Can you fish at McCrae Beach?

Yes — it is a calm bay beach where whiting, calamari and flathead are taken from the sand, best at dawn and dusk.

When is the best time to fish McCrae Beach?

Dawn or dusk on the higher half of the tide, on a southerly or calm day.

Can you collect pipis or crabs at McCrae?

No. In Port Phillip Bay's intertidal zone only marine worms, bass yabbies, squid, octopus and cuttlefish may be taken.

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Bite Forecast

McCrae Beach

Mon 19 Oct 2026 · Australia/Melbourne

Forecast updated 1:08am AEDT

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📍 McCrae Beach

first quarter · 53%

Weather: Sunny Wind: N 7° · 24 km/h Swell: 0.2 m @ 12 s SW Water: 16.4 °C Pressure: 1022.9 hPa ↓ falling Faces north-west · Offshore: E, SE, S · Onshore: W, NW, N · Forecast wind: onshore

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Medium Fish Activity

▸ Why this score?

At the day's peak · 8:00 pm

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Time of day Dusk

Tide Moving

Wind N 19 km/h

Moon first quarter all day

Water temp 16.4 °C all day

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Activity Forecast

Day Timeline

Major Minor Tide Twilight

First light 6:02 am Last light 8:08 pm

High 6:33 am Low 12:34 pm High 5:55 pm

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

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

7:00 pm → 9:00 pm

Good

6:00 am → 8:30 am

2h 30m

First light

6:02 am

Last light

8:08 pm

Sunrise

6:29 am

Sunset

7:41 pm

Moonrise

12:25 pm

Moonset

2:41 am

High tide

6:33 am

Low tide

12:34 pm

High tide

5:55 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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18°

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56°

17 km/h

1am

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17°

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54°

14 km/h

2am

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16°

↗︎

48°

11 km/h

3am

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15°

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27°

9 km/h

4am

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15°

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14°

11 km/h

5am

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15°

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19°

13 km/h

6am

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15°

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23°

15 km/h

7am

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15°

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12°

17 km/h

8am

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17°

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17°

17 km/h

9am

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18°

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13°

19 km/h

10am

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19°

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10°

21 km/h

11am

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21°

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8°

22 km/h

12pm

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22°

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7°

24 km/h

1pm

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23°

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8°

24 km/h

2pm

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24°

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11°

24 km/h

3pm

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24°

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12°

24 km/h

4pm

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24°

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12°

23 km/h

5pm

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24°

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13°

23 km/h

6pm

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23°

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12°

23 km/h

7pm

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22°

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14°

21 km/h

8pm

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21°

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22°

19 km/h

9pm

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21°

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25°

21 km/h

10pm

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21°

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22°

20 km/h

11pm

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20°

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27°

18 km/h

Hourly Swell

Steady ~0.2 m SW

12am

0.1 m

@ 7 s

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Calm

chop

1am

0.1 m

@ 8 s

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Calm

chop

2am

0.1 m

@ 8 s

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Calm

3am

0.1 m

@ 9 s

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Calm

4am

0.1 m

@ 10 s

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Calm

5am

0.1 m

@ 10 s

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Calm

ground

6am

0.1 m

@ 11 s

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Calm

ground

7am

0.2 m

@ 11 s

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Calm

ground

8am

0.2 m

@ 11 s

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Calm

ground

9am

0.2 m

@ 12 s

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Calm

ground

10am

0.2 m

@ 12 s

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Calm

ground

11am

0.2 m

@ 12 s

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Calm

ground

12pm

0.2 m

@ 12 s

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Calm

ground

1pm

0.2 m

@ 12 s

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Calm

ground

2pm

0.2 m

@ 12 s

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Calm

ground

3pm

0.2 m

@ 12 s

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Calm

ground

4pm

0.2 m

@ 12 s

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Calm

ground

5pm

0.2 m

@ 12 s

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Calm

ground

6pm

0.2 m

@ 11 s

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Calm

ground

7pm

0.2 m

@ 11 s

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Calm

ground

8pm

0.2 m

@ 11 s

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Calm

ground

9pm

0.2 m

@ 10 s

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Calm

ground

10pm

0.2 m

@ 10 s

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Calm

11pm

0.2 m

@ 10 s

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Calm

Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 24 km/h N (7°).

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

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

7:00 pm → 9:00 pm

Good

6:00 am → 8:30 am

2h 30m

First light

6:02 am

Last light

8:08 pm

Sunrise

6:29 am

Sunset

7:41 pm

Moonrise

12:25 pm

Moonset

2:41 am

High tide

6:33 am

Low tide

12:34 pm

High tide

5:55 pm

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

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