The Natural State Water Watch

Arkansas Lake Levels & the Daily Bite

Live pool levels for Table Rock and the major U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs across Arkansas, north to south. Every tube shows the flood pool, the current level, the lake's two signature fish (hover for the species, click for 2026 tournaments), and a live bite gauge at left. Scroll down for the trout tailwaters and duck-country water.

Fetching live readings…
Flood / above normal At normal pool Below normal Current level Bite gauge: slow → hot (solunar)

Hover a fish for its species · click a fish to search that lake's 2026 tournaments

Each cylinder is scaled to its own flood-control zone: the gold line is normal full (conservation) pool, the red line is flood pool, and the blue water is the live reading within that band. The colored bar at left is a solunar bite forecast for right now at each lake (red = slow, green = hot). Exact elevations are printed on every tube.

Trout Tailwaters — Cold Water Below the Dams

World-class trout below Bull Shoals, Norfork & Greers Ferry — it's all about dam generation. The cylinder shows the live release (cfs): low = wadeable, high = fast water. Hover a trout for the species; tap it for a guide.

Waterfowl Water — Bayou Meto WMA

Arkansas's green-timber mecca. Live pool levels (ft MSL) from the WMA's USGS gauges — 178 ft = water in the woods, 179 ft+ = good duck water. Hover a duck for the species; tap it for a guide.

Bayou Meto gauges run year-round; AGFC floods the timber for the Nov–Jan season.

Waterfowl Water — Northeast Arkansas WMAs

The Delta's flooded-timber heart — five public greentree WMAs on the Black, St. Francis & Cache. Live river/pool levels (ft) from NOAA & USGS, with WOODS (water spreading into the timber) and HUNT (good duck water) marked from each gauge. Hover a duck for the species; tap it for a guide.

Levels run low through summer and rise into the Nov–Jan season. Black River = Dave Donaldson & Shirey Bay · St. Francis = Sunken Lands · Cache = Bayou DeView · Seven-mile Ditch = Big Lake.

River Catfish — Warm-Water Rivers (South & Central AR)

Down south it's catfish country — channel, flathead & blue cats in the big warm-water rivers. Live river stage (ft) from NOAA, with the action and flood stages marked. Hover a cat for the species; tap it for a guide.

Rising, off-color water after a rain often turns the cats on — watch the action stage. More rivers (Red, Mississippi, Saline) to come.