What fish can you catch at Collaroy Beach?

Sand whiting, yellowfin bream and tarwhine are the bread-and-butter through the gutters, with tailor and Australian salmon over the deeper holes — salmon in the cooler months, tailor year-round with autumn and winter the pick. Dusky flathead and dart show over summer. Anyone fishing here needs a NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, which covers you anywhere in the state.

Where are the best gutters at Collaroy?

The Stewart Street to mid-beach section is the proven patch for whiting and bream, while the deeper holes further along hold the bigger tailor. Gutters shift with every swell, so walk the beach at low tide and look for the darker, calmer strips of water running between the white banks — that depth, ideally over a metre, is where the fish feed.

Can you collect beach worms and nippers at Collaroy?

Yes, but only north of the Collaroy rock baths. The southern end of the beach and Fishermans Beach sit inside the Long Reef Aquatic Reserve, where collecting worms, nippers, shellfish and other invertebrates is prohibited — line fishing for finfish is still allowed there, but bring your bait or pump it on the open beach to the north.

Is Collaroy Beach good for fishing with kids?

It is one of the more family-friendly surf beaches in Sydney, with a rockpool, a large playground, accessible parking bays, surf club toilets and lifeguards patrolling through the warmer months. Fish the quiet early and late shifts, keep kids well back from the wash and rips, and set up clear of the flagged swimming area.

What size do whiting and bream have to be to keep at Collaroy?

Sand whiting must be at least 27cm and bream 25cm. The whiting bag is 20 shared across all whiting species; the bream bag is 10 in total shared with tarwhine and black bream, and twice that in possession. Tarwhine themselves only need to be 20cm, which catches plenty of people out. A NSW Recreational Fishing Fee is required to fish here, as it is everywhere in NSW, and you have to carry the receipt.

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Collaroy Beach

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Weather: Sunny Wind: S 198° · 5 km/h Swell: 0.8 m @ 5 s NE Water: 19.6 °C Pressure: 1004.6 hPa → steady Faces east · Offshore: SW, W, NW · Onshore: NE, E, SE · Forecast wind: offshore

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Water temp 19.6 °C all day

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First light 5:25 am Last light 7:51 pm

High 5:22 am Low 11:10 am High 5:20 pm

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Feeding Windows

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Peak

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First light

5:25 am

Last light

7:51 pm

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5:52 am

Sunset

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Moonrise

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2:28 pm

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5:22 am

Low tide

11:10 am

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Water Temp (°C)

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Sun

1 Nov

19.0°

Mon

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19.4°

Tue

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19.4°

Wed

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19.6°

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Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 5 km/h S (198°).

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

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

5:00 am → 7:00 am

Good

7:00 pm → 10:00 pm

Good

8:00 am → 9:30 am

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Good

11:00 am → 12:30 pm

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First light

5:25 am

Last light

7:51 pm

Sunrise

5:52 am

Sunset

7:25 pm

Moonrise

2:53 am

Moonset

2:28 pm

High tide

5:22 am

Low tide

11:10 am

High tide

5:20 pm

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