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Bay Finlayson Arm (Washington) — a popular fishing spot. About 6 km² in area. This is a sea water — its bite forecast is a marine one, computed apart from rivers and lakes. Here you'll find a bite prediction — when fish are active and which hours give the best chances, adjusted for weather and pressure.
Other nearby waters
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. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank. The largest water around: all 20 neighbours are smaller.
The wind builds its wave along the north — south axis — 5 mi of open water; along west — east there is only 1 mi. When it runs down the main axis, the calm water sits against the bank it blows from, while the wave and the silt go to the far one — and the fish follow them there to feed.
Washington: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steelhead | peak | peak | active | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | peak | peak | peak |
| Lingcod | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | active | fair | slow |
| Rockfish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | active | fair | slow |
| Flounder | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Pacific halibut | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | fair | fair | active | active | active | fair | slow |
| Chinook salmon | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
| Coho salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow |
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Finlayson Arm — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 18:00–19:00.
The computed water temperature is around 57 °F — inside the 43–59 °F comfort range for Coho salmon, so baseline activity is high.
Coho salmon works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is rising 0.06 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.
October is an active season for Coho salmon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -1.9 ft | -2.9 ft | -3.4 ft | -3.2 ft | -2.3 ft | -0.8 ft | 0.8 ft | 2.1 ft | 3.0 ft | 3.2 ft | 2.9 ft | 2.2 ft | 1.1 ft | 0.1 ft | -0.6 ft | -0.8 ft | -0.4 ft | 0.5 ft | 1.7 ft | 2.7 ft | 3.2 ft | 3.1 ft | 2.4 ft | 1.1 ft |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 15.6 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 15.6 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Cloudy · feels like +59°
The day is 3 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
Geomagnetic fieldG1 geomagnetic storm, Kp 4.7
Kp index — NOAA data. 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.
Finlayson Arm — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 18:00–19:00.