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Recorded 18 catches of Yellow perch in New York. Most active — year-round. A day-by-day bite calendar for Yellow perch.
Friday, September 4
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite.
Best time — 11:00–16:00 (daytime activity).
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
In clear water, natural colors work best: small jig or minnow bait.
No special gear needed — seasonal clothing will do.
Worth going — it's a productive day.
The computed water temperature is around 65 °F — inside the 54–72 °F comfort range for Yellow perch, so baseline activity is high.
Yellow perch feeds by day — between sunrise and sunset; their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is flat: it moves no more than 0.03 inHg over the day, so the weather isn't shifting today's bite.
September is peak season for Yellow perch here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Clear · feels like +70°
The day is 3 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
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.
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