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Bay Knik Arm (Alaska) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 279.3 km² in area. Nearest town — Anchorage. Salt water, not fresh — so this page carries its own marine bite forecast. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Recorded 2 catches here. Most commonly caught: Rainbow trout, Pike. Peak season: January–July.
Cloudy: 41–57 °F
Wednesday, September 2
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).
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
In clear water, natural colors work best: trolling spoon or spinner.
Bring a warm jacket — it's noticeably colder on the water than on shore.
Worth going — it's a productive day.
The computed water temperature is around 51 °F — inside the 43–59 °F comfort range for Coho salmon, so baseline activity is high.
Coho salmon works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is rising 0.21 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.
September is peak season for Coho salmon here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
| 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 |
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| 11.3 ft | 6.8 ft | 2.1 ft | -1.7 ft | -5.9 ft | -10.7 ft | -12.8 ft | -9.3 ft | -2.5 ft | 2.8 ft | 5.1 ft | 6.4 ft | 6.7 ft | 4.7 ft | 1.4 ft | -0.9 ft | -3.0 ft | -6.1 ft | -8.4 ft | -6.2 ft | 0.4 ft | 7.1 ft | 10.5 ft | 11.8 ft |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 4.5 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 4.5 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Partly cloudy · feels like +47°
The day is 6 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?