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Waratah Bay Beach

Fri 23 Oct 2026 · Australia/Melbourne

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📍 Waratah Bay Beach
waxing gibbous · 89%
Weather: Rainy Wind: NW 324° · 27 km/h Swell: 1.7 m @ 12 s W Water: 15.8 °C Pressure: 1007.6 hPa → steady 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 95 out of 100 Dusk
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 100 out of 100 W 14 km/h
Moon 67 out of 100 waxing gibbous all day
Water temp 67 out of 100 15.8 °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 5:51 am Last light 8:09 pm
Low 2:21 am High 9:08 am Low 3:08 pm High 9:21 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
7:30 pm → 11:00 pm
60
3h 30m
Good
5:30 am → 7:00 am
54
1h 30m
Good
10:00 am → 11:30 am
47
1h 30m
Good
2:00 am → 3:00 am
46
1h
First light
5:51 am
Last light
8:09 pm
Sunrise
6:18 am
Sunset
7:42 pm
Moonrise
4:34 pm
Moonset
4:27 am
Low tide
2:21 am
High tide
9:08 am
Low tide
3:08 pm
High tide
9:21 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
19°
↗︎
NE
49°
15 km/h
1am
☀️
19°
↗︎
NE
41°
14 km/h
2am
☀️
18°
↗︎
NE
31°
13 km/h
3am
☀️
18°
↑︎
N
19°
13 km/h
4am
☀️
18°
↑︎
N
6°
13 km/h
5am
☀️
18°
↑︎
N
355°
14 km/h
6am
☀️
19°
↑︎
N
346°
16 km/h
7am
☀️
20°
↖︎
NW
337°
19 km/h
8am
☀️
21°
↖︎
NW
332°
22 km/h
9am
☀️
23°
↖︎
NW
328°
25 km/h
10am
☀️
24°
↖︎
NW
325°
27 km/h
11am
☀️
24°
↖︎
NW
323°
28 km/h
12pm
🌧️
25°
↖︎
NW
324°
27 km/h
1pm
🌧️
25°
↖︎
NW
326°
26 km/h
2pm
🌧️
25°
↖︎
NW
329°
23 km/h
3pm
🌧️
25°
↖︎
NW
333°
20 km/h
4pm
🌧️
25°
↖︎
NW
335°
18 km/h
5pm
🌧️
24°
↖︎
NW
334°
16 km/h
6pm
🌧️
23°
↖︎
NW
325°
14 km/h
7pm
🌧️
22°
↖︎
NW
308°
13 km/h
8pm
🌧️
20°
←︎
W
289°
14 km/h
9pm
🌧️
18°
←︎
W
274°
17 km/h
10pm
🌧️
16°
←︎
W
266°
19 km/h
11pm
🌧️
15°
←︎
W
262°
21 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~1.8 m W
12am
1.5 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
1am
1.5 m
@ 11 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
2am
1.5 m
@ 12 s
↙︎
SW
Moderate
ground
3am
1.5 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
4am
1.5 m
@ 13 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
5am
1.5 m
@ 13 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
6am
1.5 m
@ 13 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
7am
1.6 m
@ 13 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
8am
1.7 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
9am
1.7 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
10am
1.7 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
11am
1.7 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
12pm
1.7 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
1pm
1.7 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
2pm
1.7 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
3pm
1.7 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
4pm
1.7 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
5pm
1.7 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
6pm
1.8 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
7pm
1.8 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
8pm
1.8 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
9pm
1.8 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
10pm
1.8 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
11pm
1.8 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Moderate
ground
Water Temp (°C)
↗ warming — up 0.5° over the last 3 days
Tue
20 Oct
15.3°
Wed
21 Oct
16.0°
Thu
22 Oct
16.6°
Fri
23 Oct
15.8°
Sat
24 Oct
15.4°
Sun
25 Oct
15.6°
Mon
26 Oct
15.5°
Tue
27 Oct
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Wed
28 Oct
—
Thu
29 Oct
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 27 km/h NW (324°).

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