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Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
Michigan — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. 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 50 °F — inside the 39–54 °F comfort range for Lake trout, so baseline activity is high.
Lake trout works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is dropping 0.09 inHg over the day — fish are usually more active ahead of a weather change.
October is peak season for Lake trout here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Clear · feels like +50°
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?Biting
Fish in 18 of 18 reports
Anglers have logged 18 fishing reports here. Peak season: year-round.