Water level
1074.49ft
-0.22 ft in 24h
USACE Carters Dam and Lake updated 3:15 PM
Waters · Lakes · GA · Mon, Aug 24
How's the bite at Carters Lake today? Biting — mid-morning is your stretch.
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
Minor
2:55 AM–3:55 AM
Moonset
Major
9:59 AM–11:59 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
5:57 PM–6:57 PM
Moonrise
Major
10:24 PM–12:24 AM
Moon overhead
Sunrise 7:06 AM · sunset 8:15 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:48 AM–12:48 PM · windows on every water
Solunar · computed updated 4:23 PM
Conditions right now
Pressure
30.04inHg
steady · 0 hPa/12h
NOAA K49A updated 3:55 PM
Wind
6mph
NOAA K49A updated 3:55 PM
Moon
88% waxing
Solunar · computed updated 4:23 PM
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.
Carters Lake water level today
1074.49 ft above NGVD-29 down 0.22 ft in 24 hours
That sits 85% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 1071.15 and 1075.06 ft. Over the week it is down0.30ft.
08-16 1071.15–1075.06 ft 08-24
USACE Carters Dam and Lake updated 3:15 PM
The week ahead
| Tue | 6 | Biting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed | 6 | Biting | |
| Thu | 6 | Biting | |
| Fri | 6 | 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 GA fishing license covers this water. The state agency sets the rules and is the one that counts.
Nearby waters today
- 6 Biting Lake Allatoona GA · 50 km
- 6 Biting Parksville Lake TN · 54 km
- 6 Biting Lake Lanier GA · 74 km
- 8 On fire Choke Canyon Reservoir TX · 1448 km
- 7 Biting Deschutes River OR · 3296 km
Questions people ask about Carters 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 Carters Lake.
- Is it worth fishing Carters Lake today?
- 6 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 9:59 AM–11:59 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
- What time should you fish Carters Lake?
- Today's major windows run 9:59 AM–11:59 AM and 10:24 PM–12:24 AM, with minor windows at 2:55 AM–3:55 AM and 5:57 PM–6:57 PM. Sunrise is 7:06 AM and sunset 8:15 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Carters Lake?
- No gauge on Carters Lake 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 Carters Lake right now?
- 1074.49 ft above NGVD-29, read at 3:15 PM from the Carters Dam and Lake gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.22 ft.
- Can you eat the fish you catch in Carters Lake?
- That is a health question, and it is answered officially rather than by us. Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division publishes the fish consumption advisory covering these waters, where Georgia keeps this with its environmental agency rather than the health department, and publishes it per water and species. Read it before you keep a meal — we give no eating advice.
- What size fish can you keep in Georgia?
- It depends on the species, and several have slot limits rather than a simple minimum. Open to harvest today: largemouth bass, spotted bass, shoal bass, striped bass, white bass and hybrid. Seasons here change mid-year by agency order, so the status is re-checked every morning.
Largemouth bass limits · Spotted bass limits · Shoal bass limits · Striped bass, white bass and hybrid limits · Check a length against the rules
Where these numbers come from
- Solunar computed 4:23 PM
- NOAA K49A Gilmer County Airport 3:55 PM
- NOAA FFC gridded forecast 2:26 PM
- USACE Carters Dam and Lake Carters Dam and Lake 3:15 PM
The deepest lake in Georgia, held by Carters Dam on the Coosawattee and read by the Corps of Engineers. Full pool is 1,074 ft. The Corps also gauges the reregulation pool below the dam at about 678 ft — that is a different water, not this one.
No one types these in by hand. If a source goes quiet, the page says so instead of showing you yesterday.