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Lake Pend Oreille, Hope, ID · Walleye · 2026-11-13
ChangeWinter — no bite score
Our bite model is built for open water, and this date falls in Lake Pend Oreille's winter. We're not showing a score rather than dressing up a number we don't trust.
Still good all winter: solunar major and minor windows, moon phase and moonrise/moonset — these are astronomical — plus the lake's depth contours and structure, which don't change with the ice.
Doesn't apply under ice: wind response (a wind band means little on ice and nothing in a shelter), the surface-light read (it models cloud cover, not light through ice and snow), and the estimated water temperature (it bottoms out at 32°F, which is true and tells you nothing).
Lake Pend Oreille — Walleye
Overall rating
Walleye at Lake Pend Oreille — 2026-11-13
Fair · 53/100Best window: 4 PM (Good · 61/100)
- Season
- Fall
- Moon
- 16% illuminated, waxingWaxing Crescent
- Est. surface temp
- 53.1°F
- Pressure
- 29.71 inHgFalling
Est. water temp
53.1°F
v1 estimate from air temperature — not a sensor reading
Below Walleye's 65-75°F range
Air vs. last week
4°F warmer
41°F now vs 37°F this time last week
Measured air temperature at the nearest weather station — not water
Sun & moon
- Sunrise
- 6:49 AM
- Sunset
- 4:09 PM
- Moonrise
- 11:20 AM
- Moonset
- 7:08 PM
Sky, wind & pressureat best window · 4 PM
- Cloud cover
- 21%
- Precip chance
- 3%
- Wind
- 2 mph NE
- Pressure
- 29.71 inHg Falling
Species context
Why this score
Fair (53/100) for Walleye: water is estimated at 53.1°F, below Walleye's 65-75°F optimal range. Best window: Dusk — boosts feeding activity by about 40%, one of their peak feeding windows. That hour also overlaps a major solunar period. 29.71 inHg and falling pressure modeled about 5% above this fish's baseline. Calm (0-5 mph) wind modeled about 15% below this fish's baseline.
What's driving the 4 PM score
Light window (dusk) is doing the most for this score. The score gives up the most on water temperature — 53.1°F estimated, about 35.7 points below its best.
- Water temperature · hurting
- Light window · helping
- Solunar period · helping
- Barometric pressure · helping
- Wind · neutral
Show the numbers behind this
Water temperature: 53.1°F estimated
9.3 of 45 pts
Optimal range 65-75°F
Well supportedWater temperature governs a cold-blooded fish's metabolism, so it is the largest term in the model (Christie & Regier 1988). The figure is a thermal-lag estimate built from forecast air temperature and the time of year — not a sensor reading, and not this lake's actual measured water.
Light window: Dusk
30 of 30 pts
Boosts feeding activity by about 40%
Well supportedLow-light feeding windows are the strongest timing signal inside a single day. How much each window is worth is this species' own cited response, sourced in its model file, not a generic curve.
Solunar period: Major period
5 of 5 pts
Not supported by testingPeer-reviewed testing of North American freshwater fisheries found no significant relationship between solunar values, lunar phase or lunar illumination and catch rates (SN Applied Sciences, 2023) — air temperature predicted catch better than any solunar table tested. It is shown because anglers expect it, and it is shown separately so you can discount it. We reviewed this evidence and cut its weight accordingly.
Barometric pressure: Falling
10 of 10 pts
Modeled about 5% above this fish's baseline
ContestedThe barometric effect is real to most anglers but small and contested in the literature — several of the species studies cited in this model report null results — so it carries one of the smallest weights here.
Wind: Calm (0-5 mph)
7.1 of 10 pts
Modeled about 15% below this fish's baseline
Moderately supportedWind stacks forage on windward structure, but both the size and the direction of the effect depend on the species and the water, so it carries a modest weight.
Then the whole score is scaled
Season: Fall — ×1.00 (100% of the ungated score)
How catchable Walleye are at this point in the year. This scales the whole score rather than competing with the factors above — a fish that is dormant this time of year cannot score well no matter how good the hour looks.
Weather front: No clear front — ×1.00 (100% of the ungated score)
A multi-hour frontal pattern read from the day's forecast trajectory. No front is classified today, so this changes nothing and the single-reading pressure factor above does its normal job.
Those 5 factors add up to 61.4 of 100 points, and the two multipliers above take that to 61. The weights are tuning constants — solunar's was cut after peer-reviewed testing found no predictive effect, and the others are adjusted as we validate them — shown here rather than hidden so you can weigh them against your own judgement.
What this score does not know
- Water clarity. We have no source for it and do not estimate it.
- Measured water temperature. The figure in the breakdown is a model over forecast air temperature, not a reading from a buoy or a probe.
- Baitfish and forage activity.
- How much fishing pressure this water has had.
- Where the fish actually are. Depth bands are the species' published seasonal ranges, not an observation of this lake.
- What anyone actually caught. No catch reports feed this score.
Conditions read from the National Weather Service as of Nov 13, 2026 at 1:26 AM PST. Solunar periods and sun/moon times are computed, not fetched.
When best caught
It's currently fall. Walleye typically hold 20-55 ft deep this time of year — at an estimated 53.1°F, this looks like a slower time of year to target them, since water temp is outside their optimal range.
Current depth
20-55 ft
This is the seasonal depth band from the species model, based on this species' typical behavior, not this lake's actual structure.
Today's solunar periods
- Major: 1:47 AM–3:47 AM
- Minor: 10:50 AM–11:50 AM
- Major: 2:12 PM–4:12 PM
- Minor: 6:38 PM–7:38 PM
Best times
When do walleye feed during the day?
Walleye feed most actively at Dawn and Dusk, when activity runs about 19% above the daily average across all four light windows.
- Dawn1.40x
Boosts feeding activity by about 40%.
- Daytime0.60x
Suppresses feeding activity by about 40%.
- Dusk1.40x
Boosts feeding activity by about 40%.
- Night1.30x
Boosts feeding activity by about 30%.
Hour by hour
Hourly bite forecast
| Hour | Bite score | Rating | Light | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 AM | 59 | Fair | Night | 3 mph NE |
| 2 AM | 59 | Fair | Night | 3 mph NE |
| 3 AM | 59 | Fair | Night | 3 mph N |
| 4 AM | 56 | Fair | Night | 3 mph N |
| 5 AM | 56 | Fair | Night | 3 mph N |
| 6 AM | 58 | Fair | Night | 5 mph N |
| 7 AM | 60 | Good | Dawn | 5 mph NE |
| 8 AM | 43 | Fair | Day | 5 mph NE |
| 9 AM | 43 | Fair | Day | 5 mph N |
| 10 AM | 45 | Fair | Day | 5 mph NE |
| 11 AM | 45 | Fair | Day | 5 mph NE |
| 12 PM | 43 | Fair | Day | 5 mph NE |
| 1 PM | 41 | Fair | Day | 3 mph NE |
| 2 PM | 44 | Fair | Day | 3 mph NE |
| 3 PM | 44 | Fair | Day | 2 mph NE |
| 4 PM | 61 | Good | Dusk | 2 mph NE |
| 5 PM | 56 | Fair | Night | 2 mph NE |
| 6 PM | 57 | Fair | Night | 3 mph N |
| 7 PM | 57 | Fair | Night | 3 mph N |
| 8 PM | 56 | Fair | Night | 3 mph SE |
| 9 PM | 56 | Fair | Night | 2 mph SW |
| 10 PM | 56 | Fair | Night | 2 mph NE |
| 11 PM | 56 | Fair | Night | 1 mph N |
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Location
Lake Pend Oreille · 48.1583, -116.4402
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