Yellowtail kingfish
Excellent
Prime. Cast stickbaits and poppers at surface activity, jig the deeper reefs, and keep a live bait out under a balloon.
Bermagui Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
A small harbour on the Sapphire Coast with the shelf close in: tuna and kingfish outside, salmon, bream and flathead inside.
4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Next tide
Low 2:53 pm model
Air / High
14 °C / 17 °C
Wind
S 13 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Bermagui is fishing in its best temperature window, with the bite spread across the day. Today brings cloud cover, wind S around 13 km/h, steady pressure near 1020 hPa and a high of 17 °C. Tides: high 8:14 am and 8:52 pm, low 1:53 am and 2:53 pm: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 20 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:06 PM-1:06 AM and 11:34 AM-1:34 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Tailor
Good
Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
Mulloway
Good
Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Australian salmon
Fair
Look for birds and surface splashes along the beaches and in the bays; cast metals, plastics or ganged pilchards into the school.
Tie on: Soft plastic on a 1/4 oz jighead · Small hardbody, shallow diver · Squid jig, size 3.0 · Fresh pipi or worm on a small hook. Prime windows: 11:06 PM-1:06 AM, 11:34 AM-1:34 PM, 4:48 AM-5:48 AM. Similar at 19 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
New South Wales requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from A$7.00. New South Wales fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing tailor here? Check the size and bag limits with DPIRD NSW before you keep anything; the Tailor page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Bermagui today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:47), sunset (19:40), the moon and today's score, with the modelled tide changes in the panel below. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:06 PM-1:06 AM and 11:34 AM-1:34 PM; minor 4:48 AM-5:48 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
A modelled tide curve for these coordinates and the forecast for the day.
Tides (modelled)
Modelled sea level curve from Open-Meteo Marine for these coordinates, datum mean sea level. Fish the moving water either side of each change.
A model, not the official prediction: times can drift by tens of minutes inside bays and estuaries. Check the Bureau of Meteorology tide predictions for the exact times before you rely on them.
Mon
LOW1:53 am-0.44 m
HIGH8:14 am0.68 m
LOW2:53 pm-0.58 m
HIGH8:52 pm0.31 m
Tue
LOW2:25 am-0.39 m
HIGH8:53 am0.70 m
LOW3:35 pm-0.55 m
HIGH9:36 pm0.25 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp14 °C
High / Low17 °C / 11 °C
WindS 13 km/h, gusts 32 km/h
Pressure1020.1 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain96% cloud, 55%
Sunrise / Sunset05:47 / 19:40
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~20 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Bermagui
The best day on Bermagui this week looks like Thursday 12 Nov, at 5 out of 5, against 4 today.
Best day this week: Thursday, 12 Nov — excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 9 Nov — Good
Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
- Solunar majors
- 11:06 PM-1:06 AM and 11:34 AM-1:34 PM
- Minor period
- 4:48 AM-5:48 AM
- Sun
- 05:47 to 19:40
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 23 km/h
- Rain chance
- 55%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Bermagui: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Tailor
Autumn and winter on the east coast; the run reaches K'gari (Fraser Island) in late winter, where the east beach from Waddy Point to Indian Head is closed to all fin fish from 1 August to 29 September
The surf and rock fish of the east coast, running north in autumn and winter. Fast, toothy and best at dawn, dusk and into the dark. Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
Mulloway
Best: summer and autumn, especially after rain
Jewfish. The big silver prize of the estuaries, breakwalls and surf beaches: nocturnal, tide-driven and unforgiving of noise. Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Yellowtail kingfish
Best: December to April
The hardest-pulling fish within reach of the shore. Headlands, harbour markers, offshore reefs and the warm current in summer. Prime. Cast stickbaits and poppers at surface activity, jig the deeper reefs, and keep a live bait out under a balloon.
Australian salmon
Winter and spring on the southern beaches
Not a salmon at all: a hard-fighting schooling fish of the surf and the bays, from WA around to NSW. Great on light gear, poor on the plate. Look for birds and surface splashes along the beaches and in the bays; cast metals, plastics or ganged pilchards into the school.
When to come: the Bermagui calendar
Activity by species and month for the southern year, and how the water warms and cools. Tap any cell.
Species activity by month
1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted. January is midsummer here.
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Mulloway
Yellowtail kingfish
Australian salmon
SlowPeak
Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 20 °C (estimated, not a reading).
Angler reports
Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. Nothing here is copied from a shop or a charter. The water log below tracks each day automatically.
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Water log, last days
Auto-logged from live dataSun, Nov 8
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Yellowtail kingfish led the card at good. High of 16 °C, wind to 32 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Yellowtail kingfish led the card at good. High of 19 °C, wind to 31 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
5/5 Excellent. Go now. Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor. Yellowtail kingfish led the card at excellent. High of 19 °C, wind to 19 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, from A$7.00, the same for residents and visitors. Details and where to buy →
Regulations
Size and bag limits, closed seasons and marine park zones are set by DPIRD NSW and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the New South Wales licence page before you keep anything.
Access
Before fishing at Bermagui, pay the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee: A$7 for three days or A$85 for three years, as read from DPIRD on our New South Wales licence page.
About this water
Bermagui is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Bermagui: the full guide
Bermagui and its water
Bermagui is a fishing port on the far south coast of New South Wales, built around a small harbour with a breakwater, a wharf and the Bermagui River behind it. DPIRD’s guide to the town credits its protected harbour and its relative closeness to the continental shelf for a fishing heritage publicised by the American novelist Zane Grey, who fished here in the 1930s, and the game boats still come for marlin in summer and yellowfin and bluefin tuna as the water cools in autumn and winter. The everyday fishing is the harbour, the river, Wallaga Lake just to the north, the beaches either side and the rock platforms of the headlands, and that is what this page scores for the town’s coordinates.
Species by season
Bream and flathead fish the river and the harbour all year, the flathead best on the sand in the warmer months; Australian salmon and tailor run the beaches and the rocks in the cooler months, with gummy sharks and mulloway also taken from the surf beaches at times; and the harbour wharf gives salmon, trevally, squid under the lights and, in summer, kingfish. Luderick work the breakwater and the rocks in winter, and Wallaga Lake gives whiting, dusky flathead, luderick and bream. Outside, snapper on the reefs in winter and the game fish of the shelf in their seasons, which depend on the water temperature and the weather windows the boats get.
Reading this report here
The wind row is the first thing to read: a southerly closes the rocks and the beaches and puts the fishing in the river and the harbour, a westerly gives the calm mornings the coast is known for, and a big swell from any direction ends the rock fishing. The pressure trend and the sky feed the score, and the seven-day planner picks the day, and the tide panel is a modelled curve for these coordinates, labelled as a model, useful for the run in the river and around the wharf; the Bureau of Meteorology has the official times.
Licence, access and rules
Before fishing at Bermagui, pay the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee: A$7 for three days or A$85 for three years, as read from DPIRD on our New South Wales licence page. The wharf, the breakwater, the beaches and the headland rocks are public, and the Transport for NSW list has the boat harbour ramp and the River Park ramp by the bridge. The town sits just south of the Batemans Marine Park, whose zoning ends at the Wallaga Lake entrance, so its rules apply from the lake north; the DPIRD limits are on the pages in the sources, and rock fishing here is exposed and has its own safety rules.
Common questions
What can I catch from Bermagui wharf?
Salmon, trevally and squid through the year, luderick in winter and kingfish in summer for the patient.
Do I need a fishing licence in Bermagui?
Yes. Every angler at Bermagui needs the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee receipt unless exempt; three days cost A$7.
Is fishing good at Bermagui right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- Tide curve (modelled)
- Open-Meteo Marine, sea level height including tides
- Open-Meteo forecast model
- https://open-meteo.com/
- Moon and solunar windows
- Calculated on this site
- Pages checked
- The written guide on this page
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