Waters · Lakes · TX · Mon, Aug 24

How's the bite at Joe Pool Lake today? Biting — fish it after dark.

Worth a cast.

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

7/10
Biting

Today's bite windows

12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
Minor
2:52 AM–3:52 AM
Moonset
Major
9:50 AM–11:50 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
5:42 PM–6:42 PM
Moonrise
Major
10:15 PM–12:15 AM
Moon overhead

Sunrise 6:57 AM · sunset 8:02 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:39 AM–12:39 PM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 3:22 PM

Conditions right now

Water level
520.63ft
-0.04 ft in 24h
USACE Joe Pool Lake updated 2:00 PM
Pressure
29.92inHg
steady · 0 hPa/12h
NOAA KGPM updated 2:55 PM
Wind
9mph S
NOAA KGPM updated 2:55 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.

Joe Pool Lake water level today

520.63 ft above NGVD-29 down 0.04 ft in 24 hours

That sits 0% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 520.63 and 520.9 ft. Over the week it is down0.24ft.

08-16 520.63–520.90 ft 08-24
USACE Joe Pool Lake updated 2:00 PM

The week ahead

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

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

Before you go

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

Nearby waters today

Questions people ask about Joe Pool 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 Joe Pool Lake.

Is it worth fishing Joe Pool Lake today?
7 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 9:50 AM–11:50 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
What time should you fish Joe Pool Lake?
Today's major windows run 9:50 AM–11:50 AM and 10:15 PM–12:15 AM, with minor windows at 2:52 AM–3:52 AM and 5:42 PM–6:42 PM. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset 8:02 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
What is the water temperature at Joe Pool Lake?
No gauge on Joe Pool 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 Joe Pool Lake right now?
520.63 ft above NGVD-29, read at 2:00 PM from the Joe Pool Lake gauge run by the USACE. Over 24 hours it is down 0.04 ft.
Can you eat the fish you catch in Joe Pool Lake?
That is a health question, and it is answered officially rather than by us. Texas Department of State Health Services publishes the fish consumption advisory covering these waters, where an interactive viewer shows advisories and possession bans by waterbody. Read it before you keep a meal — we give no eating advice.

Texas DSHS fish consumption advisory

What size fish can you keep in Texas?
It depends on the species, and several have slot limits rather than a simple minimum. Open to harvest today: red drum (redfish), spotted seatrout (speckled trout), black drum, southern flounder. Seasons here change mid-year by agency order, so the status is re-checked every morning.

Red drum (redfish) limits · Spotted seatrout (speckled trout) limits · Black drum limits · Southern flounder limits · Check a length against the rules

Where these numbers come from

Held by Joe Pool Dam on Mountain Creek south-west of Dallas, read by the Corps of Engineers. Conservation pool is 522 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.