Possum Kingdom Lake fishing: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Smallmouth Bass
Target species: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Walleye, White Bass, Blue Catfish, Channel Catfish
Boat: 1 ramp or launch on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Possum Kingdom Lake Public.
The reservoir
Possum Kingdom Lake covers 16,323 acres in Texas, across 3 counties: Palo Pinto, Young and Stephens. It is a reservoir: 91.4% of it is 70 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is 107 feet (32.5 m). Our records hold 12 species for this water.
Depth: down to 107 ft at the deepest measured point
Deepest measured point: 107 ft (32.5 m). 91.4% of the water is 70 feet or shallower.
- 0–10 ft: 24.3% of the water
- 10–20 ft: 20.1% of the water
- 20–30 ft: 14.3% of the water
- 30–40 ft: 10.2% of the water
- 40–50 ft: 8.7% of the water
- 50–60 ft: 7.3% of the water
- 60–70 ft: 6.5% of the water
- 70–80 ft: 4.2% of the water
- 80–90 ft: 3% of the water
- 90–100 ft: 1.5% of the water
- 100–101 ft: 0.1% of the water
7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass
- Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
- Striped Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Smallmouth Bass — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
- Walleye — Feeding water: 50–75°F.
- White Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
- Blue Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
- Channel Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
Also recorded here: Rainbow Trout, Common Carp, Goldfish, Threadfin Shad, Inland Silverside.
Stocking: 50,272,052 fish, 1994–2026
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department records list 50,272,052 fish released into this water from 1994 to 2026.
- Striped Bass: 26,570,368 in 2003–2026
- Walleye: 16,010,000 in 1964–1975
- Largemouth Bass: 1,359,313 in 1966–2005
- Smallmouth Bass: 989,013 in 1978–2026
- Channel Catfish: 616,561 in 1972–2013
- Blue Catfish: 70,995 in 2002
- Threadfin Shad: 8,600 in 1980
3 more species on the stocking list.
Water and conditions
Water clarity runs 1.6–4.9 feet on our readings, averaging 3.4 feet, from 137 readings. pH averages 8.2. These readings span 2017–2026.
1 ramp or launch on this water
On this water we hold 1 boat ramp.
- Possum Kingdom Lake Public website thedockpk.com
The place listed has no fee or opening hours on file: 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: 16,323 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. Clarity swings from 1.6 to 4.9 feet between our readings — the water you meet is not the water someone photographed. Only 1 public ramp is 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, 2016.
- 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.
