Catches
Recorded 2 catches here. Most commonly caught: Coho salmon, Chinook salmon. Peak season: July–September.
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Kenai River (Alaska) — a popular fishing spot. About 84 km long. Close by — Soldotna and Kenai. A smart bite calendar — moon phase, atmospheric pressure, and weather combined into an hourly fish-activity forecast for the coming days.
Cloudy: 41–57 °F
Recorded 2 catches here. Most commonly caught: Coho salmon, Chinook salmon. Peak season: July–September.
In the fish list, this icon marks species recorded here by GBIF. Unmarked species may still occur in the waterbody.
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably.
Best time — 07:00–09:00 (dawn bite) and 21:00–23:00 (dusk bite).
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
The water's turning murky — go with bright, noisy lures: spinner or fly.
Pack transitional-season clothing — mornings and evenings are chilly. Rain is expected — don't forget a rain jacket or a waterproof shell.
Worth going — it's a productive day.
The computed water temperature is around 50 °F — inside the 45–61 °F comfort range for Brook trout, so baseline activity is high.
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 dropping 0.24 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.
September is peak season for Brook trout here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Showers · feels like +45°
The day is 5 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
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?Measured river conditions are available for Kenai River: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
USGS gauge KENAI R AT SOLDOTNA AK, 7 mi away · measured 2026-09-02 02:00 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision
