Saskatchewan · Prairies & Great Plains · hardiness zone 4a
Now
10°C · Rain
Today
12° / 9°
Sun
06:32 – 19:14
Moon
Waxing Crescent · solunar good
Feeding hard on the drop, shut down behind it. The two days after a front are the slowest of the week.
In the water now · September
The sport fish active near Regina, Saskatchewan in September — where they hold, how to know one on the line, and the tactic that usually works. Check your licence and the current limits before you go.

Sander vitreus
Olive-gold flanks, a spiny first dorsal, and the big glassy eye that gives it the name and lets it hunt in low light.
Where and how to catch it →
Micropterus dolomieu
Bronze-brown with vertical bars, red eye, and a jaw that ends level with the eye — not past it.
Writing your field guide — reading the forecast, the moon and the map…
Overhead · Regina, Saskatchewan
The two clocks nothing on the ground can argue with: the length of the day, and the phase of the moon.
The sun
12h 39m of light
Sunrise
06:34
Solar noon
12:53
Sunset
19:13
A month from now the day will be 1h 53m shorter. Enough light for steady growth.
Right now · Regina, Saskatchewan
Nothing here is a guess. Each of these is read from this week's forecast and this location's climate record, and each one is pushing the season one way or the other.
Waxing Crescent · 11%
Waxing, 3 days old. Full moon in 11 days. Fishing outlook: good.
It moves water — in the sea, in a lake's edge, and, by long tradition, in the sap of a plant. Fish feed hardest on the days around new and full.
27 km/h now · 27 peak
Strong enough to shred leaves, dry beds out fast, and make a small boat a poor idea. Stake anything tall.
It pollinates corn and grasses, dries soil, breaks stems — and it decides where the bait, and therefore the fish, end up.
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Photo: Joshua Johnson · CC BY 4.0

Esox lucius
Long torpedo body, duck-like jaws, light bean-shaped spots on a dark green flank.
Where and how to catch it →Photo: Daughter Dad · CC BY 4.0

Perca flavescens
Golden-yellow with six to eight dark vertical bars and orange lower fins.
Where and how to catch it →
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Silvery with irregular black speckling, a deep flat body and seven or eight dorsal spines.
Where and how to catch it →
Ictalurus punctatus
Deeply forked tail, scattered dark spots on young fish, and long whiskers.
Where and how to catch it →Photo: Fishes of Texas team · CC BY-SA 4.0
Also out there this month
Photographs are research-grade observations from iNaturalist, each credited to its photographer. Ranges and timing are typical, not guaranteed — 54 species are covered across Canada and the US.
The moon
Waxing Crescent
11% lit · waxing · day 3 of 29.5
Planting by the moon: New to first quarter: sow leafy crops and anything harvested for its leaves — lettuce, spinach, brassicas, herbs.
Fishing: good — feeding peaks in the days either side of new and full, and around moonrise and moonset.
Turn of the season
Fall equinox
Sep 22 · 7 days away
About 15 days to the average first frost (Sep 29).
Next moons
24.8 mm / 7 days
24.8 mm across 3 days. About right; leave the hose coiled.
Sets the pace for everything: germination, fungal fruiting, slug nights, and how a river runs for the next three days.
11.3 °C
Good for brassicas, beets, chard, carrots and potatoes. Wait on the heat crops.
Seeds read soil temperature, not the calendar. Six centimetres down is where the decision gets made.
12h 39m
Losing about 4 minutes of daylight a day.
The one thing weather can't change. Plants count photoperiod to decide when to bolt, bulb, flower and go dormant.
15 days
Average first fall frost is around Sep 29. Nothing you sow now will finish unless it beats that.
The hard edge of the growing season. Ice inside a leaf ruptures its cells — one night ends a tomato and sweetens a parsnip.