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)

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Weather: Sunny Wind: S 196° · 25 km/h Swell: 2.1 m @ 10 s SW Water: 21.9 °C Pressure: 1019.1 hPa → steady

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Medium Fish Activity

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At the day's peak · 6:00 am

Solunar Between windows

Time of day Dawn

Tide Moving

Wind S 26 km/h

Moon waxing crescent all day

Water temp 21.9 °C all day

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Day timeline

Major Minor Tide Twilight

First light 6:01 am Last light 6:43 pm

Low 7:45 am High 1:30 pm Low 3:50 pm

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Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

5:30 am → 7:00 am

1h 30m

Good

6:00 pm → 7:30 pm

1h 30m

Good

3:30 pm → 5:00 pm

1h 30m

First light

6:01 am

Last light

6:43 pm

Sunrise

6:24 am

Sunset

6:21 pm

Moonrise

9:13 am

Moonset

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Low tide

7:45 am

High tide

1:30 pm

Low tide

3:50 pm

Hourly Wind

High Bite Hours Highlighted

12am

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20°

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176°

37 km/h

1am

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174°

38 km/h

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20°

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165°

36 km/h

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163°

30 km/h

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165°

28 km/h

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172°

27 km/h

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181°

26 km/h

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170°

25 km/h

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172°

23 km/h

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184°

21 km/h

10am

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196°

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196°

25 km/h

11pm

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196°

23 km/h

Hourly Swell

Easing 2.6 → 2.1 m SW

12am

2.6 m

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1am

2.6 m

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2am

2.5 m

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3am

2.6 m

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4am

2.6 m

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5am

2.7 m

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ground

6am

2.7 m

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2.4 m

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2.4 m

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2.4 m

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2.3 m

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2.2 m

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2.2 m

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9pm

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2.1 m

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11pm

2.1 m

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Water Temp (°C)

→ steady around 21.8°

Sun

13 Sep

21.9°

Mon

14 Sep

21.8°

Tue

15 Sep

21.8°

Wed

16 Sep

21.8°

Thu

17 Sep

22.1°

Fri

18 Sep

22.1°

Sat

19 Sep

22.0°

Sun

20 Sep

21.9°

Mon

21 Sep

21.9°

Tue

22 Sep

21.9°

Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 25 km/h S (196°).

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

5:30 am → 7:00 am

1h 30m

Good

6:00 pm → 7:30 pm

1h 30m

Good

3:30 pm → 5:00 pm

1h 30m

First light

6:01 am

Last light

6:43 pm

Sunrise

6:24 am

Sunset

6:21 pm

Moonrise

9:13 am

Moonset

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Low tide

7:45 am

High tide

1:30 pm

Low tide

3:50 pm

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