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Cedar Creek Lake Fishing Report

Updated Fri, Sep 4, 2026 from live gauge and weather data

The Dallas hybrid factory: 32,000 acres of birds, blitzes and dependable crappie.

2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Lake level
316.82 ft -5.18 vs pool
Air / High
97 / 97 F
Wind
SSE 10 mph

Sources: USGS gauge 08063010, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.

Satellite view
Friday
4
September 2026

Today's Fishing Report

Generated this morning from live readings: gauge, weather model, sun and moon. A fresh report is published here every morning.

2/5Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.

Cedar Creek Lake locks in another hot, bright day: the fish know the drill and so should you. The gauge reads 316.82 ft, 5.18 ft below pool, easing 0.17 over the week. Today brings clear skies, wind SSE around 10 mph, rising pressure near 1012 hPa and a high of 97. Water sits around 84 F for the season (estimated). With the last quarter, the solunar majors run 5:39 AM-7:39 AM and 5:39 PM-7:39 PM: plan around them and beat the heat.

The plan, species by species

Hybrid striped bassGood

Schooling at first light over main-lake humps and channel edges. Slabs, tail spinners and live shad once you mark bait. It is usually over by mid-morning.

Catfish (blue, channel)Good

Anchor on 20-30 ft baited holes with punch bait or cut shad. They keep biting through the heat when everything else quits.

Largemouth bassFair

Topwater at first light on points and seawalls, then slide out to 12-25 ft brush and points with a Carolina rig, deep crank or drop shot. The bite is dawn, dusk or deep.

CrappieSlow

Straight down on bridge pilings and deep brush at 15-25 ft. Minnows outfish jigs in hot water; move until the graph shows them stacked.

Tomorrow: Similar at 97 F. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.Next report: Sat, Sep 5, 6:30 AMHow this report is made →

Water and weather

Live readings from Cedar Ck Res nr Trinidad, TX.

Water level, last 30 days

USGS gauge 08063010. Conservation pool is 322 ft.

317.73319.41321.09pool 322316.82 ft08/0508/1508/2509/04

Right now

Latest readings

Air temp97 F
High / Low97 / 76 F
WindSSE 10-13 mph
Pressure1012.0 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain1% cloud, 2%
Sunrise / Sunset07:01 / 19:45
MoonLast Quarter, 50%
Water temp (seasonal)~84 F est.

Bite planner

Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today. Tap a bar to see why.

5 AM8 AM11 AM2 PM5 PM8 PMsunrisesunset

Next 7 days

Tap a day for the detailed outlook.

Fri Sep 4 · Overcast, 97/76 F, wind 12 mph, rain 2%

Fair or better. A 12 mph breeze puts a working chop on the banks it hits: fish the wind-blown side.

Species guide

The species that matter on Cedar Creek Lake: seasons, structure and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.

Largemouth bass illustration

Largemouth bass

Best: spring and fall

The headline act on most American reservoirs. Relates to cover: docks, brush, grass edges and points. Topwater at first light on points and seawalls, then slide out to 12-25 ft brush and points with a Carolina rig, deep crank or drop shot. The bite is dawn, dusk or deep.

Hybrid striped bass illustration

Hybrid striped bass

Best: Jun-Sep

Stocked white bass x striper cross. Open-water shad chasers; birds and busting bait give them away. Schooling at first light over main-lake humps and channel edges. Slabs, tail spinners and live shad once you mark bait. It is usually over by mid-morning.

Catfish (blue, channel) illustration

Catfish (blue, channel)

Good year-round

The most reliable bite on most southern waters. Blues run big; channels fill the cooler. Anchor on 20-30 ft baited holes with punch bait or cut shad. They keep biting through the heat when everything else quits.

Crappie illustration

Crappie

Best: Nov-Mar

Brush piles, bridge pilings and standing timber. The fish fry favorite. Straight down on bridge pilings and deep brush at 15-25 ft. Minnows outfish jigs in hot water; move until the graph shows them stacked.

When to come: the Cedar Creek Lake calendar

Activity by species and month, and how the water warms through the year. Tap any cell.

Species activity by month

1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted.

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Largemouth bass
Hybrid striped bass
Catfish (blue, channel)
Crappie
SlowPeak

Water temperature through the year

Typical surface temperature for this water type; today is around 84 F (estimated, not a reading).

5060708090JanMarMayJulSepNovSep, ~84 F now

Angler reports

Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. The water log below tracks each day automatically.

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Water log, last days

Auto-logged from live data
Thu, Sep 3

3/5 Fair. Fish early or late. Heat pins the bite to the dawn and dusk windows. Hybrid striped bass led the card at good. High of 88 F, wind to 15 mph.

Wed, Sep 2

3/5 Fair. Fish early or late. Heat pins the bite to the dawn and dusk windows. Hybrid striped bass led the card at good. High of 96 F, wind to 14 mph.

Tue, Sep 1

2/5 Slow. Work for them. Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing. Hybrid striped bass led the card at good. High of 99 F, wind to 11 mph.

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Before you go

License

Texas requires a valid fishing license for adults. Buy online from the state agency; one-day options exist for visitors.

Regulations

Hybrids 18-inch/5. Crappie 10-inch/25: check TPWD.

Access

Log Cabin, Tom Finley Park, Cherokee Shores ramps.

About this water

32,600 acres on Cedar Creek, Henderson/Kaufman counties, TX. Tarrant Regional supply lake, 1965.

Fishing Cedar Creek Lake: the full guide

The reliable one

Cedar Creek delivers what metroplex anglers actually want: hybrids that school under birds October through March, crappie on every bridge and brush pile, and largemouth around the thousands of docks. Nothing exotic: just fertile water an hour from Dallas that produces every single trip.

Docks, riprap, and the hybrid engine

Cedar Creek runs on structure people built: thousands of boat docks (skip jigs all day), bridge riprap that stacks winter bass, and lighted piers that make night fishing a lifestyle. The hybrid striper program is the lake's motor: slabs and live shad on the humps from June through September under working birds.

Crappie residency

The lake's brush piles and bridge pilings hold crappie every month: spring spawners in the buckbrush, summer fish stacked at 15-20 ft under pontoons, winter schools on the deeper creek-channel piles. Electronics turned it into a year-round numbers fishery.

Common questions

Where do the hybrids school?

The mid-lake humps and points pull June-September schools at dawn: birds mark them by fall. Winter pushes bait and hybrids to the dam basin's 30-40 ft band.

The 55,000-dock advantage

Cedar Creek's shoreline is nearly continuous private docks, and that man-made reef system defines the fishery: crappie under the pontoons, bass on the brush piles owners sink beside walkways, sunfish schooling in every boathouse shade. The skill is efficiency: trolling-motor pace, skip casts, and reading which docks sit near deep water. Deep docks near the two bridge channels out-produce ten to one.

Which Cedar Creek docks hold fish?

Depth decides: docks touching 10-plus feet near channel swings or points. Age helps too: older docks accumulate brush and shade history: skip the shiny new ones.

Is fishing good at Cedar Creek Lake right now?

Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Slow. Work for them. Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.

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