How do you actually fish from the cliffs at Steep Point?

Ballooning is the headline technique. A latex balloon inflated with helium, rigged to a skipping garfish bait on a heavy land-based-game outfit, carries the line offshore on the prevailing southerly. The bait skips the surface hundreds of metres out, drops into deep water and Spanish mackerel hit on the way out or back. Landed fish are gaffed up the cliff on a long-handled gaff run down a rope.

How dangerous is rock fishing at Steep Point?

Genuinely dangerous. Multiple anglers have been swept from the platforms and not recovered. Life jackets, harnesses and ropes are standard kit. Never fish alone, never fish in swell over 2 metres, and never turn your back on the water. Fishing fatalities at Steep Point are well-documented; the platforms are unforgiving.

What 4WD do I need to get there?

High-clearance 4WD with low-range gears and the ability to drop tyres to 20psi or less. The last 30km is a soft single-lane sand track winding through dunes; standard SUVs and AWDs are not suitable. Recovery gear, spare fuel, water and a satellite communicator are essential — there's no mobile coverage and recovery costs are high.

Do the West Coast demersal closures apply?

No — Steep Point is in the Gascoyne Coast bioregion, which is managed separately. The Gascoyne mixed demersal daily bag is 4 fish with tighter per-species caps within that total, plus species-specific size limits. Shark Bay inner-gulf pink snapper closures apply separately and are zone-specific. Verify current rules with DPIRD before each trip; the rules continue to evolve.

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Steep Point (Edel Land — Mainland's Westernmost Point)

Fri 30 Oct 2026 · Australia/Perth

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📍 Steep Point (Edel Land — Mainland's Westernmost Point)

waning gibbous · 83%

Weather: Sunny Wind: W 276° · 25 km/h Swell: 1.3 m @ 11 s SW Water: 21.4 °C Pressure: 1017.4 hPa → steady Faces several ways: wind direction isn't scored here

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At the day's peak · 5:30 am

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Time of day Dawn

Tide Moving

Wind SW 10 km/h

Moon waning gibbous all day

Water temp 21.4 °C all day

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Day Timeline

Major Minor Tide Twilight

First light 5:15 am Last light 7:06 pm

Low 8:10 am

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Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

2:30 am → 7:00 am

4h 30m

Good

6:00 pm → 8:30 pm

2h 30m

Good

8:00 am → 9:30 am

1h 30m

Good

11:00 pm → 12:00 am

First light

5:15 am

Last light

7:06 pm

Sunrise

5:39 am

Sunset

6:42 pm

Moonrise

11:27 pm

Moonset

8:48 am

Low tide

8:10 am

Hourly Wind

High Bite Hours Highlighted

12am

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20°

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210°

22 km/h

1am

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20°

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208°

19 km/h

2am

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20°

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206°

17 km/h

3am

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20°

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210°

16 km/h

4am

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20°

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217°

13 km/h

5am

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20°

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226°

10 km/h

6am

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20°

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243°

8 km/h

7am

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20°

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271°

11 km/h

8am

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20°

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286°

11 km/h

9am

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20°

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280°

14 km/h

10am

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20°

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272°

19 km/h

11am

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20°

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267°

23 km/h

12pm

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20°

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269°

23 km/h

1pm

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20°

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272°

22 km/h

2pm

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20°

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273°

25 km/h

3pm

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20°

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272°

26 km/h

4pm

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20°

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275°

24 km/h

5pm

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20°

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283°

21 km/h

6pm

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20°

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281°

22 km/h

7pm

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20°

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280°

23 km/h

8pm

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281°

23 km/h

9pm

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20°

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275°

25 km/h

10pm

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21°

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276°

25 km/h

11pm

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21°

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281°

26 km/h

Hourly Swell

Steady ~1.3 m SW

12am

1.4 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

1am

1.4 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

2am

1.5 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

3am

1.4 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

4am

1.4 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

5am

1.3 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

6am

1.2 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

7am

1.1 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

8am

1.1 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

9am

1.1 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

10am

1.1 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

11am

1.2 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

12pm

1.1 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

1pm

1.0 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

2pm

1.0 m

@ 11 s

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Slight

ground

3pm

1.1 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

4pm

1.2 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

5pm

1.3 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

6pm

1.3 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

7pm

1.3 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

8pm

1.3 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

9pm

1.3 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

10pm

1.3 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

11pm

1.3 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

Water Temp (°C)

↗ warming — up 0.7° over the last 3 days

Tue

27 Oct

20.7°

Wed

28 Oct

20.8°

Thu

29 Oct

20.9°

Fri

30 Oct

21.4°

Sat

31 Oct

21.5°

Sun

1 Nov

21.6°

Mon

2 Nov

21.4°

Tue

3 Nov

21.2°

Wed

4 Nov

21.1°

Thu

5 Nov

21.0°

Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 25 km/h W (276°).

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

2:30 am → 7:00 am

4h 30m

Good

6:00 pm → 8:30 pm

2h 30m

Good

8:00 am → 9:30 am

1h 30m

Good

11:00 pm → 12:00 am

First light

5:15 am

Last light

7:06 pm

Sunrise

5:39 am

Sunset

6:42 pm

Moonrise

11:27 pm

Moonset

8:48 am

Low tide

8:10 am

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