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Struisbaai Fishing & Solunar Times
51 /100 ★★☆☆☆ slow
1.7h off the turn — strongest push; rising fast (+3.5 hPa/6h) — post-front; major window within the hour.
Why the bite reads slow right now
🌊Tide flow+12
1.7h off the turn — strongest push
🔻Pressure-8
rising fast (+3.5 hPa/6h) — post-front
🌙Solunar+7
major window within the hour
💨Wind-7
16 km/h onshore — water churning
〰️Swell+5
0.8m — gentle push
🌅Light-4
bright midday sun — fish sitting deep
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 | 1.7h off the turn — strongest push | +12 |
| Tide direction | pushing in | +2 |
| Wind | 16 km/h onshore — water churning | -7 |
| Swell | 0.8m — gentle push | +5 |
| Pressure | rising fast (+3.5 hPa/6h) — post-front | -8 |
| Light | bright midday sun — fish sitting deep | -4 |
| Water temp | 16.5°C — in the productive band | +3 |
| Total | 51 | |
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 22:04.
📉 Barometric trigger
Rising hard after a front — can shut them down, climbing next 6h.
Last 6h +3.5 hPa · next 6h +1.9 hPa · live from Open-Meteo.
Tide: rising, 1.7h from the turn (next high 13:58)
Moon: Waxing Gibbous (89% lit)
Major bite: 21:04–23:04 · 09:29–11:29
Minor bite: 15:06–16:36 · 03:32–05:02
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black musselcracker / poenskop | 50 cm | 1/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 |
| White musselcracker (brusher, cracker) | 60 cm | 2/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 Struisbaai now (September)
In season: Black Musselcracker, White Musselcracker, Geelbek, Kob, Garrick, Galjoen
Black Musselcracker
White Musselcracker
Geelbek
Kob
Garrick
Galjoen
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 Struisbaai
| Species | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grunter | ||||||||||||
| Black Musselcracker | ||||||||||||
| White Musselcracker | ||||||||||||
| Geelbek | ||||||||||||
| Kob | ||||||||||||
| Garrick | ||||||||||||
| Galjoen | × | |||||||||||
| Shad | × | × |
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.
☀️ Sun & skin — out on the water all day
Sunrise 06:26 · Sunset 18:38 · 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 — Struisbaai
Beach
Reef
Harbour / jetty
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 Struisbaai — Fishing Local Knowledge
Struisbaai is a genuine angling mecca, offering harbour-wall, surf and rock fishing plus ready access to the vast Agulhas Bank for boat anglers.
Shore anglers target kob (kabeljou), galjoen (protected and seasonal, so check current regulations), shad (elf), spotted grunter, garrick (leervis), musselcracker and smaller sharks, while the harbour wall is a productive, family-friendly spot fished best at high tide and after dark. Offshore, the Agulhas Bank yields year-round yellowtail plus seasonal geelbek (Cape salmon) and kob. Sardine, chokka, white mussel and prawn are the mainstay baits. This stretch and neighbouring Cape Agulhas and Suiderstrand rank among the finest fishing coasts in the country.