howsthebite · Texas
How's the bite in Texas today?
- Lockjaw
- Picky
- Biting
- On fire
28 tracked waters in TX. Faded dots are the rest of the country. 1 outside the map area.
| Index | Water | Temp | Level | Best window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 On fire | Canyon Lake | — | 907.19 ft | 4:20 AM–6:20 AM |
| 9 On fire | Choke Canyon Reservoir | — | 190.45 ft | 4:20 AM–6:20 AM |
| 8 On fire | Grapevine Lake | — | 532.52 ft | 4:15 AM–6:15 AM |
| 8 On fire | Lake Buchanan | — | 1018.34 ft | 4:21 AM–6:21 AM |
| 8 On fire | Lake Travis | — | 677.14 ft | 4:18 AM–6:18 AM |
| 8 On fire | Medina Lake | — | 1018.98 ft | 4:23 AM–6:23 AM |
| 8 On fire | Rockport | 77.5°F | 1.765 ft | 4:15 AM–6:15 AM |
| 7 Biting | Belton Lake | — | 592.65 ft | 4:17 AM–6:17 AM |
| 7 Biting | Cedar Creek Reservoir | — | 315.88 ft | 4:11 AM–6:11 AM |
| 7 Biting | Corpus Christi Bay | 77°F | 1.877 ft | 4:16 AM–6:16 AM |
| 7 Biting | Galveston | 76.6°F | 2.106 ft | 4:05 AM–6:05 AM |
| 7 Biting | Joe Pool Lake | — | 519.85 ft | 4:15 AM–6:15 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Conroe | — | 199.36 ft | 4:09 AM–6:09 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Fork Reservoir | — | 397.93 ft | 4:08 AM–6:08 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Granbury | — | 690.68 ft | 4:18 AM–6:18 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Lavon | — | 487.48 ft | 4:12 AM–6:12 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Lewisville | — | 517.86 ft | 4:14 AM–6:14 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Livingston | — | 129.05 ft | 4:06 AM–6:06 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Palestine | — | 342.76 ft | 4:08 AM–6:08 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Ray Roberts | — | 630.65 ft | 4:15 AM–6:15 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Somerville | — | 236.06 ft | 4:13 AM–6:13 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Tawakoni | — | 434.77 ft | 4:10 AM–6:10 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Texoma | — | 616.88 ft | 4:13 AM–6:13 AM |
| 7 Biting | Lake Whitney | — | 530.48 ft | 4:16 AM–6:16 AM |
| 7 Biting | Port Aransas | 76.6°F | 1.722 ft | 4:15 AM–6:15 AM |
| 7 Biting | Sam Rayburn Reservoir | — | 152.87 ft | 4:03 AM–6:03 AM |
| 7 Biting | South Padre Island | 78.6°F | 1.293 ft | 4:15 AM–6:15 AM |
| 7 Biting | Texas City Dike | 74.5°F | 2.654 ft | 4:06 AM–6:06 AM |
Rebuilt 9:41 AM · every reading carries its station on the water's own page.
Before you go
A Texas fishing licence runs $30 a year for residents. TPWD sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What a Texas fishing licence costs, and who is exempt → The days you can fish Texas without a licence →What you may keep
TPWD sets a size or bag limit for 30 species here — 28 with at least one area open today. Where a species is open in one water and closed in another, its own page says which. Each page carries the agency's own figures, the date they were read, and what is still unsettled.
- Alligator gar
- Black drum
- Black grouper
- Blue marlin
- Channel and blue catfish
- Cobia
- Flathead catfish
- Gag grouper
- Goliath grouper closed today
- Gray triggerfish
- Greater amberjack
- King mackerel
- Lane snapper
- Largemouth bass
- Mullet
- Nassau grouper closed today
- Red drum (redfish)
- Red snapper
- Sailfish
- Sharks (allowable species — see notes for tiers and exceptions)
- Sheepshead
- Snook
- Southern flounder
- Spanish mackerel
- Spotted seatrout (speckled trout)
- Tarpon
- Tripletail
- Vermilion snapper
- White and black crappie
- White marlin
Can you eat what you catch?
That call belongs to Texas Department of State Health Services (Texas DSHS) — an interactive viewer shows advisories and possession bans by waterbody. We link the source instead of paraphrasing health advice.
Texas DSHS consumption advisories →