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Useless Loop / Tamala (Outer Shark Bay)

Fri 18 Sep 2026 · Australia/Perth

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📍 Useless Loop / Tamala (Outer Shark Bay)
first quarter · 39%
Weather: Sunny Wind: SW 226° · 30 km/h Swell: 0.5 m @ 9 s SW Water: 21.8 °C Pressure: 1017.0 hPa ↑ rising
★★★☆☆
Medium Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 6:00 am
Solunar 0 out of 100 Between windows
Time of day 90 out of 100 Dawn
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 91 out of 100 N 13 km/h
Moon 33 out of 100 first quarter all day
Water temp 98 out of 100 21.8 °C all day
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Activity Forecast
Now
HIGH 70+ MED 50 LOW 30 4a 8a 12p 4p 8p
Day timeline
Major Minor Tide Twilight
First light 5:58 am Last light 6:43 pm
High 4:00 am Low 11:45 am High 6:00 pm Low 9:10 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
5:00 am → 7:30 am
69
2h 30m
Good
5:30 pm → 7:30 pm
63
2h
Good
11:30 am → 12:00 pm
45
30m
First light
5:58 am
Last light
6:43 pm
Sunrise
6:20 am
Sunset
6:20 pm
Moonrise
10:41 am
Moonset
12:14 am
High tide
4:00 am
Low tide
11:45 am
High tide
6:00 pm
Low tide
9:10 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
20°
↗︎
NE
67°
1 km/h
1am
☁️
20°
↖︎
NW
321°
1 km/h
2am
☀️
20°
←︎
W
256°
9 km/h
3am
☀️
21°
↑︎
N
340°
2 km/h
4am
☀️
21°
↗︎
NE
32°
7 km/h
5am
☀️
21°
↑︎
N
11°
10 km/h
6am
☀️
20°
↑︎
N
16°
13 km/h
7am
☀️
21°
↑︎
N
349°
10 km/h
8am
☀️
21°
↑︎
N
349°
7 km/h
9am
☀️
20°
↖︎
NW
337°
8 km/h
10am
☀️
20°
↖︎
NW
337°
8 km/h
11am
☀️
19°
↑︎
N
341°
10 km/h
12pm
☀️
19°
←︎
W
291°
12 km/h
1pm
☀️
20°
←︎
W
268°
19 km/h
2pm
☀️
21°
←︎
W
267°
19 km/h
3pm
☀️
21°
←︎
W
270°
22 km/h
Now
☀️
21°
↙︎
SW
226°
30 km/h
5pm
☀️
21°
↙︎
SW
226°
32 km/h
6pm
☀️
21°
↙︎
SW
224°
33 km/h
7pm
☀️
20°
↙︎
SW
212°
32 km/h
8pm
☀️
20°
↓︎
S
202°
28 km/h
9pm
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
197°
20 km/h
10pm
☁️
19°
↓︎
S
193°
15 km/h
11pm
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
201°
14 km/h
Hourly Swell
Building 0.4 → 0.8 m SW
12am
0.4 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
1am
0.4 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
2am
0.4 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
3am
0.4 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
4am
0.4 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
5am
0.4 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
6am
0.4 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
7am
0.4 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
8am
0.4 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
9am
0.4 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
10am
0.4 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
11am
0.4 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
12pm
0.4 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
1pm
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
2pm
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
3pm
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
Now
0.5 m
@ 9 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
5pm
0.5 m
@ 9 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
6pm
0.5 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
7pm
0.6 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
8pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
9pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
10pm
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
11pm
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
Water Temp (°C)
↗ warming — up 1.1° over the last 3 days
Tue
15 Sep
20.7°
Wed
16 Sep
21.0°
Thu
17 Sep
21.5°
Fri
18 Sep
21.8°
Sat
19 Sep
21.9°
Sun
20 Sep
21.8°
Mon
21 Sep
21.8°
Tue
22 Sep
21.8°
Wed
23 Sep
21.8°
Thu
24 Sep
21.7°
Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 30 km/h SW (226°).

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

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