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Buck Lake (Alberta) — a popular fishing spot. About 25.3 km² in area. This page shows an hourly bite forecast for today and the week ahead; the algorithm factors in the weather, atmospheric pressure, and the moon phase.
Clear: -2–8 °C
The shoreline is moderately indented: bays and points alternate with even stretches.
The longest fetch is 10 km along the north-west — south-east axis: wind along it builds a wave on the open water and pushes silt and food towards the lee bank.
Tuesday, September 15
Look for drop-offs and gaps in the weeds, retrieve slowly, lingering over promising spots. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Buck Lake — Tuesday, September 15
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 20:00–21:00.
The computed water temperature is around 5 °C — colder than the 7–16 °C comfort range for Brook trout: the fish conserves energy and takes more cautiously.
Brook trout works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is rising 4 hPa over the day — the bite usually settles down after a rise.
One more input — the moon's feeding windows: within their hours the score sits higher than across the rest of the day. The window times are in the “Solunar feeding periods” card below.
September is an active season for Brook trout here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Partly cloudy · feels like -1°
The day is 4 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
The windows are set by the moon's transit and rise, and the forecast above already accounts for them: within these hours the bite score sits higher than across the rest of the day, while the day's overall level still comes from the catch-calibrated model.
What are solunar periods?