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Rainbow smelt lives in Arkhangelskaya oblast. Today's bite forecast, a day-by-day and hour-by-hour activity calendar, best time and baits.
Monday, September 7
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued.
Best time — 05:00–07:00 (dawn bite) and 19:00–21:00 (dusk bite).
Pick a stretch of steady current, chum one spot and fish it — don't move around without reason. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Today's bait — tiny jig with shrimp or sabiki rig. In cold or murky water, add scent to your chum.
Pack transitional-season clothing — mornings and evenings are chilly. Rain is expected — don't forget a rain jacket or a waterproof shell.
A slow day — go only if you really feel like it.
The computed water temperature is around 11 °C — warmer than the 0–8 °C comfort range for Rainbow smelt: in the heat it drops deeper and feeds less often.
Rainbow smelt works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is rising 12 hPa over the day — the bite usually settles down after a rise.
September is a slow season for Rainbow smelt: 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
Rain · feels like +7°
The day is 6 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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