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River Aldridge Creek (Alabama) — a spot well known among anglers. About 16 km long. Close by — Huntsville and Meridianville. A smart bite calendar — moon phase, atmospheric pressure, and weather combined into an hourly fish-activity forecast for the coming days.
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The course runs nearly straight: there are few bend pools, and the structure to look for is riffles and scour holes.
Wednesday, October 21
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
Aldridge Creek — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 06:00–09:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 69 °F — inside the 57–75 °F comfort range for Black crappie, so baseline activity is high.
Black crappie works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is flat: it moves no more than 0.00 inHg over the day, so the weather isn't shifting today's bite.
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 Black crappie here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Partly cloudy · feels like +70°
The day is 2 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 forecast. 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?Blue check: this species appears as a catch in reports for this waterbody.
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
Aldridge Creek — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 06:00–09:00 and 18:00–20:00.
Alabama: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White crappie | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak |
| Black crappie | peak | peak | active | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak |
| Striped bass | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow |
| White bass | active | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | fair |
| Smallmouth bass | fair | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | fair |
| Walleye | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | slow | fair |
| Largemouth bass | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active |
| Blue catfish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Bluegill | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Carp | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Channel catfish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Flathead catfish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Grass carp | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Spotted bass | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
Biting
Fish in 1 of 1 report · Mostly Smallmouth bass
Anglers have logged 1 fishing report here. Most commonly caught: Smallmouth bass. Peak season: April.
Measured river conditions are available for Aldridge Creek: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
USGS gauge ALDRIDGE C AT SHERWOOD DR NR HUNTSVILLE, ALA, 1 mi away · measured 2026-10-21 01:55 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision