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Saskatchewan: 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 | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | fair | peak | active | peak |
| Whitefish | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Pike | fair | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active |
| Rainbow trout | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | slow | slow |
| Brook trout | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | fair | slow |
| Goldeye | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Lake sturgeon | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Sauger | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Walleye | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Yellow perch | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Burbot | active | fair | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | peak | peak | active |
Foskett Lake (Saskatchewan) — a popular fishing spot. About 1.1 km² in area. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Look for drop-offs and gaps in the weeds, retrieve slowly, lingering over promising spots.
Foskett Lake — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. 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 7 °C — inside the 7–16 °C comfort range for Brook trout, so baseline activity is high.
Brook trout works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is dropping 9 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 peak season for Brook trout here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Clear · feels like +6°
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?Look for drop-offs and gaps in the weeds, retrieve slowly, lingering over promising spots.
Foskett Lake — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 17:00–19:00.
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. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank. Smaller than 7 of the 13 waters nearby.
The wind builds its wave along the north — south axis — 4 km of open water; along west — east there is only 1 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.