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Sea East Hoo Creek (Kent) — a popular fishing spot. Close by — Gillingham, Chatham and Rochester. This is a sea water — its bite forecast is a marine one, computed apart from rivers and lakes. 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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Kent: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic mackerel | slow | fair | active | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Ballan wrasse | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Conger eel | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| European eel | slow | slow | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| European sea bass | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Flounder | slow | slow | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Grey mullet | slow | slow | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Pollack | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Thornback ray | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | fair |
| Atlantic cod | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak |
| Atlantic salmon | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Plaice | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow |
| Whiting | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak |
| Brown trout | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
Wednesday, October 21
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
East Hoo Creek — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 07:00–09:00.
The computed water temperature is around 12 °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 7 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 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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| -1.2 m | -1.7 m | -1.9 m | -1.6 m | -0.9 m | -0.5 m | -0.2 m | 0.2 m | 0.6 m | 0.5 m | 0.0 m | -0.5 m | -1.0 m | -1.7 m | -2.2 m | -2.2 m | -1.6 m | -1.1 m | -0.8 m | -0.3 m | 0.4 m | 0.7 m | 0.4 m | 0.0 m |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 4 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 4.0 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Cloudy · feels like +5°
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 fieldunsettled, Kp 4
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?Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
East Hoo Creek — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 07:00–09:00.