Waters · Lakes · TX · Sun, Aug 16

How's the bite at Lake Fork Reservoir today? Biting — get there by six.

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
Major
3:15 AM–5:15 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
10:21 AM–11:21 AM
Moonrise
Major
3:38 PM–5:38 PM
Moon overhead
Minor
9:47 PM–10:47 PM
Moonset

Sunrise 6:46 AM · sunset 8:05 PM · tomorrow's first major 4:00 AM–6:00 AM · windows on every water

Solunar · computed updated 4:11 PM

Conditions right now

Water level
399.61ft
-0.02 ft in 24h
USGS 08018800 updated 3:30 PM
Pressure
30.04inHg
falling · -2 hPa/12h
NOAA KJDD updated 3:55 PM
Wind
5mph
NOAA KJDD updated 3:55 PM
Moon
19% waxing
Solunar · computed updated 4:11 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.

Lake Fork Reservoir water level today

399.61 ft down 0.02 ft in 24 hours

That sits 3% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 399.6 and 399.9 ft. Over the week it is down0.21ft.

08-08 399.60–399.90 ft 08-16
USGS 08018800 updated 3:30 PM

The week ahead

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

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 Lake Fork 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 Lake Fork Reservoir.

Is it worth fishing Lake Fork Reservoir today?
7 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 3:15 AM–5:15 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
What time should you fish Lake Fork Reservoir?
Today's major windows run 3:15 AM–5:15 AM and 3:38 PM–5:38 PM, with minor windows at 10:21 AM–11:21 AM and 9:47 PM–10:47 PM. Sunrise is 6:46 AM and sunset 8:05 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
What is the water temperature at Lake Fork Reservoir?
No gauge on Lake Fork 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 Lake Fork Reservoir right now?
399.61 ft, read at 3:30 PM from USGS station 08018800. Over 24 hours it is down 0.02 ft.
Can you eat the fish you catch in Lake Fork Reservoir?
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

USGS lists the gauge as "Lake Fk Res nr Quitman" — the abbreviation is why it took a bounding-box search to find. Reading checked against TWDB's own live reservoir figure and matched to the hundredth of a foot (399.61 ft NGVD29, both sources, 2026-08-16).

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