Waters · Lakes · MS · Fri, Oct 30
Enid Lake water level today 238.93 ft, falling
Bite index 6/10 — 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.
Today's bite windows
Sunrise 7:17 AM · sunset 6:08 PM · tomorrow's first major 4:47 AM–6:47 AM · windows on every water
Conditions right now
What this means
Enid Lake level over the last 8 days
238.93 ft above NGVD-29 down 0.17 ft in 24 hours
That sits 0% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 238.93 and 240.39 ft. Over the week it is down1.29ft.
The week ahead
| Sat | 7 | Biting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 6 | Biting | |
| Mon | 7 | Biting | |
| Tue | 6 | Biting | |
| Wed | 6 | Biting | |
| Thu | 6 | Biting | |
| Fri | 6 | Biting |
Forecast days carry solunar and the wind outlook. Pressure and gauge movement land the morning of.
Before you go
A Mississippi fishing license covers this water — $25 a year for residents. MDWFP sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What it costs, and who is exempt →Nearby waters today
- 6 Biting Sardis Lake MS · 29 km
- 7 Biting Grenada Lake MS · 41 km
- 6 Biting DeGray Lake AR · 295 km
- 9 On fire Green River UT · 1872 km
- 7 Biting Gallatin River MT · 2192 km
Questions people ask about Enid 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 Enid Lake.
- Is it worth fishing Enid Lake today?
- 6 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 3:45 AM–5:45 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
- What time should you fish Enid Lake?
- Today's major windows run 3:45 AM–5:45 AM and 4:17 PM–6:17 PM, with minor windows at 11:54 AM–12:54 PM and 9:42 PM–10:42 PM. Sunrise is 7:17 AM and sunset 6:08 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Enid Lake?
- No gauge on Enid Lake measures it, so this is an estimate: roughly 61.3°F, worked out from the 3-day mean of air temperature at NOAA weather station KPMU (Batesville Panola County). Checked against the lakes that do have a thermometer, that method lands within about 5.4°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 Enid Lake right now?
- 238.93 ft above NGVD-29, read at 9:00 AM from the Enid Lake gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.17 ft.
- Are water levels rising or falling at Enid Lake?
- Falling. The lake is down 0.17 ft in 24 hours and down 1.29 ft over the week. Over the last 8 days it has held between 238.93 and 240.39 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 Enid Lake?
- That is a health question and it belongs with the state, not with us. MS 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 Enid Lake?
- Yes. A Mississippi fishing license covers this water, required from age 16. MDWFP sets the rules and is the one that counts.
- What size fish can you keep in Mississippi?
- It depends on the species, and several have slot limits rather than a simple minimum. Open to harvest today: spotted seatrout (speckled trout), red drum (redfish), flounder, sheepshead. Seasons here change mid-year by agency order, so the status is re-checked every morning.
Spotted seatrout (speckled trout) limits · Red drum (redfish) limits · Flounder limits · Sheepshead limits · Check a length against the rules
Where these numbers come from
- Solunar computed 9:47 AM
- NOAA KPMU Batesville Panola County 8:50 AM
- NOAA MEG gridded forecast 8:01 AM
- USACE Enid Lake Enid Lake and Dam, MS 9:00 AM
The third of Mississippi's Yazoo-basin flood-control lakes, read by the Corps of Engineers, and holder of the world-record white crappie. Summer pool is 230 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.