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Useless Loop / Tamala (Outer Shark Bay)

Sun 23 Aug 2026 · Australia/Perth

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📍 Useless Loop / Tamala (Outer Shark Bay)
waxing gibbous · 75%
Weather: Cloudy Wind: S 195° · 18 km/h Swell: 0.8 m @ 7 s SW Water: 18.9 °C Pressure: 1021.2 hPa ↓ falling
★★★☆☆
Medium Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 6:30 am
Solunar 0 out of 100 Between windows
Time of day 95 out of 100 Dawn
Tide 50 out of 100 Turning
Wind 91 out of 100 S 18 km/h
Moon 67 out of 100 waxing gibbous all day
Water temp 87 out of 100 18.9 °C all day
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Activity Forecast
HIGH 70+ MED 50 LOW 30 4a 8a 12p 4p 8p
Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
6:00 am → 8:00 am
62
2h
Good
6:00 pm → 7:00 pm
50
1h
Good
9:00 pm → 10:00 pm
48
1h
Good
1:30 pm → 2:00 pm
46
30m
First light
6:25 am
Last light
6:33 pm
Sunrise
6:48 am
Sunset
6:10 pm
Moonrise
1:41 pm
Moonset
3:17 am
High tide
6:50 am
Low tide
4:45 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
202°
16 km/h
1am
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
194°
22 km/h
2am
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
185°
19 km/h
3am
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
182°
20 km/h
4am
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
185°
18 km/h
5am
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
192°
16 km/h
6am
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
194°
18 km/h
7am
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
194°
20 km/h
8am
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
201°
18 km/h
9am
☀️
19°
↙︎
SW
212°
18 km/h
10am
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
197°
13 km/h
11am
☁️
20°
↓︎
S
185°
16 km/h
12pm
☁️
20°
↓︎
S
195°
18 km/h
1pm
☁️
20°
↓︎
S
192°
18 km/h
2pm
☁️
19°
↘︎
SE
139°
10 km/h
3pm
☀️
20°
↘︎
SE
145°
12 km/h
4pm
☀️
20°
↓︎
S
173°
21 km/h
5pm
☀️
20°
↓︎
S
178°
26 km/h
6pm
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
176°
23 km/h
7pm
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
172°
26 km/h
8pm
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
173°
21 km/h
9pm
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
176°
18 km/h
10pm
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
172°
18 km/h
11pm
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
167°
17 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~0.7 m SW
12am
0.7 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
1am
0.7 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
2am
0.7 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
3am
0.8 m
@ 8 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
4am
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
5am
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
6am
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
7am
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
8am
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
9am
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
10am
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
11am
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
12pm
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
1pm
0.8 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
2pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
3pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
4pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
5pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
6pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
7pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
8pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
9pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
10pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
11pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
Water Temp (°C)
↗ warming — up 0.4° over the last 3 days
Thu
20 Aug
18.5°
Fri
21 Aug
18.5°
Sat
22 Aug
18.7°
Sun
23 Aug
18.9°
Mon
24 Aug
19.1°
Tue
25 Aug
19.2°
Wed
26 Aug
19.3°
Thu
27 Aug
19.4°
Fri
28 Aug
19.3°
Sat
29 Aug
19.2°
Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 18 km/h S (195°).

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

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