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Still Bay Fishing & Solunar Times
83 /100 ★★★★☆ good
2.1h off the turn — strongest push; 6 km/h offshore — clean water; 0.9m — working the gullies nicely.
Why the bite reads good right now
🌊Tide flow+12
2.1h off the turn — strongest push
💨Wind+11
6 km/h offshore — clean water
〰️Swell+8
0.9m — working the gullies nicely
🌙Solunar+7
major window within the hour
🌘Moon phase+4
building toward springs
🔻Pressure-4
rising (+0.9 hPa/6h)
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 | 2.1h off the turn — strongest push | +12 |
| Tide direction | pushing in | +2 |
| Wind | 6 km/h offshore — clean water | +11 |
| Swell | 0.9m — working the gullies nicely | +8 |
| Pressure | rising (+0.9 hPa/6h) | -4 |
| Water temp | 16.3°C — in the productive band | +3 |
| Total | 83 | |
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 6 km/h offshore is holding the water clean. A 0.9m swell is working the gullies. Today’s pick: Garrick on live bait or spinning spoons. Best window today around 10:12.
📉 Barometric trigger
Rising — bite easing off, dropping further next 6h.
Last 6h +0.9 hPa · next 6h -1.3 hPa · live from Open-Meteo.
Tide: rising, 2.1h from the turn (next high 02:22)
Moon: Waning Crescent (9% lit)
Major bite: 09:12–11:12 · 21:37–23:37
Minor bite: 03:14–04:44 · 15:40–17:10
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Mullets / harders | — | 50/day | none |
| Shad / Elf | 30 cm | 4/day | 01 Oct - 30 Nov |
| Spotted grunter (tiger) | 40 cm | 5/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 Still Bay now (September)
In season: Cape Stumpnose, Blacktail, Garrick, Galjoen, Mullet Harders, Kob
Cape Stumpnose
Blacktail
Garrick
Galjoen
Mullet Harders
Kob
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 Still Bay
| Species | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grunter | ||||||||||||
| White Steenbras | ||||||||||||
| Cape Stumpnose | ||||||||||||
| Blacktail | ||||||||||||
| Garrick | ||||||||||||
| Galjoen | × | |||||||||||
| Mullet Harders | ||||||||||||
| Shad | × | × | ||||||||||
| Kob |
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 Still Bay
The marks our local knowledge describes for this spot — what the structure is, what holds there and how it is fished.
🏞️ Goukou River — estuary
💡 Top tip
“Still Bay is a superb angling town with a small harbour, rocky points, surf beaches and the productive Goukou River estuary running through it.”
Across the whole spot
Baits that work here: chokka, mussel, 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 06:40 · Sunset 18:22 · 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, 09 Sep 2026 00:13 SAST.
Aerial map — Still Bay
Estuary mouth
Estuary channel
Surf beach
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 Still Bay — Fishing Local Knowledge
Still Bay is a superb angling town with a small harbour, rocky points, surf beaches and the productive Goukou River estuary running through it.
The estuary is renowned for spotted grunter and white steenbras, along with garrick (leervis), kob and Cape stumpnose, while the surf and rocks give up shad (elf), galjoen (protected and seasonal, so check current regulations), blacktail and kob. Prawn, sand prawn and mullet suit the estuary, while sardine, chokka and mussel work the surf and rocks. The Stilbaai Marine Protected Area imposes no-take and restricted zones and the estuary has its own rules, so always check current regulations and permitted zones. The ancient stone-age fish traps are a nearby point of interest.