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River Crouch (Essex) — a popular fishing spot. About 42 km long. Flows into North Sea. Close by — Southend-on-Sea and Chelmsford. 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 course is moderately sinuous: pools are scoured at the bends and riffles run between them. The longest river around: all 6 neighbours are shorter.
Measured river conditions are available for River Crouch: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
Essex: 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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| Perch | active | active |
Tuesday, November 3
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
River Crouch — Tuesday, November 3
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–08:00 and 16:00–17:00.
The computed water temperature is around 11 °C — inside the 4–14 °C comfort range for Atlantic salmon, so baseline activity is high.
Atlantic salmon 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.
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 a slow season for Atlantic salmon: the best months fall at another time of year.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Cloudy · feels like +10°
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?Blue check: this species appears as a catch in reports for this waterbody.
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
River Crouch — Tuesday, November 3
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–08:00 and 16:00–17:00.
Cloudy: 8–11 °C
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| Dace | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| European eel | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Grayling | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | fair |
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| Roach | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active |
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| Ruffe | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | fair |
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| Whitefish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Barbel | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Bream | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
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| Pike | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair |
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| Rainbow trout | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | slow | slow | slow |
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| Zander | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | fair |
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| Atlantic salmon | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
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| Brown trout | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
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| White bream | fair | active | active | peak | active | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | fair | fair |
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| Ide | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
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| Bleak | slow | fair | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Carp | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
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| Chub | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Crucian carp | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Rudd | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Tench | slow | slow | slow | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Wels catfish | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
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Environment Agency gauge River Crouch at Wickford, 3 mi away · typical 0.02–1.67 m · measured 2026-11-03 04:15 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision
Biting
Fish in 1 of 1 report · Mostly Carp
Anglers have logged 1 fishing report here. Most commonly caught: Carp. Peak season: September.