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Little Pleasant Bay (Massachusetts) — a spot well known among anglers. About 1.3 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 waters
The shoreline is heavily indented — bays, points and spits. Look for pike at the mouths of the bays and on the drop-offs behind the points. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank. Larger than 19 of the 20 waters nearby.
The longest fetch is 1 mi along the north — south axis: wind along it builds a wave on the open water and pushes silt and food towards the lee bank.
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.
Little Pleasant Bay — Thursday, October 22
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 06:00–08:00 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 flat: it moves no more than 0.00 inHg over the day, so the weather isn't shifting today's bite.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -1.8 ft | -3.0 ft | -3.6 ft | -3.6 ft | -3.0 ft | -1.9 ft | -0.6 ft | 0.7 ft | 1.4 ft | 1.5 ft | 1.0 ft | -0.1 ft | -1.3 ft | -2.6 ft | -3.4 ft | -3.6 ft | -3.1 ft | -2.1 ft | -0.7 ft | 0.6 ft | 1.5 ft | 1.8 ft | 1.2 ft | 0.2 ft |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 1.9 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 1.9 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Cloudy · feels like +47°
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 fieldunsettled, Kp 4.3
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.
Little Pleasant Bay — Thursday, October 22
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 06:00–08:00 and 17:00–19:00.