Waters · Lakes · CO · Mon, Aug 24
How's the bite at Pueblo Reservoir today? Biting — fish it after dark.
Worth a cast.
Built from solunar, pressure, level, wind. This water has no live gauge for every reading — see the sources below.
Today's bite windows
Sunrise 6:21 AM · sunset 7:40 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:11 AM–12:11 PM · windows on every water
Conditions right now
What this means
Pueblo Reservoir water level today
4860.11 ft up 0.07 ft in 24 hours
That sits 9% of the way up the band it has held over the last 9 days, between 4860.04 and 4860.82 ft. Over the week it is down0.60ft.
The week ahead
| Tue | 6 | Biting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed | 7 | Biting | |
| Thu | 6 | Biting | |
| Fri | 7 | Biting | |
| Sat | 6 | Biting | |
| Sun | 6 | Biting | |
| Mon | 6 | Biting |
Forecast days carry solunar and the wind outlook. Pressure and gauge movement land the morning of.
Before you go
A CO fishing license covers this water. The state agency sets the rules and is the one that counts.
Nearby waters today
- 6 Biting Dream Stream CO · 109 km
- 7 Biting Deckers CO · 119 km
- 6 Biting Clear Creek CO · 172 km
- 5 Picky Strawberry Reservoir UT · 592 km
- 6 Biting Salmon River NY · 2468 km
Questions people ask about Pueblo Reservoir
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 Pueblo Reservoir.
- Is it worth fishing Pueblo Reservoir today?
- 7 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 9:22 AM–11:22 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
- What time should you fish Pueblo Reservoir?
- Today's major windows run 9:22 AM–11:22 AM and 9:47 PM–11:47 PM, with minor windows at 2:06 AM–3:06 AM and 5:30 PM–6:30 PM. Sunrise is 6:21 AM and sunset 7:40 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Pueblo Reservoir?
- No gauge on Pueblo Reservoir measures water temperature. US reservoir gauges report height, not temperature — so rather than estimate it, this page leaves it out and leans on the windows and the pressure trend instead.
- What is the water level at Pueblo Reservoir right now?
- 4860.11 ft, the reading for August 23 from the Pueblo Reservoir and Dam gauge run by the USBR, which publishes one value a day. Over 24 hours it is up 0.07 ft.
- Can you eat the fish you catch in Pueblo Reservoir?
- That is a health question, and it is answered officially rather than by us. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment publishes the fish consumption advisory covering these waters, where a baseline mercury guidance covers every water, with added PFOS advisories at Barr Lake, Runyon Lake and Chatfield Reservoir. Read it before you keep a meal — we give no eating advice.
- What size fish can you keep in Colorado?
- It depends on the species, and several have slot limits rather than a simple minimum. Open to harvest today: trout, arctic char, grayling and mountain whitefish, kokanee salmon, walleye, saugeye and sauger, largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass. Seasons here change mid-year by agency order, so the status is re-checked every morning.
Trout, Arctic char, grayling and mountain whitefish limits · Kokanee salmon limits · Walleye, saugeye and sauger limits · Largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass limits · Check a length against the rules
Where these numbers come from
- Solunar computed 7:17 AM
- NOAA KPUB Pueblo Memorial Airport 7:05 AM
- NOAA PUB gridded forecast 6:46 AM
- USBR Pueblo Reservoir and Dam daily reservoir operations Aug 23
Read at the dam by the Bureau of Reclamation once a day. No temperature sensor.
No one types these in by hand. If a source goes quiet, the page says so instead of showing you yesterday.