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Tackle, baits, spots and seasons — a full guide to catching European eel.
Read the guide →Wednesday, October 21
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
Greater London — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 00:00–03:00 and 23:00–23:00.
The computed water temperature is around 12 °C — inside the 12–24 °C comfort range for European eel, so baseline activity is high.
European eel feeds at night: the peak falls in the dark hours, between sunset and sunrise.
Pressure is rising 7 hPa over the day — the bite usually settles down after a rise.
October is an active season for European eel here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Cloudy · 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 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.
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