Smithville Lake siteid=660 · MO
🎣 Fishing
Pick a species → see where in the lake they're comfortable today + what depth to drop. All built on the GLM live-cycle forecast and validated daily against ECOSTRESS skin temperature.
Species
Species presets
Each preset sets the temperature window the model uses to score "comfortable water". You can fine-tune in the 3D viewer's Fish habitat tuning section.
Ranges are middle-of-the-road literature values; trophy fish and species at the edge of their range may sit a few degrees outside.
Best bite windows · next 24 h
Bite-window score
Per-hour score 0–100 combining four signals from the recreation pipeline:
- Surface T proximity to the species' optimum.
- Wind — light chop helps, gale hurts.
- Solunar period — major/minor windows give a +20 bump.
- Cloud cover — overcast tends to push the bite earlier in the day.
Hover a column for the per-hour breakdown.
Where to drop · comfort thickness across the lake
Reading the where-to-drop map
Every cell in the lake gets a color from its comfort thickness — how many meters of in-species-range water sit vertically at that spot.
Color scale
- 🟢 Green square = fishable. Brighter green = thicker comfort band (bright ≥4 m → forgiving depth window; dim ≈1 m → use a depth-counter).
- ❄️ Blue ✕ = whole column too cold for the species today — avoid.
- 🔥 Orange ✕ = whole column too warm — avoid.
- No marker = no data here (land / too shallow).
How to use
- Click any green square on the map → drop-depth recommendation appears below.
- Switch species above → map re-colors instantly.
- Cross-reference with the bite-window strip for when to be there.