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Chilkat Lake (Alaska) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 10.7 km² in area. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Other nearby places to fish
The shoreline is heavily indented — bays, points and spits. Look for pike at the mouths of the bays and on the drop-offs behind the points. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank.
The wind builds its wave along the north-west — south-east axis — 6 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.
Alaska: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steelhead | peak | peak |
Green check: this species was recorded here by GBIF. Species without a check may still occur in the waterbody.
Look for drop-offs and gaps in the weeds, retrieve slowly, lingering over promising spots. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Chilkat Lake — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 09:00–11:00 and 19:00–21:00.
The computed water temperature is around 38 °F — colder than the 45–61 °F comfort range for Brook trout: the fish conserves energy and takes more cautiously.
Brook trout works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is rising 0.41 inHg over the day — the bite usually settles down after a rise.
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 peak season for Brook trout here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Snow · feels like +23°
The day is 5 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 data. 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?| active |
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| Lake trout | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | active | peak | active |
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| Brook trout | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
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| Cutthroat trout | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | active | fair |
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| Pike | active | fair | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak |
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| Whitefish | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | peak | fair |
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| Rainbow trout | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow |
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| Chinook salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow |
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| Coho salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
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| Burbot | active | fair | fair | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak |
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Green check: this species was recorded here by GBIF. Species without a check may still occur in the waterbody.
Look for drop-offs and gaps in the weeds, retrieve slowly, lingering over promising spots. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Chilkat Lake — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 09:00–11:00 and 19:00–21:00.