Catches
Recorded 11 catches here. Most commonly caught: Striped bass, Walleye, Smallmouth bass. Peak season: year-round.
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Sea Hell Gate (New York) — a popular fishing spot. Nearby towns: New York and Yonkers. This is a sea water — its bite forecast is a marine one, computed apart from rivers and lakes. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
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% |
Recorded 11 catches here. Most commonly caught: Striped bass, Walleye, Smallmouth bass. Peak season: year-round.
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.
It's a hot day — a hat, sunglasses, and plenty of water are a must. 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 67 °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 dropping 0.09 inHg over the day — fish are usually more active ahead of a weather change.
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 10.8 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 10.8 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Partly cloudy · feels like +78°
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?
