Water level
6745.08ft
-0.42 ft in 24h
USBR Jackson Lake and Jackson Lake Dam (JCK) reading for Aug 23
Waters · Lakes · WY · Mon, Aug 24
How's the bite at Jackson Lake today? Biting — mid-morning is your stretch.
Worth a cast.
Built from solunar, pressure, level, wind. This water has no live gauge for every reading — see the sources below.
6/10
Biting
Today's bite windows
12 AM6 AMNoon6 PM11 PM
10Peak 9 8Strong 7 6Good 5 4Slow 3 2 1Dead
Minor
2:09 AM–3:09 AM
Moonset
Major
9:47 AM–11:47 AM
Moon underfoot
Minor
6:14 PM–7:14 PM
Moonrise
Major
10:11 PM–12:11 AM
Moon overhead
Sunrise 6:36 AM · sunset 8:11 PM · tomorrow's first major 10:35 AM–12:35 PM · windows on every water
Solunar · computed updated 7:18 AM
Conditions right now
Pressure
30.26inHg
rising · +2.6 hPa/12h
NOAA D0414 updated 6:30 AM
Wind
0mph N
NOAA D0414 updated 6:30 AM
Moon
89% waxing
Solunar · computed updated 7:18 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.
Jackson Lake water level today
6745.08 ft down 0.42 ft in 24 hours
That sits 0% of the way up the band it has held over the last 9 days, between 6745.08 and 6748.67 ft. Over the week it is down2.87ft.
08-14 6745.08–6748.67 ft 08-23
USBR Jackson Lake and Jackson Lake Dam (JCK) 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 Palisades Reservoir ID · 77 km
- 5 Picky Buffalo Bill Reservoir WY · 133 km
- 5 Picky Yellowstone River MT · 140 km
- 6 Biting Lake Berryessa CA · 1131 km
- 5 Picky Lake Granbury TX · 1700 km
Questions people ask about Jackson 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 Jackson Lake.
- Is it worth fishing Jackson Lake today?
- 6 out of 10 — biting. Worth a cast. The strongest stretch is 9:47 AM–11:47 AM. That number is worked out fresh each morning from the solunar windows, the pressure trend, the water level.
- What time should you fish Jackson Lake?
- Today's major windows run 9:47 AM–11:47 AM and 10:11 PM–12:11 AM, with minor windows at 2:09 AM–3:09 AM and 6:14 PM–7:14 PM. Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 8:11 PM. A major landing on first or last light is the stretch worth setting an alarm for.
- What is the water temperature at Jackson Lake?
- No gauge on Jackson 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 Jackson Lake right now?
- 6745.08 ft, the reading for August 23 from the Jackson Lake and Jackson Lake Dam (JCK) gauge run by the USBR, which publishes one value a day. Over 24 hours it is down 0.42 ft.
- Can you eat the fish you catch in Jackson Lake?
- 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 7:18 AM
- NOAA D0414 DW0414 Moran 6:30 AM
- NOAA RIW gridded forecast 5:47 AM
- USBR Jackson Lake and Jackson Lake Dam (JCK) daily reservoir operations Aug 23
Read at the dam inside Grand Teton National Park 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.