Catches
Recorded 1 catch here. Most commonly caught: Goldeye. Peak season: July.
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Assiniboine River (Manitoba) — a spot well known among anglers. About 894 km long. Flows into Red River of the North, Lake Winnipeg basin. Close by — Brandon, Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie. Here you'll find a bite prediction — when fish are active and which hours give the best chances, adjusted for weather and pressure.
Clear: 6–14 °C
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably.
Best time — 06:00–08:00 (dawn bite) and 19:00–21:00 (dusk bite).
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
The water's turning murky — go with bright, noisy lures: spoon or large fly.
Pack transitional-season clothing — mornings and evenings are chilly. Rain is expected — don't forget a rain jacket or a waterproof shell.
Worth going — it's a productive day.
The computed water temperature is around 11 °C — warmer than the 1–10 °C comfort range for Arctic char: in the heat it drops deeper and feeds less often.
Arctic char works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is dropping 15 hPa over the day — fish are usually more active ahead of a weather change.
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 peak season for Arctic char here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Cloudy · feels like +7°
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?Recorded 1 catch here. Most commonly caught: Goldeye. Peak season: July.
Measured river conditions are available for Assiniboine River: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
USGS gauge ASSINIBOINE RIVER NEAR MINIOTA, 19 km away · measured 2026-09-02 23:17 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision