Lake Kickapoo fishing: Largemouth Bass, Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish, White Crappie, Green Sunfish, Flathead Catfish, White Bass
The lake
Lake Kickapoo covers 6,007 acres in Texas, across Archer County. It is a lake: the deepest point measured is 30 feet (9.1 m). Our records hold 13 species for this water.
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Blue Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- White Crappie — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Green Sunfish — Feeding water: 65–80°F.
- Flathead Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- White Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
Also recorded here: Freshwater Drum, Bluegill, Orangespotted Sunfish, Red Shiner, Fathead Minnow, Western Mosquitofish.
Depth: down to 30 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 30 ft (9.1 m). We hold 92 depth contours for this water, drawn from 109,237 soundings.
- 0–2 ft: 50.7% of the surveyed bottom
- 2–4 ft: 8% of the surveyed bottom
- 4–6 ft: 6.3% of the surveyed bottom
- 6–8 ft: 5.6% of the surveyed bottom
- 8–10 ft: 5.1% of the surveyed bottom
- 10–12 ft: 4.5% of the surveyed bottom
- 12–14 ft: 4.1% of the surveyed bottom
- 14–16 ft: 3.6% of the surveyed bottom
- 16–18 ft: 2.8% of the surveyed bottom
- 18–20 ft: 3.4% of the surveyed bottom
- 20–22 ft: 3.6% of the surveyed bottom
- 22–24 ft: 1.8% of the surveyed bottom
- 24–26 ft: 0.5% of the surveyed bottom
What is hard here
Wind is the limit, not the fish: 6,007 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.
