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Richmond River North Wall (Ballina)

Thu 05 Nov 2026 · Australia/Sydney

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📍 Richmond River North Wall (Ballina)
waning crescent · 25%
Weather: Sunny Wind: W 288° · 22 km/h Swell: 0.6 m @ 6 s NE Water: 22.1 °C Pressure: 1006.4 hPa → steady Sheltered water: wind direction matters less here
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Medium Fish Activity
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▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 5:30 am
Solunar 0 out of 100 Between windows
Time of day 92 out of 100 Dawn
Tide 42 out of 100 Turning
Wind 91 out of 100 N 15 km/h
Moon 0 out of 100 waning crescent all day
Water temp 97 out of 100 22.1 °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 5:25 am Last light 7:33 pm
High 6:05 am Low 12:00 pm High 6:00 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
4:30 am → 7:00 am
66
2h 30m
Good
6:30 pm → 10:30 pm
64
4h
Good
8:30 am → 10:30 am
55
2h
Good
3:00 am → 3:30 am
45
30m
First light
5:25 am
Last light
7:33 pm
Sunrise
5:49 am
Sunset
7:09 pm
Moonrise
3:10 am
Moonset
3:21 pm
High tide
6:05 am
Low tide
12:00 pm
High tide
6:00 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
21°
↖︎
NW
296°
10 km/h
1am
☀️
21°
←︎
W
289°
12 km/h
2am
☀️
20°
←︎
W
291°
12 km/h
3am
☀️
20°
↖︎
NW
317°
10 km/h
4am
☀️
19°
↑︎
N
354°
12 km/h
5am
☁️
19°
↑︎
N
9°
15 km/h
6am
☁️
21°
↑︎
N
5°
13 km/h
7am
☀️
23°
↑︎
N
347°
9 km/h
8am
☀️
25°
↖︎
NW
317°
9 km/h
9am
☀️
27°
↖︎
NW
302°
11 km/h
10am
☀️
29°
↖︎
NW
297°
15 km/h
11am
☀️
31°
↖︎
NW
293°
19 km/h
12pm
☀️
32°
←︎
W
288°
22 km/h
1pm
☀️
33°
←︎
W
283°
24 km/h
2pm
☀️
32°
←︎
W
282°
26 km/h
3pm
☀️
32°
←︎
W
285°
27 km/h
4pm
☀️
31°
←︎
W
291°
27 km/h
5pm
☀️
29°
↖︎
NW
294°
25 km/h
6pm
☀️
26°
↖︎
NW
295°
20 km/h
7pm
☀️
23°
↖︎
NW
294°
13 km/h
8pm
☀️
20°
←︎
W
288°
8 km/h
9pm
☀️
22°
←︎
W
278°
16 km/h
10pm
☀️
20°
←︎
W
271°
14 km/h
11pm
☀️
19°
←︎
W
264°
13 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~0.6 m NE
12am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
1am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
2am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
3am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
4am
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
5am
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
6am
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
7am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
8am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
9am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
10am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
11am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
12pm
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
1pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
2pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
3pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
4pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
5pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
6pm
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
7pm
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
8pm
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
9pm
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
10pm
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
11pm
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
Water Temp (°C)
→ steady around 22.1°
Mon
2 Nov
22.1°
Tue
3 Nov
22.3°
Wed
4 Nov
22.2°
Thu
5 Nov
22.1°
Fri
6 Nov
22.1°
Sat
7 Nov
22.1°
Sun
8 Nov
21.9°
Mon
9 Nov
21.2°
Tue
10 Nov
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Wed
11 Nov
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 22 km/h W (288°).

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