Waters · Lakes · MS · Mon, Aug 24

How's the bite at Sardis Lake today? Biting — mid-morning is your stretch.

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
Minor
2:17 AM–3:17 AM
Moonset
Major
9:20 AM–11:20 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
5:18 PM–6:18 PM
Moonrise
Major
9:45 PM–11:45 PM
Moon overhead

Sunrise 6:26 AM · sunset 7:35 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:09 AM–12:09 PM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 3:22 PM

Conditions right now

Water level
258.24ft
-0.19 ft in 24h
USACE Sardis Lake updated 3:00 PM
Flow
2669cfs
USACE Sardis Lake updated 3:00 PM
Pressure
30inHg
steady · +0.34 hPa/12h
NOAA KPMU updated 2:20 PM
Wind
5mph W
NOAA KPMU updated 2:20 PM
Moon
88% waxing
Solunar · computed updated 3:22 PM

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.

Sardis Lake water level today

258.24 ft above NGVD-29 down 0.19 ft in 24 hours

That sits 1% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 258.23 and 259.43 ft. Over the week it is down1.06ft.

08-16 258.23–259.43 ft 08-24
USACE Sardis Lake updated 3:00 PM

The week ahead

Tue 6 Biting
Wed 6 Biting
Thu 6 Biting
Fri 6 Biting
Sat 6 Biting
Sun 6 Biting
Mon 5 Picky

Forecast days carry solunar and the wind outlook. Pressure and gauge movement land the morning of.

Before you go

A MS fishing license covers this water. The state agency sets the rules and is the one that counts.

Nearby waters today

Questions people ask about Sardis 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 Sardis Lake.

Is it worth fishing Sardis Lake today?
6 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 9:20 AM–11:20 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
What time should you fish Sardis Lake?
Today's major windows run 9:20 AM–11:20 AM and 9:45 PM–11:45 PM, with minor windows at 2:17 AM–3:17 AM and 5:18 PM–6:18 PM. Sunrise is 6:26 AM and sunset 7:35 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
What is the water temperature at Sardis Lake?
No gauge on Sardis Lake 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 Sardis Lake right now?
258.24 ft above NGVD-29, read at 3:00 PM from the Sardis Lake gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.19 ft.
Can you eat the fish you catch in Sardis 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.
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

One of Mississippi's four big flood-control lakes on the Yazoo headwaters, read by the Corps of Engineers at the dam. Summer pool is 236 ft and the lake drops through the winter. Oklahoma has its own Sardis Lake — a different water, not this one. 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.