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Wheaton River (Yukon) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 91 km long. 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.
Other nearby waters
The course meanders heavily: the current digs a pool on the outside of every bend and builds a bar on the inside. Those pools under the undercut bank are where pike typically sits.
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 |
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.
Wheaton River — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 09:00–10:00 and 18:00–20:00.
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 is about 14 cm: it usually holds one person, but test every step with an ice chisel. 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 19 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
Snow · 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 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?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.
Wheaton River — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 09:00–10:00 and 18:00–20:00.
Measured river conditions are available for Wheaton River: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
USGS gauge WHEATON RIVER NEAR CARCROSS, 19 km away · measured 2026-10-21 04:00 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision