Bite forecast
Today's Bite Forecast
Pick a lake, a species, and a date to see the hourly bite forecast and the day's overall rating.
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Winter — no bite score
Our bite model is built for open water, and this date falls in Okpilak Lake'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).
Ice season — measured temperature record
Ice season is the season here, not the off-season, so instead of a bite score Okpilak Lake gets the one thing a weather record can honestly say: how much freezing has actually stacked up, and when it last let go.
We do not tell you whether the ice is safe
We do not estimate ice thickness and we make no judgement about whether this lake is safe to walk, drive or fish on. Nothing on this page is an ice-safety determination. The only reliable measurement is the one you take yourself, repeatedly, as you go out.
No state agency we know of measures ice thickness, so there is no official reading to look up either. Check your state's natural-resources agency for ice-safety guidance, ask locally before you go, and verify the ice on foot.
The nearest station's temperature record has gone stale. A reading several days old cannot describe a thaw that started yesterday, and a stale number shown confidently is exactly how ice apps become dangerous, so we are withholding it rather than ageing it on screen.
Lake conditions
Okpilak Lake — 2026-10-18
Conditions overviewToday's environmental conditions for this lake. Pick a species above to layer its bite forecast on top.
- Season
- Winter
- Moon
- 54% illuminated, waxingFirst Quarter
- Est. surface temp
- 32°F
- Pressure
- 29.77 inHgFalling
Est. water temp
32°F
v1 estimate from air temperature — not a sensor reading
Air vs. last week
5°F cooler
25°F now vs 30°F this time last week
Measured air temperature at the nearest weather station — not water
Sun & moon
- Sunrise
- 9:00 AM
- Sunset
- 5:40 PM
- Moonrise
- —
- Moonset
- —
Sky, wind & pressuremidday · 5 PM
- Cloud cover
- 52%
- Precip chance
- 0%
- Wind
- 5 mph SW
- Pressure
- 29.77 inHg Falling
Today's solunar periods
- Major: 6:37 AM–8:37 AM
- Major: 7:01 PM–9:01 PM
Location
Okpilak Lake · 69.4087, -144.0496
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