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Coffee Bay Fishing & Solunar Times
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80 /100 ★★★★☆ good
Falling fast (-5.6 hPa/6h) — front coming; dawn/dusk edge — prime feeding light; 1.5m — working the gullies nicely.
Why the bite reads good right now
🔻Pressure+10
falling fast (-5.6 hPa/6h) — front coming
🌅Light+10
dawn/dusk edge — prime feeding light
〰️Swell+8
1.5m — working the gullies nicely
🌙Solunar+7
major window within the hour
💨Wind+4
4 km/h cross-shore
🌡️Water temp+3
19.6°C — in the productive band
Bars are the live points each factor added to (green) or took off (red) today’s score. Full breakdown below.
Show how this score is worked out
| Baseline | an average day on an average tide | +40 |
| Solunar | major window within the hour | +7 |
| Moon phase | neap tides — smallest movement | -2 |
| Wind | 4 km/h cross-shore | +4 |
| Swell | 1.5m — working the gullies nicely | +8 |
| Pressure | falling fast (-5.6 hPa/6h) — front coming | +10 |
| Light | dawn/dusk edge — prime feeding light | +10 |
| Water temp | 19.6°C — in the productive band | +3 |
| Total | 80 | |
Every factor above is live data for this spot. Solunar and the weightings are an informed guide, not a guarantee — the sea gets a vote.
📖 Today’s story
Worth the trip. The dawn light change is right here — the prime feeding window. A 1.5m swell is working the gullies. A falling glass ahead of a change is a classic trigger. Today’s pick: Kob on live bait, chokka or fresh sardine. Best window today around 05:01.
📉 Barometric trigger
Falling fast — a front is coming, prime feeding trigger, dropping further next 6h.
Last 6h -5.6 hPa · next 6h -2.1 hPa · live from Open-Meteo.
Moon: Last Quarter (64% lit)
Major bite: 04:01–06:01 · 16:26–18:26
Minor bite: 22:03–23:33 · 10:29–11:59
Strongest near dawn/dusk or a tide change. Nearest tides →
🐟 Best fishing times today
🎣 Reading today’s bite…
■ prime ■ good ■ fair ■ quiet ■ dawn/dusk H/L = tide · tap an hour for detail
🌊 Today's tide
⚖️ What you may legally keep here
| Species | Min size | Bag limit | Closed season |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacktail (dassie) | 20 cm | 5/day | none |
| Bronze bream (bluefish) | 30 cm | 2/day | none |
| Galjoen | 35 cm | 2/day | 15 Oct - last day of February |
| Garrick / Leervis | 70 cm | 2/day | none |
| Kob / Kabeljou (dusky kob) — shore & estuary, east of Cape Agulhas | 60 cm | 1/day | none |
| Shad / Elf | 30 cm | 4/day | 01 Oct - 30 Nov |
| Spotted grunter (tiger) | 40 cm | 5/day | none |
A recreational fishing permit is required (available at the Post Office). Over and above the per-species limits above, Reg. 22(7)(f) prohibits keeping more than ten fish in total per day irrespective of species (except species with no bag limit, or a bag limit above ten). Sizes are measured snout to tail tip.
Source: Marine Living Resources Act 18 of 1998 — Regulations (GN R1111), Annexure 7 (Regulation 22). Limits shown only for species named in this spot's notes; where a common name covers more than one species (stumpnose, musselcracker) every applicable limit is listed. Regulations change — verify with DFFE before keeping any fish.
🐟 What’s biting at Coffee Bay now (September)
In season: Bronze Bream, Blacktail, Kob, Garrick, Galjoen
Bronze Bream
Blacktail
Kob
Garrick
Galjoen
Today’s pick: Kob — Falling pressure + the low-light window favour kob. Try live bait, chokka or fresh sardine.
🎣 Target now — tap a species
📅 When each fish runs at Coffee Bay
| Species | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grunter | ||||||||||||
| Bronze Bream | ||||||||||||
| Blacktail | ||||||||||||
| Kob | ||||||||||||
| Garrick | ||||||||||||
| Galjoen | × | |||||||||||
| Shad | × | × |
peak run off-season closed (protected) • ring = this month. General SA run seasons.
Run seasons are a general SA guide; the sea gets a vote. Always check current bag & size limits.
☀️ Sun & skin — out on the water all day
Sunrise 06:16 · Sunset 17:49 · Peak UV 5
Surfers & anglers get the highest UV dose of anyone. Recommended: SPF 30+, reapply every 2 hours and after every session.
Shop SPF 30+ sunscreen →Surf/wave: Open-Meteo Marine. Sun/UV/pressure: Open-Meteo. Tides: Stormglass model. Solunar is an approximate guide. Generated Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:13 SAST.
Aerial map — Coffee Bay
River mouth
Rocky point
Beach
Casting spotRock ledge
Hand-styled from NGI 0.25 m national aerial. Markers show productive marks & casting spots — indicative local knowledge, not live conditions or navigation advice; tides, banks, rips & hazards change, so use your own eyes on the day.
🎣 Cast Coach: the dashed arc suggests a cast from the beat toward the nearest deep water / structure — adjust for the tide on the day.
About Coffee Bay — Fishing Local Knowledge
The Wild Coast around Coffee Bay is prime rock, surf and estuary fishing country, with rugged points, reef gullies and the river mouth all within reach. It is remote, uncrowded and rewarding, but you fish it self-sufficiently — access is rough and there are no facilities on the ledges.
Rock and surf anglers target kob (kabeljou), bronze bream, blacktail, shad (elf) and seasonal galjoen, while garrick (leervis) and gamefish move through on the sardine run in winter, when predators follow the shoals up this coast. Bronze bream take redbait, chokka and crab off the ledges; kob and garrick respond to live bait and fresh sardine fished into the deeper gullies at dawn and dusk. The river mouth adds spotted grunter on prawn. Hole in the Wall and the coastline towards Mdumbi offer more spots. Check current bag and size limits; galjoen is protected.