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River Burns Waterway (Indiana) — a spot well known among anglers. About 2 km long. Nearby towns: Gary and Valparaiso. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Nearest towns and cities
Indiana: 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 | active | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | peak |
| White crappie | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | fair | active | active | active | active | active | active |
| Black crappie | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | active | active |
| Muskellunge | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Smallmouth bass | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow |
| Walleye | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| White bass | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow |
| Yellow perch | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Largemouth bass | fair | active | active | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | fair | fair |
| Pike | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | fair |
| Rainbow trout | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
| Chinook salmon | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
| Blue catfish | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Bluegill | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Carp | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Channel catfish | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Coho salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow |
| Flathead catfish | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow | slow | slow |
Other nearby places to fish
Other nearby waters
The course runs nearly straight: there are few bend pools, and the structure to look for is riffles and scour holes.
Wednesday, October 21
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
Burns Waterway — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 08:00–10:00 and 19:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 61 °F — inside the 57–75 °F comfort range for Black crappie, so baseline activity is high.
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
Clear · feels like +62°
The day is 3 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?Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
Burns Waterway — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 08:00–10:00 and 19:00–20:00.
Cloudy: 54–73 °F