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Bay Poole Harbour (Dorset) — a popular fishing spot. About 34.7 km² in area. This is a sea water — its bite forecast is a marine one, computed apart from rivers and lakes. 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 places to fish
Other nearby waters
The shoreline is heavily indented — bays, points and spits. Look for pike at the mouths of the bays and on the drop-offs behind the points. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank. The largest water around: all 17 neighbours are smaller.
The longest fetch is 7 mi along the west — east axis: wind along it builds a wave on the open water and pushes silt and food towards the lee bank.
Dorset: 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 |
Wednesday, October 21
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Poole Harbour — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. A thunderstorm is possible: activity rises before the front and drops after. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 12 °C — inside the 4–12 °C comfort range for Atlantic cod, so baseline activity is high.
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 9 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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Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 6 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 6.0 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Drizzle · feels like +3°
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 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?| active |
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| Ballan wrasse | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Conger eel | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | fair |
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| European sea bass | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Pollack | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Thornback ray | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | fair |
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| Atlantic cod | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak |
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| European eel | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Flounder | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Grey mullet | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Atlantic salmon | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
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| Plaice | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow |
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| Whiting | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak |
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| Brown trout | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
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Blue check: this species appears as a catch in reports for this waterbody.
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Poole Harbour — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. A thunderstorm is possible: activity rises before the front and drops after. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 18:00–20:00.
Biting
Fish in 1 of 1 report · Mostly Grey mullet
Anglers have logged 1 fishing report here. Most commonly caught: Grey mullet. Peak season: September.