Cedar Creek Reservoir fishing: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, White Bass
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, White Bass, Black Crappie, Channel Catfish, Sunshine Bass
The reservoir
Cedar Creek Reservoir covers 31,975 acres in Texas, across 2 counties: Henderson and Kaufman. It is a reservoir: 93.4% of it is 42 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 64 feet (19.5 m). Our records hold 8 species for this water.
Depth: down to 64 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 64 ft (19.5 m). 93.4% of the water is 42 feet or shallower.
- 0–3 ft: 5.9% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 11.6% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 10% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 9.8% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 8.3% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 7.5% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 5.1% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 4.7% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 4.9% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 4% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 3.5% of the water
- 42–45 ft: 2.9% of the water
- 45–48 ft: 1.6% of the water
- 48–51 ft: 1.4% of the water
- 51–54 ft: 0.6% of the water
- 54–57 ft: 0.2% of the water
- 57–58 ft: 0.1% of the water
6 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- White Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Black Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Sunshine Bass — Feeding water: 70–80°F. Nonnative.
Also recorded here: Striped Bass, Threadfin Shad.
Stocking: 25,378,551 fish, 1992–2025
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department records list 25,378,551 fish released into this water from 1992 to 2025.
- Walleye: 5,602,000 in 1975–1977
- Sunshine Bass: 3,788,318 in 2014–2025
- Largemouth Bass: 690,000 in 1966
- Channel Catfish: 7,725 in 1966–1973
- Threadfin Shad: 7,015 in 1984
2 more species on the stocking list.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 61°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. These readings span 2019. The latest reading is from 2019, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 31,975 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle.
Where this data comes from
- Texas Water Development Board — Texas Water Development Board: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom, 2017.
- USACE CWMS — USACE CWMS elevation-area curves: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
- Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
