Do you need a 4WD to get to Pipidinny Beach?

For the sand tracks behind the dune, yes — they are soft and they bog two-wheel drives regularly, and recovery out here is a long wait. You can park at the sealed end of Pipidinny Road and walk in instead, which adds a decent slog over soft sand but avoids the risk entirely. Drop tyre pressures before you start if you are driving.

What can you catch at Pipidinny Beach?

Tailor in the deeper gutters are the main catch, with mulloway working the same water after dark. Australian salmon pass through in autumn, and herring and sand whiting are the reliable daylight fallback. It is a beach fishery, so everything depends on finding a good gutter first.

Is Pipidinny Beach patrolled or safe for swimming?

No. There is no surf club, no patrol, no lighting and no formal beach access, and rips run hard between the sandbars. It is a fishing beach for people comfortable with an unpatrolled coast — not a family swimming beach. Yanchep Lagoon 5km north is the sheltered option.

When should you fish Pipidinny for mulloway?

After dark, in the deepest gutter you scouted in daylight, over the two hours either side of the top of the tide. Use a whole mulie on gangs or a 150mm hard-bodied minnow, and never fish it alone — there is no help nearby and no lighting.

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Pipidinny Beach

Thu 22 Oct 2026 · Australia/Perth

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📍 Pipidinny Beach

waxing gibbous · 83%

Weather: Sunny Wind: SW 206° · 26 km/h Swell: 4.1 m @ 12 s SW Water: 19.5 °C Pressure: 1021.2 hPa → steady Faces south-west · Offshore: N, NE, E · Onshore: S, SW, W · Forecast wind: onshore

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Medium Fish Activity

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At the day's peak · 5:00 am

Solunar Between windows

Time of day Dawn

Tide Turning

Wind SW 27 km/h

Moon waxing gibbous all day

Water temp 19.5 °C all day

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Activity Forecast

Day Timeline

Major Minor Tide Twilight

First light 5:05 am Last light 6:58 pm

Low 1:00 am Low 3:00 am High 5:00 am Low 1:30 pm High 8:00 pm

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Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

4:30 am → 6:00 am

1h 30m

Good

9:00 am → 10:00 am

Good

3:00 am → 3:30 am

30m

Good

7:00 pm → 8:00 pm

First light

5:05 am

Last light

6:58 pm

Sunrise

5:30 am

Sunset

6:33 pm

Moonrise

2:41 pm

Moonset

2:59 am

Low tide

1:00 am

Low tide

3:00 am

High tide

5:00 am

Low tide

1:30 pm

High tide

8:00 pm

Hourly Wind

High Bite Hours Highlighted

12am

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18°

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252°

22 km/h

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18°

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239°

19 km/h

2am

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18°

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225°

18 km/h

3am

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18°

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217°

21 km/h

4am

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18°

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214°

24 km/h

5am

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17°

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212°

27 km/h

6am

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17°

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213°

24 km/h

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17°

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212°

25 km/h

8am

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17°

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210°

26 km/h

9am

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17°

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209°

26 km/h

10am

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17°

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208°

26 km/h

11am

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17°

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207°

26 km/h

12pm

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17°

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206°

26 km/h

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204°

25 km/h

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202°

25 km/h

3pm

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198°

26 km/h

4pm

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17°

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195°

27 km/h

5pm

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17°

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191°

28 km/h

6pm

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17°

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187°

29 km/h

7pm

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16°

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183°

29 km/h

8pm

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179°

29 km/h

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16°

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175°

29 km/h

10pm

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15°

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170°

27 km/h

11pm

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15°

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164°

26 km/h

Hourly Swell

Steady ~3.9 m SW

12am

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3.9 m

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2am

3.9 m

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3am

3.9 m

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Heavy

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4am

3.9 m

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5am

3.9 m

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Heavy

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6am

3.9 m

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ground

7am

4.0 m

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10am

4.1 m

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4.1 m

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4.1 m

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4.2 m

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4.2 m

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4.2 m

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7pm

4.1 m

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4.1 m

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9pm

4.1 m

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4.0 m

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3.9 m

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Water Temp (°C)

→ steady around 19.5°

Mon

19 Oct

19.6°

Tue

20 Oct

19.6°

Wed

21 Oct

19.6°

Thu

22 Oct

19.5°

Fri

23 Oct

19.3°

Sat

24 Oct

19.2°

Sun

25 Oct

19.1°

Mon

26 Oct

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Tue

27 Oct

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Wed

28 Oct

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Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 26 km/h SW (206°).

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

4:30 am → 6:00 am

1h 30m

Good

9:00 am → 10:00 am

Good

3:00 am → 3:30 am

30m

Good

7:00 pm → 8:00 pm

First light

5:05 am

Last light

6:58 pm

Sunrise

5:30 am

Sunset

6:33 pm

Moonrise

2:41 pm

Moonset

2:59 am

Low tide

1:00 am

Low tide

3:00 am

High tide

5:00 am

Low tide

1:30 pm

High tide

8:00 pm

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