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Langebaan Fishing & Solunar Times
57 /100 ★★★☆☆ fair
1.3h off the turn — strongest push; 0.8m — working the gullies nicely; rising fast (+2.0 hPa/6h) — post-front.
Why the bite reads fair right now
🌊Tide flow+12
1.3h off the turn — strongest push
〰️Swell+8
0.8m — working the gullies nicely
🔻Pressure-8
rising fast (+2.0 hPa/6h) — post-front
🌙Solunar+7
major window within the hour
🌅Light-4
bright midday sun — fish sitting deep
↕️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 | mid-cycle | +1 |
| Tide flow | 1.3h off the turn — strongest push | +12 |
| Tide direction | pushing in | +2 |
| Wind | 5 km/h onshore, light | -1 |
| Swell | 0.8m — working the gullies nicely | +8 |
| Pressure | rising fast (+2.0 hPa/6h) — post-front | -8 |
| Light | bright midday sun — fish sitting deep | -4 |
| Water temp | 14.5°C | 0 |
| Total | 57 | |
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
Fishable, pick your window. A strong pushing tide is moving food around. A 0.8m swell is working the gullies. The barometer’s climbing hard after a front, which can shut them down. Today’s pick: Geelbek on live bait or chokka. Best window today around 22:12.
📉 Barometric trigger
Rising hard after a front — can shut them down, dropping further next 6h.
Last 6h +2 hPa · next 6h -0.8 hPa · live from Open-Meteo.
Tide: rising, 1.3h from the turn (next high 13:32)
Moon: Waxing Gibbous (89% lit)
Major bite: 21:12–23:12 · 09:37–11:37
Minor bite: 15:14–16:44 · 03:40–05:10
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cape stumpnose | 20 cm | 5/day | none |
| Geelbek (Cape salmon) | 60 cm | 2/day | none |
| Mullets / harders | — | 50/day | none |
| Spotted grunter (tiger) | 40 cm | 5/day | none |
| White steenbras (pignose grunter) | 60 cm | 1/day | none |
| Yellowtail (Cape yellowtail) | — | 10/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 Langebaan now (September)
In season: Geelbek, Cape Stumpnose, Mullet Harders
Geelbek
Cape Stumpnose
Mullet Harders
Today’s pick: Geelbek — Geelbek are in season. Try live bait or chokka.
🎣 Target now — tap a species
📅 When each fish runs at Langebaan
| Species | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grunter | ||||||||||||
| Geelbek | ||||||||||||
| White Steenbras | ||||||||||||
| Cape Stumpnose | ||||||||||||
| Mullet Harders |
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 Langebaan
The marks our local knowledge describes for this spot — what the structure is, what holds there and how it is fished.
🌊 Channel
Holds: Grunter, Geelbek, White Steenbras, Cape Stumpnose, Stumpnose, Mullet Harders, Yellowtail
💡 Top tip
“It is best known for white steenbras (an overexploited, tightly regulated species), Cape stumpnose, spotted grunter, harders and sand sharks, with linefish such as geelbek and yellowtail moving through the deeper channels nearer the mouth.”
Across the whole spot
Tide: pushing tide
Baits that work here: bloodworm, prawn
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 06:34 · Sunset 18:45 · Peak UV 6
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 12:13 SAST.
Aerial map — Langebaan
Lagoon flats
Main beach
Lagoon channel
Casting spotDeep hole / gully
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 Langebaan — Fishing Local Knowledge
Langebaan Lagoon is a tidal saltwater lagoon and Ramsar wetland, fished from the shoreline, banks and shallow flats rather than from open surf.
It is best known for white steenbras (an overexploited, tightly regulated species), Cape stumpnose, spotted grunter, harders and sand sharks, with linefish such as geelbek and yellowtail moving through the deeper channels nearer the mouth. Light tackle with prawn, sand prawn or bloodworm fished on the incoming tide over the flats is the traditional approach. Because much of the lagoon is a Marine Protected Area with no-take and restricted zones, bag limits and closed seasons are strictly enforced, so always check current regulations and permitted zones before fishing.