Lake Arrowhead fishing: Largemouth Bass, White Bass, Blue Catfish
Target species: Largemouth Bass, White Bass, Blue Catfish, Flathead Catfish
The lake
Lake Arrowhead covers 13,798 acres in Texas, across 2 counties: Clay and Archer. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 29.5 feet (9 m). Our records hold 6 species for this water.
Depth: down to 29.5 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 29.5 ft (9 m). We hold 112 depth contours for this water, drawn from 206,211 soundings.
- 0–2 ft: 50.6% of the surveyed bottom
- 2–4 ft: 7% of the surveyed bottom
- 4–6 ft: 6.6% of the surveyed bottom
- 6–8 ft: 6% of the surveyed bottom
- 8–10 ft: 4.1% of the surveyed bottom
- 10–12 ft: 5.2% of the surveyed bottom
- 12–14 ft: 6.4% of the surveyed bottom
- 14–16 ft: 2.7% of the surveyed bottom
- 16–18 ft: 2.9% of the surveyed bottom
- 18–20 ft: 3% of the surveyed bottom
- 20–22 ft: 2.3% of the surveyed bottom
- 22–24 ft: 1.6% of the surveyed bottom
- 24–26 ft: 1.3% of the surveyed bottom
- 26–28 ft: 0.2% of the surveyed bottom
4 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- White Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Blue Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Flathead Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
Also recorded here: Striped Bass, Common Carp.
Water and conditions
Our water temperature readings average 73°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 8.7. These readings span 2017–2019. 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: 13,798 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, 2013.
- 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.
