Eagle Mountain Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, White Bass, Channel Catfish, Blue Catfish, White Crappie
The reservoir
Eagle Mountain Lake covers 8,418 acres in Texas, across 2 counties: Tarrant and Wise. It is a reservoir: 90.6% of it is 36 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 47 feet (14.3 m); at the dam, USGS RESSED gives 62 feet (18.9 m) at full pool. Our records hold 9 species for this water.
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- White Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Blue Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- White Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Common Carp, Threadfin Shad.
Depth: down to 47 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 47 ft (14.3 m). USGS RESSED gives 62 ft (18.9 m) at the dam at full pool: a measured figure, not a survey map. 90.6% of the water is 36 feet or shallower. We hold 170 depth contours for this water, drawn from 399,253 soundings.
- 0–3 ft: 4.9% of the water
- 3–6 ft: 9.8% of the water
- 6–9 ft: 9.4% of the water
- 9–12 ft: 8.9% of the water
- 12–15 ft: 9.4% of the water
- 15–18 ft: 6.8% of the water
- 18–21 ft: 7.7% of the water
- 21–24 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 24–27 ft: 5.4% of the water
- 27–30 ft: 5.7% of the water
- 30–33 ft: 8.8% of the water
- 33–36 ft: 8.1% of the water
- 36–39 ft: 4.8% of the water
- 39–42 ft: 4.3% of the water
- 42–44 ft: 0.3% of the water
Stocking: 10,787,061 fish, 1969–2025
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department records list 10,787,061 fish released into this water from 1969 to 2025.
- Walleye: 6,650,180 in 1973–1975
- Largemouth Bass: 400,275 in 1969–1978
- Smallmouth Bass: 318,365 in 1978–1999
- Channel Catfish: 138,259 in 1969–1979
- Blue Catfish: 92,147 in 1991
- White Crappie: 20,000 in 1969
- Threadfin Shad: 2,985 in 1984
5 more species on the stocking list.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 8,418 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, 2018.
- USACE CWMS — USACE CWMS elevation-area curves: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
- USGS RESSED — USGS RESSED reservoir sedimentation database: 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.
