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River Swede Creek (Yukon) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 36 km long. Nearest town — Dawson City. 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.
Nearest towns and cities
Yukon: 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 | active | 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 |
| Arctic char | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Chinook salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | 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 | active | peak |
| Chum salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair |
The course is moderately sinuous: pools are scoured at the bends and riffles run between them.
Wednesday, October 21
Hunt with holes: drill a line of them along the drop-off and work each for a few minutes — on ice the angler who moves is the one who finds fish.
Swede Creek — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 08:00–10:00 and 18:00–19:00.
The computed water temperature is around 3 °C — inside the 1–10 °C comfort range for Arctic char, so baseline activity is high.
Going by this year's frosts the ice is about 15 cm — solid, but noticeably thinner near current, reeds and springs. 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 rising 20 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
Partly cloudy · feels like -9°
The day is 6 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?Hunt with holes: drill a line of them along the drop-off and work each for a few minutes — on ice the angler who moves is the one who finds fish.
Swede Creek — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 08:00–10:00 and 18:00–19:00.