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South Australia fishing map — wind, tide, and bite-time forecast

Fishing spots — press Enter to open one on the map

  • 42 Mile Crossing (Coorong) · Coorong National Park
  • Aldinga Beach (south of the reef reserve) · Aldinga Beach
  • American River Wharf · American River
  • Ardrossan Jetty · Ardrossan
  • Arno Bay Jetty · Arno Bay
  • Beachport Jetty · Beachport
  • Brighton Jetty · Brighton
  • Browns Beach (Innes National Park) · Inneston
  • Cape Jervis Jetty · Cape Jervis
  • Carpenter Rocks (Bucks Bay) · Carpenter Rocks
  • Carrickalinga Beach · Carrickalinga
  • Ceduna Jetty · Ceduna
  • Christmas Cove & Hog Bay (Penneshaw) · Penneshaw
  • Coffin Bay Town Jetty · Coffin Bay
  • Edithburgh Jetty · Edithburgh
  • Elliston Jetty · Elliston
  • Emu Bay Jetty · Emu Bay
  • Glenelg Jetty · Glenelg
  • Goolwa Beach, Barrage & Murray Mouth · Goolwa
  • Grange Jetty · Grange
  • Henley Beach Jetty · Henley Beach
  • Horseshoe Bay Jetty (Port Elliot) · Port Elliot
  • Kingscote Jetty · Kingscote
  • Kingston SE
  • Largs Bay Jetty · Largs Bay
  • Lock 1 (Blanchetown) · Blanchetown
  • Locks Well Beach (Elliston) · Bramfield
  • Marino Rocks · Marino
  • Marion Bay Jetty · Marion Bay
  • Mary Ann Reserve (Mannum) · Mannum
  • Middleton Beach · Middleton
  • Moonta Bay Jetty · Moonta Bay
  • Myponga Reservoir · Myponga
  • Normanville Beach & Bungala River Mouth · Normanville
  • North Haven Breakwater · North Haven
  • Onkaparinga River Mouth · Port Noarlunga South
  • Outer Harbor Breakwater · Outer Harbor
  • Point Lowly (Whyalla) · Point Lowly
  • Point Turton Jetty · Point Turton
  • Port Augusta Foreshore Jetty · Port Augusta
  • Port Broughton Jetty · Port Broughton
  • Port Germein Jetty · Port Germein
  • Port Giles Jetty · Port Giles
  • Port Hughes Jetty · Port Hughes
  • Port Lincoln Town Jetty · Port Lincoln
  • Port MacDonnell Jetty & Breakwater · Port MacDonnell
  • Port Neill Jetty · Port Neill
  • Port Noarlunga Jetty · Port Noarlunga
  • Port Parham (crab flats) · Parham
  • Port River (Garden Island) · Garden Island
  • Port Vincent Wharf · Port Vincent
  • Rapid Bay Jetty · Rapid Bay
  • Robe (Lake Butler Marina & Long Beach) · Robe
  • Second Valley Jetty · Second Valley
  • Sellicks Beach
  • Semaphore Jetty · Semaphore
  • Southend Jetty (Rivoli Bay) · Southend
  • Stansbury Jetty · Stansbury
  • Stenhouse Bay Jetty · Stenhouse Bay
  • Streaky Bay Jetty · Streaky Bay
  • Sturt Reserve (Murray Bridge) · Murray Bridge
  • Thompson Beach (Adelaide Plains crab flats) · Thompson Beach
  • Tumby Bay Jetty · Tumby Bay
  • Venus Bay Jetty · Venus Bay
  • Victor Harbor Causeway & Screwpile Jetty (Granite Island) · Victor Harbor
  • Vivonne Bay Jetty · Vivonne Bay
  • Waitpinga Beach · Waitpinga
  • Wallaroo Jetty · Wallaroo
  • West Beach Boat Ramp Breakwall · West Beach
  • West Lakes (Trimmer Parade Inlet) · West Lakes
  • Whyalla Jetty (Circular Jetty & Marina) · Whyalla
  • Wirrina Cove Marina (Marina St Vincent) · Wirrina Cove
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Use arrow keys to step three hours, Page Up or Page Down for a larger jump, Home or End to jump to the first or last hour.
Guide

About the South Australia fishing map

Bite Compass tracks 72 fishing spots across South Australia, each with a live wind, tide, and bite-time forecast. The map shows a live wind heat-field across the SA coast: cooler blues are light air, greens and yellows are a working breeze, and oranges through magenta mark the strong-wind end of the scale (the legend keys the exact km/h bands). Pin colours show each spot's bite score for today — gold pins are firing, teal are steady, slate are quiet, and dark pins are still waiting on today's score; tap one for the full forecast.

Drag the timeline along the bottom to scrub the wind forecast forward up to five days, then press play to animate it. The layer rail on the right adds tide chips (rising or falling, with the next turn's time), swell heights, and water temperatures to each spot as you zoom in. Tap any pin to open that spot's full bite-time forecast — wind direction, wave height, tide stage, and the solunar bite windows for the day. Bite times are a forecast, not a guarantee: they tell you when conditions line up, not that the fish have read the same chart.

How bite times work

Each spot's score blends the solunar major/minor feeding windows with the local tide stage and weather, so the busy periods move with the moon and the tide rather than sitting at fixed clock hours. The how it works page walks through the model, and the solunar forecast shows the raw feeding windows the map draws on.

Times use local time in South Australia, including daylight-saving changes where applicable.

Depth and reefs

  • Pale is shallow, dark blue is deep. Tap the water for a depth, or a spot for depth from the water's edge.
  • All of SA comes from a coarse 250 m national grid (dashed contours): good for banks and gulf gutters, too coarse to find a single reef.
  • Depths are below mean sea level (about mid-tide), not tide-adjusted: in the gulfs the tide can add or take away over a metre. Not for navigation.

Keyboard shortcuts

Press / to search spots by name — the quickest way to a pin without a mouse. Space plays or pauses the forecast animation and n jumps the timeline back to now. With the timeline focused, the arrow keys step three hours, Page Up and Page Down jump further, and Home or End go to either end of the forecast.

South Australia fishing spots