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Missouri River (Kansas) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 10 km long. Nearby towns: Kansas City and Leavenworth. 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.
Nearest towns and cities
Kansas: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White crappie | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | active | active | active | active | active |
| Black crappie | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | active | active |
| Striped bass | slow | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | fair | slow | slow |
| Walleye | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| White bass | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow |
| Largemouth bass | fair | active | active | active | active | active | active | active | fair | fair | fair | fair |
| Smallmouth bass | slow | fair | fair | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow |
| Rainbow trout | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
| Blue catfish | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Bluegill | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Carp | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Channel catfish | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Spotted bass | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow |
| Flathead catfish | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow |
Wednesday, October 21
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
Missouri River — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 63 °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 0.03 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 +66°
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 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.
Missouri River — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The course runs nearly straight: there are few bend pools, and the structure to look for is riffles and scour holes.
Other nearby places to fish
Other nearby waters
Clear: 54–73 °F
Measured river conditions are available for Missouri River: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
USGS gauge Missouri River above Parkville, MO, 3 mi away · measured 2026-10-21 09:45 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision