Can you fish off Speers Point Jetty?

Yes. Lake Macquarie City Council lists Speers Point Jetty among its top places to cast a line in Lake Mac, naming tailor, bream and whiting. The 83-metre public jetty was rebuilt and reopened in June 2020, with solar lighting, taps, handrails and ladders. You need a current NSW Recreational Fishing Fee receipt, and the lake-wide closure on digging bait with a spade or fork, and on any trap other than a bait trap, applies here — crab traps are governed by a separate DPIRD order, so check its current terms before setting one.

What fish can you catch at Speers Point Jetty?

Yellowfin bream are the year-round mainstay, with sand whiting over the sand from October to April, chopper tailor in schools and dusky flathead along the weed edges either side of the jetty. Bream are 25 cm on a bag of 10 shared with tarwhine, whiting 27 cm, tailor 30 cm on a bag of 10, and dusky flathead must be between 36 and 70 cm with a bag of 5. Garfish, mullet and the odd flounder turn up too.

Is Speers Point Jetty good for kids fishing?

It is one of the easiest family fishing spots on Lake Macquarie. Speers Point Park has parking, public toilets, a café, picnic shelters and the Variety Playground, the paths are flat and pram-friendly, and the jetty has handrails. The water off the end is deep enough to matter, so keep small children close and consider a kids' lifejacket on the deck.

Is Speers Point Jetty lit at night?

Yes. The rebuilt jetty has solar lights that brighten as people walk along the deck, which makes an evening bream or tailor session practical. Bring a headtorch anyway for rigging and unhooking, and keep the deck clear for walkers, who use the jetty after dark as well.

Is Lake Macquarie a recreational fishing haven?

Yes. DPIRD lists Lake Macquarie as a Recreational Fishing Haven, which means the lake is closed to commercial fishing. It does not mean relaxed rules — the normal NSW bag and size limits and the Recreational Fishing Fee still apply, along with the lake-wide closure on spade-or-fork digging and on traps other than bait traps, while crab traps are governed by a separate DPIRD order.

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Speers Point Jetty (Lake Macquarie)

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📍 Speers Point Jetty (Lake Macquarie)

waning gibbous · 84%

Weather: Cloudy Wind: E 95° · 13 km/h Swell: 1.1 m @ 9 s S Water: 18.9 °C Pressure: 1024.8 hPa ↓ falling Sheltered water: wind direction matters less here

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At the day's peak · 7:30 pm

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Time of day Dusk

Tide Moving

Wind NE 17 km/h

Moon waning gibbous all day

Water temp 18.9 °C all day

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Activity Forecast

Day Timeline

Major Minor Tide Twilight

First light 5:31 am Last light 7:43 pm

Low 5:05 am High 11:56 am Low 6:47 pm

Tide is approximate here. Drag or use arrow keys to explore

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

6:30 pm → 9:00 pm

2h 30m

Good

3:30 am → 6:30 am

Good

3:30 pm → 5:00 pm

1h 30m

First light

5:31 am

Last light

7:43 pm

Sunrise

5:56 am

Sunset

7:18 pm

Moonrise

—

Moonset

8:46 am

Low tide

5:05 am

High tide

11:56 am

Low tide

6:47 pm

Tide times here are a rough model estimate. Check the BoM tide tables before you fish the change.

Hourly Wind

High Bite Hours Highlighted

12am

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17°

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97°

4 km/h

1am

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17°

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105°

5 km/h

2am

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17°

→︎

112°

5 km/h

3am

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17°

↘︎

115°

4 km/h

4am

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16°

↘︎

119°

2 km/h

5am

☁️

16°

↘︎

135°

1 km/h

6am

☁️

17°

←︎

248°

1 km/h

7am

☀️

18°

←︎

270°

3 km/h

8am

☀️

18°

←︎

274°

2 km/h

9am

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19°

→︎

90°

1 km/h

10am

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20°

→︎

94°

5 km/h

11am

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21°

→︎

94°

9 km/h

12pm

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21°

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95°

13 km/h

1pm

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21°

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95°

17 km/h

2pm

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21°

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93°

19 km/h

3pm

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21°

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87°

20 km/h

4pm

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20°

→︎

80°

20 km/h

5pm

☁️

20°

→︎

72°

19 km/h

6pm

☁️

20°

↗︎

64°

18 km/h

7pm

☁️

19°

↗︎

54°

17 km/h

8pm

☁️

18°

↗︎

45°

16 km/h

9pm

☁️

18°

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39°

15 km/h

10pm

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17°

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35°

15 km/h

11pm

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17°

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33°

14 km/h

Hourly Swell

Easing 1.2 → 0.8 m S

12am

1.2 m

@ 8 s

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Moderate

chop

1am

1.2 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

chop

2am

1.2 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

3am

1.3 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Moderate

4am

1.3 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Moderate

5am

1.3 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

6am

1.3 m

@ 10 s

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Moderate

7am

1.3 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

8am

1.2 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

9am

1.2 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

10am

1.2 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

11am

1.2 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Moderate

12pm

1.1 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Moderate

1pm

1.1 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Moderate

2pm

1.1 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Moderate

3pm

1.0 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Moderate

4pm

0.9 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Slight

5pm

0.8 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Slight

ground

6pm

0.8 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Slight

ground

7pm

0.8 m

@ 10 s

↓︎

Slight

8pm

0.9 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Slight

9pm

0.9 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Slight

10pm

0.8 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Slight

11pm

0.8 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Slight

Water Temp (°C)

↗ warming — up 1.3° over the last 3 days

Tue

27 Oct

17.6°

Wed

28 Oct

18.0°

Thu

29 Oct

18.6°

Fri

30 Oct

18.9°

Sat

31 Oct

19.0°

Sun

1 Nov

19.1°

Mon

2 Nov

18.9°

Tue

3 Nov

—

Wed

4 Nov

—

Thu

5 Nov

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Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 13 km/h E (95°).

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

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

6:30 pm → 9:00 pm

2h 30m

Good

3:30 am → 6:30 am

Good

3:30 pm → 5:00 pm

1h 30m

First light

5:31 am

Last light

7:43 pm

Sunrise

5:56 am

Sunset

7:18 pm

Moonrise

—

Moonset

8:46 am

Low tide

5:05 am

High tide

11:56 am

Low tide

6:47 pm

Tide times here are a rough model estimate. Check the BoM tide tables before you fish the change.

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