
16.75
16.63
16.59
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15.95
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15.74
15.69
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15.58
15.53
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15.5
15.46
15.41
15.38
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15.34
15.32
15.31
15.28
15.23
15.22
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15.17
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27.50
28.00
26.25
25.50
27.66
25.50
28.75
25.50
27.25
26.00
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26.50
26.00
27.25
25.50
25.75
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25.50
27.50
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25.50
26.50
27.00
27.50
27.00
26.13
24.75
27.00
27.00
25.00
25.75
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28.50
26.25
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24.50
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27.50
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Charles Sirmons
Rex Thompson
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Harold Stanley
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34 OF THE TOP 50 LARGEMOUTH BASS IN TEXAS
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Inland Fisheries Biologists Tag
and Stock 20,000 Budweiser
ShareLunker Offspring
Will the potential next
world record largemouth bass
please raise a fin?
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Inland Fisheries
biologists tagged and stocked
20,000 6-inch largemouth bass
the week of November 14 as part
of an ongoing effort to produce a
new world record.
Operation World Record (OWR) evolved as a result
of the Budweiser ShareLunker
program. Now in its 20th year,
the ShareLunker program has
accepted 391 largemouth bass
donated by anglers and used
them for spawning in an effort to
increase the number and size of
trophy largemouth bass caught in
Texas.
But until OWR, the
program was based mostly on
faith and common sense, which
hold that bigger-than-average
fish stand a better-than-average
chance of producing offspring
that will also grow large. Like
cattle or deer, fish need three
things to reach their maximum
growth potential: good genetics,
good nutrition and plenty of time
to grow.
Recent advances in the
ability to detect genetic differences among fish are expected to
enable scientists to confirm their
belief that big fish have genes
that make it possible for them
to grow bigger, and that these
genes can be passed on to their
offspring.
After extracting DNA from
ShareLunker tissue samples,
TPWD geneticist Dijar LutzCarrillo looks for short repetitive
sequences of DNA known as microsatellites. At locations along
the chromosomes where
as microsatellite loci — the DNA
sequence is highly variable, providing elevated levels of variaContinued on page 4
#5
Celebrate with tradition
The Victorian Age gave birth to many charming and romantic notions. One of these
was the tradition of pulling the “Cracker” at Christmas time. The “Cracker” was named
because of the cracks and popping sound it makes when the ends are pulled.
A London confectioner on holiday vacation in France was impressed by candy-makers custom of wrapping bon-bons in fancy papers with twisted ends. On his return home he
reproduced the idea, adding a few twists of his own. First a slip of paper was wrapped with
the candy, printed with a romantic verse, and a small “pop” charge was added to the pull
ends.With growing popularity of “crackers”, confectioners began to replace the bon-bons
with trinkets such as bracelets from Bohemia, fans from Japan, music pipes from France,
and little wooden barrels from America.
Festive “Crackers” began to appear in North America as immigrants brought holiday traditions from their homelands abroad. By the “Roaring Twenties”, crackers had
gained national popularity.
Because of material shortages and rationing in the U.S. during World War ll production of the treats ceased. The tradition held its place in Great Britain, but crackers would not
be produced again in North America until 1960.
All Through The House carries festive party crackers. See ad on page 20. “Crackers” add the finishing touch to every celebration. They are great for table decor, tree or gift
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tion among individuals. Variation is expressed in the form of
different sized alleles at these
microsatellite loci. Different
sized alleles in different individuals can then be used to identify
or exclude possible offspring at
a later date. “We will be using
up to 17 microsatellite loci to
monitor these fish,” said LutzCarrillo. “We have DNA from
the ShareLunker fish and their
male mates. Taken together, the
combinations of alleles at these
17 loci are virtually unique to
these individuals. This allows
us to use a technique analogous
to fingerprinting to identify specific fish except that the alleles,
unlike fingerprints, are passed
on to their offspring. When fish
are collected from these reservoirs at a later date, we will examine their DNA to determine if
they are possible offspring from
these ShareLunker crosses.”
“The study reservoirs
were selected by considering a
variety of factors,” said Mukhtar
Farooqi, a principal investigator in the study along with Michael Baird, Timothy Bister and
Thomas Hungerford. “The most
important criteria were habitat,
water quality, reservoir size and
sampling conditions. We also
considered the trophy history
of the lake as well as its forage
base and harvest regulations.”
Coded wire tags, tiny
pieces of stainless steel wire
0.25 mm in diameter and 1.1
mm long, are inserted using a
tag injector. The fish are then run
through a device that magnetically detects the tag. If a tag is
present, the fish falls into a holding tank. If no tag is detected,
the device swings a gate inside
to shunt the fish into a net so it
can be retrieved and tagged.
“The fish we tagged
last week will be sampled by
electrofishing in April 2009,”
Farooqi explained. “At the same
time, we will sample wild fish
of the same age from the reservoirs. Differences in length and
weight of the ShareLunker offspring and wild fish will provide
insight into the effectiveness of
TPWD’s OWR largemouth bass
selective breeding program.”
“Ultimately we will be
able to take a DNA sample from
a Budweiser ShareLunker and
determine that fish’s parents,”
said Allen Forshage, director of
TFFC.
Forshage also praised
the TFFC hatchery staff that
raised the fish. “The survival
rate of the fingerlings was high,
which reflects the months of
careful work of the biologists
and technicians at TFFC,” he
said.
The Budweiser ShareLunker program is made possible through support from Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Since 1991,
Anheuser-Busch, in partnership
with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, has contributed
millions of dollars in funding
to support conservation causes
and fishing, hunting and outdoor
recreation programs in Texas.
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Annual Winter Trout
Stocking Begins Dec. 1
For an inexpensive, entry-level fishing experience the entire
family can enjoy, it doesn’t get much easier than winter rainbow trout
fishing in Texas.
Beginning Dec. 1 and continuing through March, the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department will stock upwards of 270,000 hatchery-reared rainbow trout at more than 100 sites across the state. Many
of the fish stockings will be conducted at small community fishing
lakes, state park lakes and popular river tailraces offering easy angling access.
TPWD has been stocking rainbow trout in small urban lakes,
state park lakes and popular river tailraces each winter since the
1970s, providing Texans a simple and economical opportunity to go
fishing.
Catching these hungry fish can be easy, making the experience ideal for both novice anglers and kids. The fish will bite almost
immediately after stocking and typically will take a variety of baits,
from whole kernel canned corn or commercial soft bait to artificial
flies and even small spinnerbaits.
Fishing gear can be as basic as an inexpensive spincast rod
and reel combo, a small plastic bobber, a fishing weight and a hook.
It’s also a good idea to carry along a pair of needle-nosed pliers to
help remove hooks, and a five gallon bucket, small ice chest or a fish
stringer to keep your catch. Be sure to keep fresh trout cold on ice or
refrigerated.
A list of stocking sites with detailed driving directions is
available on the TPWD Web site www.tpwd.state.tx.us. The posted stocking dates are the days the trout are available to the general
public. Many sites offer special events for youth prior to allowing
the public to fish and those are usually the day before. Folks should
check with local parks and recreation departments or water authorities for additional information.
While most sites get an annual dose of between 1,000–2,000
trout, popular fishing holes like the Guadalupe River below the
Canyon Reservoir dam which includes the tailrace receive multiple
stockings from December through March. As the only fishable place
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Lewisville Lunker kicks off
BudweiserSharelunker Season
13.63-pound fish likely to be the new lake record.
Catching a lake record
largemouth bass from Lake
Lewisville appears to be easy—
it’s been done four times since
June 1.
Holding on to that record is
harder. The latest record—
pending until accepted—is also
the first Budweiser ShareLunker ever recorded from Lewisville.
Jon Babich of Lewisville caught
the 13.63-pound largemouth
while fishing for crappie on the
Lewisville Fishing Barge. The
fish was 24.25 inches long and
21 inches in girth.
Babich was fishing for crappie when he saw the big bass
come up and eat a crappie he’d
just thrown back. He pitched
a 3 1⁄4-inch Lunker City FinS Shad into the water, and she
took it.
If recent events are any indication, Babich had better enjoy holding the record while
he can. An even bigger fish is
probably out there just waiting
to be caught.
Professional angler Kevin
VanDam started the recordbreaking big bass boom on
Lake Lewisville June 1, when
he caught an 11.81-pound fish
during a tournament. That record stood only until July 17,
when Houston Rogers hooked a
12.23-pounder. Rogers held the
record just two weeks. Charles
Pratt caught his 12.67-pounder
Texas State Parks Offer Holiday Gift Special
This holiday season,
why don’t you give that someone special Enchanted Rock,
Ray Roberts Lake, a Spanish
mission in Goliad or Wyler
Aerial Tramway in El Paso.
By purchasing a State
Parks Pass gift certificate, you
will be providing the gift recipient and their guests with a
year of free entry to some 120
Texas state parks, historic sites
and state natural areas that represent the best of Texas’ natural
and cultural attractions. Order
yours before Dec. 31 and you’ll
receive a commemorative 2006
Texas State Parks tree ornament, a pillow box for the ornament and gift card.
The Texas State Parks
Pass gift certificates may be
purchased for $60 at most Texas
state parks or ordered by phone
from the Customer Service
Center, (512) 389-8900. Recipients of the gift certificate can
then redeem the certificate at a
Texas state park, historic site or
state natural area and receive
their State Parks Pass. Persons
who redeem the gift certificate
by June 30, 2006, also receive
a free 12-month subscription to
Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine.
Customers also can
purchase the past four years’
collectible Texas State Parks
ornaments for $4.25 each, plus
tax and shipping charges by
calling the Customer Service
Center in Austin at (512) 3898900. A special “RV There
Yet” holiday ornament also is
available through the service
center. In addition, the following parks offer their own commemorative ornaments available on site: Barrington Farm,
Bastrop-Buescher, Battleship
TEXAS, Casa Navarro, Eisenhower, Eisenhower Birthplace,
Fulton Mansion, Garner, Goose
Island, Longhorn Cavern, Lost
Maples, Lyndon B. Johnson,
Monahans Sandhills, Monument Hill/Kreische Brewery,
Palo Duro Canyon, San Jacinto,
Texas State Railroad, Washington-on-the-Brazos and Wyler
Aerial Tramway.
In addition to unlimited free visits to all Texas state
parks, the pass also includes
discounts at select parks on
camping, lodging, park store
merchandise, equipment rentals and free programs. Other
perks for pass holders are a
quarterly e-newsletter, The
Getaway Planner; a free copy
of the Texas State Park Guide;
and a bumper sticker.
More than 100,000
parks passes have been sold
since the program debuted on
Jan. 1, 2004. Revenues this
year have already outpaced last
year’s sales totals, generating
needed funds for the operation and upkeep of Texas state
parks. Through Oct. 29 of this
year, TPWD reported sales of
57,978 park passes, up from
sales this time last year.
“I can’t think of a better gift than that of the great
outdoors and some of Texas’
most significant heritage that
the parks pass delivers,” said
Walt Dabney, Texas state parks
director. “The brass-plated tree
ornament adds value to the deal
and goes a long way toward
supporting our state park system.”
In addition to the parks pass,
holiday shoppers can purchase
a host of other unusual gift
items from the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department, such as
books, videos, conservation license plates, posters, wildlife
stamps and more, by visiting
the TPWD Web site and selecting links to books, posters, collectible wildlife stamps, caps
and more.
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parkpass/
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If you want to find your own
fish, turn on your electron
ics and look for the bait fish.
Jigs and small minnows will be
you best bait for catching these
fish.
REMEMBER ON THE
FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER
the first twenty five crappie you
catch you must keep. There is
no size limit. The game wardens can give you a ticket for
throwing back small fish.
A guided fishing trip
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The month of
December has many fishing for
ideas, on what to buy friends
and family for Christmas. But
December can also be a great
fishing month.
This year around Lake
Fork the weather has been
so seasonable, by the afternoons we are in short sleeves.
This is not the normal. Usually,
December is cold and the fish
will be out deep.
There will still be plenty of fish in the shallow water.
For the shallow fish, spend your
time in the 8 to 15 foot range. It
is a little known fact, that bass
will stay shallow year round
even in the coldest times. I
have thought for years you had
to go deep to catch winter time
fish, but this is not true.
I am still a deep water
fisherman, but I will probe the
shallows with spinner baits,
lipless crank baits, and small
crank baits.
The main thing to remember, the fish are cold
blooded, they will slow down
and wont chase a bait to far.
They wont have to eat everyday as a small amount of food
will go a long way.
The lipless crank bait will be
the most fished bait from now
till the middle of March. This
bait will draw a strike when no
other bait will even get a sniff.
Chunk and wind over grass and
around flats. Cover plenty of
water, and when you catch a
fish, slow down and work the
area over good. Usually, there
wont be just one fish in the area.
The other fish may not bite, but
work the area over good and
even change to a slow moving
bait.
During the winter, I
watch many fishermen come
down a bank slinging and
winding. They catch a fish and
keep on going. They never
slow down and work and area,
they just keep on going.
I note the time of day,
and what the fish were holding
on. This will give me a tip to
start on tomorrow. Some times
the water will be a little warmer
and this will attract bait fish. I
still work the deep water and
look for bait fish with my electronics. When I find these, I
look for the fish arcs and drop
spoons, tail spinners, spinner
baits, drop shots, and jigs and
pigs.
Usually a vertical presentation
is the best approach. Again
work the baits slowly.
The crappie will start
showing up on the main lake
points and humps. There will
be small cities of boats up there,
so finding the area to fish will
be easy. Just remember! Don’t
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and shut down, as many will
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Fishin Lake Fork with Jimmy Everett
December is here, this means
cold weather and cold water
temps. This will mean a couple
of different things for me, which
are extreme opposites. One is
to speed up, and the other is
slow down. One will be deep
while the other is shallow.
This time of year can
mean great quality and quantity
under the right conditions .
The colder weather will
bunch up the deep fish and can
make them easy to catch when
found.
It will also make the
grass become my main key for
shallow water fishing.
Shallow water fishing will be
good around any grass you can
find from the main lake. Stay
along the edges of the grass,
throwing a crawfish patterned
lipless rattling crank bait in half
to three quarter ounce. Throw
these baits in 3 to 4 feet of water, and work on a straight reel
back to the boat . Position your
boat around 8 feet of water for
some good results.
Another good shallow
water pattern will be fishing a
half ounce Strike Works Wood
Jig in black/blue or watermelon/red with a matching Mark
Pack pig claw or Gary Yamamoto craw worm. Flip these
baits around the edges of creek
channels located in 6 to 10 feet
of water. Stay in the creek and
flip in front of the boat to the
stumps lining the creek channel.
The Deep water bite
should remain good. The best
places will be humps, points,
ridges, and roadbeds located in
20 to 35 feet. Your electronics
will be a big key to how successful your day on the water might be. Watch for balls
of bait and fish stacked up on
the screen.
I have
been throwing very few baits
lately, and this is the rundown
of them. On my Carolina rigs,
I will throw a 5 to 7 foot leader
and a 1oz weight. Dragging
behind it on a 4/0 hook will
be a Lake Fork Magic Shad or
Zoom Fluke in albino, watermelon/red, or watermelon.
A drop shot will also
become a fish catching machine
in deep water. I rig mine up with
a half once weight with a 12 to
24 inch leader in-between my
hook. Keep it shaking, is the
best tip I can give you. A Gary
Yamamoto 5 inch cut tail worm
in watermelon/red or purple
with emerald flake.
It is also time for my
favorite weapon. A Grub or
the new Gary Yamamoto swim
bait in shad patterns or colors
on a 1⁄4one quarter ounce Gary
Yamamoto jig head. I fish it
on a jig head over deep water
schools of fish. I like to take
this bait and throw it out, let it
sink to the bottom, then rip it up
and let it swing back to you on
a taunt line. This is a great way
to put numbers of nice fish in
the boat.
If your interested in a
great guide trip on Lake Fork
give me a call at 903-765-3980
and leave a message, I will give
you a call ASAP or visit me on
the web at www.fishinlakefork.
com
Have a great time on the lake,
good luck , and be safe.
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Lewisville Lunker kicks off season
Contiued from page 7
July 31.
What is interesting is that the
Rogers fish was 29.75 inches
long. The longest ShareLunker
ever recorded, a 14.5-pounder
caught by Jeff Neighbors from
Lake Fork in 1988, stretched
the tape to only 28.5 inches.
And Barry St. Clair’s state record 18.18-pound fish, also
from Lake Fork, measured a
mere 25.5 inches long.
The heaviest fish are typically caught during the spring
spawning season, when the big
females are full of eggs. The
Neighbors fish weighed a little
more than half a pound per inch
of body length, while the St.
Clair fish weighed a whopping
0.71 pounds per inch. Multiplying those numbers times the
29.75-inch length of the Rogers fish gives a potential weight
range of 15 to 21 pounds.
The current world record largemouth bass, caught in Georgia
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in 1932, weighed 22 pounds,
4 ounces. That fish was 32.5
inches long and had a girth of
Jon Babich of Lewisville
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Barge. The 13.63- pound fish
was 24.25 inches long and 21
inches around.
28.5 inches.
There may not be a new state or
world record largemouth swim-
ming around in Lake Lewisville, but it’s almost a given
that a new lake record is. The
only questions are who will
catch her, and when.
Babich’s fish is number 392
in the Budweiser ShareLunker
program.
Since 1978 Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department has
stocked 2.3 million Florida
largemouth bass fry and fingerlings into Lake Lewisville.
The Budweiser ShareLunker program is made possible
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Jim’s corner article By Lake Fork guide Jim Reaneau
This months article is
going to cover low water conditions. Almost ever state has
had a drought condition. The
Lake Fork area, is 13 inches
behind in rain fall. Lake Fork is
currently 4 feet low.
Because of the way
they built the lake, we will always have a boat ramp to use.
The main concern is the water around the boat docks for
the home owners. Many home
owners leave their boats on
lifts, or pulled up on shore to
long. Soon they find out they
can’t get their boat out. Our
lake does not fall two feet over
night, so why this happens is
anybodies guess.
Now for some fishing
info. When the lakes are built,
many cover over old roadbeds
and fence rows, there are old
concrete slabs and farm ponds.
All these are fish attractants.
We all have learned this in our
fishing experiences. If you were
not present when a lake was
built, you can get your map out
when the water is low, and look
for these areas.
As lakes get older, the
timber starts to fall. When the
water drops, the stumps start
showing up, revealing the
above named areas.This is a
great time to mark these areas
with your GPS. This is also a
good time to brush up some
good spots, and when the water
gets back to normal this will be
a great fishing area.
The fish will also seek
the creek channels and stack
up. When the water is low you
can follow channels and find
the bends more readily. The
creeks will usually have some
big trees along the banks that
may have fallen and the stumps
are all that is left. Now you can
see them and follow the creek.
The bends will be where the
deepest water will usually be,
and this is the spot where the
fish will be.
Crank baits, Texas rig
worms, and jig & pig are great
tactics for catching these fish.
Some days the big trees or
stumps will hold the fish.
The maps will show
where old lakes or ponds were,
and the stumps around them
will be visible. Now you can
find the dams on the old lakes,
this is a key area. The fish will
seek the hump part of the dam,
as this will be a rise and will
attract the fish. Mark your map
as you find these areas.
Just because you don’t
catch fish right now, don’t give
up, when the water gets back to
normal, the fish may return to
these areas. Fish will seek the
deepest water available when
the water level is falling, so they
don’t get caught in the shallow. They will suspend around
deep water that is close to shallow water.
T h e
main key is to be careful when
you are motoring around in low
water conditions. Go slow in
fields and flats, as there may
be small humps and you could
run aground. Keep your depth
finders on so you can track the
bottom. When lakes get older
they also silt in and your creeks
and shallows will become a lot
shallower than when the lake
was first built, so when you get
to the back of creeks be watchful for very shallow water.
Lake Fork Chamber of Commerce
Members
www.lakeforkchamber.org
Banks
City National Bank
Yantis, (903) 383-2250
Wood County National Bank
Quitman, (903) 763-4545
Boat Sales & Service
Diamond Sports Marine
Yantis, (903) 383-7829
Boat Rentals
J & J Marine & Boat Rental
9747 West FM 515,
(903) 474-3497
Building Supplies
C&M Building Supply
Alba, (903) 765-2770
Custom Rod's
Lake Fork Rod & Reel
180 PR 7001, (903) 473-3426
Ron Jones Custom Rods
2342 CR 1750, (903) 765-3779
Fishing Guides
J & M Guide Service
Greenville, (888) 454-7037
Lake Fork Outdoors Guide Service
Alba, (903) 780-6595
Sheley Lake Fork Guide Service,
Como 903-629-3826
Strahan Lake Fork Guide Service,
Alba 903-383-2029
Fishing Tackle
The Tackle Factory
3205 North FM 17, (903) 765-3398
Golf
The Links at Land's End
285 PR 5980, (903) 383-3290
Insurance
Wa t k i n s I n s u r a n c e G r o u p
Mineola, (903)569-5115
Investment
Heavey Enterprises, Inc
Emory, (903) 473-2614
Lake Maps
Martin's Maps
White Oak, (903) 297-8780
Lodging
15 Acres Retreat - Bed & Breakfast
Quitman, (903) 967-3529
Best Western Trail Dust Inn
Sulphur Springs, (903) 885-0562
Comfort Suites
J & H Lodge
310 CR 1973, (903) 383-2631
The Celtic Queen Country Inn
Trophy Lodge
2784 West State Hwy. 154,
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Miscellaneous
Bob & Barbara Williams
297 CR 1559,Alba (903) 765-4486
Carts To Go
3629 Remington Circle, Plano
(214) 673-1313
Eddie’s Plumbing Service
773 CR 1522, Alba 903-765-9031
FEC Electric
Greenville, (903) 455-1617
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Mineola, (903) 569-3612
Paul Tibbets, 903-243-1926
Sabine River Authority
353 PR 5183, (903) 878-2262
SACO Alarm Company,P.O. Box
445 Quitman, 903-967-7497
The Fish School, Alba, 903-8505555
Newspaper
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Sulphur Springs, 903-885-7223
T h e F i s h e r m a n ’s G u i d e
News,News you can use,Yantis
903-383-7748
Real Estate & Acreage
Century 21 Waterfront Realty
5200 FM 515, (903) 474-2031
Century 21 Lake Country
Quitman, (903) 763-2216
Coldwell Banker United Realtors,
2780 FM 115, (903) 473-1003
Hillside Bay, (903) 455-6977
Jackson Real Estate II
Alba, (903) 268-5009
Shumate Shores
Emory, (903) 473-0177
Restaurants
AJ's Fish House
5210 Highway 17, (903) 765-2842
East Fork
Highways 515 & 154
(903)383-7008
Lakeside Bar-B-Q, 3032 State Hwy
154, Quitman 903-878-2300
Moser's Restaurant
271 CR 1558, (903) 765-2087
Oak Valley Catfish Kitchen
403 CR 1885, (903) 383-2657
Pee Wee's Pit Stop Cafe
3589 West State Hwy 154
(903) 383-7112
Tameraria's Mexican Restaurant
4185 W. Highway 154
(903) 383-7056
RV Parks
Chaney Point RV Park
Alba, (903) 765-2264
Lakeside Cove RV Park,
602-442-0769
Storage Facilities
Byrum Storage
Dallas, (214) 339-3390
Trolling Motor Sales, Repairs,
Parts
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Stan Kuhn
Catfish Guide
Service
Right- John Kapik from
Lincoln, Ill. and guide Stan
Kuhn with a stringer of nice
catfish.
David Ramage and son from Bedford, Tx., on their first duck
hunt.Two mallards, two wood ducks and three teal were taken
on their hunt with guide Stan Kuhn.
Stan Kuhn with two nice
Greenheads
Right- Ryan Collier of Arlington, Tx., Karl Kuhn of
Yantis, Tx. and guide Stan
Kuhn with some nice channel
and blue cats.
The January issue of the
Lake Fork Area News will
be the Boat Show Edition
and will be distributed at the
Arlington Outdoor Show.
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These are just a few of the 29 catfish, with a total weight of 44
pounds, that Ron Garst and mother Erma from Oklahoma
caught while on a trip with guide Stan Kuhn.
We wish
everyone a
joyfull
holiday season
your friends
at
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Thank you
to all our
customers
for another
great year
Merry
Christmas
from your
friends at
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Marina
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Fish House
would like to
wish everyone
a very
Merry
Christmas
and a Happy
and safe
New Year
Best Wishes
This Holiday
Season
From Your
Friends at
C&M
Building
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Greetings
from
Diamond
Sports
Marine
Best
wishes
this
Holiday
Season
Happy
Holidays
from our
home to
yours
Century 21
Lake
Country
Merry
Christmas
from
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The
Tackle
Factory
East Fork
Restaurant
& Club
Wishes
everyone a
Merry
Christmas
and a
Happy
New
Year
Wishing you
a joyful
and
beautiful
Christmas
East Texas
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Holidays
from
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Produce
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making my
first year
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Moreland
Lake Fork
Area News
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Holidays
from your
friends at
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Christmas
and a
Happy
New Year
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Texas Turtle Cake
1 box German chocolate cake mix with pudding
3 eggs
1/3 cup oil
1 can condensed milk
1 stick butter
14 oz. carmels
1/2 cup nuts
Mix cake mix as directed on the box, then add 1/2 can of condensed milk
and 1/2 stick of butter, melted. Bake in 2, 13x9x2 inch pan at 350 degrees
until toothpick comes out clean. Cool. Heat until melted, in heavy pan or
microwave, carmels, other half of milk, other 1/2 stick butter. Add nuts.
Spread this filling on cooled cake layer and then put other cake layer on
top.
Frosting
Melt 1 stick butter with 1/2 cup cocoa, 12 large marshmallows and 1/4
cup milk. Bring to a boil and add 1 1lb. box powdered sugar and nuts if
desired. Spread on cake.
Frozen Banana Split Dessert
2 to 3 bananas
1/2 gal. strawberry ice cream
1 tsp. vanilla
1 pt. whipped cream or cool whip
2 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup oleo
Make a graham cracker crust using two packages of graham crackers. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt to crust mixture. Save 1 cup mixture for later.
Press the rest in a 9x13 pan. Slice bananas on crust. Slice ice cream in
1/2 inch slices. Put on top of bananas. Sprinkle with nuts. Freeze.
Melt 1/2 cup butter and chocolate chips. Add powdered sugar and
evaporated milk. Cook until thick (10 to 12 minutes) and then cool.
Add vanilla. When cool, spread over frozen mixture. Freeze. When
frozen, spread with Cool Whip and sprinkle with crumbs.
Fruit Cocktail Dessert
1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 med. can fruit cocktail
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup nuts
Sift together flour, salt. Add sugar, egg and fruit cocktail. Beat till
blended. Place in 9x9 inch pan. Sprinkle top with brown sugar and nut
mixture. Bake 40 minutes at 375 degrees.
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It is a good idea to get out with
your video camera and make
some movies about what you
find. This way you can find
these areas when the lake gets
back to normal.
Good Fishing and I
hope this helps a little to make
you a better fisherman.
Jim Reaneau
1-888-918-5088
Jimmy Everett’s
Guide Service
903-765-3080
www.fishinlakefork.com
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in Texas where rainbow trout
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months, the Guadalupe River will
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For the same reason,
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implemented along a 10-mile
stretch of the Guadalupe River
below the tailrace. For additional
details about the special harvest
regulations and the location of
that river stretch, please consult
the TPWD Outdoor Annual. The
special regulations zone does not
include the area immediately below Canyon Lake Dam. There, as
in other Texas waters, the daily
bag limit is five trout and there is
no minimum length.
A valid Texas freshwater fishing package is required to
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younger and all anglers fishing
from the bank in state parks are
exempt from the fishing package
requirement.
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are easily prepared. They are best
eaten fresh within two days of
the catch, but can also be frozen.
First, remove the entrails by making an incision with a sharp knife
along the length of the underside
of the fish and thoroughly wash
inside and out under running
water. Trout do not need to be
scaled. Season with salt and pepper, drizzle with olive oil and top
with a thin slice or two of lemon.
You can also season with your
favorite seafood spices. Wrap
the prepared fish individually in
aluminum foil and bake or grill
until done, usually no more than
4-8 minutes at 350 degrees (fish
flakes off easily with a fork when
properly cooked).
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