Joe Pool Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Blue Catfish
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Blue Catfish
Boat: 2 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Cedar Hill State Park (North), 2 lanes.
The reservoir
Joe Pool Lake covers 6,511 acres in Texas, across 3 counties: Dallas, Tarrant and Ellis. It is a reservoir: 92.3% of it is 45 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 74.8 feet (22.8 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.
Depth: down to 74.8 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 74.8 ft (22.8 m). 92.3% of the water is 45 feet or shallower. We hold 79 depth contours for this water, drawn from 317,887 soundings.
- 0–5 ft: 17.9% of the water
- 5–10 ft: 12.9% of the water
- 10–15 ft: 10.6% of the water
- 15–20 ft: 10.9% of the water
- 20–25 ft: 9.9% of the water
- 25–30 ft: 9.1% of the water
- 30–35 ft: 8.4% of the water
- 35–40 ft: 6.1% of the water
- 40–45 ft: 6.5% of the water
- 45–50 ft: 3.9% of the water
- 50–55 ft: 1.8% of the water
- 55–60 ft: 0.8% of the water
- 60–65 ft: 0.7% of the water
- 65–70 ft: 0.5% of the water
- 70–73 ft: 0.1% of the water
2 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Blue Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
Also recorded here: White Bass, Common Carp, Grass Carp, Threadfin Shad.
2 ramps and launches on this water
On this water we hold 1 trailer ramp and 1 boat ramp.
- Lynn Creek Marina — Grand Prairie, City of Grand Prairie. 5700 Lake Ridge Parkway, Grand Prairie 75052 · phone +1-817-640-4200
- Cedar Hill State Park (North) — 2 lanes.
Fee and opening hours are blank for all 2 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 6,511 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. Only 2 public ramps are on file, so the launch decides where you fish.
Where this data comes from
- Texas Water Development Board — Texas Water Development Board: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom, 2022.
- USACE CWMS — USACE CWMS elevation-area curves: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.
- EPA NLA — EPA National Lakes Assessment: 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.
