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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grayling | fair | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | active | active |
| Lake trout | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | slow | fair | active | active |
| Whitefish | fair | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active |
| Pike | active | fair | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak |
| Rainbow trout | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | slow |
| Brook trout | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | fair |
| Sauger | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | active | fair |
| Walleye | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | active | fair |
| Arctic char | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Lake sturgeon | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair |
| Rainbow smelt | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair |
| Yellow perch | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair |
| Burbot | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | active | peak |
| Goldeye | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | fair |
| Smallmouth bass | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | fair |
| Carp | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Channel catfish | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow |
River Sturgeon Creek (Manitoba) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 35 km long. Nearest town — Winnipeg. 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.
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Wednesday, October 21
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Sturgeon Creek — 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 17:00–19:00.
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 4 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?Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Sturgeon Creek — 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 17:00–19:00.
Other nearby places to fish
Other nearby waters
The course is moderately sinuous: pools are scoured at the bends and riffles run between them.
Measured river conditions are available for Sturgeon Creek: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
USGS gauge STURGEON CREEK AT ST. JAMES, 3 km away · measured 2026-10-21 09:20 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision