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Recorded 2 catches of Spotted bass in West Virginia. Most active — February–July. A day-by-day bite calendar for Spotted bass.
Wednesday, September 2
The bite is weak — fish are sluggish. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite.
Best time — 06:00–08:00 (dawn bite) and 19:00–21:00 (dusk bite).
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
In clear water, natural colors work best: jig or small crankbait.
It's a hot day — a hat, sunglasses, and plenty of water are a must.
A slow day — go only if you really feel like it.
The computed water temperature is around 71 °F — inside the 61–79 °F comfort range for Spotted bass, so baseline activity is high.
Spotted bass works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is flat: it moves no more than 0.03 inHg over the day, so the weather isn't shifting today's bite.
September is an average month for Spotted bass here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Clear · feels like +90°
The day is 2 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.
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