Water level
538.74ft
-0.01 ft in 24h
USACE Monroe Lake updated 4:00 PM
Waters · Lakes · IN · Mon, Aug 24
How's the bite at Monroe Lake today? Picky — fish it after dark.
Work for it.
Built from solunar, pressure, level, wind. This water has no live gauge for every reading — see the sources below.
5/10
Picky
Today's bite windows
12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
10Peak 9 8Strong 7 6Good 5 4Slow 3 2 1Dead
Minor
2:48 AM–3:48 AM
Moonset
Major
10:07 AM–12:07 PM
Moon underfoot
Minor
6:18 PM–7:18 PM
Moonrise
Major
10:31 PM–12:31 AM
Moon overhead
Sunrise 7:07 AM · sunset 8:28 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:55 AM–12:55 PM · windows on every water
Solunar · computed updated 4:23 PM
Conditions right now
Pressure
30.09inHg
rising · +1.69 hPa/12h
NOAA KBMG updated 4:05 PM
Wind
3mph NW
NOAA KBMG updated 4:05 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.
Monroe Lake water level today
538.74 ft above NGVD-29 down 0.01 ft in 24 hours
That sits 3% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 538.73 and 539.02 ft. Over the week it is down0.16ft.
08-16 538.73–539.02 ft 08-24
USACE Monroe Lake updated 4:00 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 IN fishing license covers this water. The state agency sets the rules and is the one that counts.
Nearby waters today
- 6 Biting Taylorsville Lake KY · 152 km
- 5 Picky Rough River Lake KY · 154 km
- 5 Picky Nolin Lake KY · 194 km
- 6 Biting Nickajack Lake TN · 453 km
- 6 Biting Parksville Lake TN · 465 km
Questions people ask about Monroe 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 Monroe Lake.
- Is it worth fishing Monroe Lake today?
- 5 out of 10 — picky. Work for it. The strongest stretch is 10:07 AM–12:07 PM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
- What time should you fish Monroe Lake?
- Today's major windows run 10:07 AM–12:07 PM and 10:31 PM–12:31 AM, with minor windows at 2:48 AM–3:48 AM and 6:18 PM–7:18 PM. Sunrise is 7:07 AM and sunset 8:28 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Monroe Lake?
- No gauge on Monroe 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 Monroe Lake right now?
- 538.74 ft above NGVD-29, read at 4:00 PM from the Monroe Lake gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.01 ft.
- Can you eat the fish you catch in Monroe Lake?
- That is a health question and it belongs with the state, not with us. IN 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
- Solunar computed 4:23 PM
- NOAA KBMG Bloomington, Monroe County Airport 4:05 PM
- NOAA IND gridded forecast 4:15 PM
- USACE Monroe Lake MonroeLake 4:00 PM
Indiana's largest lake, held by Monroe Dam on Salt Creek south-east of Bloomington and read by the Corps of Engineers. Summer pool is 538 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.