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Bantry Bay (County Cork) — a spot well known among anglers. About 249.4 km² in area. Nearby towns: Castletownbere, Bantry and Skibbereen. A coastal water: the bite here is modelled for the sea, not for a river or a lake. 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.
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 14 neighbours are smaller.
The wind builds its wave along the west — east axis — 23 mi of open water; along north-west — south-east there is only 13 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.
County Cork: 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 | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Ballan wrasse | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Conger eel | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
| European eel | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | slow |
| European sea bass | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Flounder | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | slow |
| Grey mullet | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | slow |
| Thornback ray | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Atlantic salmon | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | slow | slow |
| Plaice | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Pollack | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
| Whiting | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak |
| Atlantic cod | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak |
| Brown trout | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
Other nearby places to fish
Other nearby waters
Wednesday, October 21
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
ThunderstormThunderstorm possible: put the rod down and leave open shoreline at the first rumble.
Bantry Bay — 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 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 9 °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 an active 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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 m | 0.1 m | 0.1 m | -0.1 m | -0.4 m | -0.8 m | -1.1 m | -1.2 m | -1.2 m | -1.0 m | -0.7 m | -0.4 m | -0.1 m | 0.1 m | 0.2 m | 0.1 m | -0.3 m | -0.7 m | -1.1 m | -1.3 m | -1.4 m | -1.3 m | -1.0 m | -0.6 m |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 2.7 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 2.7 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Partly cloudy · feels like +3°
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 fieldG1 geomagnetic storm, Kp 4.7
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. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
ThunderstormThunderstorm possible: put the rod down and leave open shoreline at the first rumble.
Bantry Bay — 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 and 18:00–20:00.