What fish can you catch at Moira Parade Wharf, Hawks Nest?

Mainly yellowfin bream and dusky flathead year-round, with sand whiting on the flats through the warmer months and luderick (blackfish) in the deeper channel over autumn and winter. Leatherjacket and silver trevally turn up around the pylons, and there is an after-dark chance at mulloway in the deeper holes — 70cm minimum, bag of 1 per person, with a boat limit of 2 per boat per day. The Myall River is inside the Port Stephens–Great Lakes Marine Park, so check the zoning map or the FishSmart NSW app before you fish. A NSW Recreational Fishing Fee is required to fish anywhere in NSW, including off this wharf.

What is the best bait for bream and flathead on the Myall River?

Fresh nippers (yabbies) and live poddy mullet are the standouts, and both can be gathered for free on the exposed sandbars at low tide. Poddy mullet under 15 cm may only be used as live bait, with a limit of 20 per person. Peeled prawn and a strip of mullet also work for bream and flathead, while soft plastics and small surface lures take plenty of flathead on the run-out tide.

What is the size and bag limit for dusky flathead in NSW?

Dusky flathead must be within a slot of 36cm to 70cm to keep — anything under 36cm or over 70cm must be released — with a daily bag limit of 5. Releasing the big females over 70cm protects the breeders, so handle and return them quickly. Always check the current NSW DPIRD rules before you keep a fish.

Is Moira Parade Wharf good for kids and beginners?

Yes — the jetty and floating pontoon are metres from the car park with no real walk, and there are public toilets, a playground, picnic shelter and a small swimming beach right there. Bream, whiting and small flathead bite readily on simple bait rigs, which makes it one of the easier spots to start out on the Myall River.

When is the best tide to fish Moira Parade Wharf?

A moving tide around dawn or dusk is best. The run-out into the bottom of the tide is the prime window for flathead along the channel edge, while the incoming pushes bream and whiting up onto the flats. Big run-out tides on the full and new moon move the most bait, though heavy rain can dirty the river and push the better fishing downstream for a few days.

Bite Compass

Bite Forecast

Moira Parade Wharf

Sat 31 Oct 2026 · Australia/Sydney

Forecast updated 3:02pm AEDT

Bite Alert

←

31 Oct

tap to pick date

→

Today Tomorrow Sat 31 Oct

📍 Moira Parade Wharf

waning gibbous · 75%

Weather: Cloudy Wind: E 83° · 4 km/h Swell: 0.9 m @ 10 s S Water: 20.0 °C Pressure: 1015.4 hPa ↓ falling Sheltered water: wind direction matters less here

★★★★☆

High Fish Activity

Email me when a High bite day is coming Free

▸ Why this score?

At the day's peak · 5:30 am

Solunar Major window

Time of day Dawn

Tide Turning

Wind NE 14 km/h

Moon waning gibbous all day

Water temp 20.0 °C all day

Learn how the score works →

Activity Forecast

Day Timeline

Major Minor Tide Twilight

First light 5:28 am Last light 7:42 pm

High 12:44 am Low 6:10 am High 12:51 pm Low 8:00 pm

Drag or use arrow keys to explore

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

4:00 am → 7:30 am

3h 30m

Good

4:30 pm → 9:00 pm

4h 30m

Good

12:00 am → 1:30 am

1h 30m

Good

10:00 am → 10:30 am

30m

First light

5:28 am

Last light

7:42 pm

Sunrise

5:54 am

Sunset

7:16 pm

Moonrise

12:04 am

Moonset

9:53 am

High tide

12:44 am

Low tide

6:10 am

High tide

12:51 pm

Low tide

8:00 pm

Hourly Wind

High Bite Hours Highlighted

12am

☁️

17°

↗︎

34°

17 km/h

1am

☁️

16°

↗︎

33°

17 km/h

2am

☁️

16°

↗︎

35°

18 km/h

3am

☁️

16°

↗︎

35°

17 km/h

4am

☁️

16°

↗︎

34°

16 km/h

5am

☁️

15°

↗︎

30°

14 km/h

6am

☁️

16°

↗︎

32°

12 km/h

7am

☁️

17°

↗︎

32°

12 km/h

8am

☁️

19°

↗︎

27°

9 km/h

9am

☁️

21°

↗︎

29°

8 km/h

10am

☁️

22°

↗︎

32°

6 km/h

11am

☁️

26°

↗︎

63°

6 km/h

12pm

☁️

26°

→︎

83°

4 km/h

1pm

☁️

27°

→︎

99°

8 km/h

2pm

🌧️

27°

→︎

76°

11 km/h

3pm

🌧️

28°

↗︎

44°

14 km/h

4pm

☁️

29°

↗︎

30°

15 km/h

5pm

☁️

27°

↑︎

22°

14 km/h

6pm

🌧️

24°

↗︎

28°

10 km/h

7pm

🌧️

22°

↗︎

34°

11 km/h

8pm

☁️

22°

↑︎

21°

13 km/h

9pm

☁️

22°

↑︎

15°

15 km/h

10pm

☁️

21°

↑︎

358°

12 km/h

11pm

☁️

21°

↖︎

337°

10 km/h

Hourly Swell

Easing 1.3 → 0.8 m S

12am

1.3 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

1am

1.3 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

2am

1.2 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

3am

1.2 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

4am

1.2 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

5am

1.2 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

6am

1.1 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

7am

1.1 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

8am

1.1 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

9am

1.0 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

10am

1.0 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

ground

11am

1.0 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Slight

ground

12pm

0.9 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Slight

ground

1pm

0.9 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Slight

ground

2pm

0.9 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Slight

ground

3pm

0.9 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Slight

ground

4pm

0.8 m

@ 11 s

↓︎

Slight

ground

5pm

0.8 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Slight

ground

6pm

0.8 m

@ 9 s

↘︎

Slight

7pm

0.8 m

@ 7 s

→︎

Slight

chop

8pm

0.9 m

@ 6 s

↗︎

Slight

chop

9pm

0.8 m

@ 5 s

↗︎

Slight

chop

10pm

0.8 m

@ 6 s

↗︎

Slight

chop

11pm

0.8 m

@ 6 s

↗︎

Slight

chop

Water Temp (°C)

↗ warming — up 0.8° over the last 3 days

Wed

28 Oct

19.2°

Thu

29 Oct

19.5°

Fri

30 Oct

20.0°

Sat

31 Oct

20.0°

Sun

1 Nov

20.2°

Mon

2 Nov

20.4°

Tue

3 Nov

20.5°

Wed

4 Nov

20.6°

Thu

5 Nov

20.7°

Fri

6 Nov

20.7°

Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 4 km/h E (83°).

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

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

4:00 am → 7:30 am

3h 30m

Good

4:30 pm → 9:00 pm

4h 30m

Good

12:00 am → 1:30 am

1h 30m

Good

10:00 am → 10:30 am

30m

First light

5:28 am

Last light

7:42 pm

Sunrise

5:54 am

Sunset

7:16 pm

Moonrise

12:04 am

Moonset

9:53 am

High tide

12:44 am

Low tide

6:10 am

High tide

12:51 pm

Low tide

8:00 pm

Nearby Spots

Species at This Spot

Keep Tabs on Moira Parade Wharf

Get an email when the bite score here hits High, and stop refreshing this page. Free account, takes a minute.

Alert Me When It's High Save This Spot