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Mackerel Islands (Thevenard Island / Direction Island)

Wed 23 Sep 2026 · Australia/Perth

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📍 Mackerel Islands (Thevenard Island / Direction Island)
waxing gibbous · 87%
Weather: Sunny Wind: SW 218° · 9 km/h Swell: 0.3 m @ 7 s W Water: 24.0 °C Pressure: 1015.5 hPa ↓ falling
★★★☆☆
Medium Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 6:00 am
Solunar 0 out of 100 Between windows
Time of day 90 out of 100 Dawn
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 63 out of 100 S 23 km/h
Moon 67 out of 100 waxing gibbous all day
Water temp 91 out of 100 24.0 °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 5:47 am Last light 6:38 pm
Low 2:15 am High 7:39 am Low 2:42 pm High 9:00 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
5:00 am → 7:00 am
59
2h
Good
9:00 pm → 11:00 pm
57
2h
Good
6:00 pm → 7:30 pm
56
1h 30m
Good
3:00 pm → 4:00 pm
49
1h
First light
5:47 am
Last light
6:38 pm
Sunrise
6:09 am
Sunset
6:16 pm
Moonrise
3:15 pm
Moonset
3:47 am
Low tide
2:15 am
High tide
7:39 am
Low tide
2:42 pm
High tide
9:00 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
25°
↙︎
SW
208°
25 km/h
1am
☀️
25°
↓︎
S
198°
25 km/h
2am
☀️
25°
↓︎
S
190°
25 km/h
3am
☀️
24°
↓︎
S
187°
25 km/h
4am
☀️
24°
↓︎
S
185°
25 km/h
5am
☀️
24°
↓︎
S
183°
24 km/h
6am
☀️
23°
↓︎
S
181°
23 km/h
7am
☀️
23°
↓︎
S
180°
22 km/h
8am
☀️
23°
↓︎
S
179°
21 km/h
9am
☀️
24°
↓︎
S
176°
17 km/h
10am
☀️
25°
↓︎
S
172°
12 km/h
11am
☀️
26°
↓︎
S
179°
9 km/h
12pm
☀️
26°
↙︎
SW
218°
9 km/h
1pm
☀️
25°
↙︎
SW
243°
16 km/h
2pm
☀️
25°
↙︎
SW
247°
21 km/h
3pm
☀️
25°
↙︎
SW
243°
24 km/h
4pm
☀️
26°
↙︎
SW
235°
26 km/h
5pm
☀️
27°
↙︎
SW
229°
27 km/h
6pm
☀️
27°
↙︎
SW
227°
26 km/h
7pm
☀️
27°
↙︎
SW
227°
23 km/h
8pm
☀️
27°
↙︎
SW
224°
21 km/h
9pm
☀️
26°
↙︎
SW
217°
21 km/h
10pm
☀️
26°
↙︎
SW
210°
22 km/h
11pm
☀️
26°
↓︎
S
202°
23 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~0.2 m SW
12am
0.3 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Calm
chop
1am
Calm
2am
Calm
3am
Calm
4am
0.3 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Calm
chop
5am
0.3 m
@ 10 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
6am
0.3 m
@ 11 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
7am
0.2 m
@ 11 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
8am
0.2 m
@ 10 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
9am
0.3 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Calm
10am
0.3 m
@ 7 s
←︎
W
Calm
chop
11am
0.3 m
@ 6 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
12pm
0.3 m
@ 7 s
←︎
W
Calm
chop
1pm
0.3 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Calm
2pm
0.3 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Calm
3pm
0.2 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Calm
4pm
0.2 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Calm
5pm
0.2 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Calm
6pm
0.2 m
@ 10 s
←︎
W
Calm
7pm
0.2 m
@ 10 s
←︎
W
Calm
8pm
0.2 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Calm
9pm
0.2 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Calm
10pm
0.2 m
@ 7 s
←︎
W
Calm
chop
11pm
Calm
Water Temp (°C)
→ steady around 24.0°
Sun
20 Sep
24.3°
Mon
21 Sep
24.2°
Tue
22 Sep
24.2°
Wed
23 Sep
24.0°
Thu
24 Sep
23.9°
Fri
25 Sep
23.9°
Sat
26 Sep
23.9°
Sun
27 Sep
23.8°
Mon
28 Sep
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Tue
29 Sep
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 9 km/h SW (218°).

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

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