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Bay Brock Cove (Virginia) — a popular fishing spot. About 23 ha in area. Close by — Virginia Beach and Norfolk. This is a sea water — its bite forecast is a marine one, computed apart from rivers and lakes. A smart bite calendar — moon phase, atmospheric pressure, and weather combined into an hourly fish-activity forecast for the coming days.
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The shoreline is heavily indented — bays, points and spits. Look for largemouth bass at the mouths of the bays and on the drop-offs behind the points. Larger than 9 of the 12 waters nearby.
Virginia: the months when each species peaks and when it goes quiet. The current month is outlined.
| Fish | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black drum | active | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | active |
| Flounder | slow | slow | active | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Red drum | fair | fair | active | active | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | fair |
| Sheepshead | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | peak |
| Striped bass | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | active | peak | peak | active | slow | slow |
| Bluefish | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | slow | slow |
| Cobia | slow | active | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | active | fair | slow | slow |
| Spotted seatrout | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
| King mackerel | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
| Spanish mackerel | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
| Tarpon | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | slow | slow | slow | slow |
Wednesday, October 21
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Brock Cove — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 00:00–04:00.
The computed water temperature is around 56 °F — colder than the 61–79 °F comfort range for Black drum: the fish conserves energy and takes more cautiously.
Black drum feeds at night: the peak falls in the dark hours, between sunset and sunrise.
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.
October is an active season for Black drum here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
| 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -0.6 ft | -0.1 ft | 0.4 ft | 0.8 ft | 1.1 ft | 1.1 ft | 0.9 ft | 0.5 ft | 0.0 ft | -0.4 ft | -0.7 ft | -0.7 ft | -0.4 ft | 0.1 ft | 0.7 ft | 1.1 ft | 1.4 ft | 1.5 ft | 1.3 ft | 0.8 ft | 0.2 ft | -0.4 ft | -0.8 ft | -1.0 ft |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 10.2 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 10.2 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Clear · feels like +51°
The day is 2 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
Geomagnetic fieldquiet, Kp 3.7
Kp index — NOAA forecast. Not part of the bite score: catches show no link between geomagnetic storms and the bite.
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?Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Brock Cove — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 00:00–04:00.