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Fox Lake (Manitoba) — a spot well known among anglers. About 5.7 km² in area. Nearest town — Split Lake. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Nearest towns and cities
Other nearby waters
The shoreline is heavily indented — bays, points and spits. Look for pike at the mouths of the bays and on the drop-offs behind the points. The largest water around: all 9 neighbours are smaller.
The longest fetch is 4 km along the north-east — south-west axis: wind along it builds a wave on the open water and pushes silt and food towards the lee bank.
Manitoba: the months when each species peaks and when it goes quiet. The current month is outlined.
| Fish | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake trout | peak | peak |
Wednesday, October 21
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.
Fox Lake — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 08:00–10:00 and 18:00–19:00.
The computed water temperature is around 6 °C — inside the 1–10 °C comfort range for Arctic char, so baseline activity is high.
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 flat: it moves no more than 0 hPa over the day, so the weather isn't shifting today's bite.
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.
October is an active season for Arctic char here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Cloudy · feels like +1°
The day is 5 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
Geomagnetic fieldG1 geomagnetic storm, Kp 4.7
Kp index — NOAA forecast. Not part of the bite score: catches show no link between geomagnetic storms and the bite.
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?| peak |
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| slow |
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| Whitefish | fair | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active |
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| Pike | active | fair | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak |
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| Rainbow trout | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | slow |
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| Brook trout | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | fair |
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| Sauger | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | active | fair |
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| Walleye | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | active | fair |
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| Arctic char | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Lake sturgeon | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair |
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| Rainbow smelt | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair |
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| Yellow perch | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair |
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| Burbot | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | active | peak |
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| Goldeye | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | fair |
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| Smallmouth bass | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | fair |
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| Carp | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | fair | slow | slow |
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| Channel catfish | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow |
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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.
Fox Lake — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 08:00–10:00 and 18:00–19:00.