Bream
Good
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Pittwater Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
Sydney’s northern estuary: a drowned valley of moorings, weed beds and sandstone shores where kingfish, squid, bream and flathead fish on the city’s northern edge.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Next tide
Low 2:44 pm model
Air / High
16 °C / 18 °C
Wind
SSW 13 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Pittwater sits in the warm band: moving baits, moving tides and fish on the edges. Today brings clear skies, wind SSW around 13 km/h, rising pressure near 1019 hPa and a high of 18 °C. Tides: high 8:12 am and 8:39 pm, low 1:46 am and 2:44 pm: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 22 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:53 PM-1:53 AM and 11:29 AM-1:29 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Flathead
Good
The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
Mulloway
Fair
Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Fair
Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
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: 11:53 PM-1:53 AM, 11:29 AM-1:29 PM, 4:50 AM-5:50 AM. Warmer at 21 °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 bream here? Check the size and bag limits with DPIRD NSW before you keep anything; the Bream page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Pittwater today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:48), sunset (19:29), 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 11:53 PM-1:53 AM and 11:29 AM-1:29 PM; minor 4:50 AM-5:50 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
LOW1:46 am-0.33 m
HIGH8:12 am0.95 m
LOW2:44 pm-0.38 m
HIGH8:39 pm0.52 m
Tue
LOW2:16 am-0.32 m
HIGH8:50 am0.89 m
LOW3:22 pm-0.44 m
HIGH9:19 pm0.39 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp16 °C
High / Low18 °C / 11 °C
WindSSW 13 km/h, gusts 27 km/h
Pressure1019.3 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain2% cloud, 29%
Sunrise / Sunset05:48 / 19:29
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~22 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Pittwater
The best day on Pittwater this week looks like Thursday 12 Nov, at 5 out of 5, against 2 today.
Best day this week: Thursday, 12 Nov — excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 9 Nov — Tough
Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
- Solunar majors
- 11:53 PM-1:53 AM and 11:29 AM-1:29 PM
- Minor period
- 4:50 AM-5:50 AM
- Sun
- 05:48 to 19:29
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 27 km/h
- Rain chance
- 29%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Pittwater: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Bream
Year-round; summer and autumn in the estuaries, winter at the mouths
Yellowfin bream on the east coast, black bream in the southern estuaries. Structure fish: rock walls, jetty piles, oyster racks, snags and pontoons. Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Flathead
Best: November to April
Dusky flathead in the eastern estuaries, sand flathead in the southern bays. An ambush predator lying on sand and mud edges waiting for whatever the tide brings. The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
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.
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.
When to come: the Pittwater 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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Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 22 °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. Bream led the card at good. High of 17 °C, wind to 34 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Bream led the card at good. High of 28 °C, wind to 35 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
5/5 Excellent. Go now. Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor. Bream 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
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies here, A$7 for three days or A$35 for a year among the options on our New South Wales licence page.
About this water
Pittwater is a bay or coastal water in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Pittwater: the full guide
The estuary
Pittwater is the long arm of Broken Bay that runs south from Barrenjoey and Palm Beach past Careel Bay, Clareville and Church Point to Newport and Bayview, with Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park along much of its western shore and the northern beaches suburbs on its eastern. It is Sydney’s northern estuary, a drowned valley of moorings, marinas, weed beds and sandstone points, sheltered enough to fish from a kayak in most weather and open enough at the mouth to hold kingfish in summer. The Hawkesbury, which it joins at Broken Bay, has its own page; this one is scored for the estuary’s coordinates.
Species by season
Kingfish are Pittwater’s summer prize, around the moorings, the markers and the mouth on live baits, squid and stickbaits; squid work the weed beds of Careel Bay and the western shore in spring and autumn and under the marina lights; bream fish the sandstone points, the wharves and the moorings all year with the winter run to Broken Bay; and flathead lie on the sand of the bays and the drop-offs from spring to autumn. Whiting fish the flats in summer, tailor and salmon push in through the mouth in the cooler months, and mulloway are the night fish of the deeper holes and the mouth.
Reading this report here
Pittwater is sheltered from a southerly and open to a nor’-easter down its length, so the wind row tells you whether the afternoon will be comfortable; mornings are usually the calmer part of the day. The barometer and the cloud give the score and the planner lays out the days; the tide panel is a modelled curve for these coordinates, labelled as a model, and the estuary runs on the tide with the strongest flow near the mouth, so take the direction from the curve and the exact times from the Bureau of Meteorology.
Licence, access and rules
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies here, A$7 for three days or A$35 for a year among the options on our New South Wales licence page. Public wharves along the eastern shore, the foreshore reserves and the national park shore give access from the land. The Northern Beaches council area is declared under the Rock Fishing Safety Act 2016, so a lifejacket is compulsory on the ocean rock platforms outside the estuary that the Office of Local Government maps as high risk; the DPIRD limits and closures are in the sources.
Common questions
Where can I catch kingfish in Pittwater?
Around the moorings, the markers and the mouth at Barrenjoey in summer, on live baits, squid or stickbaits; the species card rates the month and today’s conditions.
Do I need a fishing licence on Pittwater?
Yes. The estuary is New South Wales water and the Recreational Fishing Fee is due before you rig up, from A$7 for three days.
Is fishing good at Pittwater 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
- Pages checked
- The written guide on this page
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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.