Fishing Report For Cedar Creek Reservoir, TX

By Rick Seaman

May 30, 2025

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Fishing Report Cedar Creek Reservoir, TX

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Popular Fish Species Cedar Creek Lake, TX

Hybrid Striped Bass

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

With water temperatures in the mid 60's, hybrid striped bass have completed their Spring spawning run, and have migrated back into the main body of the lake. Jigs with a variety of plastics, hair jigs, swimbaits, jerkbaits, crankbaits, slab spoons, live bait and cut bait are all effective here for hybrid stripers. Their primary diet is the schools of threadfin shad that school throughout the lake. They follow these schools to stay close to their food supply. Watch flocks of birds when these wipers drive baitfish to the surface, or use electronics and fish finders along river channels and ledges in 15 to 25 feet of water.

Black Crappie - White Crappie

Uncle Buck's Panfish Creatures Curly Tail Minnow Rigged

Current Report: Good To Excellent
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Crappie fishing has been exceptional, for both quantity and quality. Docks, bridge pilings, brush piles, wood and vegetation are a good place to cast small crappie jigs or live minnows. This is the premiere time to be on the water as crappie remain shallow to feed. Expect to find crappie in 4 to 10 feet of water. Once the hot Summer sun warms the shallows, crappie retreat to depths of 15 to 25 feet, or deeper. Light tackle with 4 lb to 8 lb line is ideal. Anglers can improve their catch by using fish finders, and forward facing sonar, to locate schools of crappie, which tend to stack vertically around cover.

Largemouth Bass

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Texas-style worms and Carolina rigs continue to deliver a lot of good bass here. Swimming jigs and slow-crawling jigs catch bass too. Some bass are spending time shallow, while the majority are cruising around in 10 to 15 feet of water. Successful anglers tend to work areas just outside traditional spawning areas, around any type of rock or cover. The quality of bass here is quite good. Recent tournament results report it takes a 4-pound average for 5 fish, to win or compete for the top 5 spots.

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Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, blue catfish, black crappie, white crappie, bluegill, hybrid sunfish, white bass, yellow bass, hybrid striped bass, alligator gar and bowfin at Cedar Creek Lake in East Texas.

Cedar Creek Reservoir is a 32,500-acre lake with over 320 miles of shoreline. Healthy schools of hybrid stripers, catfish, bass, crappie, sunfish and others. There is limited access for bank fishing, so a boat increases chances of a good fishing outing.

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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".