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Bay Firth of Tay (Fife) — a popular fishing spot. About 98.7 km² in area. Nearby towns: Tayport, Newburgh and Leuchars. 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.
Nearest towns and cities
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 10 neighbours are smaller.
The wind builds its wave along the north-east — south-west axis — 21 mi of open water; along north-west — south-east there is only 9 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.
Fife: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballan wrasse | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Conger eel | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair |
| European sea bass | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Thornback ray | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Atlantic mackerel | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
| Atlantic salmon | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | slow | slow |
| European eel | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
| Flounder | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
| Grey mullet | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
| Plaice | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Pollack | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
| Whiting | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak |
| Atlantic cod | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak |
| Brown trout | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
Sunday, October 25
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Firth of Tay — Sunday, October 25
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 08:00–09:00 and 17:00–19:00.
The computed water temperature is around 10 °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 32 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 an active season for Atlantic cod here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Drizzle · feels like 0°
The day is 5 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.
What are solunar periods?Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Firth of Tay — Sunday, October 25
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 08:00–09:00 and 17:00–19:00.
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