Can you fish at Warners Bay jetty?

Yes — the short public jetty on the Warners Bay Foreshore, off The Esplanade, is open to line fishing, and Lake Macquarie is a Recreational Fishing Haven with no commercial fishing. It is a busy public promenade, so fish early, keep casts clear of walkers and paddle craft, and take all line and hooks home. A current NSW Recreational Fishing Fee receipt is required, and the lake-wide ban on spade-or-fork digging and on traps other than bait traps applies, with crab traps governed by a separate DPIRD order — check its current terms before setting one.

What fish can you catch at Warners Bay?

Yellowfin bream are the year-round mainstay, with sand whiting and dusky flathead from October to April and chopper tailor through the year. Bream are 25 cm on a bag of 10 shared with tarwhine, sand 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.

Is there parking and toilets at Warners Bay foreshore?

Yes. Public car parking, toilets, drinking water, picnic tables and a playground are all along the Warners Bay Foreshore within a short walk of the jetty, and cafés and takeaways line The Esplanade across the road. The paths are flat and sealed, so it suits prams and wheelchairs.

Is Speers Point or Warners Bay better for land-based fishing?

They fish the same northern-lake water for bream, whiting, flathead and tailor. Speers Point Jetty is the longer structure at 83 metres, reaches further out and has solar lighting for evening sessions, while Warners Bay's jetty is about 30 metres and wins on convenience, with cafés and toilets steps away. On a southerly both cop the chop, so neither is the escape from the other.

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Warners Bay Jetty (Lake Macquarie)

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📍 Warners Bay Jetty (Lake Macquarie)

waning gibbous · 91%

Weather: Sunny Wind: SE 138° · 11 km/h Swell: 1.1 m @ 8 s S Water: 18.6 °C Pressure: 1022.1 hPa → steady Sheltered water: wind direction matters less here

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At the day's peak · 5:30 am

Solunar Between windows

Time of day Dawn

Tide Moving

Wind W 6 km/h

Moon waning gibbous all day

Water temp 18.6 °C all day

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Activity Forecast

Day Timeline

Major Minor Tide Twilight

First light 5:32 am Last light 7:42 pm

Low 4:20 am High 10:56 am Low 5:44 pm

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

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

2:00 am → 6:30 am

4h 30m

Good

6:30 pm → 8:30 pm

Good

11:00 pm → 12:00 am

Good

2:30 pm → 4:00 pm

1h 30m

First light

5:32 am

Last light

7:42 pm

Sunrise

5:57 am

Sunset

7:17 pm

Moonrise

11:05 pm

Moonset

7:44 am

Low tide

4:20 am

High tide

10:56 am

Low tide

5:44 pm

High tide

11:42 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

☀️

15°

↖︎

303°

6 km/h

1am

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15°

←︎

282°

5 km/h

2am

☀️

14°

←︎

264°

5 km/h

3am

☀️

14°

←︎

259°

6 km/h

4am

☀️

14°

←︎

257°

6 km/h

5am

☀️

15°

←︎

257°

6 km/h

6am

☀️

15°

←︎

261°

6 km/h

7am

☀️

16°

←︎

268°

5 km/h

8am

☀️

17°

←︎

266°

3 km/h

9am

☀️

18°

↓︎

180°

1 km/h

10am

☀️

19°

↘︎

126°

5 km/h

11am

☀️

20°

↘︎

127°

8 km/h

12pm

☀️

20°

↘︎

138°

11 km/h

1pm

☀️

20°

↘︎

147°

14 km/h

2pm

☀️

20°

↘︎

151°

17 km/h

3pm

☀️

20°

↘︎

150°

17 km/h

4pm

☀️

20°

↘︎

147°

15 km/h

5pm

☀️

20°

↘︎

143°

14 km/h

6pm

☀️

19°

↘︎

138°

14 km/h

7pm

☀️

19°

↘︎

131°

13 km/h

8pm

☀️

18°

↘︎

125°

12 km/h

9pm

☀️

18°

↘︎

119°

10 km/h

10pm

☀️

18°

→︎

109°

7 km/h

11pm

☀️

18°

→︎

97°

5 km/h

Hourly Swell

Building 0.7 → 1.1 m S

12am

0.7 m

@ 6 s

↓︎

Slight

chop

1am

0.7 m

@ 6 s

↓︎

Slight

chop

2am

0.7 m

@ 6 s

↓︎

Slight

chop

3am

0.7 m

@ 7 s

↓︎

Slight

chop

4am

0.7 m

@ 7 s

↓︎

Slight

chop

5am

0.7 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Slight

chop

6am

0.8 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Slight

chop

7am

0.9 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Slight

chop

8am

1.0 m

@ 7 s

↓︎

Slight

chop

9am

1.0 m

@ 7 s

↓︎

Moderate

chop

10am

1.1 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

chop

11am

1.1 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

chop

12pm

1.1 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

chop

1pm

1.1 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

chop

2pm

1.2 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

3pm

1.2 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

4pm

1.2 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

5pm

1.2 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Moderate

6pm

1.2 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Moderate

7pm

1.2 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Moderate

8pm

1.2 m

@ 9 s

↓︎

Moderate

9pm

1.2 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

10pm

1.2 m

@ 8 s

↓︎

Moderate

chop

11pm

1.1 m

@ 7 s

↓︎

Moderate

chop

Water Temp (°C)

↗ warming — up 1.3° over the last 3 days

Mon

26 Oct

17.3°

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

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Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 11 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 → 6:30 am

4h 30m

Good

6:30 pm → 8:30 pm

Good

11:00 pm → 12:00 am

Good

2:30 pm → 4:00 pm

1h 30m

First light

5:32 am

Last light

7:42 pm

Sunrise

5:57 am

Sunset

7:17 pm

Moonrise

11:05 pm

Moonset

7:44 am

Low tide

4:20 am

High tide

10:56 am

Low tide

5:44 pm

High tide

11:42 pm

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

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