Waters · Lakes · KY · Mon, Aug 17

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

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
Major
3:17 AM–5:17 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
10:45 AM–11:45 AM
Moonrise
Major
3:40 PM–5:40 PM
Moon overhead
Minor
9:26 PM–10:26 PM
Moonset

Sunrise 5:59 AM · sunset 7:29 PM · tomorrow's first major 4:02 AM–6:02 AM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 5:33 AM

Conditions right now

Water level
706.57ft
-0.04 ft in 24h
USACE Wolf Creek Dam updated 4:45 AM
Pressure
30.02inHg
steady · -0.34 hPa/12h
NOAA KEKQ updated 5:15 AM
Wind
0mph N
NOAA KEKQ updated 5:15 AM
Moon
27% waxing
Solunar · computed updated 5:33 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.

Lake Cumberland water level today

706.57 ft down 0.04 ft in 24 hours

That sits 46% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 706.33 and 706.85 ft. Over the week it is down0.21ft.

08-09 706.33–706.85 ft 08-17
USACE Wolf Creek Dam updated 4:45 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 Lake Cumberland

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 Cumberland.

Is it worth fishing Lake Cumberland today?
6 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 3:17 AM–5:17 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 Cumberland?
Today's major windows run 3:17 AM–5:17 AM and 3:40 PM–5:40 PM, with minor windows at 10:45 AM–11:45 AM and 9:26 PM–10:26 PM. Sunrise is 5:59 AM and sunset 7:29 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
What is the water temperature at Lake Cumberland?
No gauge on Lake Cumberland 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 Cumberland right now?
706.57 ft, read at 4:45 AM from the Wolf Creek Dam gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.04 ft.
Can you eat the fish you catch in Lake Cumberland?
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 Lake Cumberland?
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

Wolf Creek Dam holds this lake, and the Corps of Engineers reads the pool there every fifteen minutes — USGS has no gauge on the lake at all. The Corps puts the top of the power pool at 723 ft and the bottom at 673 ft; that fifty-foot band is the seasonal drawdown, so a reading in the seven-hundreds is normal rather than low. There is no temperature sensor in the lake, 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.