Texas Deer · Caddo Lake WMA

Texas Caddo Lake WMA covers 8,404 acres and lies 39 miles north-east of Longview and 74 miles north-east of Tyler. 86% of it is public land, mostly state land (86%). In 2025, 11 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 2, a 18% success rate (sum of published hunt rows). Its most applied-for hunt, EDR-CD, put up 8 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw.

Tags, 2025
12

2 licenses

Applicants
—

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
18%

2025, all licenses

Public Land
86%

86% State

Size
13 mi²

8,404 acres

CD
18%hunter success 2025 · 11 hunters, 2 deer

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Every License in Caddo Lake WMA

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
EDR-CD <1% —
EYD-CD · youth 2% (small sample) —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2025 result: EAD-CD.

Draw results: TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $318 ($3 to apply). Deadlines: Sep 1, 2027 (expected) for E-Postcard Archery Deer (EAD) · Sep 15, 2027 (expected) for E-Postcard Deer (EDR), E-Postcard Youth Deer (EYD). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 (summed) 11 2 18%
2024 (summed) 12 0 0%
2023 (summed) 12 0 0%
2022 (summed) 11 0 0%
2021 (summed) 10 0 0%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
White-tailed deer (hunt 1 of 2) 7 2 29%
White-tailed deer (hunt 2 of 2) 4 0 0%

What Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published hunt rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: TPWD 2025-26 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season.

The Ground

State land 7,249 ac 86%
Private 1,154 ac 14%

Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2023 PAD-US 4.0 State Downloads.

What the Agency Says About the Area

TPWD hunt area type: Wildlife Management Area Unit; 1,743 acres published as available for TPWD drawn hunts

Source: TPWD 2026-27 Public Hunt Drawing System.

▸ Sources 11
  1. TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  2. TPWD 2026 Drawn Hunts fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  3. TPWD 2026 Outdoor Annual fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. TPWD 2025-26 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  5. TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  7. TPWD 2022-23 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  8. TPWD 2021-22 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  9. TPWD 2026 WMA Boundaries for Public Distribution boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  10. U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2023 PAD-US 4.0 State Downloads land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  11. TPWD 2026-27 Public Hunt Drawing System area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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