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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 | peak | active | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | peak | peak |
| Lake trout | peak | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | active | peak | active |
| Brook trout | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Cutthroat trout | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | active | fair |
| Pike | active | fair | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak |
| Whitefish | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | peak | fair |
| Rainbow trout | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow |
| Chinook salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Coho salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
| Burbot | active | fair | fair | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak |
Donkey Lake (Alaska) — a popular fishing spot. About 67 ha in area. Nearby towns: Soldotna and Kenai. This page shows an hourly bite forecast for today and the week ahead; the algorithm factors in the weather, atmospheric pressure, and the moon phase.
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Other nearby waters
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. Larger than 18 of the 20 waters nearby.
The longest fetch is 1 mi along the north — south axis: wind along it builds a wave on the open water and pushes silt and food towards the lee bank.
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.
Donkey 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 19:00–20:00.
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?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.
Donkey 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 19:00–20:00.