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Bay Shannon Estuary (County Clare) — a spot well known among anglers. About 414.9 km² in area. Nearby towns: Kilrush, Shannon and Kilkee. 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.
Nearest towns and cities
The shoreline is heavily indented — bays, points and spits. Look for pike at the mouths of the bays and on the drop-offs behind the points. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank. The largest water around: all 10 neighbours are smaller.
The wind builds its wave along the west — east axis — 57 mi of open water; along north — south there is only 19 mi. When it runs down the main axis, the calm water sits against the bank it blows from, while the wave and the silt go to the far one — and the fish follow them there to feed.
Other nearby places to fish
Other nearby waters
County Clare: 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 | slow | active | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Ballan wrasse | slow | fair | active | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Conger eel | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | fair |
| European sea bass | slow | fair | active | active | peak | 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 | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak |
| European eel | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Flounder | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Grey mullet | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| 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 | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
Wednesday, October 21
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Shannon Estuary — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. A thunderstorm is possible: activity rises before the front and drops after. Peak 08:00–10:00.
The computed water temperature is around 11 °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 4 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
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.
Shannon Estuary — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. A thunderstorm is possible: activity rises before the front and drops after. Peak 08:00–10:00.