Water level
911.61ft
-0.05 ft in 24h
USACE Table Rock Dam - Headwater updated 9:00 AM
Waters · Lakes · MO · Wed, Sep 30
Table Rock Lake water level today 911.61 ft, falling
Bite index 7/10 — 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.
7/10
Biting
Today's bite windows
12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
10Peak 9 8Strong 7 6Good 5 4Slow 3 2 1Dead
Major
3:02 AM–5:02 AM
Moon overhead
Minor
11:10 AM–12:10 PM
Moonset
Major
3:31 PM–5:31 PM
Moon underfoot
Minor
8:48 PM–9:48 PM
Moonrise
Sunrise 7:07 AM · sunset 6:57 PM · tomorrow's first major 4:02 AM–6:02 AM · windows on every water
Solunar · computed updated 9:27 AM
Conditions right now
Water temp estimated
≈67.5°F
7-day mean of air temperature, ±4.5°F typical
computed from NOAA KBBG updated 7:45 AM
Pressure
29.96inHg
steady · +0.7 hPa/12h
NOAA KBBG updated 7:45 AM
Wind
7mph SSE
NOAA KBBG updated 7:45 AM
Moon
81% waning
Solunar · computed updated 9:27 AM
Nearby gauges
These sit on connected water, not on Table Rock Lake itself.
- Release below the dam — 312 cfs · 54.1°F USACE Table Rock Dam - Tailwater updated 9:00 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.
Table Rock Lake level over the last 8 days
911.61 ft above NGVD-29 down 0.05 ft in 24 hours
That sits 0% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 911.61 and 911.97 ft. Over the week it is down0.30ft.
09-22 911.61–911.97 ft 09-30
USACE Table Rock Dam - Headwater updated 9:00 AM
The week ahead
| Thu | 6 | Biting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri | 7 | Biting | |
| Sat | 6 | Biting | |
| Sun | 6 | Biting | |
| Mon | 5 | Picky | |
| Tue | 5 | Picky | |
| Wed | 6 | Biting |
Forecast days carry solunar and the wind outlook. Pressure and gauge movement land the morning of.
Before you go
A Missouri fishing permit covers this water — $14 a year for residents. MDC sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What it costs, and who is exempt →Nearby waters today
- 6 Biting Beaver Lake AR · 52 km
- 7 Biting Truman Lake MO · 185 km
- 5 Picky Tenkiller Lake OK · 192 km
- 7 Biting Ute Lake NM · 922 km
- 6 Biting American Falls Reservoir ID · 1805 km
Questions people ask about Table Rock 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 Table Rock Lake.
- Is it worth fishing Table Rock Lake today?
- 7 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 3:02 AM–5:02 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
- What time should you fish Table Rock Lake?
- Today's major windows run 3:02 AM–5:02 AM and 3:31 PM–5:31 PM, with minor windows at 11:10 AM–12:10 PM and 8:48 PM–9:48 PM. Sunrise is 7:07 AM and sunset 6:57 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Table Rock Lake?
- No gauge on Table Rock Lake measures it, so this is an estimate: roughly 67.5°F, worked out from the 7-day mean of air temperature at NOAA weather station KBBG (Branson). Checked against the lakes that do have a thermometer, that method lands within about 4.5°F of the real reading and was off by 8.3°F at worst. Treat it as a ballpark, not a measurement — and note the bite index above ignores it entirely, because an error that size would move the verdict as often as it would fix it.
- What is the water level at Table Rock Lake right now?
- 911.61 ft above NGVD-29, read at 9:00 AM from the Table Rock Dam - Headwater gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.05 ft.
- Are water levels rising or falling at Table Rock Lake?
- Falling. The lake is down 0.05 ft in 24 hours and down 0.30 ft over the week. Over the last 8 days it has held between 911.61 and 911.97 ft. Every figure here is a difference between two gauge readings, not a forecast — what the level does next depends on rain and on what the dam releases.
- Can you eat the fish you catch in Table Rock Lake?
- That is a health question and it belongs with the state, not with us. MO 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 Table Rock Lake?
- Yes. A Missouri fishing permit covers this water, required from age 16. MDC sets the rules and is the one that counts.
Where these numbers come from
- Solunar computed 9:27 AM
- NOAA KBBG Branson 7:45 AM
- NOAA SGF gridded forecast 5:31 AM
- USACE Table Rock Dam - Headwater White River at Table Rock Dam Headwater, MO 9:00 AM
The pool reading comes from the Corps of Engineers at Table Rock Dam, not from USGS — the gauge above the wall, measured against NGVD 29. The Corps puts the top of the flood pool at 931 ft and the bottom of the normal pool at 881 ft, which is the band this number moves in. The temperature and flow below the dam are release water from the turbines and are shown as such: in August that water runs around 50°F while the lake surface is thirty degrees warmer.
No one types these in by hand. If a source goes quiet, the page says so instead of showing you yesterday.