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LAKE TEXOMA FISHING MAP

Plan a smarter day on the Striper Capital of the World. Check the lake level and wind, find ramps on both the Texas and Oklahoma shores, and explore marinas, fuel docks, striper and smallmouth patterns, emergency services and the open-water and river-arm hazards that matter before you launch.

74,686Surface Acres at Normal Pool
96 ftDeepest Point (near the dam)
34 ftAverage Depth
StripersSmallmouth • Blue Cats • Crappie

How to use this map

Start with a region, then filter for ramps, fishing-pattern guidance, bank access, marina services or hazards. Pattern zones are broad planning areas—not secret spots or guaranteed fish. Zebra mussels are present: clean, drain and dry your boat before you leave. Check the live conditions panel before you launch. Tap a marker for details. On the water, tap Track my boat to see your position, speed and distance to every ramp, and get alerts when you near a hazard zone.

Texoma rule #1

Respect the wind and know which state you are in. Texoma’s big open water builds steep, rough waves fast on a south wind, so watch the wind panel and stay close to a cove on breezy days. About two-thirds of the lake is in Oklahoma: a Texas license only covers Texas water, so buy a Lake Texoma license if you will cross the state line.

Live conditions

Lake Texoma right now

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Emergency

Call 911
Tap “Track my boat” to show your coordinates here.

Read your coordinates to the dispatcher and say whether you are on the Texas or Oklahoma side if you know. Stay with the boat, put on life jackets, and hail VHF Channel 16 if you have a radio.

RampMarina/serviceFuel dockFoodRentalsEmergencyBank accessFishing patternHazard guidanceYou (GPS)

Ramps, marinas and emergency services

Map notes & verification

This tool uses TPWD, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Tulsa District) and marina information as its planning backbone. Ramp availability changes with lake level, flood releases and season; several Corps parks are seasonal or campers-only. Call ahead.

This is a trip-planning tool, not a navigation chart. Never use a Thunderfoot marker as proof that a route is free of timber, stumps, sandbars or shallow hazards. Pins marked approximate are close but not surveyed, so their Directions button uses the street address. Phone GPS can be off by 10–50 ft or more, alerts only work while this page is open, and “Boat here” shows a straight-line bearing, not a safe route. Depth lines, acreage and depths come from the Texas Water Development Board’s 2002 hydrographic survey of Lake Texoma (74,686 acres and 2,516,232 acre-feet at 617.0 ft; deepest point measured 521.0 ft, about 1.2 miles upstream of Denison Dam). Lines are drawn every 10 ft of elevation and simplified for speed, so they can be off by roughly 40 ft sideways. Depth shown on each line is adjusted to the live lake level. Silt and erosion since 2002 can make some spots shallower. Never use these lines in place of a depth finder. Weather comes from the National Weather Service and Open-Meteo, and lake level from the NWS gauge at Denison Dam (DSNT2, USACE data; normal pool 617 ft, seasonal pool 617–619 ft). In an emergency call 911.

TPWD lake information · TPWD public access · USACE Lake Texoma level · NWS gauge DSNT2

Go from statewide search to lake-level planning

Use the Texas Fishing Spot Finder to discover water across Texas, then use this Lake Texoma map when you are ready to plan the actual day.

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