Today's fishing report for Cherokee Lake, Tennessee: live water temperature, pool level, and a bite score for today — refreshed every morning. Cherokee Lake gets a fresh BassHawk guide report every day — areas, baits, and an hour-by-hour game plan.
How the bite score is built · Where Cherokee Lake ranks in Tennessee today
largemouth bass · smallmouth bass · spotted bass · striped bass · hybrid striped bass (Cherokee bass) · white bass · black crappie · white crappie · walleye · saugeye · paddlefish · channel catfish · bluegill
Everything below points at one goal — finding the most, and the biggest, largemouth bass on Cherokee Lake.
116 state-placed brush piles and habitat sites on Cherokee Lake, marked on the map with the depth each sits in.
| TYPE | SITES | DEPTH |
|---|---|---|
| Brush/Trees | 112 | 10–50 ft |
| Artificial | 4 | 20 ft |
Exact coordinates for every site are in the app.
Traced from pre-dam survey sheets — the roads, foundations and creek beds that were there before the water. Creek channels marked USGS NHD come from the national stream map, not our tracing.
Today's bite outlook for Cherokee Lake peaks at 92 out of 100 — great. That score weighs water temperature, barometric pressure and its trend, wind, cloud cover, solunar windows and the pool trend against bass-behavior research. The hour it peaks, how the rest of the day scores, and the seven-day outlook with the best window flagged are in the BassHawk app.
Cherokee Lake is reading about 65°F, from satellite imagery data as of Thursday, October 29, 2026. The trend is −1.3°F in 6 days — which is usually the number that matters more than the reading. BassHawk refreshes it every day.
Cherokee Lake is 20.3 ft below normal pool. The trend is −2.0 ft in 7 days. Falling water pulls bass off the flats and onto the first drop; rising water pushes them into flooded cover. The daily guide report factors the trend into where it sends you.
Largemouth on Cherokee Lake spawn by water temperature, not the calendar: they stage around 50–58°F, move up between 58 and 62°F, and bed through roughly 62–70°F, with the north banks and pockets warming first. Cherokee Lake is reading about 65°F today, and BassHawk tracks it daily with its two-week trend. The full temperature-by-phase table is in BassHawk's guide to bass spawning water temperature.
Cherokee Lake runs to about 150 ft at its deepest, across ~28,780 acres. BassHawk maps the shoreline, the structure and the access, and depth work on this lake is in progress.
Cherokee Lake has 1 public boat ramp mapped on BassHawk plus 1 marina. The ramps are Boat Ramp. Every trip plan starts from the ramp you pick and routes the day from there.
Yes — 116 state-placed brush piles and habitat sites on Cherokee Lake, each one marked on the BassHawk map with the depth it sits in. The counts and depth bands are on this page; the exact coordinates are in the app.
largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass, striped bass, hybrid striped bass (Cherokee bass), white bass, black crappie, white crappie, walleye, saugeye, paddlefish, channel catfish, bluegill. BassHawk is built for largemouth bass specifically — every report, plan and layer is pointed at finding the most, and the biggest, largemouth in Cherokee Lake.
Yes. Cherokee Lake gets a fresh BassHawk guide report every day: a headline read on the lake, an hour-by-hour game plan, the areas to run with the depth and structure to look for, what to throw, and how to work it. Today's is in the app, free to start.
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