Hey! I live in this area and have started to go to Caddo lake myself. Thank you so much for the tips. Even if you aren't comfortable there because it's not a place you've been- this analysis is great.

If you do ever get to go to Caddo be sure to get a boat lane map, and stick to it the best you can. For years people would drive rebar into the lake bed to mark shallow obstructions in the water. There is a good chance of hitting your lower unit on something while your there. Right around the state line area somewhere there are several old oilwell platforms in the main lake.

Enjoyed watching this. My family had a lakehouse on Caddo when I was growing up. It was on the North Texas shore at Ames Spring Basin. For the fishing, Caddo Lake State Park and Carter and Clinton Lakes and most of the shallow lakes off of the bayous in those western Texas areas would have been fantastic up until the late 1960's. Since the building of Lake O The Pines in 1959 upstream on The Big Cypress River, Caddo no longer gets flushed out with periodic high and swift water. The areas around Caddo Lake State park and Carter and Clinton Lakes (lakes inside Caddo near Caddo Lake State Park) suffer from algae forming on the bottom of the lake. When you put your outboard in reverse you can see the algae getting kicked up. As a result, large areas are no longer suitable for spawning and don't contain many fish. We found the most success in the Texas parts of the main lake around Little Green Brake, Big Green Brake, and just east of there around Jap Island and Tar Island. Also, where the river enters Caddo near Shady Glade is good. These areas all have good bottoms. Yo-Yo's are illegal now but were legal up until the late 1980's. My dad loved to run them, he would put out 100 in one night and we would take them up next morning. We would cover huge areas of Caddo like this and I learned from Yo Yo ing where the fish generally could be found and areas where they were sparse. Sadly, though beautiful, because of the algae, there isn't alot of great fishing around Caddo Lake State Park. Whenever we yo-yoed those areas, we caught mainly bullheads if we caught anything at all. The best fishing in the lake is usually in the scatterred trees between Whatley Island and Little Green Brake. Caddo has so many trees and such a smooth shallow bottom, often it is just tiny differences in the lake bottom, a hump perhaps, that will get fish to hold to it, especially on the Louisiana Big Lake side where the trees are fewer. Like I said earlier, some of the most beautiful areas may have awful algae bottoms. Concentrating on areas that have firm bottoms free of slimy algae is often the first step in finding the fish. I named some of the better areas that have those characteristics.

I went to Caddo this morning and thought about our email conversation about your lake breakdown. If you’ve never been, I love to show you around sometime. I might make a better tour guide than a fishing guide but I could probably get us on a few. Great channel, thanks for all the information.

At that bridge you started looking at is a good crappie fishing.

Great Job👍🏾

Great video.

Some of those channels you see on goodie earth could be channels people take for mud boats. So gotta be careful on that as well. If you ever go there you will see what I’m talking about. I have a mud boat and go out there every summer ! It’s an awesome place and a lot of history there

Break down cypress lake Benton Louisiana, you can get good Google earth pics when they pulled it. I fish caddo a lot we caught 18 other day on jigs 6 foot cypress trees. Spawn is here ;)

Thanks man I got a highschool fishing tournament soon

Yes you totally missed it there is tons of cover on Caddo. Most is on the Texas side .

Yellow lines are channels

Texas only non man-made lake i

I grew up on Caddo, there are VERY FEW lakes like it. It is prehistoric in look and feel… very beautiful and DANGEROUS !!! If you decide to go there, it’s best to have a good gps, but not necessary. You need to absolutely get a lake map and stick to it completely. Like I said, it is a dangerous lake if you just take off and go wherever blindly. It is very easy to get LOST or STRANDED in all of the backwaters.