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The Hart Reservoir (Kent) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 1 ha in area. Close by — Folkestone and Hythe. A smart bite calendar — moon phase, atmospheric pressure, and weather combined into an hourly fish-activity forecast for the coming days.
The basin is close to regular: the bank runs smooth and natural cover is scarce, so fish hold to the few anomalies — inflows, drop-offs and weed edges.
The water is sheltered: there is almost no fetch, so wind stirs it up very little.
Cloudy: 14–21 °C
Friday, September 18
Chum one spot near a drop-off and wait for fish to arrive — don't chase them.
The Hart Reservoir — Friday, September 18
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 11:00–16:00.
The computed water temperature is around 15 °C — inside the 14–26 °C comfort range for Bleak, so baseline activity is high.
Bleak feeds by day — between sunrise and sunset; their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is rising 3 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.
September is a slow season for Bleak: 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
Clear · feels like +14°
The day is 4 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?