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River Thames (Oxfordshire) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 53 km long. Flows into North Sea. Nearby towns: Oxford, Woodstock and Faringdon. 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.
The course meanders heavily: the current digs a pool on the outside of every bend and builds a bar on the inside. Those pools under the undercut bank are where pike typically sits. The longest river around: all 12 neighbours are shorter.
Recorded 6 catches here. Most commonly caught: Roach, Bream, Atlantic salmon. Peak season: May–December.
Partly cloudy: 15–22 °C
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
River Thames — Friday, September 18
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 06:00–08:00 and 19:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 15 °C — warmer than the 4–14 °C comfort range for Atlantic salmon: in the heat it drops deeper and feeds less often.
Atlantic salmon works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is rising 1 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 an active season for Atlantic salmon here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Partly cloudy · 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?BiteGuideFrom anglers’ reports
This is a summary of anglers' reports, not a proven cause of the bite: conditions lining up does not mean they drove it.
vertical axis — number of catches
| Value | Catches | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Roach | 2 | 33% |
| Atlantic salmon | 1 | 17% |
| Bream | 1 | 17% |
| Perch | 1 | 17% |
| Pike | 1 | 17% |