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Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) Fishing & Solunar Times
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65 /100 ★★★☆☆ fair
1.0h off the turn — strongest push; inside a minor bite window; 1.0m — working the gullies nicely.
Why the bite reads fair right now
🌊Tide flow+12
1.0h off the turn — strongest push
🌙Solunar+8
inside a minor bite window
〰️Swell+8
1.0m — working the gullies nicely
🔻Pressure-4
rising (+1.8 hPa/6h)
🌅Light-4
bright midday sun — fish sitting deep
🌡️Water temp+3
17.0°C — in the productive band
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 a minor bite window | +8 |
| Moon phase | mid-cycle | +1 |
| Tide flow | 1.0h off the turn — strongest push | +12 |
| Tide direction | pulling out | +1 |
| Wind | 26 km/h cross-shore, fresh | 0 |
| Swell | 1.0m — working the gullies nicely | +8 |
| Pressure | rising (+1.8 hPa/6h) | -4 |
| Light | bright midday sun — fish sitting deep | -4 |
| Water temp | 17.0°C — in the productive band | +3 |
| Total | 65 | |
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 dropping tide is moving food around. A 1.0m swell is working the gullies. Today’s pick: Garrick on live bait or spinning spoons. Best window today around 21:48.
📉 Barometric trigger
Rising — bite easing off, climbing next 6h.
Last 6h +1.8 hPa · next 6h +5.4 hPa · live from Open-Meteo.
Tide: falling, 1.0h from the turn (next low 20:21)
Moon: Waxing Gibbous (90% lit)
Major bite: 20:48–22:48 · 09:13–11:13
Minor bite: 14:50–16:20 · 03:16–04:46
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 |
| Geelbek (Cape salmon) | 60 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 Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) now (September)
In season: Kob, Garrick, Galjoen, Blacktail, Bronze Bream
Kob
Garrick
Galjoen
Blacktail
Bronze Bream
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 Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)
| Species | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shad | × | × | ||||||||||
| Kob | ||||||||||||
| Garrick | ||||||||||||
| Galjoen | × | |||||||||||
| Grunter | ||||||||||||
| Blacktail | ||||||||||||
| Bronze Bream |
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 Port Elizabeth
The marks our local knowledge describes for this spot — what the structure is, what holds there and how it is fished.
⛰️ Summerstrand — gullies
💡 Top tip
“Anglers fish the beaches and gullies of Summerstrand and Sardinia Bay, the harbour walls and river mouths, while ski-boats push out to reefs and pinnacles in the bay for deeper species.”
🏖️ Summerstrand — beach
🌊 Backline
Holds: Shad, Kob, Garrick, Galjoen, Grunter, Blacktail, Bronze Bream
Bait / lure: shad
💡 Top tip
“Off the beaches and rocks, expect kob (kabeljou), spotted grunter, shad (elf), bronze bream, blacktail and seasonal galjoen, with garrick (leervis) hunting the backline in the cooler months.”
🪨 Rocks
Holds: Shad, Kob, Garrick, Galjoen, Grunter, Blacktail, Bronze Bream
Bait / lure: shad
Across the whole spot
Best light: dawn, dusk
Season: summer
Baits that work here: chokka, live bait, prawn, sardine, shad
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 06:04 · Sunset 18:15 · 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 15:13 SAST.
Aerial map — Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)
Harbour wall
Kings Beach
Casting 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 Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) — Fishing Local Knowledge
Algoa Bay is one of the Eastern Cape's most productive fishing grounds, offering surf, rock, pier and boat angling all within reach of the city. Anglers fish the beaches and gullies of Summerstrand and Sardinia Bay, the harbour walls and river mouths, while ski-boats push out to reefs and pinnacles in the bay for deeper species.
Off the beaches and rocks, expect kob (kabeljou), spotted grunter, shad (elf), bronze bream, blacktail and seasonal galjoen, with garrick (leervis) hunting the backline in the cooler months. Grunter fall to prawn and mud-prawn worked on the sand banks, while kob prefer live bait, chokka or fresh sardine fished at dawn, dusk and around the tide change. Offshore boats target geelbek, kob and gamefish. Galjoen is protected with a closed season, so check current bag and size limits and any permit requirements before you fish.