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Muizenberg Fishing & Solunar Times
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54 /100 ★★☆☆☆ slow
1.4h off the turn — strongest push; rising fast (+3.0 hPa/6h) — post-front; major window within the hour.
Why the bite reads slow right now
🌊Tide flow+12
1.4h off the turn — strongest push
🔻Pressure-8
rising fast (+3.0 hPa/6h) — post-front
🌙Solunar+7
major window within the hour
〰️Swell+5
0.6m — gentle push
🌅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 | 1.4h off the turn — strongest push | +12 |
| Tide direction | pushing in | +2 |
| Wind | 1 km/h onshore, light | -1 |
| Swell | 0.6m — gentle push | +5 |
| Pressure | rising fast (+3.0 hPa/6h) — post-front | -8 |
| Light | bright midday sun — fish sitting deep | -4 |
| Water temp | 15.1°C | 0 |
| Total | 54 | |
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
Slow going — work for it. A strong pushing tide is moving food around. 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 22:10.
📉 Barometric trigger
Rising hard after a front — can shut them down, dropping further next 6h.
Last 6h +3 hPa · next 6h -1.3 hPa · live from Open-Meteo.
Tide: rising, 1.4h from the turn (next high 13:37)
Moon: Waxing Gibbous (89% lit)
Major bite: 21:10–23:10 · 09:35–11:35
Minor bite: 15:12–16:42 · 03:38–05:08
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 |
| Garrick / Leervis | 70 cm | 2/day | none |
| Hottentot | 22 cm | 10/day | none |
| Kob / Kabeljou (dusky kob) — west of Cape Agulhas | 50 cm | 5/day | none |
| Shad / Elf | 30 cm | 4/day | 01 Oct - 30 Nov |
| 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 Muizenberg now (September)
In season: Kob, Garrick, Galjoen, Blacktail, Hottentot
Kob
Garrick
Galjoen
Blacktail
Hottentot
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 Muizenberg
| Species | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shad | × | × | ||||||||||
| Kob | ||||||||||||
| Garrick | ||||||||||||
| Galjoen | × | |||||||||||
| Blacktail | ||||||||||||
| Hottentot | ||||||||||||
| White Steenbras |
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 Muizenberg
The marks our local knowledge describes for this spot — what the structure is, what holds there and how it is fished.
🪨 Rocks
Holds: Shad, Kob, Garrick, Galjoen, Blacktail, Hottentot, White Steenbras, Yellowtail
Bait / lure: shad
💡 Top tip
“Anglers target kob (kabeljou), shad (elf, which has a closed season and bag limits, so check current regulations), white steenbras and galjoen off the rocky sections towards St James, plus blacktail, hottentot and the odd garrick and yellowtail in the warmer months.”
⚓ Kalk Bay — harbour
💡 Top tip
“The Kalk Bay harbour wall is a well-known nearby hotspot.”
Across the whole spot
Best light: dawn
Baits that work here: chokka, mussel, sardine, shad, spoon, spoons
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 06:32 · Sunset 18:44 · Peak UV 4
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 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:13 SAST.
Aerial map — Muizenberg
Hand-styled from NGI 0.25 m national aerial aerial imagery. Casting spots & productive beats are being added spot by spot.
About Muizenberg — Fishing Local Knowledge
The False Bay shoreline around Muizenberg, St James and Kalk Bay offers surf, rock and harbour-wall angling in generally warmer, more sheltered water than the Atlantic coast.
Anglers target kob (kabeljou), shad (elf, which has a closed season and bag limits, so check current regulations), white steenbras and galjoen off the rocky sections towards St James, plus blacktail, hottentot and the odd garrick and yellowtail in the warmer months. Sardine, chokka and mussel are standard baits, with spinning spoons for shad and garrick. The Kalk Bay harbour wall is a well-known nearby hotspot. Early morning and the higher tide stages usually produce best.