Waters · Lakes · IL · Mon, Aug 24

How's the bite at Lake Shelbyville 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
1:56 AM–2:56 AM
Moonset
Major
9:16 AM–11:16 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
5:29 PM–6:29 PM
Moonrise
Major
9:41 PM–11:41 PM
Moon overhead

Sunrise 6:16 AM · sunset 7:37 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:05 AM–12:05 PM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 3:22 PM

Conditions right now

Water level
600.53ft
-0.05 ft in 24h
USACE Shelbyville Pool updated 3:00 PM
Flow
-143cfs
USACE Shelbyville Pool stale — last good 3:00 AM
Pressure
30.1inHg
steady · +0.7 hPa/12h
NOAA K1H2 updated 2:55 PM
Wind
0mph N
NOAA K1H2 updated 2:55 PM
Moon
88% waxing
Solunar · computed updated 3:22 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.

Lake Shelbyville water level today

600.53 ft above NAVD-88 down 0.05 ft in 24 hours

That sits 5% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 600.51 and 600.9 ft. Over the week it is down0.23ft.

08-16 600.51–600.90 ft 08-24
USACE Shelbyville Pool updated 3:00 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 IL fishing license covers this water. The state agency sets the rules and is the one that counts.

Nearby waters today

Questions people ask about Lake Shelbyville

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 Lake Shelbyville.

Is it worth fishing Lake Shelbyville today?
6 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 9:16 AM–11:16 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
What time should you fish Lake Shelbyville?
Today's major windows run 9:16 AM–11:16 AM and 9:41 PM–11:41 PM, with minor windows at 1:56 AM–2:56 AM and 5:29 PM–6:29 PM. Sunrise is 6:16 AM and sunset 7:37 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
What is the water temperature at Lake Shelbyville?
No gauge on Lake Shelbyville 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 Lake Shelbyville right now?
600.53 ft above NAVD-88, read at 3:00 PM from the Shelbyville Pool gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.05 ft.
Can you eat the fish you catch in Lake Shelbyville?
That is a health question and it belongs with the state, not with us. IL 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

Held by Shelbyville Dam on the Kaskaskia River, read by the Corps of Engineers. Summer pool is about 600 ft. No temperature sensor at the gauge.

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