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Bay Port Real Marina (Alaska) — a spot well known among anglers. About 17.4 km² in area. The town of Craig is nearby. A coastal water: the bite here is modelled for the sea, not for a river or a lake. Here you'll find a bite prediction — when fish are active and which hours give the best chances, adjusted for weather and pressure.
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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. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank. Larger than 9 of the 13 waters nearby.
The wind builds its wave along the west — east axis — 5 mi of open water; along north — south 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 | peak | active | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | peak | peak |
| Lingcod | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Pacific halibut | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Rockfish | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | active | fair |
| Chinook salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Flounder | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair |
| Coho salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow |
Wednesday, October 21
Green check: this species was recorded here by GBIF. Species without a check may still occur in the waterbody.
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Port Real Marina — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 09:00–10:00 and 19:00–21:00.
The computed water temperature is around 37 °F — colder than the 43–59 °F comfort range for Coho salmon: the fish conserves energy and takes more cautiously.
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 0.35 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 Coho salmon here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -0.0 ft | -1.3 ft | -2.3 ft | -2.8 ft | -2.6 ft | -1.7 ft | -0.4 ft | 1.1 ft | 2.5 ft | 3.3 ft | 3.6 ft | 3.2 ft | 2.3 ft | 1.1 ft | -0.1 ft | -0.9 ft | -1.1 ft | -0.8 ft | 0.1 ft | 1.3 ft | 2.4 ft | 3.1 ft | 3.1 ft | 2.5 ft |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 2.9 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 2.9 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Partly cloudy · feels like +21°
The day is 4 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
Geomagnetic fieldquiet, Kp 3.7
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?Green check: this species was recorded here by GBIF. Species without a check may still occur in the waterbody.
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Port Real Marina — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 09:00–10:00 and 19:00–21:00.