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Bay Solway Firth (Dumfries and Galloway) — a popular fishing spot. About 1572.9 km² in area. Close by — Annan, Kirkcudbright and Gretna. This is a sea water — its bite forecast is a marine one, computed apart from rivers and lakes. Here you'll find a bite prediction — when fish are active and which hours give the best chances, adjusted for weather and pressure.
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The shoreline is moderately indented: bays and points alternate with even stretches. The largest water around: all 6 neighbours are smaller.
The wind builds its wave along the west — east axis — 68 mi of open water; along north — south there is only 32 mi. When it runs down the main axis, the calm water sits against the bank it blows from, while the wave and the silt go to the far one — and the fish follow them there to feed.
Dumfries and Galloway: 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 |
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| Atlantic mackerel | slow | slow |
Tuesday, November 3
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Solway Firth — Tuesday, November 3
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 16:00–18:00.
The computed water temperature is around 8 °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 dropping 3 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.
November 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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| -2.8 m | -2.3 m | -1.5 m | -0.4 m | 0.6 m | 1.3 m | 1.3 m | 0.9 m | 0.3 m | -0.6 m | -1.4 m | -2.1 m | -2.4 m | -2.2 m | -1.5 m | -0.6 m | 0.5 m | 1.4 m | 1.8 m | 1.6 m | 0.9 m | -0.0 m | -1.1 m | -2.1 m |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 0.7 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 0.7 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Cloudy · feels like +7°
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 fieldquiet, Kp 2
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?| fair |
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| Ballan wrasse | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
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| Conger eel | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
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| European sea bass | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
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| Thornback ray | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
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| Atlantic salmon | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | slow | slow |
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| European eel | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | fair | slow |
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| Flounder | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | fair | slow |
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| Grey mullet | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | fair | slow |
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| Plaice | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
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| Pollack | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
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| Whiting | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak |
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| Atlantic cod | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak |
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| Brown trout | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
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Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Solway Firth — Tuesday, November 3
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 16:00–18:00.