Waters · Lakes · UT · Mon, Aug 24
How's the bite at Jordanelle Reservoir today? Picky — mid-morning is your stretch.
Work for it.
Built from solunar, pressure, level, wind. This water has no live gauge for every reading — see the sources below.
Today's bite windows
Sunrise 6:45 AM · sunset 8:10 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:38 AM–12:38 PM · windows on every water
Conditions right now
What this means
Jordanelle Reservoir water level today
6125.57 ft down 0.22 ft in 24 hours
That sits 0% of the way up the band it has held over the last 8 days, between 6125.57 and 6127.42 ft. Over the week it is down1.64ft.
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 Utah fishing license covers this water — $40 a year for residents. DWR sets the rules and is the one that counts.
What it costs, and who is exempt →Nearby waters today
- 6 Biting Provo River UT · 14 km
- 5 Picky Deer Creek Reservoir UT · 20 km
- 5 Picky Strawberry Reservoir UT · 54 km
- 5 Picky Lake Granby CO · 472 km
- 6 Biting Lake Buchanan TX · 1603 km
Questions people ask about Jordanelle 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 Jordanelle Reservoir.
- Is it worth fishing Jordanelle Reservoir today?
- 5 out of 10 — picky. Work for it. 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 Jordanelle Reservoir?
- Today's major windows run 9:50 AM–11:50 AM and 10:14 PM–12:14 AM, with minor windows at 2:26 AM–3:26 AM and 6:06 PM–7:06 PM. Sunrise is 6:45 AM and sunset 8:10 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Jordanelle Reservoir?
- No gauge on Jordanelle 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 Jordanelle Reservoir right now?
- 6125.57 ft, the reading for August 22 from the Jordanelle Reservoir Dam and Powerplant gauge run by the USBR, which publishes one value a day. Over 24 hours it is down 0.22 ft.
- Can you eat the fish you catch in Jordanelle Reservoir?
- That is a health question, and it is answered officially rather than by us. Utah Department of Environmental Quality publishes the fish consumption advisory covering these waters, where organised by contaminant and applying to named species and waters, with most Utah waters carrying no advisory at all. Read it before you keep a meal — we give no eating advice.
- Do you need a licence to fish Jordanelle Reservoir?
- Yes. A Utah fishing license covers this water, required from age 12. DWR sets the rules and is the one that counts.
- What size fish can you keep in Utah?
- It depends on the species, and several have slot limits rather than a simple minimum. Open to harvest today: trout, kokanee salmon and arctic grayling (a combined total), largemouth and smallmouth bass, black and white crappie (a combined total), channel catfish. Seasons here change mid-year by agency order, so the status is re-checked every morning.
Trout, kokanee salmon and Arctic grayling (a combined total) limits · Largemouth and smallmouth bass limits · Black and white crappie (a combined total) limits · Channel catfish limits · Check a length against the rules
Where these numbers come from
- Solunar computed 7:17 AM
- NOAA KHCR Heber Valley Airport 6:55 AM
- NOAA SLC gridded forecast 12:31 AM
- USBR Jordanelle Reservoir Dam and Powerplant daily reservoir operations Aug 22
Read at the dam by the Bureau of Reclamation once a day. No temperature sensor.
No one types these in by hand. If a source goes quiet, the page says so instead of showing you yesterday.