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Tackle, baits, spots and seasons — a full guide to catching Perch.
Read the guide →Wednesday, October 21
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
Belfast City — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 08:00–10:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 11 °C — inside the 10–22 °C comfort range for Perch, so baseline activity is high.
Perch works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is rising 6 hPa over the day — the bite usually settles down after a rise.
October is peak season for Perch here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Drizzle · feels like +5°
The day is 4 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
Geomagnetic fieldunsettled, Kp 4
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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