Tailor
Excellent
The main run. Fish the gutters and headlands into the evening; ganged pilchards, metals, and a wire-free trace only if you accept the bite-offs.
Crowdy Head Fishing Report
Updated Fri, 25 Sept 2026 from live weather and tide data
The fishing harbour and headland north of the Manning: the breakwater, the lighthouse rocks and Crowdy Bay, with kingfish, drummer and the reef outside.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Next tide
Low 12:19 pm model
Air / High
18 °C / 24 °C
Wind
NNE 21 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Crowdy Head rewards patience today, with cool water and short feeding windows. Today brings clear skies, wind NNE around 21 km/h, rising pressure near 1029 hPa and a high of 24 °C. Tides: high 6:30 am and 6:34 pm, low 12:19 pm: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 17 °C for the season (estimated). With the full moon, the solunar majors run 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM: the windows to build the day around.
Australian salmon
Good
The main season. Beach gutters, rock platforms and bay edges on the rising tide; metals, surf poppers and bait all work.
Mulloway
Fair
The estuary fish move to the deeper reaches. Long, quiet sessions on the bottom with fresh bait across the top of the tide.
Yellowtail kingfish
Slow
The fish thin out as the current cools; jig the deeper offshore marks and work the harbours on the warmer afternoons.
Tie on: Blade or vibe, slow hops · Lightly weighted plastic · Whole pilchard or squid on the bottom · Suspending hardbody. Prime windows: 10:25 AM-12:25 PM, 10:25 PM-12:25 AM, 4:55 AM-5:55 AM. Similar at 26 °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 Crowdy Head today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:35), sunset (17:46), 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 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM; minor 4:55 AM-5:55 AM. Full Moon, 99% 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.
Fri
HIGH6:30 am0.48 m
LOW12:19 pm-0.53 m
HIGH6:34 pm0.74 m
Sat
LOW12:55 am-0.70 m
HIGH7:03 am0.63 m
LOW12:58 pm-0.57 m
HIGH7:12 pm0.80 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp18 °C
High / Low24 °C / 17 °C
WindNNE 21 km/h, gusts 41 km/h
Pressure1029.3 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain0% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset05:35 / 17:46
MoonFull Moon, 99%
Water temp (seasonal)~17 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Crowdy Head
The best day on Crowdy Head this week looks like Saturday 26 Sept, at 3 out of 5, against 2 today. Every day is scored by the same engine as the report above: pressure trend first, then wind, sky and season. Pick a species and the plan for that day changes with it.
Best day this week: Saturday, 26 Sept — fair at 3/5, steady pressure, neither help nor hindrance.
Today, 25 Sept — Tough
Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
- Solunar majors
- 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM
- Minor period
- 4:55 AM-5:55 AM
- Sun
- 05:35 to 17:46
- Moon
- Full Moon, 99% lit
- Sky and wind
- Clear, 26 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Scores are a planning aid built from forecast data, not a promise.
Species guide
The species that matter on Crowdy Head: 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; August to September on Fraser Island
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. The main run. Fish the gutters and headlands into the evening; ganged pilchards, metals, and a wire-free trace only if you accept the bite-offs.
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. The estuary fish move to the deeper reaches. Long, quiet sessions on the bottom with fresh bait across the top of the tide.
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. The fish thin out as the current cools; jig the deeper offshore marks and work the harbours on the warmer afternoons.
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. The main season. Beach gutters, rock platforms and bay edges on the rising tide; metals, surf poppers and bait all work.
When to come: the Crowdy Head 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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Australian salmon
SlowPeak
Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 17 °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 dataThu, Sep 24
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 22 °C, wind to 27 km/h.
Wed, Sep 23
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 23 °C, wind to 27 km/h.
Tue, Sep 22
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 21 °C, wind to 21 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
Fishing Crowdy Head takes the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, A$7 for three days at the cheapest; the New South Wales licence page on this site has the rest.
About this water
Crowdy Head is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Crowdy Head: the full guide
Crowdy Head and the harbour
Crowdy Head is the fishing village on the headland north of Harrington and the Manning mouth, with the small harbour and its breakwater, the trawlers, the lighthouse and the rock platforms under it, Crowdy Bay beach running south to Harrington and the beaches of Crowdy Bay National Park running north to Diamond Head. It is a harbour-and-rocks village, and the report on this page is scored for the village’s coordinates. Harrington has its own page.
Species and seasons
Bream, luderick and drummer hold on the breakwater and the lighthouse platforms, the luderick and drummer in winter; tailor and salmon run Crowdy Bay beach and the rocks in the cooler months at dawn and dusk; kingfish come to the headland and the reef in summer; whiting fish the beach in summer; mulloway are the night fish of the beach gutters; and the reef off the head gives snapper in winter and, in summer, mackerel for the boats launched in the harbour.
Where to fish it
The harbour breakwater is the walk-on mark for bream, luderick and drummer, and the platforms under the lighthouse are the tailor and drummer rocks, fished on a westerly; Crowdy Bay beach south to Harrington takes the tailor and jew in the gutters, and the beaches north through the national park to Diamond Head are the quiet water. The ramp is in the harbour.
Reading this report here
The head faces the ocean and the wind row and the swell decide the platforms and the beach: a southerly or an easterly swell closes them, a westerly opens them. The tide panel is a modelled curve for the coordinates of Crowdy Head, labelled as a model. Pressure and sky build the score at Crowdy Head; the planner shows the day. The Crowdy Head platforms are exposed and the life-jacket rule applies.
Licence, access and rules
Fishing Crowdy Head takes the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, A$7 for three days at the cheapest; the New South Wales licence page on this site has the rest. The harbour, the platforms and the beaches are public, with a ramp in the harbour and the national park camps to the north; DPIRD’s limits and the council’s rock fishing rules are in the sources.
Common questions
What can I catch at Crowdy Head?
Bream, luderick and drummer on the breakwater and the rocks, tailor and salmon on the beach in the cooler months, kingfish off the head in summer, snapper on the reef for the boats.
Do I need a licence at Crowdy Head?
Yes: the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, from A$7 for three days.
Is fishing good at Crowdy Head right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Slow. Work for them. Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
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
- The written guide on this page
Pablo Ruiz Quintero
Readings refresh on a 30-minute window. The full method, with every figure and its source, is on How our reports are made. Something wrong here? Tell us and it goes in the log with the date.