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 201° · 25 km/h Swell: 1.2 m @ 8 s S Water: 21.1 °C Pressure: 1017.7 hPa ↓ falling Faces several ways: wind direction isn't scored here

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Time of day Dusk

Tide Turning

Wind S 36 km/h

Moon last quarter all day

Water temp 21.1 °C all day

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Day Timeline

Major Minor Tide Twilight

First light 5:12 am Last light 7:10 pm

High 4:30 am Low 11:40 am High 7:00 pm

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Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

6:30 pm → 8:30 pm

Good

5:00 am → 6:00 am

Good

8:00 am → 9:00 am

First light

5:12 am

Last light

7:10 pm

Sunrise

5:36 am

Sunset

6:46 pm

Moonrise

2:22 am

Moonset

2:12 pm

High tide

4:30 am

Low tide

11:40 am

High tide

7:00 pm

Hourly Wind

High Bite Hours Highlighted

12am

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20°

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168°

44 km/h

1am

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20°

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163°

44 km/h

2am

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20°

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163°

44 km/h

3am

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20°

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160°

43 km/h

4am

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20°

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160°

42 km/h

5am

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20°

↘︎

155°

40 km/h

6am

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19°

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153°

37 km/h

7am

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19°

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151°

34 km/h

8am

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20°

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152°

29 km/h

9am

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21°

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148°

24 km/h

10am

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22°

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155°

19 km/h

11am

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21°

↓︎

181°

20 km/h

12pm

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20°

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201°

25 km/h

1pm

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19°

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199°

30 km/h

2pm

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20°

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193°

32 km/h

3pm

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20°

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192°

31 km/h

4pm

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20°

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189°

32 km/h

5pm

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21°

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188°

35 km/h

6pm

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21°

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185°

34 km/h

7pm

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21°

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181°

36 km/h

8pm

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21°

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180°

41 km/h

9pm

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21°

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183°

42 km/h

10pm

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21°

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181°

43 km/h

11pm

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21°

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177°

41 km/h

Hourly Swell

Steady ~1.9 m SW

12am

1.6 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

1am

1.6 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

2am

1.5 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

3am

1.5 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

4am

1.5 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

5am

1.4 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

ground

6am

1.4 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

7am

1.4 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

8am

1.4 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

9am

1.4 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

10am

1.3 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

11am

1.3 m

@ 7 s

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Moderate

chop

12pm

1.2 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

chop

1pm

1.2 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

2pm

1.2 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

3pm

1.2 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

4pm

1.3 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

5pm

1.3 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

6pm

1.5 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

7pm

1.7 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

8pm

1.9 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

9pm

1.9 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

10pm

1.9 m

@ 11 s

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Moderate

ground

11pm

1.9 m

@ 12 s

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Moderate

ground

Water Temp (°C)

↘ cooling — down 0.5° over the last 3 days

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°

Fri

6 Nov

20.8°

Sat

7 Nov

20.8°

Sun

8 Nov

20.7°

Mon

9 Nov

20.7°

Tue

10 Nov

20.6°

Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 25 km/h S (201°).

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

6:30 pm → 8:30 pm

Good

5:00 am → 6:00 am

Good

8:00 am → 9:00 am

First light

5:12 am

Last light

7:10 pm

Sunrise

5:36 am

Sunset

6:46 pm

Moonrise

2:22 am

Moonset

2:12 pm

High tide

4:30 am

Low tide

11:40 am

High tide

7:00 pm

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