Waters · Lakes · KY · Mon, Aug 17

How's the bite at Kentucky Lake today? Picky — save your energy for the evening.

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
Major
3:30 AM–5:30 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
10:59 AM–11:59 AM
Moonrise
Major
3:52 PM–5:52 PM
Moon overhead
Minor
9:39 PM–10:39 PM
Moonset

Sunrise 6:11 AM · sunset 7:41 PM · tomorrow's first major 4:15 AM–6:15 AM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 10:21 AM

Conditions right now

Water level
357.18ft
-0.14 ft in 24h
NOAA NWPS KYDK2 updated 9:00 AM
Pressure
30.02inHg
rising · +2.03 hPa/12h
NOAA KPAH updated 9:55 AM
Wind
9mph N
NOAA KPAH updated 9:55 AM
Moon
27% waxing
Solunar · computed updated 10:21 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.

Kentucky Lake water level today

357.18 ft down 0.14 ft in 24 hours

That sits 20% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 357.03 and 357.79 ft. Over the week it is down0.43ft.

08-09 357.03–357.79 ft 08-17
NOAA NWPS KYDK2 updated 9:00 AM

The week ahead

Tue 6 Biting
Wed 6 Biting
Thu 6 Biting
Fri 6 Biting
Sat 6 Biting
Sun 5 Picky
Mon 6 Biting

Forecast days carry solunar and the wind outlook. Pressure and gauge movement land the morning of.

Before you go

A Kentucky fishing license covers this water — $24.31 a year for residents. KDFWR sets the rules and is the one that counts.

What it costs, and who is exempt →

Nearby waters today

Questions people ask about Kentucky 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 Kentucky Lake.

Is it worth fishing Kentucky Lake today?
5 out of 10 — picky. Work for it. The strongest stretch is 3:30 AM–5:30 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
What time should you fish Kentucky Lake?
Today's major windows run 3:30 AM–5:30 AM and 3:52 PM–5:52 PM, with minor windows at 10:59 AM–11:59 AM and 9:39 PM–10:39 PM. Sunrise is 6:11 AM and sunset 7:41 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
What is the water temperature at Kentucky Lake?
No gauge on Kentucky 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 Kentucky Lake right now?
357.18 ft, read at 9:00 AM from NOAA NWPS station KYDK2. Over 24 hours it is down 0.14 ft.
Can you eat the fish you catch in Kentucky Lake?
That is a health question and it belongs with the state, not with us. KY publishes fish consumption advisories through its health or environmental agency, and those are the ones that count. We give no eating advice.
Do you need a licence to fish Kentucky Lake?
Yes. A Kentucky fishing license covers this water, required from age 16. KDFWR sets the rules and is the one that counts.

What a Kentucky license costs, and who is exempt

Where these numbers come from

The Tennessee Valley Authority reads this pool at Kentucky Dam, and NOAA republishes it hourly — USGS has no gauge anywhere on the lake. Summer pool is 359 ft and winter pool 354 ft, so a reading in the high 350s is a full lake. There is no temperature sensor, so the depth calls stay open.

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