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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 |
Wilderness Lake (Alaska) — a popular fishing spot. About 69 ha in area. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Other nearby waters
The basin is close to regular: the bank runs smooth and natural cover is scarce, so fish hold to the few anomalies — inflows, drop-offs and weed edges. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank. Larger than 13 of the 20 waters nearby.
Wednesday, October 21
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.
Wilderness Lake — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 09:00–11:00 and 19:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 37 °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 0.35 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 Brook trout here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Partly cloudy · feels like +21°
The day is 6 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 drop-offs and gaps in the weeds, retrieve slowly, lingering over promising spots. The water's cold — fish it more delicately and slowly.
Wilderness Lake — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 09:00–11:00 and 19:00–20:00.