Catches
Recorded 11 catches here. Most commonly caught: Striped bass, Walleye, Smallmouth bass. Peak season: year-round.
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Sea East River (New York) — one of the area's fishing spots. Nearby towns: New York and Yonkers. Salt water, not fresh — so this page carries its own marine bite forecast. This page shows an hourly bite forecast for today and the week ahead; the algorithm factors in the weather, atmospheric pressure, and the moon phase.
Recorded 11 catches here. Most commonly caught: Striped bass, Walleye, Smallmouth bass. Peak season: year-round.
Clear: 57–73 °F
BiteGuideFrom anglers’ reports
This is a summary of anglers' reports, not a proven cause of the bite: conditions lining up does not mean they drove it.
vertical axis — number of catches
| Value | Catches | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Striped bass | 3 | 27% |
| Walleye | 2 | 18% |
| Black crappie | 1 | 9% |
| Bluefish | 1 | 9% |
| Bluegill | 1 | 9% |
| Largemouth bass | 1 | 9% |
| Smallmouth bass | 1 | 9% |
| Snook | 1 | 9% |
Wednesday, September 2
The bite is strong — fish are active. A thunderstorm is possible: activity rises before the front and drops after.
Best time — 06:00–08:00 (dawn bite) and 19:00–21:00 (dusk bite).
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
The water's turning murky — go with bright, noisy lures: trolling spoon or live bait.
No special gear needed — seasonal clothing will do. A thunderstorm is possible — bring a rain jacket, and pack up at the first rumble of thunder.
Worth going — it's a productive day.
The computed water temperature is around 65 °F — inside the 57–75 °F comfort range for Bluefish, so baseline activity is high.
Bluefish 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 0.03 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.
September is peak season for Bluefish here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
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Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 10.7 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 10.7 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Cloudy · feels like +73°
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.
What are solunar periods?Measured river conditions are available for East River: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
USGS gauge EAST CREEK AT SANDS POINT NY, 13 mi away · measured 2026-09-02 07:42 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision
