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Roach lives in County Longford. Today's bite forecast, a day-by-day and hour-by-hour activity calendar, best time and baits.
Tackle, baits, spots and seasons — a full guide to catching Roach.
Read the guide →The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued.
Best time — 11:00–17:00 (daytime activity).
Pick a stretch of steady current, chum one spot and fish it — don't move around without reason.
Today's bait — maggot or dough bait.
Pack transitional-season clothing — mornings and evenings are chilly.
An average day — best chances during peak windows.
The computed water temperature is around 14 °C — inside the 10–22 °C comfort range for Roach, so baseline activity is high.
Roach feeds by day — between sunrise and sunset; their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is flat: it moves no more than 1 hPa over the day, so the weather isn't shifting today's bite.
September is an average month for Roach 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.
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