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Reservoir Highland Lake (Alabama) — a popular fishing spot. About 100 ha in area. The town of Oneonta is nearby. A smart bite calendar — moon phase, atmospheric pressure, and weather combined into an hourly fish-activity forecast for the coming days.
Nearest towns and cities
Wednesday, October 21
Look for drop-offs and gaps in the weeds, retrieve slowly, lingering over promising spots.
Highland Lake — 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?Other nearby places to fish
Other nearby waters
The shoreline is heavily indented — bays, points and spits. Look for largemouth bass at the mouths of the bays and on the drop-offs behind the points. The largest water around: all 16 neighbours are smaller.
The longest fetch is 2 mi along the north-east — south-west axis: wind along it builds a wave on the open water and pushes silt and food towards the lee bank.
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 |
Blue check: this species appears as a catch in reports for this waterbody.
Look for drop-offs and gaps in the weeds, retrieve slowly, lingering over promising spots.
Highland Lake — 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.
Biting
Fish in 1 of 1 report · Mostly Spotted bass
Anglers have logged 1 fishing report here. Most commonly caught: Spotted bass. Peak season: June.