Missouri River (Bismarck)

Live conditions for Missouri River (Bismarck): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.

Right now

13,300cfs→ lowfishable

Inside the wade band, stable low · 0% over the last 6 hours.

Water temp56.1°F

Stage3.81 ft

Engine callGO 13300 cfs in the wade band · 56°F

Gauge read 8:15 AM CDT · USGS 06342500. Readings refresh every few minutes.

The water

Missouri River (Bismarck) is a tailwater in North Dakota, fished for walleye, catfish, smallmouth bass, pike. On free-flowing water the trajectory is the story: falling and clearing after a bump is the window, rising water pushes fish to the banks and brings colour.

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Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.

Access

Steckel Landing (Wilton)ramp
Hoge Island Park Boat Rampramp
Grant Marsh (I-94) Bridge Accessramp
Fox Island Boat Rampramp
Steamboat Park / Richard M. Longfellow Veterans Memorial Park Shoreline Accesswalk in
General Sibley Park Boat Rampramp
Little Heart Bottoms Boat Rampramp
Kimball Bottoms Boat Ramp ("The Desert")ramp

Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.

The briefing

Know before you drive to Missouri River.

Every morning OUTFISH reads this gauge, the dam schedule, the water temperature, the sky and the tips library, and writes one plain-language call for the waters you track: go or stay home, wade or float, when to be on the water, where to put in, what to tie on — with directions.

Start free — 7 days of Guide

Signed in: the wade and float bands, the full hatch calendar, safety notes, the 14-day trend, shop reports and today's briefing for this water.

This month

Active in October:

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The full calendar by month, with notes, is on the signed-in river page.

Verify it yourself

The same sources the engine reads, straight from the agency:

USGS gauge ↗

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