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Useless Loop / Tamala (Outer Shark Bay)

Fri 16 Oct 2026 · Australia/Perth

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📍 Useless Loop / Tamala (Outer Shark Bay)
waxing crescent · 24%
Weather: Sunny Wind: E 72° · 1 km/h Swell: 0.5 m @ 6 s SW Water: 22.3 °C Pressure: 1016.7 hPa → steady Faces north-east · Offshore: S, SW, W · Onshore: N, NE, E · Forecast wind: onshore
★★★★☆
High Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 5:00 am
Solunar 70 out of 100 Major window
Time of day 40 out of 100 Dawn
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 91 out of 100 S 17 km/h
Moon 0 out of 100 waxing crescent all day
Water temp 96 out of 100 22.3 °C all day
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Activity Forecast

HIGH 70+ MED 50 LOW 30 4a 8a 12p 4p 8p
Day timeline
Major Minor Tide Twilight
First light 5:27 am Last light 6:56 pm
High 2:06 am Low 10:21 am High 5:30 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
3:30 am → 7:00 am
75
3h 30m
Good
4:00 pm → 8:30 pm
61
4h 30m
Good
9:00 am → 10:30 am
51
1h 30m
First light
5:27 am
Last light
6:56 pm
Sunrise
5:50 am
Sunset
6:33 pm
Moonrise
9:23 am
Moonset
11:50 pm
High tide
2:06 am
Low tide
10:21 am
High tide
5:30 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
20°
↓︎
S
169°
18 km/h
1am
☀️
20°
↓︎
S
167°
18 km/h
2am
☀️
20°
↓︎
S
173°
18 km/h
3am
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
175°
18 km/h
4am
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
173°
18 km/h
5am
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
167°
17 km/h
6am
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
164°
16 km/h
7am
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
158°
15 km/h
8am
☀️
19°
↘︎
SE
148°
15 km/h
9am
☀️
19°
↘︎
SE
128°
13 km/h
10am
☀️
19°
→︎
E
101°
13 km/h
11am
☀️
19°
→︎
E
85°
11 km/h
12pm
☀️
20°
→︎
E
72°
1 km/h
1pm
☀️
21°
←︎
W
259°
12 km/h
2pm
☀️
22°
←︎
W
256°
22 km/h
3pm
☀️
22°
←︎
W
249°
24 km/h
4pm
☀️
22°
↙︎
SW
237°
22 km/h
5pm
☀️
22°
↙︎
SW
223°
21 km/h
6pm
☀️
21°
↙︎
SW
211°
21 km/h
7pm
☀️
20°
↓︎
S
199°
22 km/h
8pm
☀️
20°
↓︎
S
190°
22 km/h
9pm
☀️
20°
↓︎
S
185°
22 km/h
10pm
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
183°
20 km/h
11pm
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
182°
18 km/h
Hourly Swell
Building 0.3 → 0.6 m SW
12am
0.3 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
@ 6 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
7am
0.4 m
@ 6 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
8am
Calm
9am
Calm
10am
Calm
11am
0.5 m
@ 6 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
12pm
0.5 m
@ 6 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
1pm
0.5 m
@ 6 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
2pm
0.5 m
@ 6 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
3pm
0.5 m
@ 6 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
4pm
0.5 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
5pm
0.5 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Calm
chop
6pm
0.5 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
7pm
0.5 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
8pm
0.5 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
9pm
0.6 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
10pm
0.6 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
11pm
0.6 m
@ 7 s
↙︎
SW
Slight
chop
Water Temp (°C)
↗ warming — up 0.6° over the last 3 days
Tue
13 Oct
21.7°
Wed
14 Oct
21.9°
Thu
15 Oct
22.1°
Fri
16 Oct
22.3°
Sat
17 Oct
22.3°
Sun
18 Oct
22.4°
Mon
19 Oct
22.4°
Tue
20 Oct
22.1°
Wed
21 Oct
21.9°
Thu
22 Oct
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 1 km/h E (72°).

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

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