Snapper
Excellent
Fish are thinner inshore. Work the deeper structure and the channel edges with baits on the bottom, and pick the tide change.
San Remo Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Phillip Island bridge town on Western Port’s eastern entrance: the San Remo jetty, the fast channel and the ocean beaches, with whiting, salmon and squid.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
High 11:43 am model
Air / High
12 °C / 20 °C
Wind
E 17 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
San Remo rewards patience today, with cool water and short feeding windows. Today brings a mixed sky, wind E around 18 km/h, steady pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 19 °C. Tides: high 11:43 am, low 5:41 am and 5:46 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 11:25 PM-1:25 AM and 11:54 AM-1:54 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Southern calamari
Excellent
Spring and autumn are the seasons: the weed beds on the rising tide, slow sinking jigs.
Flathead
Good
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.
Australian salmon
Slow
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: 11:25 PM-1:25 AM, 11:54 AM-1:54 PM, 5:02 AM-6:02 AM. Warmer at 23 °C with a rain chance. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Victoria requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from A$10.00. Victoria fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing snapper here? Check the size and bag limits with VFA before you keep anything; the Snapper page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for San Remo today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (06:02), sunset (20:02), 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 11:25 PM-1:25 AM and 11:54 AM-1:54 PM; minor 5:02 AM-6:02 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
LOW5:41 am-0.60 m
HIGH11:43 am0.44 m
LOW5:46 pm-1.11 m
Tue
HIGH12:45 am0.89 m
LOW6:40 am-0.49 m
HIGH12:30 pm0.59 m
LOW6:30 pm-1.08 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp12 °C
High / Low20 °C / 7 °C
WindE 17 km/h, gusts 27 km/h
Pressure1018.1 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain44% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset06:02 / 20:02
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~17 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish San Remo
The best day on San Remo this week looks like Thursday 12 Nov, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Thursday, 12 Nov — good at 4/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 9 Nov — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 11:25 PM-1:25 AM and 11:54 AM-1:54 PM
- Minor period
- 5:02 AM-6:02 AM
- Sun
- 06:02 to 20:02
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 21 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on San Remo: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Snapper
Best: October to January in the southern bays
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. Fish are thinner inshore. Work the deeper structure and the channel edges with baits on the bottom, and pick the tide change.
King George whiting
Best: December to May in SA; spring and summer in Port Phillip
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
Spring and autumn peaks in the southern bays
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.
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.
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. 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.
When to come: the San Remo 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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King George whiting
Southern calamari
Australian salmon
Flathead
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 dataSun, Nov 8
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Snapper led the card at excellent. High of 14 °C, wind to 26 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Snapper led the card at excellent. High of 12 °C, wind to 34 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Snapper led the card at excellent. High of 19 °C, wind to 31 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence (RFL), from A$10.00, 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 VFA and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Victoria licence page before you keep anything.
Access
San Remo anglers need the Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence unless exempt, and the current prices are on our Victoria page.
About this water
San Remo is a coastal town in Victoria, Australia, covered from the Victoria reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing San Remo: the full guide
San Remo and the entrance
San Remo is the town at the mainland end of the Phillip Island bridge, on the eastern entrance to Western Port, with a jetty and fishing fleet on the foreshore, the channel running hard under the bridge and ocean beaches on Bass Strait. Inside Western Port, Churchill Island Marine National Park covers the coast between Long Point on Phillip Island and North Point on Churchill Island, south of Rhyll, and is closed to all fishing. Conditions are scored for San Remo itself, with a modelled tide curve for the entrance there. Phillip Island has its own page.
Species and seasons
King George whiting feed along channel edges and sand banks from spring to autumn; Australian salmon run the entrance and the ocean beaches in the cooler months; and squid work the weed and the jetty lights at night. Snapper come into the channel and nearby reefs in spring and summer for boats, flathead lie on the sand, and gummy sharks are taken in the channel at night.
Where to fish it
San Remo jetty is the land-based spot for squid, whiting and trevally, fished at night under the lights and around the slack of the tide. The channel edges under the bridge and along the Phillip Island shore are boat water for whiting and snapper, and the ocean beaches east of town are for salmon. The channel runs very hard, so boats need care and good anchors.
Reading this report here
The entrance runs hard on the tide, so the modelled curve, labelled as a model, is for the direction of flow, and the Bureau of Meteorology has the official times. A south-westerly makes the entrance rough and closes the ocean beaches, while the jetty often stays fishable. Pressure and cloud cover feed the score for the town.
Licence, access and rules
San Remo anglers need the Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence unless exempt, and the current prices are on our Victoria page. VFA limits apply, and Churchill Island Marine National Park, inside Western Port, is closed to every kind of fishing; the VFA’s “Can I fish here?” app function flags its boundary as you approach.
Common questions
What can I catch at San Remo?
Whiting along the channel edges from spring to autumn, salmon in the cooler months, squid at the jetty, snapper in the channel in spring and summer, and gummy sharks at night.
Do I need a licence at San Remo?
Yes; Victoria’s Recreational Fishing Licence covers the jetty, the channel and the beaches, unless you are exempt.
Is fishing good at San Remo right now?
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.
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.