Richland Chambers is an excellent choice for anglers seeking catfishes, crappie, white bass or hybrid stripers. Angling for largemouth bass can be very good where anglers can find vegetation and clear water; however, these areas are somewhat limited in size compared to the 45,000-acre lake surface. Many anglers set jug lines for catfishes and go after schooling white bass and hybrids while waiting for jug line action. Richland Chambers produces abundant crappie (both black and white) and may be area's the most consistent fishery for these fishes.

FISHING COVER/STRUCTURE
Native pondweeds are abundant in Big Cedar Creek and along the south bank of the Chambers Creek arm. Hydrilla is scattered along the south bank of the Richland Creek arm from Midway Marina west to the railroad trestle and from 7L ramp south to Pin Oak Creek. The old Trinity River levee forms a crescent-shaped underwater structure between the confluence of the Richland and Chambers creek arms and the dam.

Location: On Richland and Chambers creeks, east-southeast of Corsicana on US 287

Size: 44,000 acres

Maximum Depth: 75 feet

Date Impounded: 1987

Normal Water Clarity: Cloudy to moderately clear

Water Level Fluctuation: 3 feet

Conservation Pool Elevation: 314 ft. msl
Current Water Levels

Aquatic Vegetation: Moderate to light vegetation in coves and creek arms; some beds of floating pondweed