Water level
1113.33ft
-0.03 ft in 24h
USACE Beaver_Dam-Headwater updated 9:00 AM
Waters · Lakes · AR · Wed, Sep 30
Beaver Lake water level today 1113.33 ft, falling
Bite index 6/10 — Biting — save your energy for the evening.
Worth a cast.
Built from solunar, pressure, level, wind. This water has no live gauge for every reading — see the sources below.
6/10
Biting
Today's bite windows
12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
10Peak 9 8Strong 7 6Good 5 4Slow 3 2 1Dead
Major
3:04 AM–5:04 AM
Moon overhead
Minor
11:12 AM–12:12 PM
Moonset
Major
3:33 PM–5:33 PM
Moon underfoot
Minor
8:51 PM–9:51 PM
Moonrise
Sunrise 7:09 AM · sunset 7:00 PM · tomorrow's first major 4:04 AM–6:04 AM · windows on every water
Solunar · computed updated 9:31 AM
Conditions right now
Water temp estimated
≈71.6°F
7-day mean of air temperature, ±4.5°F typical
computed from NOAA KROG updated 9:15 AM
Pressure
29.96inHg
rising · +1.02 hPa/12h
NOAA KROG updated 9:15 AM
Wind
9mph SE
NOAA KROG updated 9:15 AM
Moon
81% waning
Solunar · computed updated 9:31 AM
What this means
Largemouth bass, Crappie, Catfish
This gauge reports level but no water temperature, so depth calls stay open. Read the windows and the pressure trend instead.
Beaver Lake level over the last 8 days
1113.33 ft above NGVD-29 down 0.03 ft in 24 hours
That sits 6% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 1113.31 and 1113.63 ft. Over the week it is down0.25ft.
09-22 1113.31–1113.63 ft 09-30
USACE Beaver_Dam-Headwater updated 9:00 AM
The week ahead
| Thu | 7 | Biting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri | 7 | Biting | |
| Sat | 7 | Biting | |
| Sun | 6 | Biting | |
| Mon | 6 | Biting | |
| Tue | 5 | Picky | |
| Wed | 6 | Biting |
Forecast days carry solunar and the wind outlook. Pressure and gauge movement land the morning of.
Before you go
A Arkansas fishing license covers this water — $10.50 a year for residents. AGFC sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What it costs, and who is exempt →Nearby waters today
- 7 Biting Table Rock Lake MO · 52 km
- 5 Picky Tenkiller Lake OK · 142 km
- 6 Biting Oologah Lake OK · 164 km
- 5 Picky Broken Bow Lake OK · 265 km
- 4 Picky Canyon Ferry Lake MT · 1866 km
Questions people ask about Beaver Lake
Answered from the same readings as the rest of this page. Where we have no basis for an answer, there is no entry — spot-by-spot local knowledge is not something we can claim for Beaver Lake.
- Is it worth fishing Beaver Lake today?
- 6 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 3:04 AM–5:04 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
- What time should you fish Beaver Lake?
- Today's major windows run 3:04 AM–5:04 AM and 3:33 PM–5:33 PM, with minor windows at 11:12 AM–12:12 PM and 8:51 PM–9:51 PM. Sunrise is 7:09 AM and sunset 7:00 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Beaver Lake?
- No gauge on Beaver Lake measures it, so this is an estimate: roughly 71.6°F, worked out from the 7-day mean of air temperature at NOAA weather station KROG (Rogers - Rogers Executive Airport - Carter Field). Checked against the lakes that do have a thermometer, that method lands within about 4.5°F of the real reading and was off by 8.3°F at worst. Treat it as a ballpark, not a measurement — and note the bite index above ignores it entirely, because an error that size would move the verdict as often as it would fix it.
- What is the water level at Beaver Lake right now?
- 1113.33 ft above NGVD-29, read at 9:00 AM from the Beaver_Dam-Headwater gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.03 ft.
- Are water levels rising or falling at Beaver Lake?
- Falling. The lake is down 0.03 ft in 24 hours and down 0.25 ft over the week. Over the last 8 days it has held between 1113.31 and 1113.63 ft. Every figure here is a difference between two gauge readings, not a forecast — what the level does next depends on rain and on what the dam releases.
- Can you eat the fish you catch in Beaver Lake?
- That is a health question and it belongs with the state, not with us. AR publishes fish consumption advisories through its health or environmental agency, and those are the ones that count. We give no eating advice.
- Do you need a licence to fish Beaver Lake?
- Yes. A Arkansas fishing license covers this water, required from age 16. AGFC sets the rules and is the one that counts.
Where these numbers come from
- Solunar computed 9:31 AM
- NOAA KROG Rogers - Rogers Executive Airport - Carter Field 9:15 AM
- NOAA TSA gridded forecast 6:50 AM
- USACE Beaver_Dam-Headwater SWL:Beaver_Dam-Headwater 9:00 AM
The White River above Beaver Dam, read by the Corps of Engineers. USGS has no gauge on the lake. The Corps puts the top of the flood pool at 1,130 ft and the bottom of the normal pool at 1,077 ft, with the old streambed at 914 ft — so the water at the dam is roughly two hundred feet deep. No temperature sensor, so the depth calls stay open.
No one types these in by hand. If a source goes quiet, the page says so instead of showing you yesterday.