Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The last town before the Nullarbor: the Ceduna and Thevenard jetties, Murat Bay and Denial Bay, with whiting, snapper, salmon and the mulloway of the beaches.
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Ceduna rewards patience today, with cool water and short feeding windows. Today brings a mixed sky, wind WSW around 26 km/h, steady pressure near 1013 hPa and a high of 32 °C. Tides: high 12:07 pm, low 6:26 am and 5:58 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 new moon, the solunar majors run 11:44 PM-1:44 AM and 12:12 PM-2:12 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Reopens 1 July 2027. Closed in the West Coast, Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent/Kangaroo Island zones until 30 June 2027; open only in the South-East zone, which runs from the southern Fleurieu Peninsula to the Victorian border and includes the south coast of Kangaroo Island (the island's north coast is in the closed Gulf St Vincent/Kangaroo Island zone). No catch and release in the closed zones.
Spring and autumn are the seasons: the weed beds on the rising tide, slow sinking jigs.
Fish the deeper channels and the last of the run-out; slower hops with a heavier jighead, and a bait on the bottom as back-up.
The main season. Beach gutters, rock platforms and bay edges on the rising tide; metals, surf poppers and bait all work.
Tie on: Blade or vibe, slow hops · Lightly weighted plastic · Whole pilchard or squid on the bottom · Suspending hardbody. Prime windows: 11:44 PM-1:44 AM, 12:12 PM-2:12 PM, 5:35 AM-6:35 AM. Cooler at 19 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
South Australia has no general fishing licence, but rules and permits apply. South Australia fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing snapper here? Check the size and bag limits with PIRSA before you keep anything; the Snapper page has the seasons and the tactics.
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (06:31), sunset (20:07), the moon and today's score, with the modelled tide changes in the panel below. Tap a bar to see why.
Solunar majors 11:44 PM-1:44 AM and 12:12 PM-2:12 PM; minor 5:35 AM-6:35 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
A modelled tide curve for these coordinates and the forecast for the day.
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.
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Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
Today is the pick of the week on Ceduna, at 3 out of 5.
Best day this week: today, 9 Nov — fair at 3/5, steady pressure, neither help nor hindrance.
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
The species that matter on Ceduna: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Closed now Reopens 1 July 2027. Closed in the West Coast, Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent/Kangaroo Island zones until 30 June 2027; open only in the South-East zone, which runs from the southern Fleurieu Peninsula to the Victorian border and includes the south coast of Kangaroo Island (the island's north coast is in the closed Gulf St Vincent/Kangaroo Island zone). No catch and release in the closed zones. Rule as read from PIRSA on 2026-09-27.
The southern headline fish. Runs into Port Phillip, Western Port, the gulfs and the WA sounds in spring to spawn; holds on reef and rubble the rest of the year.
The table fish of the south. Feeds over sand patches between weed and reef in 2 to 10 metres, mostly by day, mostly on the moving tide. Deeper sand patches and the middle of the day; slower bites, bigger fish.
Southern calamari over weed and sand in 2 to 10 metres of the bays and gulfs; a jig fishery at dawn, dusk and under the jetty lights. Spring and autumn are the seasons: the weed beds on the rising tide, slow sinking jigs.
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.
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. Fish the deeper channels and the last of the run-out; slower hops with a heavier jighead, and a bait on the bottom as back-up.
Activity by species and month for the southern year, and how the water warms and cools. Tap any cell.
1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted. January is midsummer here.
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 17 °C (estimated, not a reading).
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.
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Snapper led the card at excellent. High of 32 °C, wind to 29 km/h.
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Snapper led the card at excellent. High of 23 °C, wind to 27 km/h.
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Snapper led the card at excellent. High of 27 °C, wind to 26 km/h.
South Australia has no general recreational fishing licence; the limits and closures do. Details and where to buy →
Size and bag limits, closed seasons and marine park zones are set by PIRSA and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the South Australia licence page before you keep anything.
South Australia needs no fishing licence at Ceduna; the size, bag and boat limits and the snapper closure apply, published by PIRSA and linked from this page.
Ceduna is a coastal town in South Australia, Australia, covered from the South Australia reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Ceduna is the town on Murat Bay at the head of the Great Australian Bight, the last town before the Nullarbor crossing, with the town jetty and the port at Thevenard, the shallow bays of Murat and Denial, the oyster leases, the Nuyts Archipelago offshore and the beaches of the Bight running west to the Head of Bight. It is a bay town at the edge of the desert, and the report on this page is scored for the town’s coordinates. Streaky Bay has its own page.
King George whiting fish the bays’ flats and weed from spring to autumn and are the town’s fish; snapper are closed in the bays and the archipelago until 30 June 2027; Australian salmon run the Bight beaches in the cooler months; garfish and tommy ruff fish the jetties; mulloway are the night fish of the Bight beaches; squid work the jetty weed; and the archipelago gives kingfish and the sharks of the west coast for the boats. The flats are shallow, so the rising tide is the time to wade them.
The Ceduna jetty on the foreshore is the walk-on mark for whiting, garfish and squid, fished at night under the lights, and the flats of Murat Bay and Denial Bay toward the oyster leases are the whiting water for wading and small boats; the Bight beaches west of the town are the salmon and mulloway sand. Boats launch in the town.
The bays are sheltered from the south-westerly that closes the Bight beaches, so the wind row decides which; a northerly off the desert is hot and flattens everything. The tide panel is a modelled curve for the coordinates of Ceduna, labelled as a model, and the flats fill and drain on it. Pressure and sky build the score at Ceduna; the planner shows the day.
South Australia needs no fishing licence at Ceduna; the size, bag and boat limits and the snapper closure apply, published by PIRSA and linked from this page. The jetties, the foreshore and the beaches are public, with boat launching in the town; the Nuyts Archipelago marine park zones and the Aboriginal lands of the far west have their own rules.
King George whiting on the bay flats from spring to autumn, garfish at the jetty, salmon on the Bight beaches in the cooler months, mulloway at night, kingfish in the archipelago for the boats.
No licence is required; PIRSA’s limits apply in Murat and Denial bays, and snapper remain closed on the West Coast.
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
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