What fish can you catch at Lilli Pilli baths?

Yellowfin bream and dusky flathead are the mainstays, with sand whiting on the flats in the warmer months, luderick from autumn into winter, silver trevally year-round, garfish through the warm half, and squid jigged off the point. Australian salmon push past the baths on the cooler water. A NSW Recreational Fishing Fee is required to fish anywhere in NSW, including here.

When is the best time to fish Lilli Pilli Point?

Fish the tide change rather than a set time — the run-in tide is the standout trigger, and the deep hole just off the baths keeps producing through the slack. First light and the last of the evening fish best, and dusk is prime for jigging squid off the point.

Is there a size limit for dusky flathead in NSW?

Yes. Dusky flathead in NSW have a slot limit — only fish between 36 cm and 70 cm may be kept, anything over 70 cm must be released, the daily bag is 5 and the possession limit is 10. Lilli Pilli's deep channel does produce big flathead, so it pays to carry a measure and release the breeders. Yellowfin bream are 25 cm on a bag of 10 shared with tarwhine, sand whiting 27 cm on a bag of 20 shared across the whiting, and luderick 27 cm on a bag of 10.

Is Lilli Pilli baths good for fishing with kids?

It is one of the better family options in the Shire — a grassed reserve, a netted swimming enclosure, toilets, changing sheds and a flat, short walk to the water. The catch is the limited parking and the channel that drops away fast close to the bank, so keep little ones in reach near the edge and the stone steps.

Do you need a fishing licence to fish Port Hacking?

There is no separate licence, but a NSW Recreational Fishing Fee is required to fish anywhere in NSW, fresh or salt, and the receipt has to be carried while you fish. It is $7 for three days, $14 for a month, $35 for a year or $85 for three years. Worth knowing locally: Shiprock Aquatic Reserve, about 1.75 km east of the baths, is a no-take reserve where no fishing by any method is permitted, so the fee buys you nothing there.

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Lilli Pilli Point & Baths

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📍 Lilli Pilli Point & Baths

waning gibbous · 91%

Weather: Sunny Wind: SE 138° · 14 km/h Swell: 1.9 m @ 9 s S Water: 18.8 °C Pressure: 1022.4 hPa → steady Sheltered water: wind direction matters less here

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Time of day Dawn

Tide Moving

Wind W 13 km/h

Moon waning gibbous all day

Water temp 18.8 °C all day

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Day Timeline

Major Minor Tide Twilight

First light 5:32 am Last light 7:46 pm

Low 4:33 am High 11:06 am Low 5:52 pm

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Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

2:00 am → 7:00 am

Good

6:30 pm → 9:00 pm

2h 30m

Good

2:30 pm → 4:00 pm

1h 30m

Good

11:30 pm → 12:00 am

30m

First light

5:32 am

Last light

7:46 pm

Sunrise

5:58 am

Sunset

7:20 pm

Moonrise

11:11 pm

Moonset

7:42 am

Low tide

4:33 am

High tide

11:06 am

Low tide

5:52 pm

High tide

11:51 pm

Hourly Wind

High Bite Hours Highlighted

12am

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13°

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261°

10 km/h

1am

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13°

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269°

11 km/h

2am

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13°

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273°

12 km/h

3am

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12°

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274°

12 km/h

4am

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12°

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272°

12 km/h

5am

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12°

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265°

13 km/h

6am

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12°

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257°

11 km/h

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14°

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249°

10 km/h

8am

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17°

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217°

6 km/h

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20°

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164°

8 km/h

10am

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21°

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154°

11 km/h

11am

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21°

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146°

11 km/h

12pm

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21°

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138°

14 km/h

1pm

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134°

16 km/h

2pm

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129°

14 km/h

3pm

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4pm

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20°

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5pm

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137°

15 km/h

6pm

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166°

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195°

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Hourly Swell

Building 1.2 → 1.9 m S

12am

1.2 m

@ 7 s

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Moderate

chop

1am

1.3 m

@ 7 s

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Moderate

chop

2am

1.3 m

@ 7 s

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Moderate

chop

3am

1.3 m

@ 7 s

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Moderate

chop

4am

1.4 m

@ 7 s

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Moderate

chop

5am

1.4 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

chop

6am

1.5 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

chop

7am

1.6 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

8am

1.7 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

9am

1.8 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

10am

1.9 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

11am

1.9 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

12pm

1.9 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

1pm

2.0 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

2pm

2.0 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

3pm

2.0 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

4pm

2.0 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

5pm

2.0 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

6pm

2.1 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

7pm

2.1 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

8pm

2.1 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

9pm

2.0 m

@ 9 s

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Solid

10pm

2.0 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

11pm

1.9 m

@ 9 s

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Moderate

Water Temp (°C)

↗ warming — up 0.7° over the last 3 days

Mon

26 Oct

18.1°

Tue

27 Oct

18.4°

Wed

28 Oct

18.3°

Thu

29 Oct

18.8°

Fri

30 Oct

19.0°

Sat

31 Oct

18.6°

Sun

1 Nov

18.7°

Mon

2 Nov

19.0°

Tue

3 Nov

18.9°

Wed

4 Nov

19.0°

Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 14 km/h SE (138°).

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

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

2:00 am → 7:00 am

Good

6:30 pm → 9:00 pm

2h 30m

Good

2:30 pm → 4:00 pm

1h 30m

Good

11:30 pm → 12:00 am

30m

First light

5:32 am

Last light

7:46 pm

Sunrise

5:58 am

Sunset

7:20 pm

Moonrise

11:11 pm

Moonset

7:42 am

Low tide

4:33 am

High tide

11:06 am

Low tide

5:52 pm

High tide

11:51 pm

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