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Tackle, baits, spots and seasons — a full guide to catching Barbel.
Read the guide →Thursday, October 22
Pick a stretch of steady current, chum one spot and fish it — don't move around without reason.
County Fermanagh — Thursday, October 22
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 08:00–10:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 10 °C — colder than the 14–24 °C comfort range for Barbel: the fish conserves energy and takes more cautiously.
Barbel works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is dropping 2 hPa over the day — fish are usually more active ahead of a weather change.
October is an active season for Barbel here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Clear · feels like +6°
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 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.
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