Snapper
Excellent
Fish are thinner inshore. Work the deeper structure and the channel edges with baits on the bottom, and pick the tide change.
Albany Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
King George Sound, Oyster Harbour and the Southern Ocean beaches: Albany fishes two sheltered waters and a wild coast from the same town.
4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Next tide
Low 1:30 pm model
Air / High
13 °C / 16 °C
Wind
SSE 8 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Albany has cool water and fish holding a little deeper and slower. Today brings cloud cover, wind SSE around 8 km/h, falling pressure near 1024 hPa and a high of 16 °C. Tides: high 11:30 am and 9:30 pm, low 5:30 am and 1:30 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 11:11 PM-1:11 AM and 10:47 AM-12:47 PM: the windows to build the day around.
King George whiting
Excellent
Deeper sand patches and the middle of the day; slower bites, bigger fish.
Southern calamari
Excellent
Spring and autumn are the seasons: the weed beds on the rising tide, slow sinking jigs.
Flathead
Excellent
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
Fair
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: 11:11 PM-1:11 AM, 10:47 AM-12:47 PM, 4:03 AM-5:03 AM. Similar at 17 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Western Australia requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from A$40.00. Western Australia fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing snapper here? Check the size and bag limits with DPIRD WA before you keep anything; the Snapper page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Albany today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (04:59), sunset (18:45), 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 11:11 PM-1:11 AM and 10:47 AM-12:47 PM; minor 4:03 AM-5:03 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
LOW5:30 am-0.22 m
HIGH11:30 am-0.09 m
LOW1:30 pm-0.10 m
HIGH9:30 pm0.41 m
Tue
LOW6:00 am-0.33 m
HIGH12:00 pm-0.19 m
LOW1:30 pm-0.20 m
HIGH9:54 pm0.35 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp13 °C
High / Low16 °C / 13 °C
WindSSE 8 km/h, gusts 17 km/h
Pressure1023.7 hPa, falling
Sky / Rain100% cloud, 22%
Sunrise / Sunset04:59 / 18:45
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 Albany
Today is the pick of the week on Albany, at 4 out of 5.
Best day this week: today, 9 Nov — good at 4/5, 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
- 11:11 PM-1:11 AM and 10:47 AM-12:47 PM
- Minor period
- 4:03 AM-5:03 AM
- Sun
- 04:59 to 18:45
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 16 km/h
- Rain chance
- 22%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Albany: 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 Albany 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 20 °C, wind to 24 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 17 °C, wind to 26 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 16 °C, wind to 26 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Western Australian recreational fishing licences, from A$40.00, 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 WA and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Western Australia licence page before you keep anything.
Access
Shore line fishing around Albany needs no licence, because Western Australia licenses boats and certain species rather than the angler; the boat licence, and the abalone and rock lobster licences, are on our Western Australia page with their fees.
About this water
Albany is a coastal town in Western Australia, Australia, covered from the Western Australia reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Albany: the full guide
Albany and its sounds
Albany sits on King George Sound on the south coast of Western Australia, with Princess Royal Harbour and Oyster Harbour tucked inside it, the Kalgan and King rivers running into the latter, and the granite headlands and surf beaches of the Southern Ocean on either side of the sound. That gives one town three kinds of water: the harbours and the sound for whiting, squid and herring, the beaches for salmon, and the rocks for the land-based angler, with the deep water outside for the boats. It is south of the West Coast bioregion, so the boat demersal closure that shuts Perth’s offshore grounds does not apply here; the South Coast has its own demersal limits instead.
Species by season
King George whiting fish the sand and weed of the harbours and the sound from spring to autumn, squid work the seagrass and the jetty lights in spring and autumn, and herring, skippy and garfish are the jetty and beach fish through the year. Australian salmon are the fish the south coast is known for, running the beaches from Cheynes and Nanarup to the Torndirrup coast in autumn and winter; bream fish the Kalgan and King rivers all year; flathead lie on the sand of the harbours in the warmer months; and pink snapper come into the sound in the warmer months. Demersal species in the deep water outside come under the new South Coast bag and size limits that DPIRD brought in from 1 June 2026.
Reading this report here
The Southern Ocean sends swell at this coast most days and the wind row decides where to fish: the harbours are sheltered from almost everything, the sound from most, and the beaches and the rocks only fish when the swell lays down. Pressure and sky build the score and the planner shows the day; the tide panel is a modelled curve for these coordinates, labelled as a model, with small tides here, so it is the direction that helps and the Bureau of Meteorology that has the times. Albany’s granite headlands take big swell and are no place to fish when it runs.
Licences and access
Shore line fishing around Albany needs no licence, because Western Australia licenses boats and certain species rather than the angler; the boat licence, and the abalone and rock lobster licences, are on our Western Australia page with their fees. The harbour foreshores, the beaches and the headlands are public, and the Department of Transport lists public ramps at Emu Point, the Albany waterfront, the King River and the lower Kalgan.
Common questions
When do the salmon run in Albany?
Australian salmon run the south coast beaches in autumn and winter; the species card rates the month and today’s conditions.
Do I need a licence to fish in Albany?
No, not for line fishing from the beaches or the harbour foreshores; a boat licence is needed on the water, and abalone and rock lobster have separate licences.
Is fishing good at Albany 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
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.