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Smiths Beach

Fri 23 Oct 2026 · Australia/Melbourne

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📍 Smiths Beach
waxing gibbous · 89%
Weather: Rainy Wind: NW 336° · 29 km/h Swell: 1.9 m @ 12 s SW Water: 16.4 °C Pressure: 1007.4 hPa ↓ falling Faces south · Offshore: NW, N, NE · Onshore: SE, S, SW · Forecast wind: offshore
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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 100 out of 100 Dusk
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 91 out of 100 W 18 km/h
Moon 67 out of 100 waxing gibbous all day
Water temp 71 out of 100 16.4 °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 5:55 am Last light 8:12 pm
Low 2:15 am High 9:12 am Low 3:00 pm High 9:30 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
7:30 pm → 11:30 pm
63
4h
Good
5:30 am → 7:00 am
52
1h 30m
First light
5:55 am
Last light
8:12 pm
Sunrise
6:22 am
Sunset
7:44 pm
Moonrise
4:37 pm
Moonset
4:30 am
Low tide
2:15 am
High tide
9:12 am
Low tide
3:00 pm
High tide
9:30 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
21°
↗︎
NE
27°
18 km/h
1am
☀️
21°
↑︎
N
20°
17 km/h
2am
☀️
21°
↑︎
N
10°
16 km/h
3am
☁️
21°
↑︎
N
357°
16 km/h
4am
☁️
21°
↑︎
N
347°
17 km/h
5am
☁️
21°
↑︎
N
340°
18 km/h
6am
☁️
22°
↖︎
NW
337°
20 km/h
7am
☁️
22°
↖︎
NW
337°
22 km/h
8am
☁️
23°
↖︎
NW
336°
25 km/h
9am
☀️
24°
↖︎
NW
337°
27 km/h
10am
☀️
25°
↖︎
NW
337°
29 km/h
11am
☀️
25°
↖︎
NW
337°
29 km/h
12pm
🌧️
26°
↖︎
NW
336°
29 km/h
1pm
🌧️
26°
↖︎
NW
337°
28 km/h
2pm
🌧️
27°
↖︎
NW
337°
27 km/h
3pm
🌧️
27°
↖︎
NW
337°
25 km/h
4pm
🌧️
26°
↖︎
NW
335°
23 km/h
5pm
🌧️
26°
↖︎
NW
330°
20 km/h
6pm
🌧️
25°
↖︎
NW
318°
18 km/h
7pm
🌧️
23°
↖︎
NW
297°
16 km/h
8pm
🌧️
21°
←︎
W
273°
18 km/h
9pm
🌧️
19°
←︎
W
256°
21 km/h
10pm
🌧️
17°
←︎
W
248°
25 km/h
11pm
🌧️
16°
↙︎
SW
244°
28 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~2.0 m SW
12am
2.0 m
@ 13 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
1am
2.0 m
@ 13 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
2am
2.0 m
@ 13 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
3am
2.0 m
@ 13 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
4am
2.0 m
@ 13 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
5am
2.0 m
@ 13 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
6am
2.0 m
@ 13 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
7am
1.9 m
@ 13 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
8am
1.9 m
@ 13 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
9am
1.9 m
@ 13 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
10am
1.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
11am
1.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
12pm
1.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
1pm
1.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
2pm
1.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
3pm
1.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
4pm
1.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
5pm
1.9 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
6pm
2.0 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
7pm
2.0 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
8pm
2.0 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
9pm
2.0 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
10pm
2.0 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
11pm
2.0 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Solid
ground
Water Temp (°C)
↗ warming — up 0.6° over the last 3 days
Tue
20 Oct
15.8°
Wed
21 Oct
16.2°
Thu
22 Oct
16.8°
Fri
23 Oct
16.4°
Sat
24 Oct
15.8°
Sun
25 Oct
16.2°
Mon
26 Oct
16.3°
Tue
27 Oct
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Wed
28 Oct
—
Thu
29 Oct
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 29 km/h NW (336°).

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