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Plettenberg Bay Fishing & Solunar Times
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73 /100 ★★★★☆ good
Inside the major bite window; 1.1h 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
1.1h off the turn — strongest push
〰️Swell+8
1.2m — working the gullies nicely
🔻Pressure-8
rising fast (+3.9 hPa/6h) — post-front
💨Wind+4
9 km/h cross-shore
↕️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 | 1.1h off the turn — strongest push | +12 |
| Tide direction | pushing in | +2 |
| Wind | 9 km/h cross-shore | +4 |
| Swell | 1.2m — working the gullies nicely | +8 |
| Pressure | rising fast (+3.9 hPa/6h) — post-front | -8 |
| Water temp | 14.5°C | 0 |
| Total | 73 | |
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 21:45.
📉 Barometric trigger
Rising hard after a front — can shut them down, climbing next 6h.
Last 6h +3.9 hPa · next 6h +1.4 hPa · live from Open-Meteo.
Tide: rising, 1.1h from the turn (next high 14:24)
Moon: Waxing Gibbous (88% lit)
Major bite: 20:45–22:45 · 09:10–11:10
Minor bite: 14:47–16:17 · 03:13–04:43
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 |
| Cape stumpnose | 20 cm | 5/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 |
| White musselcracker (brusher, cracker) | 60 cm | 2/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 Plettenberg Bay now (September)
In season: Kob, Garrick, Galjoen, Blacktail, Cape Stumpnose, White Musselcracker, Musselcracker
Kob
Garrick
Galjoen
Blacktail
Cape Stumpnose
White Musselcracker
Musselcracker
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 Plettenberg Bay
| Species | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shad | × | × | ||||||||||
| Kob | ||||||||||||
| Garrick | ||||||||||||
| Galjoen | × | |||||||||||
| Grunter | ||||||||||||
| Blacktail | ||||||||||||
| White Steenbras | ||||||||||||
| Cape Stumpnose | ||||||||||||
| White Musselcracker | ||||||||||||
| Musselcracker |
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 Plettenberg Bay
The marks our local knowledge describes for this spot — what the structure is, what holds there and how it is fished.
🪨 Robberg — rocky ledges
💡 Top tip
“Plett gives anglers surf fishing along its beaches, rock ledges around Robberg and the Lookout, and estuary fishing in the Keurbooms and Bitou river system.”
🏖️ Robberg — beach
🏞️ Keurbooms — estuary
Holds: Shad, Kob, Garrick, Galjoen, Grunter, Blacktail, White Steenbras, Cape Stumpnose, Stumpnose, White Musselcracker, Musselcracker
Bait / lure: mussel, shad, white mussel
💡 Top tip
“The beaches and rocks produce kob, garrick, shad, white steenbras, white musselcracker, blacktail and galjoen, while the Keurbooms estuary holds spotted grunter, Cape stumpnose and leervis.”
Across the whole spot
Tide: high water
Best light: dawn, dusk
Baits that work here: chokka, mussel, prawn, sardine, shad, 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 06:13 · Sunset 18:24 · 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 09:13 SAST.
Aerial map — Plettenberg Bay
Piesang estuary
Beacon Isle rocks
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 Plettenberg Bay — Fishing Local Knowledge
Plett gives anglers surf fishing along its beaches, rock ledges around Robberg and the Lookout, and estuary fishing in the Keurbooms and Bitou river system.
The beaches and rocks produce kob, garrick, shad, white steenbras, white musselcracker, blacktail and galjoen, while the Keurbooms estuary holds spotted grunter, Cape stumpnose and leervis. The long beach from Lookout towards Keurbooms and the Robberg ledges are well-known marks; fish sardine, chokka and prawn on the push and around high tide, with dawn, dusk and after dark best for kob and garrick. Robberg is a nature reserve and MPA, so check current regulations, permits and bag limits before fishing.