Today's fishing report for Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee: live water temperature, pool level, and a bite score for today — refreshed every morning. Reelfoot 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 Reelfoot Lake ranks in Tennessee today
largemouth bass · spotted bass · white crappie · black crappie · bluegill · redear sunfish · warmouth · yellow bass · channel catfish · paddlefish
Everything below points at one goal — finding the most, and the biggest, largemouth bass on Reelfoot Lake.
Creek channels from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset, the national stream map.
Today's bite outlook for Reelfoot Lake peaks at 96 out of 100 — prime. 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.
Reelfoot Lake is reading about 67°F, from satellite imagery data as of Thursday, October 29, 2026. The trend is +1.9°F in 6 days — which is usually the number that matters more than the reading. BassHawk refreshes it every day.
Largemouth on Reelfoot 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. Reelfoot Lake is reading about 67°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.
Reelfoot Lake runs to about 18 ft at its deepest, across ~10,427 acres. BassHawk maps the shoreline, the structure and the access, and depth work on this lake is in progress.
Reelfoot Lake has 1 public boat ramp mapped on BassHawk. The ramps are Boat Ramp. Every trip plan starts from the ramp you pick and routes the day from there.
largemouth bass, spotted bass, white crappie, black crappie, bluegill, redear sunfish, warmouth, yellow bass, channel catfish, paddlefish. BassHawk is built for largemouth bass specifically — every report, plan and layer is pointed at finding the most, and the biggest, largemouth in Reelfoot Lake.
Yes. Reelfoot 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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