Waters · Lakes · OK · Wed, Sep 30

How's the bite at Broken Bow Lake today? Picky — save your energy for the evening.

Work for it.

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

5/10
Picky

Today's bite windows

12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
Major
3:07 AM–5:07 AM
Moon overhead
Minor
11:08 AM–12:08 PM
Moonset
Major
3:37 PM–5:37 PM
Moon underfoot
Minor
9:02 PM–10:02 PM
Moonrise

Sunrise 7:12 AM · sunset 7:04 PM · tomorrow's first major 4:08 AM–6:08 AM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 9:31 AM

Conditions right now

Water temp estimated
≈74.9°F
7-day mean of air temperature, ±4.5°F typical
computed from NOAA KDEQ updated 9:15 AM
Pressure
29.93inHg
rising · +2.71 hPa/12h
NOAA KDEQ updated 9:15 AM
Wind
3mph ESE
NOAA KDEQ updated 9:15 AM
Moon
81% waning
Solunar · computed updated 9:31 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.

The week ahead

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

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

Before you go

A Oklahoma fishing license covers this water — $31 a year for residents. ODWC sets the rules and is the one that counts.

What it costs, and who is exempt →

Nearby waters today

Questions people ask about Broken Bow 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 Broken Bow Lake.

Is it worth fishing Broken Bow Lake today?
5 out of 10 — picky. Work for it. The strongest stretch is 3:07 AM–5:07 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend.
What time should you fish Broken Bow Lake?
Today's major windows run 3:07 AM–5:07 AM and 3:37 PM–5:37 PM, with minor windows at 11:08 AM–12:08 PM and 9:02 PM–10:02 PM. Sunrise is 7:12 AM and sunset 7:04 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
What is the water temperature at Broken Bow Lake?
No gauge on Broken Bow Lake measures it, so this is an estimate: roughly 74.9°F, worked out from the 7-day mean of air temperature at NOAA weather station KDEQ (De Queen, J Lynn Helms Sevier 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.
Can you eat the fish you catch in Broken Bow Lake?
That is a health question and it belongs with the state, not with us. OK 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 Broken Bow Lake?
Yes. A Oklahoma fishing license covers this water, required from age 18. ODWC sets the rules and is the one that counts.

What a Oklahoma license costs, and who is exempt

Where these numbers come from

Held by Broken Bow Dam on the Mountain Fork, read by the Corps of Engineers every half hour. The Corps puts the top of the power pool at 599.5 ft and the bottom of the conservation pool at 559 ft; the streambed sits at 420 ft. The reading is the raw telemetry — this gauge publishes no reviewed series. 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.