Today — right on the edge — wave, wind and surge pounding.
Sources & confidence
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine · How it works →
The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.
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.
Safety gates
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
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Recherche, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
What's missing? Tell us what you'd like to see — new spots, species, data or features. We read everything.
Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
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.
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
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.
Now live: 3016 spots across 406 stretches of coast — mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
See all spotsRelief and bottom type, tides, and the depths of each spot.
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.
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.
Open the seafloor mapFishers Reef lies off Fishers Point, about 1.4 km south-east of Recherche; both the reef and the point are named on the map. Its depth has not been measured at a useful scale, so none is given. NRE Tas prohibits spears in the George III Rock research area, about 8 km off.
Google MapsCameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Rules as of now — 25.10.2026 15:37 (Australia/Hobart)
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Storm Bay buoy: wave 1.0 m · 2 h ago
Maid of Erin Reef is a named reef on the map about 2.3 km north of Recherche, close to the shore. There is no fine depth survey for it, so no figure appears here. The George III Rock research area, about 7 km from the reef, is closed to spearfishing by NRE Tas.
SOLO 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.
Rules change and vary BY STATE. Before heading out, check with your state's fisheries (NSW DPI, Fisheries QLD, VFA, DPIRD WA, PIRSA, NRE Tas, NT Fisheries) and the marine-park zoning map.
Recherche has rock entry points such as Fishers Reef and Maid of Erin Reef. On open water in Tasmania, the hamlet of Recherche has a crowded shoreline on the map: within 3 km there are 6 bays, 5 points, 3 beaches and a reef. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Summer (Dec–Apr) — east-coast calms; cold, kelp.
12–18 °C — 5–7 mm suit; cold, kelp.
Hard: cold, kelp; the east coast in the calms.
Recherche is in TAS. No licence to spear finfish in Tasmania — but a Recreational Sea Fishing Licence is needed to dive-take rock lobster or abalone. Spearfishing on scuba is banned everywhere, rock lobster may never be speared, and marine-park sanctuary/green zones are no-take. See the guide for the state-by-state detail.
