CADDO LAKE TOURS
On Beautiful Caddo Lake


Personalized Tours and Guide Services

Specializing in Backwater Tours on Caddo Lake

Come take a journey into the far Outback of Texas.  Caddo Lake is the largest natural lake in Texas.  As you tour the lake you can marvel at God's creations seeming untouched by the outside world.   A wonderful, beautiful and mystic place,  Caddo Lake is a maze of 26,800 acres of interconnected waters ways, bayous, sloughs, ox-bows, channels, islands and cypress thickets.

Caddo Lake is a place that one could explore for a life time and still find places that you could think no man has ever gone before.  Caddo is a natural lake abundant with wildlife and plant life; including 44 threatened and endangered species.  There are 71 species of fish that make Caddo their home, thus having the most diverse fish population in the state.  Caddo Lake is also home and resting grounds for well over 200 species of birds.

Scenic Tours - Nature Tours - Photo Tours
Gator Tours - Birding Tours - Night Tours
We will customize the tours to fit your individual needs.
Also excellent for a romantic get-away for that special loved one!

 Tours are personal tours, available day and night.
Tours are booked by appointment for a time and length of your choosing. .
Drive ups are welcome also.
Call: 903-789-3384 to book your tour.

For more information on other local businesses on Caddo Lake.
Go to: www.caddolake.info


Lake Conditions: October, 5th, 2007
Lake level is really good but a little low.
Wading birds still good but are starting their trip south.
Starting to see migratory ducks, teal & gadwall.
Bass, Bream, and Catfish biting good.
Excellent photographic opportunities at this time.
 
 


Giant Salvania Alert!!!

Giant salvania is a noxious and invasive aquatic plant that was found on Caddo Lake last year on the
Louisiana side of the lake. Giant salvania is a very rapid growing plant that can take over and crowd out native plants.  Giant salvinia has the potential to alter aquatic ecosystems in several ways. Rapidly expanding populations can overgrow and replace native plants. Resulting dense surface cover prevents light and atmospheric oxygen from entering the water. Meanwhile, decomposing material drops to the bottom, greatly consuming dissolved oxygen needed by fish and other aquatic life. This invasive plant is considered the worst none native / invasive species in North America. There has been a huge effort by the Texas Parks & Wildlife, Caddo Lake Institute, Greater Caddo Lake Association, Cypress Valley Navigation District, City of Uncertain and more to eradicate this plant from Caddo lake. There has been a 2-1/2 mile barrier put across Caddo in an effort to stop the migration of the plant into Texas. Unfortunately we have had some get through before we were able to get the barrier established. If you are a lover of Caddo Lake and you want to preserve it for generations to come, WE NEED YOUR HELP!! To learn more about this threat and what you can do to help go to, www.caddolakenews.net


Caddo Outback Backwater Tours
John & Diane Winn
P.O. Box 306
Karnack, TX 75661
903-789-3384 (home)
903-679-9138 (cabin)
 tourguide@caddooutback.com

 
Did You Know?

Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in Texas and the largest in the South,
covering about 26,800 acres at normal water level.

Caddo Lake supports one of the largest cypress growth forest in the world
with some trees as old as 400 years of age .

Caddo Lake has 71 species of fish, making it have the
most diverse fish population in the state of Texas. You will
find fish from the smallest, like the little minnows, chubs & shiners,
to the large blue, and flathead catfish, to the largest the alligator gar.


Over the years Caddo lake has hosted the filming of several motion pictures such as.
The Bayou Boy, (Disney) Soggy Bottom USA, Southern Comfort.
Big John, Gator Bait, Universal Soldier and several more

In 1993, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, a treaty that provides the
framework for the conservation and wise use of wetlands throughout the world, designated
 Caddo Lake as a wetland of international importance.


 

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