Do you need a 4WD to fish Ledge Point?

Not for the groyne or main beach — those are sealed-road, walk-on access. The quieter southern beach stretches and the reef patches about 5km south are soft-sand 4WD territory, and the sand here bogs vehicles often enough that dropping tyre pressures and carrying recovery gear is standard practice.

What can you catch at Ledge Point without a boat?

Tailor in the white water over the reef from late spring to autumn, herring year-round, and yellowfin and sand whiting over the calm sand from October to April. Mulloway and silver trevally take soft plastics along the reef edges at dawn and dusk, flathead hold near the drop-offs, and the groyne produces herring and the occasional squid.

When do the tailor bite at Ledge Point?

Late afternoon into sunset, with a bit of swell running and preferably the seabreeze in — that combination whitens the water over the ledges and brings the fish on. Late-summer afternoons are the local prime time within a season that runs late spring through autumn. Metal slugs and gang-hooked mullet cast into the wash do the work.

How bad is the weed at Ledge Point?

It's a fact of life here — after any decent blow, weed stacks into the shallows and beach launches and can make stretches unfishable for a day or two. The response is the local one: hunt the cleaner gutters and deeper blue sections, fish the calm early mornings, or move along the beach until you find water that's clear enough to work.

Is Ledge Point good for fishing with kids?

Yes — the groyne is an easy walk-on platform that regularly produces herring, tailor and the occasional squid, and light gear with small baits keeps the action steady. Calm mornings are best, both for the fishing and for small anglers. Footwear matters even here; stinging fish share the shallows.

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Ledge Point (Beach, Groyne & Reef)

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waxing gibbous · 96%

Weather: Cloudy Wind: NW 317° · 22 km/h Swell: 2.9 m @ 11 s SW Water: 18.6 °C Pressure: 1014.9 hPa ↓ falling

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At the day's peak · 6:30 am

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Time of day Dawn

Tide Slack

Wind N 12 km/h

Moon waxing gibbous all day

Water temp 18.6 °C all day

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Activity Forecast

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

6:00 am → 8:00 am

Good

4:30 pm → 7:30 pm

First light

6:17 am

Last light

6:23 pm

Sunrise

6:42 am

Sunset

5:59 pm

Moonrise

4:13 pm

Moonset

5:30 am

High tide

8:04 am

Low tide

4:30 pm

High tide

8:20 pm

High tide

10:54 pm

Hourly Wind

High Bite Hours Highlighted

12am

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13°

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360°

11 km/h

1am

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13°

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8°

12 km/h

2am

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12°

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13°

9 km/h

3am

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12°

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15°

10 km/h

4am

☀️

12°

↑︎

22°

12 km/h

5am

☀️

12°

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26°

12 km/h

6am

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12°

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22°

12 km/h

7am

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12°

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19°

13 km/h

8am

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14°

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26°

14 km/h

9am

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16°

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14°

15 km/h

10am

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19°

↑︎

355°

17 km/h

11am

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20°

↖︎

334°

20 km/h

12pm

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20°

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317°

22 km/h

1pm

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20°

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316°

23 km/h

2pm

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19°

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294°

24 km/h

3pm

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17°

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294°

24 km/h

4pm

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17°

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306°

21 km/h

5pm

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16°

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306°

19 km/h

6pm

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15°

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333°

16 km/h

7pm

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15°

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346°

16 km/h

8pm

🌧️

15°

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212°

10 km/h

9pm

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15°

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172°

27 km/h

10pm

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14°

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169°

20 km/h

11pm

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14°

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168°

20 km/h

Hourly Swell

Building 1.9 → 3.8 m SW

12am

1.9 m

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Moderate

1am

2.0 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

2am

2.0 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

3am

2.1 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

4am

2.2 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

5am

2.3 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

6am

2.4 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

7am

2.5 m

@ 10 s

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Solid

8am

2.5 m

@ 10 s

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Solid

9am

2.6 m

@ 10 s

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Solid

ground

10am

2.7 m

@ 11 s

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Solid

ground

11am

2.8 m

@ 11 s

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Solid

ground

12pm

2.9 m

@ 11 s

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Solid

ground

1pm

3.0 m

@ 11 s

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Heavy

ground

2pm

3.1 m

@ 12 s

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Heavy

ground

3pm

3.2 m

@ 12 s

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Heavy

ground

4pm

3.3 m

@ 12 s

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Heavy

ground

5pm

3.3 m

@ 12 s

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Heavy

ground

6pm

3.5 m

@ 12 s

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Heavy

ground

7pm

3.6 m

@ 12 s

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Heavy

ground

8pm

3.7 m

@ 12 s

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Heavy

ground

9pm

3.7 m

@ 12 s

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Heavy

ground

10pm

3.7 m

@ 12 s

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Heavy

ground

11pm

3.8 m

@ 12 s

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Heavy

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Water Temp (°C)

→ steady around 18.6°

Sun

23 Aug

18.5°

Mon

24 Aug

18.6°

Tue

25 Aug

18.6°

Wed

26 Aug

18.6°

Thu

27 Aug

18.4°

Fri

28 Aug

18.1°

Sat

29 Aug

17.9°

Sun

30 Aug

18.2°

Mon

31 Aug

18.3°

Tue

1 Sep

18.3°

Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 22 km/h NW (317°).

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

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Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

6:00 am → 8:00 am

Good

4:30 pm → 7:30 pm

First light

6:17 am

Last light

6:23 pm

Sunrise

6:42 am

Sunset

5:59 pm

Moonrise

4:13 pm

Moonset

5:30 am

High tide

8:04 am

Low tide

4:30 pm

High tide

8:20 pm

High tide

10:54 pm

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