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Challenger Beach (Naval Base)

Fri 16 Oct 2026 · Australia/Perth

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📍 Challenger Beach (Naval Base)
waxing crescent · 24%
Weather: Sunny Wind: NW 297° · 12 km/h Swell: 1.3 m @ 8 s W Water: 19.2 °C Pressure: 1015.7 hPa ↓ falling Faces west · Offshore: NE, E, SE · Onshore: SW, W, NW · Forecast wind: onshore
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Medium Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 5:00 am
Solunar 57 out of 100 Major window
Time of day 65 out of 100 Dawn
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 91 out of 100 NE 8 km/h
Moon 0 out of 100 waxing crescent all day
Water temp 88 out of 100 19.2 °C all day
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Activity Forecast

HIGH 70+ MED 50 LOW 30 4a 8a 12p 4p 8p
Day Timeline
Major Minor Tide Twilight
First light 5:11 am Last light 6:54 pm
Low 11:00 am

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
4:00 am → 6:30 am
72
2h 30m
Good
4:00 pm → 8:00 pm
61
4h
First light
5:11 am
Last light
6:54 pm
Sunrise
5:36 am
Sunset
6:29 pm
Moonrise
8:55 am
Moonset
11:58 pm
Low tide
11:00 am
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
13°
→︎
E
72°
2 km/h
1am
☀️
13°
→︎
E
90°
1 km/h
2am
☀️
12°
→︎
E
90°
1 km/h
3am
☀️
12°
↗︎
NE
65°
3 km/h
4am
☁️
12°
↗︎
NE
44°
5 km/h
5am
☁️
12°
↗︎
NE
34°
8 km/h
6am
☁️
12°
↗︎
NE
31°
9 km/h
7am
☀️
14°
↑︎
N
21°
9 km/h
8am
☀️
17°
↑︎
N
8°
8 km/h
9am
☀️
19°
↑︎
N
1°
9 km/h
10am
☁️
20°
↑︎
N
338°
8 km/h
11am
☀️
20°
↖︎
NW
310°
9 km/h
12pm
☀️
20°
↖︎
NW
297°
12 km/h
1pm
☀️
20°
←︎
W
290°
13 km/h
2pm
☀️
20°
←︎
W
277°
13 km/h
3pm
☀️
20°
←︎
W
270°
12 km/h
4pm
☀️
20°
←︎
W
267°
11 km/h
5pm
☀️
19°
←︎
W
266°
11 km/h
6pm
☀️
19°
←︎
W
258°
9 km/h
7pm
☀️
17°
←︎
W
256°
7 km/h
8pm
☀️
16°
←︎
W
259°
5 km/h
9pm
☀️
16°
←︎
W
270°
3 km/h
10pm
☀️
16°
↖︎
NW
323°
1 km/h
11pm
☀️
15°
↖︎
NW
326°
1 km/h
Hourly Swell
Building 1.0 → 1.7 m W
12am
1.0 m
@ 6 s
←︎
W
Slight
chop
1am
1.0 m
@ 7 s
←︎
W
Slight
chop
2am
0.9 m
@ 7 s
←︎
W
Slight
chop
3am
1.0 m
@ 7 s
←︎
W
Slight
chop
4am
1.0 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Moderate
chop
5am
1.0 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
chop
6am
1.1 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
chop
7am
1.1 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Moderate
chop
8am
1.2 m
@ 7 s
←︎
W
Moderate
chop
9am
1.2 m
@ 7 s
←︎
W
Moderate
chop
10am
1.2 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Moderate
chop
11am
1.3 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Moderate
chop
12pm
1.3 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Moderate
chop
1pm
1.3 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Moderate
chop
2pm
1.3 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Moderate
chop
3pm
1.3 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Moderate
4pm
1.3 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Moderate
5pm
1.4 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Moderate
6pm
1.4 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Moderate
7pm
1.5 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Moderate
8pm
1.5 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Moderate
9pm
1.6 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Moderate
10pm
1.6 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Moderate
11pm
1.7 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Moderate
Water Temp (°C)
↗ warming — up 0.4° over the last 3 days
Tue
13 Oct
18.8°
Wed
14 Oct
18.7°
Thu
15 Oct
19.1°
Fri
16 Oct
19.2°
Sat
17 Oct
19.4°
Sun
18 Oct
19.7°
Mon
19 Oct
19.7°
Tue
20 Oct
19.8°
Wed
21 Oct
19.8°
Thu
22 Oct
19.7°
Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 12 km/h NW (297°).

Wind map data: ECMWF HRES (operational), updated every 6 hours. Not for navigation.

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