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.

6/10
Biting

Today's bite windows

12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
Major
3:45 AM–5:45 AM
Moon overhead
Minor
11:54 AM–12:54 PM
Moonset
Major
4:17 PM–6:17 PM
Moon underfoot
Minor
9:42 PM–10:42 PM
Moonrise

Sunrise 7:17 AM · sunset 6:08 PM · tomorrow's first major 4:47 AM–6:47 AM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 9:47 AM

Conditions right now

Water temp estimated
≈61.3°F
3-day mean of air temperature, ±5.4°F typical
computed from NOAA KPMU updated 8:50 AM
Water level
238.93ft
-0.17 ft in 24h
USACE Enid Lake updated 9:00 AM
Flow
915cfs
USACE Enid Lake updated 9:00 AM
Pressure
30.22inHg
rising · +1.69 hPa/12h
NOAA KPMU updated 8:50 AM
Wind
0mph N
NOAA KPMU updated 8:50 AM
Moon
74% waning
Solunar · computed updated 9:47 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.

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.

10-22 238.93–240.39 ft 10-30
USACE Enid Lake updated 9:00 AM

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

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.

Where these numbers come from

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.