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Bay Cromarty Firth (Highland) — a spot well known among anglers. About 88.8 km² in area. Nearby towns: Cromarty, Invergordon and Alness. A coastal water: the bite here is modelled for the sea, not for a river or a lake. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Thursday, September 3
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite.
Best time — 06:00–08:00 (dawn bite) and 20:00–22:00 (dusk bite).
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
The water's turning murky — go with bright, noisy lures: pirk or lugworm bottom rig.
Pack transitional-season clothing — mornings and evenings are chilly. Rain is expected — don't forget a rain jacket or a waterproof shell.
A slow day — go only if you really feel like it.
The computed water temperature is around 12 °C — warmer than the 4–12 °C comfort range for Atlantic cod: in the heat it drops deeper and feeds less often.
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 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.
September is a slow season for Atlantic cod: 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
| 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 |
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| -0.5 m | 0.2 m | 0.9 m | 1.3 m | 1.1 m | 0.6 m | 0.2 m | -0.4 m | -1.2 m | -1.6 m | -1.5 m | -1.2 m | -0.8 m | -0.3 m | 0.5 m | 1.1 m | 1.1 m | 0.7 m | 0.4 m | -0.0 m | -0.6 m | -1.2 m | -1.4 m | -1.1 m |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 7 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 7.0 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Clear · feels like +10°
The day is 5 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
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?