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Pick a stretch of steady current, chum one spot and fish it — don't move around without reason. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Quebec — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 17:00–19:00.
The computed water temperature is around 4 °C — inside the 0–8 °C comfort range for Rainbow smelt, so baseline activity is high.
Rainbow smelt works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is dropping 1 hPa over the day — fish are usually more active ahead of a weather change.
October is a slow season for Rainbow smelt: the best months fall at another time of year.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Cloudy · feels like -5°
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 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.
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