Rainy Lake
Ontario / Minnesota
Neutral
Pressure falling slowly (-0.05 inHg / 3h) — often good at first, easing toward a slower bite.
Next feeding window: 5:37 PM (minor)
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Pressure
29.87inHgFalling slowly
Pressure
Falling slowly
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A steady fall from a high over a day or two often signals an approaching front.
Open-Meteo · as of Aug 8, 5:15 PM CDT
Sun & Moon
Best times today
- Major
- 8:17 AM – 10:17 AM (overhead)8:50 PM – 10:50 PM (underfoot)
- Minor
- 12:00 AM – 1:00 AM (moonrise)5:37 PM – 6:37 PM (moonset)
Sun & Moon
Best times today
- Major
- 8:17 AM – 10:17 AM (overhead)8:50 PM – 10:50 PM (underfoot)
- Minor
- 12:00 AM – 1:00 AM (moonrise)5:37 PM – 6:37 PM (moonset)
- Sunrise
- 5:57 AM
- Sunset
- 8:40 PM
- Moonrise
- 12:30 AM
- Moonset
- 6:07 PM
- Overhead
- 9:17 AM
- Underfoot
- 9:50 PM
Waning Crescent · 22% lit
Major periods bracket the moon overhead & underfoot; minor periods, moonrise & moonset. Suggested windows, not a guarantee.
Weather
73.2°FWind 10.7 mph WNW · 9% cloud
Moderate
Weather
Wind 10.7 mph WNW · 9% cloud
ModerateWind — Moderate. Fishable — know your boat and lean on sheltered shorelines.
This Afternoon: Partly sunny, with a high near 74. West wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Open-Meteo · NWS · as of Aug 8, 5:15 PM CDT
Water Temp
72.2°Festimated🎣 Walleye often 15–25 ft
Water Temp
🎣 Walleye often 15–25 ft
22.3°C
Summer pattern — deeper breaks, humps, and offshore structure.
A walleye-depth rule of thumb from the water temp — light, wind, clarity, and baitfish all move them, and it reads open water so warm bays fish shallower. Suggested, not a guarantee.
An open-water surface estimate from recent air temperature and sunshine — there’s no live water-temperature sensor on this lake yet. Sheltered bays (like Grassy Portage) run warmer, and deep water colder.
Adjusted -2.7°F from 12 angler reports.
Inferred (air + solar model) · 21-day air-temp mean + recent solar + seasonal surface bias
Lake Level
1107.53ftat Fort Frances
Mid-band
Lake Level
at Fort Frances
Mid-band- Since yesterday
- 0 ft
- Since 7 days ago
- -0.03 ft
IJC rule curve 1107.1–1107.9 ft
Main lake · Northwest Bay Holding steady
-0.08 ft vs recent avg-0.02 ft since yesterday · -0.05 ft over 7 days
Water Survey of Canada (ECCC) · as of Aug 8, 4:30 PM CDT
Outflow / Current
3,850cfsHolding steady
Low for this time of year
Outflow / Current
Holding steady
Low for this time of year- Since yesterday
- 0 cfs
- Since 7 days ago
- +190 cfs
- Normal for the date
- ~11,600 cfs
River stage 13.81 ft · +0.01 ft since yesterday
Water leaving the lake down the Rainy River (dam-regulated at International Falls) — a rough gauge of how much current is moving through the system, and the “normal” line compares today with the USGS record for this date. As a rule of thumb many anglers work current seams and pinch points harder when flow is up; treat it as a hint, not a guarantee.
USGS Water Data · as of Aug 8, 5:00 PM CDT
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