Waters · Lakes · MS · Fri, Oct 30
Grenada Lake water level today 202.66 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.
Today's bite windows
Sunrise 7:16 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
Grenada Lake level over the last 8 days
202.66 ft above NGVD-29 down 0.16 ft in 24 hours
That sits 0% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 202.66 and 204.13 ft. Over the week it is down1.30ft.
The week ahead
| Sat | 7 | Biting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 7 | 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 Enid Lake MS · 41 km
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- 8 On fire Kerr Lake VA · 1087 km
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Questions people ask about Grenada 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 Grenada Lake.
- Is it worth fishing Grenada Lake today?
- 7 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 3:44 AM–5:44 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
- What time should you fish Grenada Lake?
- Today's major windows run 3:44 AM–5:44 AM and 4:16 PM–6:16 PM, with minor windows at 11:52 AM–12:52 PM and 9:43 PM–10:43 PM. Sunrise is 7:16 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 Grenada Lake?
- No gauge on Grenada Lake measures it, so this is an estimate: roughly 60.7°F, worked out from the 7-day mean of air temperature at NOAA weather station K5A6 (Winona-Montgomery County Airport). 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 Grenada Lake right now?
- 202.66 ft above NGVD-29, read at 9:00 AM from the Grenada Lake gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.16 ft.
- Are water levels rising or falling at Grenada Lake?
- Falling. The lake is down 0.16 ft in 24 hours and down 1.30 ft over the week. Over the last 8 days it has held between 202.66 and 204.13 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 Grenada 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 Grenada 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 K5A6 Winona-Montgomery County Airport 9:15 AM
- NOAA JAN gridded forecast 9:26 AM
- USACE Grenada Lake Grenada Lake and Dam, MS 9:00 AM
One of Mississippi's four Yazoo-basin flood-control lakes and a crappie water of national reputation, read by the Corps of Engineers. Summer pool is 193 ft; the lake is drawn down well below that through the winter. The Corps also gauges the tailwater below the dam; this page reads the lake.
No one types these in by hand. If a source goes quiet, the page says so instead of showing you yesterday.