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Pueblo Reservoir Fishing Report

Updated Fri, Oct 23, 2026 from live gauge and weather data

The Arkansas River's desert lake: walleye, wipers and smallmouth under sandstone bluffs.

4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Lake level
4858.15 ft -21.85 vs pool
Air / High
70 / 79 F
Wind
SSE 5 mph

Sources: USGS gauge 07099350, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.

Satellite view
Friday
23
October 2026

Today's Fishing Report

Generated this morning from live readings: gauge, weather model, sun and moon. A fresh report is published here every morning.

4/5Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.

Pueblo Reservoir rewards those who follow the bait as the water cools. The gauge reads 4858.15 ft, 21.85 ft below pool, easing 0.06 over the week. Today brings clear skies, wind SSE around 5 mph, falling pressure near 1006 hPa and a high of 79. Water sits around 55 F for the season (estimated). With the waxing gibbous, the solunar majors run 9:36 AM-11:36 AM and 10:05 PM-12:05 AM: the windows to build the day around.

The plan, species by species

WalleyeExcellent

Spring: post-spawn fish scatter and can be slow for a couple of weeks. Fall: one of the best windows, with minnows on jigs and three-way rigs as the water cools toward ice-up.

Northern pikeExcellent

The best band for pike: right after ice-out they move into flooded vegetated shallows to spawn, and they feed actively again as the water cools in fall.

White bassGood

The spring run happens in this band: tributaries, shoals and the upper ends of reservoirs as the water reaches about 55Β°F.

CrappieGood

Pre-spawn fish move toward shallow coves, and Iowa DNR points to wading as an effective way to reach them in spring; minnows or small jigs under a float.

Tomorrow: Cooler at 59 F with likely rain: fish ahead of the front. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.Next report: Sat, Oct 24, 6:30 AMHow this report is made β†’

Before you go

Colorado requires a fishing licence from age 16, from $57.63 for residents. What a Colorado licence costs and where to buy it β†’

Chasing walleye here? Check the size and bag limits with CPW before you keep anything. The season dates for Colorado, read off the agency, are on the Colorado seasons page.

Water and weather

Live readings from PUEBLO RESERVOIR NEAR PUEBLO, CO..

Water level, last 30 days

USGS gauge 07099350. Conservation pool is 4880 ft.

4861.954869.064876.17pool 48804858.15 ft09/2310/0310/1310/23

Right now

Latest readings

Air temp70 F
High / Low79 / 53 F
WindSSE 5-15 mph
Pressure1006.4 hPa, falling
Sky / Rain0% cloud, 44%
Sunrise / Sunset07:16 / 18:10
MoonWaxing Gibbous, 91%
Water temp (seasonal)~55 F est.

Bite planner

Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today. Tap a bar to see why.

5 AM8 AM11 AM2 PM5 PM8 PMsunrisesunsetPRIMEPRIME

Which day to fish Pueblo Reservoir this week

Today is the pick of the week on Pueblo Reservoir, at 4 out of 5.

Best day this week: today, Oct 23 β€” good at 4/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.

Today, Oct 23 β€” Good

Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.

Solunar majors
9:36 AM-11:36 AM and 10:05 PM-12:05 AM
Minor period
3:60 AM-4:60 AM
Sun
07:16 to 18:10
Moon
Waxing Gibbous, 91% lit
Sky and wind
Showers, 15 mph
Rain chance
44%

Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out: how the score is built.

Species guide

The species that matter on Pueblo Reservoir: seasons, structure and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.

Walleye illustration

Walleye

Best: spring and late fall, around dawn, dusk and night

A cool-water perch of large lakes, reservoirs and rivers whose reflective eyes are built for low light, so it feeds most at night and in murky water. The Missouri Department of Conservation ranks it among the continent's most important freshwater game fish. Spring: post-spawn fish scatter and can be slow for a couple of weeks. Fall: one of the best windows, with minnows on jigs and three-way rigs as the water cools toward ice-up.

White bass illustration

White bass

Best: the spring run up the tributaries, then summer surface schools

A silvery temperate bass of rivers and large reservoirs, also called sand bass, that schools in open water after shad and runs up tributaries to spawn in early spring. The spring run happens in this band: tributaries, shoals and the upper ends of reservoirs as the water reaches about 55Β°F.

Northern pike illustration

Northern pike

Best: cool water, from ice-out through spring, in fall and under the ice

A long, duck-billed predator of weedy lakes, slow rivers and backwaters that ambushes fish from vegetation. Wisconsin DNR points out that, unlike most of the state's common game fish, pike do their best feeding in cool water. The best band for pike: right after ice-out they move into flooded vegetated shallows to spawn, and they feed actively again as the water cools in fall.

Crappie illustration

Crappie

Best: the spring spawn; summer around docks, brush and the thermocline

Two slab-sided panfish, the white crappie and the black crappie, that gather around submerged timber, brush piles, docks and bridge pilings in lakes, reservoirs and slow river backwaters. Texas Parks and Wildlife counts crappie as the state's most popular panfish. Pre-spawn fish move toward shallow coves, and Iowa DNR points to wading as an effective way to reach them in spring; minnows or small jigs under a float.

When to come: the Pueblo Reservoir calendar

Activity by species and month, and how the water warms through the year. Tap any cell.

Species activity by month

1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted.

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Walleye
White bass
Northern pike
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Water temperature through the year

Typical surface temperature for this water type; today is around 55 F (estimated, not a reading).

304050607080JanMarMayJulSepNovOct, ~55 F now

Angler reports

Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. The water log below tracks each day automatically.

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Water log, last days

Auto-logged from live data
Thu, Oct 22

2/5 Slow. The wind owns today. 34 mph gusts make boat control the real battle. Walleye led the card at good. High of 76 F, wind to 34 mph.

Wed, Oct 21

3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Walleye led the card at good. High of 77 F, wind to 9 mph.

Tue, Oct 20

4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Walleye led the card at excellent. High of 77 F, wind to 9 mph.

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Before you go

License

Colorado requires a valid fishing license for adults. Buy online from the state agency; one-day options exist for visitors.

Regulations

Walleye: 18-inch minimum, 5/day. Wiper: no minimum, 10/day. Confirm with CPW.

Access

North and south shore state-park ramps; bank access along the south shore trail and dam area.

About this water

~4,600 surface acres on the Arkansas River, Pueblo County, CO. Lake Pueblo State Park.

Fishing Pueblo Reservoir: the full guide

Southern Colorado's mixed bag

Pueblo is Colorado's warm-water flagship: a genuine walleye program (spring jigging the dam riprap), hard-pulling wipers over open water, smallmouth on every rocky point and enough shad to keep it all fed. The Arkansas tailwater below adds year-round trout minutes away.

Walleye on the rocks

Spring belongs to the dam: April walleye stack the riprap face and the west-end points, jigged with grubs and crawlers at first light. Summer scatters them to 20-35 ft humps: bottom bouncers cover water. The state-record class swims here: Pueblo grows them faster than the mountain lakes above.

The tailwater bonus

Below the dam, the Arkansas through Pueblo is a year-round trout tailwater with urban access: a legitimate second trip in the same drive. Wipers and smallmouth fill the lake's warm months: rocky points at dawn, sandy flats at dusk.

Front Range walleye HQ

Pueblo anchors Colorado's walleye program: the state takes its hatchery eggs here each March, and the fishery shows the density: jigs on the rocky points at ice-out, bottom bouncers across the flats in June, and a night-trolling crowd pulling stickbaits over 10-20 ft all summer. Wipers crash the same shad schools: double-species days are the Pueblo norm.

Common questions

When is the Pueblo walleye bite?

Late March-May on the dam riprap and points at dawn: the spawn staging. Fall offers a second window as shad ball up in the coves.

When is walleye prime time at Pueblo?

March-April pre-spawn on the dam-area rocks and May-June on the flats: the bite runs dawn and dusk. Summer nights out-fish summer days three to one.

Is fishing good at Pueblo Reservoir right now?

Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.

Nearby waters

Elevenmile Canyon Reservoir62 miSpinney Mountain Reservoir69 miSouth Platte River (Deckers)73 miArkansas River75 miTrinidad Lake79 miAntero Reservoir80 mi

Where this page's numbers come from

River and reservoir readings
USGS 07099350 β€” PUEBLO RESERVOIR NEAR PUEBLO, CO.
Read from the USGS Water Data API (api.waterdata.usgs.gov). Latest value timestamped 2026-10-23 at 17:15 UTC.
Weather and pressure
Open-Meteo forecast model
Queried at 38.2676, -104.7514 in this water's own timezone. A model, not an observation.
Moon and solunar windows
Calculated on this site
Astronomical calculation from these coordinates and the date, not a third-party feed. How much weight it deserves.
The written guide on this page
Pablo Ruiz Quintero
How this page was made. The daily report is computed by our scoring engine from live readings; nobody types it. The written guide was drafted with AI assistance. Unlike our newer pages, it does not yet list the official pages its facts were checked against: that audit is under way, and anything it cannot verify will be taken out. Pablo Ruiz Quintero sets every guideline, the data-verification system and the minimum standards a page must meet to be published, reviews page structure and approves what goes live; the responsibility is his, and the AI carries out the work. We work this way because it is how one person can keep every page current with named sources. Errors are published in the verification log; the full policy is in the editorial policy.

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