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State of the Waters · Silver State

Nevada Water Levels & the Daily Bite

Live levels for Nevada's waters — Lake Mead, Lahontan, Rye Patch and Lake Tahoe. Every tube shows the normal 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 Truckee & East Walker trout water and the Humboldt & Carson rivers.

Fetching live readings…
Pick how you're using the water today — jump to live conditions:
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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 operating band: the gold line is normal full pool, the red line is the flood / above-normal line, and the blue water is the live reading. Where a Nevada water has a live gauge (USGS, the Bureau of Reclamation, or California's CDEC) it reads true surface elevation; lakes with no public real-time feed show the most recent published level. The colored bar at left is a solunar bite forecast for right now (red = slow, green = hot).

Trout Tailwaters — Cold Water Below the Dams

Nevada's tailwaters punch above their weight: the Truckee through Reno, the trophy-brown East Walker below Bridgeport, and the West Walker — wild rainbow and brown water. The cylinder shows live flow (cfs), low = wadeable, high = fast water. Hover a trout for the species; tap it for a guide.

The Truckee and Walker tailwaters swing with irrigation and dam release; check flows before wading.

River Catfish — Warm-Water Rivers

Channel cats and walleye hold in the lower Colorado and Humboldt. Live stage (ft) with action and flood marked. Hover a fish for the species; tap it for a guide.

Float Rivers — Paddle & Wade

The Truckee runs to Pyramid Lake; the Humboldt and Carson are warmwater walleye rivers. Live USGS gage height (ft); each tube marks FLOAT, EXPERT and FLOOD. Hover a fish; tap it for an outfitter.

Nevada rivers are snowmelt- and release-driven — the desert rivers run low and clear by late summer.

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