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Coffee Bay Fishing & Solunar Times
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71 /100 ★★★★☆ good
Inside the major bite window; 1.2h off the turn — strongest push; 1.2m — working the gullies nicely.
Why the bite reads good right now
🌙Solunar+14
inside the major bite window
🌊Tide flow+12
1.2h off the turn — strongest push
〰️Swell+8
1.2m — working the gullies nicely
🔻Pressure-8
rising fast (+3.4 hPa/6h) — post-front
🌡️Water temp+3
19.3°C — in the productive band
↕️Tide direction+2
pushing in
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 | inside the major bite window | +14 |
| Moon phase | mid-cycle | +1 |
| Tide flow | 1.2h off the turn — strongest push | +12 |
| Tide direction | pushing in | +2 |
| Wind | 6 km/h onshore, light | -1 |
| Swell | 1.2m — working the gullies nicely | +8 |
| Pressure | rising fast (+3.4 hPa/6h) — post-front | -8 |
| Water temp | 19.3°C — in the productive band | +3 |
| Total | 71 | |
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. A strong pushing tide is moving food around. A 1.2m swell is working the gullies. The barometer’s climbing hard after a front, which can shut them down. Today’s pick: Garrick on live bait or spinning spoons. Best window today around 21:22.
📉 Barometric trigger
Rising hard after a front — can shut them down, dropping further next 6h.
Last 6h +3.4 hPa · next 6h -2.2 hPa · live from Open-Meteo.
Tide: rising, 1.2h from the turn (next high 14:18)
Moon: Waxing Gibbous (88% lit)
Major bite: 20:22–22:22 · 08:47–10:47
Minor bite: 14:24–15:54 · 02:50–04:20
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: Garrick — Garrick are running — work spoons or live bait along the backline. Try live bait or spinning spoons.
🎣 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 05:50 · Sunset 18:01 · Peak UV 7
Surfers & anglers get the highest UV dose of anyone. Recommended: SPF 50, reapply every 2 hours and after every session.
Shop SPF 50 sunscreen →Surf/wave: Open-Meteo Marine. Sun/UV/pressure: Open-Meteo. Tides: Stormglass model. Solunar is an approximate guide. Generated Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:13 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.