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Bay Bigelow Bight (Massachusetts) — a spot well known among anglers. About 3706.5 km² in area. A coastal water: the bite here is modelled for the sea, not for a river or a lake. A smart bite calendar — moon phase, atmospheric pressure, and weather combined into an hourly fish-activity forecast for the coming days.
Other nearby places to fish
Other nearby waters
Massachusetts: 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 | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Bluefish | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Flounder | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Atlantic salmon | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Brown trout | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Bigelow Bight — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. 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 57 °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 0.09 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 average month 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -4.7 ft | -4.7 ft | -3.9 ft | -2.4 ft | -0.7 ft | 0.5 ft | 1.1 ft | 1.1 ft | 0.6 ft | -0.7 ft | -2.3 ft | -3.4 ft | -4.0 ft | -4.1 ft | -3.6 ft | -2.2 ft | -0.6 ft | 0.8 ft | 1.6 ft | 1.7 ft | 1.2 ft | 0.0 ft | -1.8 ft | -3.5 ft |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 0.4 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 0.4 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Cloudy · feels like +51°
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.
Bigelow Bight — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 17:00–19:00.
Clear: 43–68 °F