A clean, cloudless night over the water, with air barely moving with the glass holding level. Give whatever structure the drawdown has exposed the first hour at Lake Shadowood Reservoir. A workmanlike forecast: no peak, no collapse. Take the steady approach over the searching one.
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In Texas, Lake Shadowood Reservoir falls inside Harrison County. The setting is oak and grass. Around 85 acres of surface means several distinct areas to work. The whole outline is near 2.2 miles, and most of it is walkable. Few waters listed in Harrison County are bigger. The closest town, Marshall, is 6.1 miles distant. Jefferson lies 11 miles off, Waskom another 16 miles. No county line comes close, which keeps the paperwork simple.
Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. Held water runs deepest at the wall and shallows back to the inflow. A reservoir gives you a hard edge, a shelf, and not much else. Records collected within a few miles name bluegill, rainbow trout, channel catfish, green sunfish and largemouth bass. Records come from public data, not from a stocking programme. Read Lake Shadowood Reservoir for ten minutes before the first cast goes out.
Long-term averages put July at about 82°F and January near 44°F. Winter here means light layers, not lost months. Shade and hour of day matter more than month. Late winter often fishes better here than midsummer does. The season on Lake Shadowood Reservoir follows the weather closely.
Access status is simply unknown for this water. No launch point is recorded nearby, so this is a bank water unless you carry a boat in. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Look for a notice board at the entrance. Barbless rules turn up on managed water more often than not. If the gate is shut, Fern Lake at 1.9 miles is the nearest alternative. Nothing on Lake Shadowood Reservoir should be assumed from this page alone.
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| 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 1.7 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 3.6 | 3.4 |
| 67° | 65° | 64° | 63° | 61° | 60° | 59° | 58° | 61° | 69° | 75° | 82° | 87° | 89° | 90° | 93° | 93° | 92° | 89° | 81° | 76° | 75° | 73° | 71° |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29.97 | 29.97 | 29.96 | 29.97 | 29.96 | 29.96 | 29.98 | 29.99 | 29.99 | 30.01 | 30.02 | 30.02 | 30 | 29.98 | 29.95 | 29.91 | 29.9 | 29.9 | 29.89 | 29.89 | 29.91 | 29.93 | 29.94 | 29.94 |
| 70 | 76 | 78 | 76 | 84 | 86 | 87 | 90 | 86 | 72 | 63 | 53 | 42 | 36 | 34 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 36 | 47 | 57 | 60 | 64 | 69 |
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