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Middle Bay (New York) — a spot well known among anglers. A coastal water: the bite here is modelled for the sea, not for a river or a lake. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Cloudy: 63–82 °F
Saturday, September 5
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite.
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. Rain is expected — don't forget a rain jacket or a waterproof shell.
Worth going — it's a productive day.
The computed water temperature is around 64 °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 rising 0.09 inHg over the day — the bite usually settles down after a rise.
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 1.4 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 1.4 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Partly cloudy · feels like +62°
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?