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Salt River (Arizona) — a spot well known among anglers. About 311 km long. Nearby towns: Tempe, Phoenix and Mesa. 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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The course meanders heavily: the current digs a pool on the outside of every bend and builds a bar on the inside. Those pools under the undercut bank are where largemouth bass typically sits.
Wednesday, October 21
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
Salt River — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 06:00–08:00 and 18:00–19:00.
The computed water temperature is around 80 °F — warmer than the 57–75 °F comfort range for Black crappie: in the heat it drops deeper and feeds less often.
Black crappie works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is dropping 0.06 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.
October is an active season for Black crappie here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Cloudy · feels like +82°
The day is 2 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 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?Blue check: this species appears as a catch in reports for this waterbody.
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
Salt River — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 06:00–08:00 and 18:00–19:00.
Arizona: the months when each species peaks and when it goes quiet. The current month is outlined. The bottom row counts the catches logged on this water in each month.
| Fish | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White crappie | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak |
| Black crappie | peak | peak | active | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | active | active | peak |
| Striped bass | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow |
| White bass | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | fair | slow | fair |
| Largemouth bass | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | fair | slow | slow | fair | fair | active | active |
| Rainbow trout | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Smallmouth bass | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | fair | slow | fair |
| Blue catfish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Bluegill | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Carp | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Channel catfish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Flathead catfish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Grass carp | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Spotted bass | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Catches here | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
BiteGuideFrom anglers’ reports
This is a summary of anglers' reports, not a proven cause of the bite: conditions lining up does not mean they drove it.
vertical axis — number of catches
| Value | Catches | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Largemouth bass | 4 | 80% |
| Smallmouth bass | 1 | 20% |
Biting
Fish in 5 of 5 reports · Mostly Largemouth bass
Anglers have logged 5 fishing reports here. Most commonly caught: Largemouth bass, Smallmouth bass. Peak season: April–November.
Measured river conditions are available for Salt River: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
USGS gauge SALT RIVER NEAR ROOSEVELT, AZ, 2 mi away · measured 2026-10-21 09:30 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision