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Watergate Bay (Cornwall) — a popular fishing spot. About 3.8 km² in area. Close by — Newquay, Wadebridge and Truro. This is a sea water — its bite forecast is a marine one, computed apart from rivers and lakes. A smart bite calendar — moon phase, atmospheric pressure, and weather combined into an hourly fish-activity forecast for the coming days.
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The basin is close to regular: the bank runs smooth and natural cover is scarce, so fish hold to the few anomalies — inflows, drop-offs and weed edges. The largest water around: all 5 neighbours are smaller.
The longest fetch is 2 mi along the north-east — south-west axis: wind along it builds a wave on the open water and pushes silt and food towards the lee bank.
Cornwall: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic mackerel | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Ballan wrasse | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Conger eel | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | fair |
| European eel | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| European sea bass | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Flounder | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Grey mullet | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Pollack | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Thornback ray | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | fair |
| Atlantic cod | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak |
| Atlantic salmon | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Plaice | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow |
| Whiting | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak |
| Brown trout | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
Wednesday, October 21
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Watergate Bay — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. A thunderstorm is possible: activity rises before the front and drops after. Peak 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 12 °C — warmer than the 4–12 °C comfort range for Atlantic cod: in the heat it drops deeper and feeds less often.
Atlantic cod works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is rising 11 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 peak season for Atlantic cod here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
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| 0.5 m | 0.8 m | 0.7 m | 0.5 m | -0.0 m | -0.7 m | -1.2 m | -1.6 m | -1.6 m | -1.4 m | -0.9 m | -0.3 m | 0.4 m | 0.9 m | 1.0 m | 0.8 m | 0.3 m | -0.3 m | -1.1 m | -1.7 m | -1.9 m | -1.8 m | -1.5 m | -0.9 m |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 3.7 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 3.7 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Partly cloudy · feels like +4°
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.
What are solunar periods?Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Watergate Bay — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. A thunderstorm is possible: activity rises before the front and drops after. Peak 18:00–20:00.