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Canada / Alberta / Buffalo Lake

Bite forecast: Buffalo Lake

  • 91.8 km²
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Best fishing days for the next week

  1. WednesdaySeptember 2weather-based forecast
    78/100high activity

    Cloudy: 4–14 °C

  2. MondaySeptember 7weather-based forecast
    64/100high activity

    Partly cloudy: -1–13 °C

  3. SundaySeptember 6weather-based forecast
    61/100high activity

    Fog: -6–8 °C

Buffalo Lake (Alberta) — a popular fishing spot. About 91.8 km² in area. Here you'll find a bite prediction — when fish are active and which hours give the best chances, adjusted for weather and pressure.

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Nearby rivers

  • Parlby Creek9 km

Nearby water bodies

  • LakeRockelling Bay12 km
  • LakeSpotted Lake13 km

Bite calendar

Aug 31 – Sep 6
Mon
Tue
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Bite activity:highmediumlowslow
Based on:weatherseasonal
What is a bite calendar?
Brown troutMountain whitefishBrook troutBull troutWhitefishCutthroat troutLake sturgeonPikeRainbow troutSaugerWalleyeYellow perchGoldeyeLake troutBurbot

Brook trout

7/10 · Good

Hourly activity

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Bite activity:highmediumlow

The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued.

Peak bite hours

Best time — 07:00–09:00 (dawn bite) and 20:00–22:00 (dusk bite).

Tactics

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.

Lures

In clear water, natural colors work best: spinner or fly. The water's cold — work the lure slower than usual.

Gear

Bring a warm jacket — it's noticeably colder on the water than on shore.

Summary

Worth going — it's a productive day.

How this forecast is calculated

Why this forecast

The computed water temperature is around 6 °C — colder than the 7–16 °C comfort range for Brook trout: the fish conserves energy and takes more cautiously.

Computed water temperature by month; the green band is the 7–16 °C comfort rangecomfort 7–16 °C6 °C
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Brook trout works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.

The day: daylight hours and when Brook trout feeds0:0012:0024:00

Pressure is dropping 5 hPa over the day — fish are usually more active ahead of a weather change.

Pressure through the day, 5 hPa change
00:00 · 102523:00 · 1020 hPa

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.

Feeding windows on the day scale0:0012:0024:00

September is an active season for Brook trout here.

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These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works

6 SepSunday, September 6
+5°

Fog · feels like +3°

Low / high
-6°…+8°
Precipitation
0.0 mm
Wind
1 m/s ESE
Cloud cover
7%
Humidity
88%
Pressure
1019 hPa
00:00-1°—1 m/snortheast wind, 1 m/s99%100%
01:00-1°—1 m/snortheast wind, 1 m/s98%100%
02:00-2°—1 m/snortheast wind, 1 m/s98%100%
03:00-1°—1 m/snortheast wind, 1 m/s98%100%
04:00-2°—1 m/snortheast wind, 1 m/s98%100%
05:00-3°—1 m/seast wind, 1 m/s98%100%
06:00-5°—1 m/seast wind, 1 m/s98%89%
07:00-6°—2 m/seast wind, 2 m/s97%34%
08:00-4°—2 m/seast wind, 2 m/s93%16%
09:000°—1 m/seast wind, 1 m/s91%11%
10:00+2°—1 m/seast wind, 1 m/s91%12%
11:00+4°—1 m/seast wind, 1 m/s91%9%
12:00+5°—1 m/seast wind, 1 m/s88%7%
13:00+6°—1 m/ssoutheast wind, 1 m/s86%6%
14:00+7°—1 m/ssoutheast wind, 1 m/s84%4%
15:00+7°—1 m/ssoutheast wind, 1 m/s82%3%
16:00+8°—1 m/seast wind, 1 m/s81%0%
17:00+8°—1 m/seast wind, 1 m/s81%0%
18:00+8°—1 m/seast wind, 1 m/s82%0%
19:00+6°—1 m/snortheast wind, 1 m/s87%10%
20:00+3°—2 m/snortheast wind, 2 m/s93%24%
21:00+1°—2 m/snortheast wind, 2 m/s97%39%
22:000°—2 m/snortheast wind, 2 m/s97%59%
23:000°—2 m/snortheast wind, 2 m/s95%80%
+8°+1°-6°
Weather throughout the day
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Sun and moon

Sunday, September 6
The day: daylight and the hours the moon is above the horizon. Local time0:0012:0024:00
DaylightMoon above the horizon
Sunrise
07:06
Sunset
20:19
Day length
13 h 13 min
Sunshine hours
12 h 48 min
UV index
5
moderate
Moon
Waning crescent
Moonrise
00:30
Moonset
18:24

The day is 4 min shorter than yesterday.

Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.

Solunar feeding periods

+11% in the windowSunday, September 6
Feeding windows on the day scale, local time0:0012:0024:00
Major periodsMinor periods
  • Minor00:00–01:00Moonrise
  • Major08:35–10:35Moon overhead
  • Minor17:54–18:54Moonset
  • Major21:05–23:05Moon underfoot

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?