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Northwest Territories: 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 | active | active | active | active | active | active |
| Lake trout | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | fair | peak | active |
| Nelma | fair | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | 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 |
| Walleye | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | active | fair |
| Arctic char | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Dolly Varden | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Burbot | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | peak | peak |
River Chii Ezhah Njik (Northwest Territories) — a popular fishing spot. About 16 km long. Here you'll find a bite prediction — when fish are active and which hours give the best chances, adjusted for weather and pressure.
The course is moderately sinuous: pools are scoured at the bends and riffles run between them.
Other nearby places to fish
Other nearby waters
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Chii Ezhah Njik — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 09:00–11:00 and 19:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 5 °C — inside the 1–10 °C comfort range for Arctic char, so baseline activity is high.
Going by this year's frosts the ice hasn't formed yet: the season says it should have, but it hasn't been cold enough. This is an estimate from the weather across the whole region, not a measurement on your water.
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 22 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.
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 -5°
The day is 8 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
Geomagnetic fieldunsettled, Kp 4
Kp index — NOAA data. 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.
Chii Ezhah Njik — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 09:00–11:00 and 19:00–20:00.