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Bay Sandy Cove (Maine) — a popular fishing spot. About 20 ha in area. This is a sea water — its bite forecast is a marine one, computed apart from rivers and lakes. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Other nearby places to fish
Other nearby waters
The shoreline is moderately indented: bays and points alternate with even stretches. Larger than 11 of the 17 waters nearby.
The water is sheltered: there is almost no fetch, so wind stirs it up very little.
Maine: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Striped bass | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | peak | active | fair |
| Atlantic salmon | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | slow | slow |
| Brown trout | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Flounder | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | fair | slow |
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Sandy Cove — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 17:00–19:00.
The computed water temperature is around 48 °F — inside the 39–57 °F comfort range for Atlantic salmon, so baseline activity is high.
Atlantic 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 0.18 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 an active season for Atlantic salmon here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
| 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -6.5 ft | -5.5 ft | -4.0 ft | -1.8 ft | 0.8 ft | 2.7 ft | 3.2 ft | 2.6 ft | 1.1 ft | -1.0 ft | -3.4 ft | -5.4 ft | -6.0 ft | -5.4 ft | -4.0 ft | -2.1 ft | 0.5 ft | 2.7 ft | 3.7 ft | 3.3 ft | 1.9 ft | -0.2 ft | -2.8 ft | -5.4 ft |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 3.2 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 3.2 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Partly cloudy · feels like +41°
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 fieldG1 geomagnetic storm, Kp 4.7
Kp index — NOAA data. 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?Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Sandy Cove — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 17:00–19:00.