Bank Fishing can sometimes be even better than fishing out of a boat. There are some definite advantages of fishing from the bank. For one, you can keep the bait in the strike zone longer. Bass use the shoreline as an ambush point. If you are fishing from a boat, it isn't as easy to keep a bait parallel to the bank as it is from the bank. It's funny, people fishing from a boat are always trying to fish where only the bank fishermen can reach, while the bank fishermen are wishing they could fish where the boats are fishing.
On Lake Fork, there are lots of places that are good bank fishing spots. Anywhere you have a boat ramp, you have good potential. Usually, deep water is around the boat ramps, and you will always find different types of cover (cement, rocks, grass, docks, etc.) around them. Bridges are also good places to fish from the bank. The inside of bridges usually have deep water around. Boat docks and piers also make good fishing. Lake Fork has several of them.
The number 5 bass in Texas (at the time) was caught by Troy Coates from the bank. It weighed over 17 pounds and was caught at night in February. He also caught another fish over 14 pounds from the bank. Considering how many people fish from boats on Lake Fork, it could be that your odds of catching a record fish are better from the bank. The disadvantage is that you lose a lot of lures that you could retrieve from a boat.

This 10.88# bass was caught by David Smith while fishing with professional guide Richie White on 1/21/95. It was so cold and nasty that we decided to fish from the bank. The boat was handy so we could transport the fish to some certified scales and back to the water.
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