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Bay Great Salt Pond (Rhode Island) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 2.4 km² in area. Salt water, not fresh — so this page carries its own marine bite forecast. A smart bite calendar — moon phase, atmospheric pressure, and weather combined into an hourly fish-activity forecast for the coming days.
The shoreline is moderately indented: bays and points alternate with even stretches. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank. The largest water around: all 14 neighbours are smaller.
The longest fetch is 2 mi along the north — south axis: wind along it builds a wave on the open water and pushes silt and food towards the lee bank.
Thursday, September 17
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Great Salt Pond — Thursday, September 17
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is rising — activity tends to be more subdued. Peak 06:00–08:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 68 °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 0.18 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 2.2 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 2.2 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Cloudy · feels like +81°
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?