Isola CorbellaIsola d'Elba Sud
borderlinein the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind (city-level)
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
Islet with gentle slope and a 60 m drop on the south side; sheltered from the Mistral.
Google MapsIsola d'Elba Sud spearfishing forecast — wind, swell, visibility, tides & live cameras
8.3
wave 0.2 m
visibility6m
Dive today — wave, wind and visibility.
Sources: IPMA · NDBC · Copernicus — high confidence · data 04:22
Sources & confidence
- Sources
- IPMA · NDBC buoys · Copernicus Marine
- Method
- Model consensus, read per window
- Freshness
- Re-read every hour, per coast
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine
The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.
How we score the water
Our own model
Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.
- Swell & wave memory
- Height, period and direction of the swell, plus the wake of recent storms — an old storm still stirs the water, and the engine remembers.
- Wind & gusts
- Speed and gusts, hour by hour — wind speed and an onshore push chop the surface and cut visibility.
- Tide phase
- Timing and range of the tide, calibrated per coast — big spring tides pull the verdict toward caution.
- Water temperature
- Sea-surface temperature — sharply cold water vetoes a green verdict.
- Currents & outflow
- Direction and drift of the current — it pushes you, and it drags turbid coastal water across where you dive.
- Rain runoff & air clarity
- Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
- Coast shape & exposure
- How the coast faces the swell — a sheltered cove keeps the water clean; an exposed, head-on point takes a penalty.
Safety gates
- Thunderstorm forecast — an instant red, no exceptions.
- An official warning (MeteoAlarm / IPMA) — yellow, or red for the higher ranks.
- Missing input data — a would-be green is capped to yellow rather than overstated.
- Strong disagreement between forecast models — a green day is pulled back to yellow.
- Night hours — forced red; the window is closed after dark.
It all folds into a single 0–10 score and one verdict: go or stay.
A forecast, not a guarantee — the sea has the last word.
Where to get in, where to hunt
Entry points with coordinates
Seabed relief — promising ground
Surface
Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
spearo.app
calmupdated 04:22
Isola d'Elba Sud — solo, off the rocks
best weather window · solo, stay careful, run the checklist · calm conditions: swell, wind and visibility all normal
wave 0.2 mwind 5 km/hvisibility ~9 mwindow 06:00–21:00
today, best window 06:00–09:00
fish · Visibility 9 m · Water 28.3°C
confidence medium · verdict for the selected day
Whole week — tap a day. is driving swell right now.
Solo risk: carry a float · tell someone your plan and exit time · doubt = don't go. A model-based planner; the call is made on site.
Selected day
Windows, hours
and the day's trends.
The day is picked above, in the hero. Here are that day's windows, the hour-by-hour map and the trends. Tap a window to break down the conditions.
Thursday · today2026-07-23
06:01–20:48 · first quarter
▲ 04:00▼ 11:00▲ 18:00 · 0.2 m
Hours (06→20)
06
09
12
15
18
Day's trends
Tide-0.44 m
Wave0.28 m
Wind12 km/h
Water29 °C
fish activity: moonset 00:40 · moderate · moon underfoot 08:20 · high · moonrise 16:14 · moderate · moon overhead 20:40 · high
Conditions window06:00–09:00
best weather window · solo, stay careful, run the checklist fish
Hs 0.18 mperiod 3 swind 5→11surge 0viz 6 m
0.18 mup to ~0.36 · 328° at an angle
3 sswell moderate
5→11gusts 11 km/h
0weak surge
0.06m/s
6 mrecent swell
28.3°C5 mm + hood
▼11:00tide falling
Atmosphere29 kmlandmarks visible
highmoon underfoot
- calm conditions: swell, wind and visibility all normal
- dawn/dusk
confidence mediumtwilight
The water column
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
What it is
A marine instrument,
go / no-go for solo hunting.
spearo.app folds wind, wave, swell period, visibility, tides, water temperature and risk into a single verdict — go to the spot or not. It computes 7 days ahead from open marine models (Open-Meteo, IPMA), with no sign-up and no accounts. Built for solo spearfishing off the rocks, where any mistake costs dearly.
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On the rock
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The models set the window. Whether you go in is read only at the water: count the sets, watch the surge on the entry. If in doubt, you don't get in.
Entry points
Where to get in
off the rocks.
Scouted entries, coloured by today. The colour is the sea state at the spot, not a guarantee: the wash and a slippery entry you judge on site.
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Punta dei RipaltiIsola d'Elba Sud
borderlinein the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind (city-level)
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
SE point with walls; open to the Sirocco, resident amberjack on the deep pinnacles.
Google MapsScoglio del RemaioloIsola d'Elba Sud
borderlinein the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind (city-level)
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
South wall to ~70 m with current; amberjack, barracuda, gorgonians beyond 30 m.
Google MapsSOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.
Surfacing
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Live cameras, map & reference
Cameras · live
Look at the water
right now.
Check the cam BEFORE you leave. Foam, brown/green murk, or waves washing the entry rocks = No-go. At night/in fog the cam is useless — treat it as «unknown», NOT «green».
Reference
What's in season,
what the law says.
In season now
- European seabassmin. 25 cm · legal target
- Gilthead seabreammin. 20 cm · legal target
- White seabreammin. 23 cm · legal target
- Two-banded seabreammin. 18 cm · legal target
- Sharpsnout seabreammin. 18 cm · legal target
- Annular seabreammin. 12 cm · legal target
- Common dentexmin. 15 cm · Sardinia 30 cm · legal target
- Red porgymin. 18 cm · legal target
- Common pandoramin. 18 cm · Sardinia 20 cm · legal target
- Axillary seabreammin. 15 cm · Sardinia 18 cm · legal target
- Blackspot seabreammin. 33 cm · legal target
- Striped seabreammin. 20 cm · legal target
- Black seabreammin. 15 cm · legal target
- Boguemin. 15 cm · legal target
- Salemamin. 15 cm · legal target
- Dusky groupermin. 45 cm · RESTRICTED · max 1 grouper/day; BANNED in Sardegna & MPAs
- Wreckfishmin. 45 cm · RESTRICTED · max 1 grouper/day; BANNED in Sardegna & MPAs
- Brown meagremin. 20 cm · RESTRICTED · protected in several MPAs · (verify against the norm in force)
- Greater amberjackmin. 15 cm · Sardinia 60 cm · legal target · (verify against the norm in force)
- Leerfishmin. 15 cm · Sardinia 60 cm · legal target
- Grey mulletmin. 20 cm · Sardinia 25 cm · legal target
- Red scorpionfishmin. 15 cm · legal target
- Moray eelmin. 25 cm · Sardinia 60 cm · legal target
- European congermin. 25 cm · Sardinia 50 cm · legal target
- Wrassemin. 15 cm · legal target
- Red mulletmin. 11 cm · legal target
- Atlantic bonitomin. 25 cm · legal target
- Common octopusmin. 450 g · legal target
- Cuttlefishlegal target · (verify against the norm in force)
Law
- ✓NO paid licence, but a free MASAF REGISTRATION is mandatory (recreational sea-fishing declaration, online via SIAN/SPID, annual) — it is not a «licence».
- ✓Free-diving only (16+): scuba/rebreather/hookah BANNED (art. 128-bis DPR 1639/68). A speargun may not be handed to under-16s.
- ✓Night prohibited: spearfishing only from dawn to sunset (art. 129e DPR 1639/68).
- ✓Distances (art. 129 DPR 1639/68): ≥500 m from beaches with bathers; ≥100 m from fixed gear/set nets and from vessels anchored outside ports.
- ✓Buoy MANDATORY (art. 130 DPR 1639/68): float with a red flag bearing a white diagonal stripe, visible ≥300 m; the diver stays within 50 m of the buoy/support boat.
- ✓The speargun may not be kept armed out of the water (art. 131 DPR 1639/68) — load only when submerged.
- ✓Hand-collecting crustaceans/molluscs is BANNED for the spearfisher (art. 128-bis): only cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish). No crab lane for Italy.
- ✓Sale of recreational catch is PROHIBITED (EU control regime, Reg. CE 1224/2009).
- •Daily cap ~5 kg/person (or a single heavier fish) — set by a D.M. implementing Reg. CE 1224/2009, not by the DPR; max 1 grouper/day. Verify the current D.M. number.
- ⛔ Date mussels (Lithophaga lithophaga) — TOTAL BAN: fishing, possession, transport, sale (D.M. 16/10/1998; EU-protected). Never touch.
- ⛔ Sturgeon (Acipenser sturio / naccarii) — capture BANNED (D.M. 3/5/89, D.M. 11/6/07).
- ⛔ Dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus) — 45 cm, max 1 grouper/day (art.142 D.P.R.1639/68, amended by L.154/2016); fully BANNED in Sardegna & ALL .
- ⛔ Bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) — MASAF RecFishing authorization only: season 16 Jun–14 Oct, 1 fish/outing, min 30 kg / 115 cm.
- ⛔ Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) — min 100 cm; seasonal closures, RecFishing declaration required.
Rules change. Before heading out, check with MASAF (registration) and the Guardia Costiera / Capitaneria di Porto; Sicily and Sardegna add regional tightening.
Safety protocol
- Sets: watch the wave trains ≥15 min before entering; Hmax ≈ 2×Hs, the wash can run 50 m past the foam line. A lull >10 min with period >12 s = a big set «overdue», do NOT enter; enter right after a full set passes and re-check at minute 30.
- Exit FIRST: find your exit AND a backup before entering. On a rocky/boulder shore a 0.5 m rise in swell can make the exit impossible — getting pinned/unable to climb out is the main killer.
- Headland rip: prominent points often have a permanent topographic rip regardless of the model — locate it, enter/exit on the windward side, never swim against it.
- Cold: wetsuit per the SST chip; the first shiver = a metabolic surge and a drop in breath-hold → get out at the first steady shiver. Cap the session at 45–60 min below 15 °C.
- Solo discipline: buoy up; tell someone the spot and exit time; conservative breath-hold (never push it in cold/murky/surfy water); visibility <3 m — don't enter.
- Afternoon wind: on many coasts the wind builds from midday — plan to be out of the water by midday; the chop builds — get out.
- UV 11:00–15:00 (UVI ≥6): sunscreen and cover up on the surface interval.
- Solo is a fundamental risk (hypoxic blackout with no buddy). Any doubt = No-go.
Spearfishing in Isola d'Elba Sud: spots, seasons and rules
Spearfishing on South Elba is a calm-water wall plan. Scoglio del Remaiolo has current and a wall to about 70 m, Isola Corbella has a slope and 60 m drop sheltered from the Maestrale, and Punta dei Ripalti is open to Sirocco with amberjack on deeper caps. Capoliveri and Portoferraio webcams help, but the legal and exit checks still happen locally.
TL;DR
- South Elba is wall, current, and wind reading: Remaiolo, Corbella, and Ripalti are not casual entries.
- Avoid the 135-225 degree sector, worst near 170 degrees; Sirocco and south sea close the plan.
- The Fondali dell'Isola d'Elba Natura 2000 overlay is not automatically no-take, but local rules must be checked.
Where can you spearfish on South Elba?
Use these as cautious rock references. Numeric depths appear only where the notes give them.
| Spot | Type | Depth | Level | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoglio del Remaiolo | South-facing wall | Wall to ~70 m | Intermediate, current aware | Shore, exit planned first | Current, amberjack, barracuda, and gorgonians beyond 30 m define it. |
| Isola Corbella | Islet slope and drop | Drop to 60 m on south side | Intermediate | Shore or local support by conditions | Sheltered from Maestrale, but still exposed rock. |
| Punta dei Ripalti | SE point with walls | Deep caps, no exact depth | Intermediate to advanced | Shore, planned return | Open to Sirocco; resident amberjack on deeper caps. |
When are conditions best on South Elba?
Pick real calm. The coast faces south, with 135-225 degrees as the bad sector and 170 degrees as the worst direction. Italy rules apply: free MASAF declaration, apnea only from age 16, no night spearfishing, buoy within 50 m, 500 m from bathers, 100 m from nets or anchored vessels, and about 5 kg daily catch.
FAQ
Do you need a license?
No paid license, but the free MASAF declaration is mandatory.
Is Natura 2000 always no-take?
No. It is not automatic, but restrictions or MPA overlap may exist.
Can you use scuba?
No. Italian spearfishing is apnea only.
Can you spearfish at night?
No. Dawn to sunset only.
What is the daily limit?
About 5 kg per person, or one heavier fish.
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