howsthebite

NM · Sat, Aug 1

How's the bite at Elephant Butte Reservoir today? Good — get there by six.

Solid window. Be on the water early.

Built from solunar, pressure, level, wind. This water has no live gauge for every reading — see the sources below.

7/10
Good

Today's bite windows

12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
Major
2:59 AM–4:59 AM
Moon overhead
Minor
9:43 AM–10:43 AM
Moonset
Major
3:21 PM–5:21 PM
Moon underfoot
Minor
9:51 PM–10:51 PM
Moonrise

Sunrise 6:22 AM · sunset 8:07 PM · tomorrow's first major 3:43 AM–5:43 AM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 11:29 PM

Conditions right now

Water level
2.78ft
+0.19 ft in 24h
USGS 08359500 updated 10:15 PM
Flow
0cfs
USGS 08359500 updated 10:15 PM
Pressure
30.21inHg
falling · -1.1 hPa/12h
NOAA KLRU updated 11:15 PM
Wind
7mph N
NOAA KLRU updated 11:15 PM
Moon
83% waning
Solunar · computed updated 11:29 PM

Nearby gauges

These sit on connected water, not on Elephant Butte Reservoir itself.

  • Release below the dam — 0 cfs
    USGS 08361000 updated 11:00 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.

Elephant Butte Reservoir water level today

2.78 ft up 0.19 ft in 24 hours

That sits 80% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 2.41 and 2.87 ft. Over the week it is up0.10ft.

07-24 2.41–2.87 ft 08-01
USGS 08359500 updated 10:15 PM

The week ahead

Mon 6 Decent
Tue 6 Decent
Wed 6 Decent
Thu 6 Decent
Fri 7 Good
Sat 6 Decent
Sun 6 Decent

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

Before you go

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

Nearby waters today

Questions people ask about Elephant Butte Reservoir

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 Elephant Butte Reservoir.

Is it worth fishing Elephant Butte Reservoir today?
7 out of 10 — good. Solid window. Be on the water early. The strongest stretch is 2:59 AM–4:59 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
What time should you fish Elephant Butte Reservoir?
Today's major windows run 2:59 AM–4:59 AM and 3:21 PM–5:21 PM, with minor windows at 9:43 AM–10:43 AM and 9:51 PM–10:51 PM. Sunrise is 6:22 AM and sunset 8:07 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
What is the water temperature at Elephant Butte Reservoir?
No gauge on Elephant Butte Reservoir 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 Elephant Butte Reservoir right now?
2.78 ft, read at 10:15 PM from USGS station 08359500. Over 24 hours it is up 0.19 ft.
Can you eat the fish you catch in Elephant Butte Reservoir?
That is a health question, and it is answered officially rather than by us. New Mexico Environment Department publishes the fish consumption advisory covering these waters, where mercury, PCB and DDT advisories are listed per water in a chart linked from that page. Read it before you keep a meal — we give no eating advice.

NMED fish consumption advisory

Where these numbers come from

Die Messstelle liegt am Narrows innerhalb des Stausees, nicht an der Staumauer. Dazu die Abgabe unterhalb.

No one types these in by hand. If a source goes quiet, the page says so instead of showing you yesterday.