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Mackerel Islands (Thevenard Island / Direction Island)

Fri 16 Oct 2026 · Australia/Perth

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📍 Mackerel Islands (Thevenard Island / Direction Island)
waxing crescent · 24%
Weather: Sunny Wind: W 264° · 20 km/h Swell: flat Water: 23.8 °C Pressure: 1013.8 hPa ↓ falling Faces several ways: wind direction isn't scored here
★★★☆☆
Medium Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 5:30 am
Solunar 21 out of 100 Major window
Time of day 95 out of 100 Dawn
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 63 out of 100 SW 23 km/h
Moon 0 out of 100 waxing crescent all day
Water temp 91 out of 100 23.8 °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 5:25 am Last light 6:46 pm
High 12:05 am Low 6:51 am High 1:00 pm Low 6:20 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
4:30 am → 7:00 am
65
2h 30m
Good
6:00 pm → 7:30 pm
58
1h 30m
First light
5:25 am
Last light
6:46 pm
Sunrise
5:48 am
Sunset
6:23 pm
Moonrise
9:29 am
Moonset
11:31 pm
High tide
12:05 am
Low tide
6:51 am
High tide
1:00 pm
Low tide
6:20 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☁️
23°
↙︎
SW
227°
28 km/h
1am
☁️
23°
↙︎
SW
223°
25 km/h
2am
☀️
23°
↙︎
SW
222°
25 km/h
3am
☀️
23°
↙︎
SW
216°
24 km/h
4am
☀️
23°
↙︎
SW
210°
23 km/h
5am
☀️
23°
↙︎
SW
205°
23 km/h
6am
☀️
23°
↓︎
S
201°
22 km/h
7am
☀️
23°
↓︎
S
198°
22 km/h
8am
☀️
23°
↓︎
S
200°
20 km/h
9am
☀️
23°
↙︎
SW
214°
17 km/h
10am
☀️
24°
↙︎
SW
239°
16 km/h
11am
☀️
24°
←︎
W
259°
17 km/h
12pm
☀️
24°
←︎
W
264°
20 km/h
1pm
☀️
24°
←︎
W
264°
24 km/h
2pm
☀️
24°
←︎
W
263°
26 km/h
3pm
☀️
24°
←︎
W
263°
28 km/h
4pm
☀️
24°
←︎
W
263°
29 km/h
5pm
☀️
25°
←︎
W
260°
31 km/h
6pm
☀️
25°
←︎
W
255°
32 km/h
7pm
☀️
25°
←︎
W
249°
34 km/h
8pm
☀️
26°
↙︎
SW
243°
35 km/h
9pm
☀️
25°
↙︎
SW
236°
33 km/h
10pm
☀️
25°
↙︎
SW
226°
31 km/h
11pm
☀️
24°
↙︎
SW
216°
30 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~0.2 m W
12am
Calm
1am
Calm
2am
Calm
3am
Calm
4am
Calm
5am
Calm
6am
Calm
7am
Calm
8am
Calm
9am
Calm
10am
Calm
11am
Calm
12pm
Calm
1pm
0.2 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
2pm
0.2 m
@ 11 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
3pm
0.2 m
@ 11 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
4pm
0.2 m
@ 11 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
5pm
0.2 m
@ 11 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
6pm
0.2 m
@ 11 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
7pm
0.2 m
@ 11 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
8pm
0.2 m
@ 10 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
9pm
0.2 m
@ 8 s
←︎
W
Calm
10pm
Calm
11pm
Calm
Water Temp (°C)
→ steady around 23.8°
Tue
13 Oct
23.5°
Wed
14 Oct
23.6°
Thu
15 Oct
23.6°
Fri
16 Oct
23.8°
Sat
17 Oct
23.9°
Sun
18 Oct
23.8°
Mon
19 Oct
23.7°
Tue
20 Oct
23.6°
Wed
21 Oct
23.4°
Thu
22 Oct
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 20 km/h W (264°).

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

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