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Yzerfontein Fishing & Solunar Times
66 /100 ★★★☆☆ fair
1.9h off the turn — strongest push; 1.1m — working the gullies nicely; rising fast (+3.9 hPa/6h) — post-front.
Why the bite reads fair right now
🌊Tide flow+12
1.9h off the turn — strongest push
〰️Swell+8
1.1m — working the gullies nicely
🔻Pressure-8
rising fast (+3.9 hPa/6h) — post-front
🌙Solunar+7
major window within the hour
💨Wind+4
12 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 | major window within the hour | +7 |
| Moon phase | mid-cycle | +1 |
| Tide flow | 1.9h off the turn — strongest push | +12 |
| Tide direction | pushing in | +2 |
| Wind | 12 km/h cross-shore | +4 |
| Swell | 1.1m — working the gullies nicely | +8 |
| Pressure | rising fast (+3.9 hPa/6h) — post-front | -8 |
| Water temp | 14.4°C | 0 |
| Total | 66 | |
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 pushing tide is moving food around. A 1.1m 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 22:06.
📉 Barometric trigger
Rising hard after a front — can shut them down, dropping further next 6h.
Last 6h +3.9 hPa · next 6h -0.9 hPa · live from Open-Meteo.
Tide: rising, 1.9h from the turn (next high 13:32)
Moon: Waxing Gibbous (88% lit)
Major bite: 21:06–23:06 · 09:31–11:31
Minor bite: 15:08–16:38 · 03:34–05:04
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 |
| Snoek (Cape snoek) | 60 cm | 10/day | none |
| White steenbras (pignose grunter) | 60 cm | 1/day | none |
| White stumpnose | 25 cm | 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 Yzerfontein now (September)
In season: Kob, Garrick, Galjoen, Blacktail, Hottentot, White Stumpnose
Kob
Garrick
Galjoen
Blacktail
Hottentot
White Stumpnose
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 Yzerfontein
| Species | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shad | × | × | ||||||||||
| Kob | ||||||||||||
| Garrick | ||||||||||||
| Galjoen | × | |||||||||||
| Blacktail | ||||||||||||
| Hottentot | ||||||||||||
| White Steenbras | ||||||||||||
| White Stumpnose |
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 Yzerfontein
The marks our local knowledge describes for this spot — what the structure is, what holds there and how it is fished.
⚓ Harbour
Holds: Shad, Kob, Garrick, Galjoen, Blacktail, Hottentot, White Steenbras, White Stumpnose, Stumpnose
Bait / lure: shad
💡 Top tip
“The gullies and points south of the harbour produce good galjoen in winter and hottentot throughout the year, while the beaches and gullies give up kob, white steenbras, white stumpnose, blacktail, shad (elf) and garrick (leervis) in season.”
Across the whole spot
Best light: dawn
Season: winter
Baits that work here: chokka, mussel, red bait, 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 06:34 · Sunset 18:45 · 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 — Yzerfontein
Harbour
Rocky points
Bay beach
Deep hole / gullyRock ledgeCasting 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.
🎣 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 Yzerfontein — Fishing Local Knowledge
Yzerfontein's rocky headland, deep gullies and endless beaches make it a well-loved West Coast angling destination for both rock and surf fishermen.
The gullies and points south of the harbour produce good galjoen in winter and hottentot throughout the year, while the beaches and gullies give up kob, white steenbras, white stumpnose, blacktail, shad (elf) and garrick (leervis) in season. Snoek and West Coast rock lobster are famous local catches. White mussel, sardine, chokka and red bait are standard baits, and galjoen (a protected, seasonal species, so check current regulations) is best worked off the rocky ledges. The higher tide stages, especially early morning, tend to fish best.