Waters · Lakes · OK · Fri, Oct 30
How's the bite at Keystone Lake today? Biting — save your energy for the evening.
Worth a cast.
Built from solunar, pressure, wind. This water has no live gauge for every reading — see the sources below.
Today's bite windows
Sunrise 7:45 AM · sunset 6:30 PM · tomorrow's first major 5:14 AM–7:14 AM · windows on every water
Conditions right now
What this means
The week ahead
| Sat | 7 | Biting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 6 | Biting | |
| Mon | 7 | Biting | |
| Tue | 7 | Biting | |
| Wed | 6 | Biting | |
| Thu | 5 | Picky | |
| Fri | 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
- 5 Picky Oologah Lake OK · 59 km
- 6 Biting Kaw Lake OK · 85 km
- 5 Picky Eufaula Lake OK · 124 km
- 7 Biting Lake Fork Reservoir TX · 377 km
- 7 Biting Lake Lanier GA · 1128 km
Questions people ask about Keystone 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 Keystone Lake.
- Is it worth fishing Keystone Lake today?
- 6 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 4:12 AM–6:12 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend.
- What time should you fish Keystone Lake?
- Today's major windows run 4:12 AM–6:12 AM and 4:43 PM–6:43 PM, with minor windows at 12:27 PM–1:27 PM and 10:03 PM–11:03 PM. Sunrise is 7:45 AM and sunset 6:30 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Keystone Lake?
- No gauge on Keystone Lake measures it, so this is an estimate: roughly 68.5°F, worked out from the 7-day mean of air temperature at NOAA weather station KOWP (William R Pogue Municipal 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 Keystone 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 Keystone Lake?
- Yes. A Oklahoma fishing license covers this water, required from age 18. ODWC sets the rules and is the one that counts.
Where these numbers come from
- Solunar computed 9:47 AM
- NOAA KOWP William R Pogue Municipal Airport 8:55 AM
- NOAA TSA gridded forecast 8:50 AM
Held by Keystone Dam where the Cimarron meets the Arkansas above Tulsa, read by the Corps of Engineers. Conservation pool is 723 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.