Water level
5377.98ft
-0.39 ft in 24h
USBR Buffalo Bill Reservoir Dam and Powerplant reading for Aug 23
Waters · Lakes · WY · Mon, Aug 24
How's the bite at Buffalo Bill Reservoir today? Picky — fish it after dark.
Work for it.
Built from solunar, pressure, level, 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
10Peak 9 8Strong 7 6Good 5 4Slow 3 2 1Dead
Minor
2:00 AM–3:00 AM
Moonset
Major
9:41 AM–11:41 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
6:11 PM–7:11 PM
Moonrise
Major
10:05 PM–12:05 AM
Moon overhead
Sunrise 6:30 AM · sunset 8:06 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:29 AM–12:29 PM · windows on every water
Solunar · computed updated 7:16 AM
Conditions right now
Pressure
30.22inHg
rising fast · +4.74 hPa/12h
NOAA KCOD updated 7:05 AM
Wind
0mph N
NOAA KCOD updated 7:05 AM
Moon
89% waxing
Solunar · computed updated 7:16 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.
Buffalo Bill Reservoir water level today
5377.98 ft down 0.39 ft in 24 hours
That sits 0% of the way up the band it has held over the last 9 days, between 5377.98 and 5381.16 ft. Over the week it is down2.49ft.
08-14 5377.98–5381.16 ft 08-23
USBR Buffalo Bill Reservoir Dam and Powerplant reading for Aug 23
The week ahead
| Tue | 6 | Biting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed | 6 | Biting | |
| Thu | 7 | Biting | |
| Fri | 7 | 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 WY fishing license covers this water. The state agency sets the rules and is the one that counts.
Nearby waters today
- 6 Biting Jackson Lake WY · 133 km
- 5 Picky Yellowstone River MT · 144 km
- 6 Biting Bighorn River MT · 155 km
- 7 Biting Deckers CO · 669 km
- 9 On fire Cheney Reservoir KS · 1214 km
Questions people ask about Buffalo Bill 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 Buffalo Bill Reservoir.
- Is it worth fishing Buffalo Bill Reservoir today?
- 5 out of 10 — picky. Work for it. The strongest stretch is 9:41 AM–11:41 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
- What time should you fish Buffalo Bill Reservoir?
- Today's major windows run 9:41 AM–11:41 AM and 10:05 PM–12:05 AM, with minor windows at 2:00 AM–3:00 AM and 6:11 PM–7:11 PM. Sunrise is 6:30 AM and sunset 8:06 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Buffalo Bill Reservoir?
- No gauge on Buffalo Bill 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 Buffalo Bill Reservoir right now?
- 5377.98 ft, the reading for August 23 from the Buffalo Bill Reservoir Dam and Powerplant gauge run by the USBR, which publishes one value a day. Over 24 hours it is down 0.39 ft.
- Can you eat the fish you catch in Buffalo Bill Reservoir?
- That is a health question and it belongs with the state, not with us. WY publishes fish consumption advisories through its health or environmental agency, and those are the ones that count. We give no eating advice.
Where these numbers come from
- Solunar computed 7:16 AM
- NOAA KCOD Cody 7:05 AM
- NOAA RIW gridded forecast 5:47 AM
- USBR Buffalo Bill Reservoir Dam and Powerplant daily reservoir operations Aug 23
Read at the dam near Cody 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.