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Lake Oliver (Alabama) — one of the area's fishing spots. A smart bite calendar — moon phase, atmospheric pressure, and weather combined into an hourly fish-activity forecast for the coming days.
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 |
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| White crappie | peak | peak |
Look for drop-offs and gaps in the weeds, retrieve slowly, lingering over promising spots.
Lake Oliver — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–08:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 68 °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 dropping 0.06 inHg over the day — fish are usually more active ahead of a weather change.
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
Clear · feels like +68°
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?Cloudy: 55–77 °F
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| Black crappie | peak | peak | active | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak |
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| Striped bass | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow |
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| White bass | active | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | fair |
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| Smallmouth bass | fair | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | fair |
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| Walleye | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | slow | fair |
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| Largemouth bass | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active |
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| Blue catfish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Bluegill | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Carp | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Channel catfish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Flathead catfish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Grass carp | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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| Spotted bass | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
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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.
Lake Oliver — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–08:00 and 18:00–20:00.
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 wind builds its wave along the north-west — south-east axis — 8 mi of open water; along north-east — south-west there is only 2 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.
Biting
Fish in 1 of 1 report · Mostly Blue catfish
Anglers have logged 1 fishing report here. Most commonly caught: Blue catfish. Peak season: May.
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