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Elands Bay Fishing & Solunar Times
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81 /100 ★★★★☆ good
1.7h off the turn — strongest push; 12 km/h offshore — clean water; major window within the hour.
Why the bite reads good right now
🌊Tide flow+12
1.7h off the turn — strongest push
💨Wind+11
12 km/h offshore — clean water
🌙Solunar+7
major window within the hour
〰️Swell+5
0.8m — gentle push
🌘Moon phase+4
building toward springs
↕️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 | major window within the hour | +7 |
| Moon phase | building toward springs | +4 |
| Tide flow | 1.7h off the turn — strongest push | +12 |
| Tide direction | pushing in | +2 |
| Wind | 12 km/h offshore — clean water | +11 |
| Swell | 0.8m — gentle push | +5 |
| Pressure | steady | 0 |
| Water temp | 14.0°C | 0 |
| Total | 81 | |
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 12 km/h offshore is holding the water clean. Today’s pick: Galjoen on redbait, mussel or worm. Best window today around 10:24.
📉 Barometric trigger
Steady — no strong pressure signal, dropping further next 6h.
Last 6h +0.1 hPa · next 6h -1.1 hPa · live from Open-Meteo.
Tide: rising, 1.7h from the turn (next high 01:53)
Moon: Waning Crescent (9% lit)
Major bite: 09:24–11:24 · 21:49–23:49
Minor bite: 03:26–04:56 · 15:52–17:22
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 |
| Galjoen | 35 cm | 2/day | 15 Oct - last day of February |
| Geelbek (Cape salmon) | 60 cm | 2/day | none |
| Hottentot | 22 cm | 10/day | none |
| Kob / Kabeljou (dusky kob) — west of Cape Agulhas | 50 cm | 5/day | none |
| Snoek (Cape snoek) | 60 cm | 10/day | none |
| White steenbras (pignose grunter) | 60 cm | 1/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 Elands Bay now (September)
In season: Blacktail, Hottentot, Kob, Galjoen, Geelbek, Snoek
Blacktail
Hottentot
Kob
Galjoen
Geelbek
Snoek
Today’s pick: Galjoen — Winter galjoen off the wave-washed rocks. Try redbait, mussel or worm.
🎣 Target now — tap a species
📅 When each fish runs at Elands Bay
| Species | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White Steenbras | ||||||||||||
| Blacktail | ||||||||||||
| Hottentot | ||||||||||||
| Kob | ||||||||||||
| Galjoen | × | |||||||||||
| Geelbek | ||||||||||||
| Snoek |
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.
🎣 Where to fish Elands Bay
The marks our local knowledge describes for this spot — what the structure is, what holds there and how it is fished.
🏞️ Verlorenvlei — river mouth
💡 Top tip
“Elands Bay offers classic West Coast rock-and-surf angling, from the gullies and ledges around Baboon Point to the long sandy beaches and the Verlorenvlei river mouth.”
⛰️ Baboon Point — gullies
🪨 Baboon Point — rocky ledges
Across the whole spot
Tide: pushing tide
Season: winter, spring
Baits that work here: chokka, live bait, mussel, red bait, sardine, squid, white mussel
Marks are drawn from our own local knowledge for this spot — each one shows the sentence it came from. They are descriptions, not survey positions: we do not publish a cast coordinate we cannot stand behind. Rock and ledge angling is dangerous in big swell — check the conditions above and never fish a ledge alone.
☀️ Sun & skin — out on the water all day
Sunrise 06:52 · Sunset 18:36 · 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, 09 Sep 2026 00:13 SAST.
Aerial map — Elands Bay
Point / slipway
Beach
Rock ledgeCasting spot
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.
About Elands Bay — Fishing Local Knowledge
Elands Bay offers classic West Coast rock-and-surf angling, from the gullies and ledges around Baboon Point to the long sandy beaches and the Verlorenvlei river mouth.
Target species on this cold Benguela stretch include kob (kabeljou), white steenbras, galjoen (a protected linefish with a closed season and strict bag limits, so check current regulations), hottentot, blacktail and, in season, snoek and the odd geelbek. Fresh or live bait such as sardine, chokka (squid) and white mussel works well, while galjoen anglers favour red bait and mussel off the rocky ledges. Winter and early spring, fished around the higher stages of the tide, are generally the most productive times here.