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State of the Waters · Evergreen State

Washington Water Levels & the Daily Bite

Live levels for Washington's big reservoirs — Lake Roosevelt, Banks Lake, Baker and the Columbia impoundments. 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 Yakima & Methow trout water and the Snake, Skagit & Yakima rivers.

Fetching live readings…
Pick how you're using the water today — jump to live conditions:
🎣 Fishing another state?  Step 1: pick it Step 2: how you use the water
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 Washington 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

The Yakima canyon is the state's blue-ribbon trout river; add the Methow, the Grande Ronde and the Cowlitz below Blue Creek — wild rainbow and steelhead water. The cylinder shows live flow (cfs), low = wadeable, high = fast water. Hover a trout for the species; tap it for a guide.

The Yakima and Cowlitz run on dam release; check flows and the summer flip-flop before wading.

River Catfish — Warm-Water Rivers

Warmwater fishing runs the lower Snake and Columbia. Live stage (ft) with action and flood marked. Hover a fish for the species; tap it for a guide.

Float Rivers — Paddle & Wade

The lower Snake holds trophy smallmouth and walleye; the Skagit runs steelhead. Live USGS gage height (ft); each tube marks FLOAT, EXPERT and FLOOD. Hover a fish; tap it for an outfitter.

Washington rivers are snowmelt- and release-driven — glacial rivers push high and off-color when warm.

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