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Lake Kuugaaluk (Nunavut) — a popular fishing spot. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Other nearby places to fish
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. There are many islands: the water is broken up by drop-offs and the channels between them.
The wind builds its wave along the north-east — south-west axis — 30 km of open water; along north-west — south-east there is only 5 km. When it runs down the main axis, the calm water sits against the bank it blows from, while the wave and the silt go to the far one — and the fish follow them there to feed.
Nunavut: 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 | active | 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.
Kuugaaluk — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 08:00–10:00.
The computed water temperature is around 4 °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 rising 8 hPa over the day — the bite usually settles down after a rise.
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 0°
The day is 10 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
Geomagnetic fieldquiet, Kp 3.7
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 |
| peak |
| active |
| active |
| fair |
| slow |
| slow |
| active |
| peak |
| Pike | peak | active | fair | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | peak | peak |
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| Whitefish | fair | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak |
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| Rainbow smelt | active | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair |
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| Arctic char | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Dolly Varden | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Burbot | peak | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | peak |
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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.
Kuugaaluk — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 08:00–10:00.