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Barham River (Apollo Bay)

Sat 24 Oct 2026 · Australia/Melbourne

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📍 Barham River (Apollo Bay)
waxing gibbous · 95%
Weather: Sunny Wind: W 256° · 22 km/h Swell: 3.6 m @ 10 s SW Water: 15.2 °C Pressure: 1015.1 hPa ↑ rising Sheltered water: wind direction matters less here
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Medium Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 8:00 pm
Solunar 0 out of 100 Between windows
Time of day 87 out of 100 Dusk
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 91 out of 100 SW 11 km/h
Moon 67 out of 100 waxing gibbous all day
Water temp 63 out of 100 15.2 °C all day
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Activity Forecast

HIGH 70+ MED 50 LOW 30 4a 8a 12p 4p 8p
Day Timeline
Major Minor Tide Twilight
First light 5:59 am Last light 8:20 pm
Low 3:36 am High 10:00 am Low 4:27 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
7:30 pm → 9:30 pm
58
2h
Good
6:00 am → 7:00 am
48
1h
Good
11:30 am → 12:30 pm
47
1h
First light
5:59 am
Last light
8:20 pm
Sunrise
6:27 am
Sunset
7:52 pm
Moonrise
5:51 pm
Moonset
5:00 am
Low tide
3:36 am
High tide
10:00 am
Low tide
4:27 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
13°
←︎
W
271°
23 km/h
1am
☀️
13°
←︎
W
271°
23 km/h
2am
☀️
13°
←︎
W
270°
23 km/h
3am
☀️
13°
←︎
W
269°
23 km/h
4am
☀️
13°
←︎
W
268°
23 km/h
5am
☀️
13°
←︎
W
267°
22 km/h
6am
☀️
13°
←︎
W
265°
22 km/h
7am
☀️
13°
←︎
W
264°
22 km/h
8am
☀️
14°
←︎
W
263°
23 km/h
9am
☁️
14°
←︎
W
261°
23 km/h
10am
☁️
14°
←︎
W
259°
23 km/h
11am
☀️
15°
←︎
W
258°
22 km/h
12pm
☀️
15°
←︎
W
256°
22 km/h
1pm
☀️
15°
←︎
W
254°
22 km/h
2pm
☀️
15°
←︎
W
252°
22 km/h
3pm
☀️
15°
←︎
W
249°
21 km/h
4pm
☀️
15°
↙︎
SW
247°
20 km/h
5pm
☀️
15°
↙︎
SW
246°
19 km/h
6pm
☀️
14°
↙︎
SW
245°
17 km/h
7pm
☀️
14°
↙︎
SW
246°
14 km/h
8pm
☀️
13°
↙︎
SW
247°
11 km/h
9pm
☀️
12°
←︎
W
250°
8 km/h
10pm
☀️
12°
←︎
W
257°
6 km/h
11pm
☀️
11°
←︎
W
270°
4 km/h
Hourly Swell
Building 3.0 → 3.7 m SW
12am
3.0 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
1am
2.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
2am
2.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
3am
2.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
4am
2.8 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
5am
2.8 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
6am
2.8 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
7am
2.7 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
8am
2.7 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
9am
3.0 m
@ 11 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
10am
3.2 m
@ 11 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
ground
11am
3.5 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
ground
12pm
3.6 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
1pm
3.6 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
2pm
3.7 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
3pm
3.7 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
4pm
3.8 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
ground
5pm
3.8 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
ground
6pm
3.8 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
ground
7pm
3.8 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
8pm
3.8 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
9pm
3.7 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
10pm
3.7 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
ground
11pm
3.7 m
@ 10 s
↙︎
SW
Heavy
ground
Water Temp (°C)
→ steady around 15.2°
Wed
21 Oct
15.3°
Thu
22 Oct
15.9°
Fri
23 Oct
15.6°
Sat
24 Oct
15.2°
Sun
25 Oct
15.3°
Mon
26 Oct
15.4°
Tue
27 Oct
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Wed
28 Oct
—
Thu
29 Oct
—
Fri
30 Oct
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 22 km/h W (256°).

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