Waters · Lakes · ID · Mon, Aug 24

How's the bite at Palisades 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.

6/10
Biting

Today's bite windows

12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
Minor
2:14 AM–3:14 AM
Moonset
Major
9:49 AM–11:49 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
6:14 PM–7:14 PM
Moonrise
Major
10:14 PM–12:14 AM
Moon overhead

Sunrise 6:40 AM · sunset 8:13 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:37 AM–12:37 PM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 7:18 AM

Conditions right now

Water level
5523.04ft
-0.73 ft in 24h
USBR Palisades Reservoir, Dam, and Powerplant (PAL) reading for Aug 23
Pressure
30.29inHg
rising · +2.03 hPa/12h
NOAA KDIJ updated 7:05 AM
Wind
3mph ESE
NOAA KDIJ updated 7:05 AM
Moon
89% waxing
Solunar · computed updated 7:18 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.

Palisades Reservoir water level today

5523.04 ft down 0.73 ft in 24 hours

That sits 0% of the way up the band it has held over the last 9 days, between 5523.04 and 5530.46 ft. Over the week it is down5.28ft.

08-14 5523.04–5530.46 ft 08-23
USBR Palisades Reservoir, Dam, and Powerplant (PAL) reading for Aug 23

The week ahead

Tue 6 Biting
Wed 6 Biting
Thu 7 Biting
Fri 7 Biting
Sat 7 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 ID fishing license covers this water. The state agency sets the rules and is the one that counts.

Nearby waters today

Questions people ask about Palisades 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 Palisades Reservoir.

Is it worth fishing Palisades Reservoir today?
6 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 9:49 AM–11:49 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
What time should you fish Palisades Reservoir?
Today's major windows run 9:49 AM–11:49 AM and 10:14 PM–12:14 AM, with minor windows at 2:14 AM–3:14 AM and 6:14 PM–7:14 PM. Sunrise is 6:40 AM and sunset 8:13 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
What is the water temperature at Palisades Reservoir?
No gauge on Palisades 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 Palisades Reservoir right now?
5523.04 ft, the reading for August 23 from the Palisades Reservoir, Dam, and Powerplant (PAL) gauge run by the USBR, which publishes one value a day. Over 24 hours it is down 0.73 ft.
Can you eat the fish you catch in Palisades Reservoir?
That is a health question and it belongs with the state, not with us. ID publishes fish consumption advisories through its health or environmental agency, and those are the ones that count. We give no eating advice.

Where these numbers come from

Read at the dam on the Snake River by the Bureau of Reclamation once a day. The reservoir reaches east into Wyoming, but the dam and the gauge sit in Idaho. No temperature sensor.

No one types these in by hand. If a source goes quiet, the page says so instead of showing you yesterday.