Waters · Lakes · LA · Mon, Aug 24

How's the bite at Caddo Lake today? Biting — mid-morning is your stretch.

Worth a cast.

Built from solunar, pressure, level, wind. This water has no live gauge for every reading — see the sources below.

6/10
Biting

Today's bite windows

12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
Minor
2:39 AM–3:39 AM
Moonset
Major
9:38 AM–11:38 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
5:30 PM–6:30 PM
Moonrise
Major
10:02 PM–12:02 AM
Moon overhead

Sunrise 6:45 AM · sunset 7:50 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:26 AM–12:26 PM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 3:22 PM

Conditions right now

Water level
168.01ft
-0.12 ft in 24h
USACE Caddo Lake updated 2:00 PM
Flow
0cfs
USACE Caddo Lake updated 2:00 PM
Pressure
30inHg
rising · +2.71 hPa/12h
NOAA KDTN updated 3:10 PM
Wind
8mph ESE
NOAA KDTN updated 3:10 PM
Moon
88% waxing
Solunar · computed updated 3:22 PM

What this means

Largemouth bass, Crappie, Catfish
This gauge reports level but no water temperature, so depth calls stay open. Read the windows and the pressure trend instead.

Caddo Lake water level today

168.01 ft above NGVD-29 down 0.12 ft in 24 hours

That sits 0% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 168.01 and 168.28 ft. Over the week it is down0.23ft.

08-16 168.01–168.28 ft 08-24
USACE Caddo Lake updated 2:00 PM

The week ahead

Tue 6 Biting
Wed 6 Biting
Thu 6 Biting
Fri 6 Biting
Sat 6 Biting
Sun 6 Biting
Mon 5 Picky

Forecast days carry solunar and the wind outlook. Pressure and gauge movement land the morning of.

Before you go

A LA fishing license covers this water. The state agency sets the rules and is the one that counts.

Nearby waters today

Questions people ask about Caddo Lake

Answered from the same readings as the rest of this page. Where we have no basis for an answer, there is no entry — spot-by-spot local knowledge is not something we can claim for Caddo Lake.

Is it worth fishing Caddo Lake today?
6 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 9:38 AM–11:38 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
What time should you fish Caddo Lake?
Today's major windows run 9:38 AM–11:38 AM and 10:02 PM–12:02 AM, with minor windows at 2:39 AM–3:39 AM and 5:30 PM–6:30 PM. Sunrise is 6:45 AM and sunset 7:50 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
What is the water temperature at Caddo Lake?
No gauge on Caddo Lake measures water temperature. US reservoir gauges report height, not temperature — so rather than estimate it, this page leaves it out and leans on the windows and the pressure trend instead.
What is the water level at Caddo Lake right now?
168.01 ft above NGVD-29, read at 2:00 PM from the Caddo Lake gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.12 ft.
Can you eat the fish you catch in Caddo Lake?
That is a health question and it belongs with the state, not with us. LA publishes fish consumption advisories through its health or environmental agency, and those are the ones that count. We give no eating advice.
What size fish can you keep in Louisiana?
It depends on the species, and several have slot limits rather than a simple minimum. Open to harvest today: spotted seatrout (speckled trout), red drum (redfish), black drum, southern flounder. Seasons here change mid-year by agency order, so the status is re-checked every morning.

Spotted seatrout (speckled trout) limits · Red drum (redfish) limits · Black drum limits · Southern flounder limits · Check a length against the rules

Where these numbers come from

The cypress maze on the Texas–Louisiana line, read by the Corps of Engineers on the Louisiana side. The Corps publishes no conservation-pool constant for this gauge, so the page shows the reading and its trend without a full-pool figure. No temperature sensor.

No one types these in by hand. If a source goes quiet, the page says so instead of showing you yesterday.