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South Fork Palouse River (Washington) — one of the area's fishing spots. About 41 km long. Nearest town — Colfax. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Nearest towns and cities
The course meanders heavily: the current digs a pool on the outside of every bend and builds a bar on the inside. Those pools under the undercut bank are where largemouth bass typically sits.
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 |
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| Steelhead | peak | peak |
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
South Fork Palouse River — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 18:00–20:00.
The computed water temperature is around 57 °F — colder than the 57–75 °F comfort range for Black crappie: the fish conserves energy and takes more cautiously.
Black crappie 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 Black crappie here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
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?| fair |
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| Black crappie | active | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | active | active | active | active | active |
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| Brook trout | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Cutthroat trout | slow | fair | active | peak | active | active | active | active | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Lake trout | peak | peak | active | active | fair | slow | slow | fair | peak | active | peak | peak |
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| Walleye | slow | slow | active | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Whitefish | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | active | fair | slow |
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| Rainbow trout | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | active | active | slow | slow | slow |
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| Smallmouth bass | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | slow | slow |
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| Yellow perch | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
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| Chinook salmon | slow | slow | slow | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
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| Coho salmon | slow | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | peak | active | slow | slow |
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| Largemouth bass | slow | fair | fair | active | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | slow | slow |
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| Bluegill | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
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| Channel catfish | slow | slow | slow | fair | active | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
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Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
South Fork Palouse River — Tuesday, October 20
The bite is strong — fish are active. Weather is steady, with no sharp swings — fish behave predictably. Peak 07:00–09:00 and 18:00–20:00.
Measured river conditions are available for South Fork Palouse River: current gauge height, streamflow, and water temperature when reported by the source.
USGS gauge SOUTH FORK PALOUSE RIVER AT PULLMAN, WA, 5 mi away · measured 2026-10-20 19:15 · data source · provisional data, subject to revision