Every fishing location, mapped
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Tap any marker to open the full location guide — 67 spots mapped nationwide.
All locations A–Z
Adelaide River
A classic Top End tidal system with rock bars, snag country and productive drain mouths. Heavy tackle is essential — fish hold tight to timber and the tidal range is significant.
Daly River
One of the best-known barramundi rivers in Australia, with kilometres of timbered banks and deep holes that hold fish through the dry season.
Cullen Bay, Darwin
Accessible harbour fishing minutes from the Darwin CBD. Marina walls, pontoons and the rock breakwater all hold fish, and land-based options are genuinely productive.
Hawkesbury River
Sydney's premier estuary system, offering everything from oyster-rack bream fishing to deep-hole mulloway and upstream bass in the freshwater reaches.
Port Phillip Bay
One of Australia's biggest recreational fisheries. The spring snapper migration draws thousands of boats, while seagrass beds hold calamari and whiting all year.
Moreton Bay
A remarkably diverse fishery on Brisbane's doorstep, from shallow yabby banks for whiting to artificial reefs and beacons holding snapper.
Coffin Bay
Sheltered, shallow and famously productive, with seagrass beds that hold whiting and calamari in numbers and easy access for smaller boats.
Great Lake, Central Highlands
A cornerstone of Tasmanian trout fishing, with shallow rocky margins that suit polaroiding and fly fishing on calm days.
Exmouth Gulf
World-class tropical fishing on the edge of Ningaloo Reef, spanning shallow flats for trevally to blue water for mackerel and billfish.
Copeton Dam
Famous for producing very large Murray cod around standing timber and rocky points. Surface fishing on summer evenings is the drawcard.
Sydney Harbour
One of the world's great urban fisheries. Deep water, heavy structure and constant bait movement mean kingfish, bream and flathead are all catchable within sight of the Opera House.
Gippsland Lakes
Australia's largest inland waterway network, offering hundreds of kilometres of sheltered water, weed flats and snag-lined river reaches for bream, flathead and big estuary mulloway.
Bermagui
The continental shelf sits closer to Bermagui than almost anywhere on the east coast, putting canyon fishing for tuna and marlin within a short run of the harbour.
Weipa
Cape York's premier sportfishing base, with a maze of tidal rivers, creek systems and headland rock bars that fish hard for barra, jacks and trevally.
Cairns and the Ribbon Reefs
The Ribbon Reefs host the world's most reliable giant black marlin fishery each spring, backed by outstanding reef fishing for coral trout, red emperor and mackerel.
Rottnest Island
Limestone reef systems, deep ledges and clear water make Rottnest the benchmark for Perth offshore fishing, from dhufish on the drops to squid in the bays.
Mandurah and the Peel-Harvey Estuary
A shallow, sheltered estuary famous for blue swimmer crabs, with productive bream fishing in the Serpentine and Murray rivers upstream.
St Helens
Tasmania's east-coast game-fishing capital, with the shelf close enough for a day trip and a reliable autumn run of southern bluefin tuna.
Derwent River
A rare estuary where sea-run brown trout, bream and squid share the same water, all within minutes of central Hobart.
Lake Eildon
A vast timbered impoundment two hours from Melbourne, offering Murray cod around standing timber, golden perch on the points and prolific redfin schools.
Murray River at Echuca
Classic river-country cod fishing among red gum snags and undercut banks, with golden perch through the warmer months and easy camping along the river.
Kangaroo Island
Clean water, heavy seagrass beds and lightly fished reef make Kangaroo Island one of South Australia's most rewarding destinations for whiting, squid and salmon.
Port Lincoln and Boston Bay
Boston Bay and the surrounding islands offer big yellowtail kingfish, reliable whiting grounds and squid in close, all in mostly sheltered water.
Noosa River
A clear, shallow and highly accessible estuary running from Laguna Bay to the Everglades, with sand flats for whiting and flathead and snag country upstream for jacks.
Lake Argyle
Australia's largest man-made lake, holding landlocked barramundi among drowned timber and rocky shorelines across an enormous, largely unfished expanse of water.
Corner Inlet
Extensive seagrass banks and deep tidal channels behind Wilsons Promontory produce some of Victoria's largest King George whiting in sheltered water.
Swan River, Perth
Perth's home water and one of the most accessible estuary fisheries in the country. Bream hold on the moored boats, jetty pylons and limestone walls, while mulloway patrol the deeper holes at Blackwall Reach and Mosman Bay after dark.
Peel–Harvey Estuary
A vast shallow estuary system fed by the Murray and Serpentine rivers. It is Western Australia's premier blue swimmer crab fishery and holds big black bream in the upper reaches through winter.
Bunbury and the Leschenault
Leschenault Inlet gives sheltered estuary fishing while the Bunbury breakwaters and offshore lumps put pink snapper and tailor within reach of a small boat.
Busselton Jetty
At 1.8 km, the longest timber-piled jetty in the southern hemisphere and a genuinely productive land-based platform. The pylons hold squid, skippy and herring, with sambos crashing baitfish out the deep end in summer.
Augusta and Hardy Inlet
Where the Blackwood River meets the Southern Ocean. The inlet is a classic bream fishery and Flinders Bay is one of the closest shots at southern bluefin tuna anywhere in the state.
Albany and King George Sound
A deep, sheltered sound ringed by granite headlands, with blue water only a short run away. Sambos hold on the shipwrecks, whiting cover the sand patches, and tuna arrive with the autumn cold water.
Esperance and the Recherche
The Recherche Archipelago is 105 islands of granite, kelp and clear water. It fishes like nowhere else in Australia — nannygai and breaksea cod on the drops, sambos on the pinnacles, and one of the best land-based salmon coastlines in the world.
Geraldton and the Abrolhos Islands
The Abrolhos is coral reef sitting in temperate water — baldchin groper, dhufish and coral trout on the same drop. Inshore, the Geraldton lumps hold dhuies and pink snapper within an easy run.
Kalbarri
Blue water sits close to shore here, so a modest trailer boat can reach dhufish and mackerel ground. The Murchison mouth itself produces mulloway and big bream, and the cliffs south of town are famous land-based territory.
Shark Bay and Denham
A World Heritage bay of seagrass meadows, sand flats and gutters. Pink snapper are the headline fish and the flats fishing for golden trevally and whiting on light gear is world-class.
Steep Point
The most westerly point of mainland Australia and the most famous land-based game fishing platform in the country. Sheer cliffs drop into deep blue water where mackerel, tuna and GTs feed within casting range.
Coral Bay
Ningaloo Reef comes right to the beach here. Inside the lagoon it is spangled emperor and trevally on light gear; outside the reef the bottom drops into red emperor and rankin cod country.
Onslow and the Mackerel Islands
Warm, fish-rich water with a string of islands, shoals and wrecks a few miles from the ramp. Spanish mackerel are the drawcard, but the bottom fishing for red emperor and rankin is as good as anywhere on the Pilbara coast.
Dampier Archipelago
A sprawling island group with everything from mangrove creeks holding barra to blue-water shoals with mackerel and sailfish. The variety inside one day's fishing here is hard to match.
Broome and Roebuck Bay
Ten-metre tides make Roebuck Bay a moving feast. Threadfin and barra work the creek mouths, queenfish and trevally smash bait off the town jetty, and the offshore ground holds big golden snapper.
Fitzroy River, Kimberley
One of the great Kimberley rivers. Barra hold in the deep permanent pools through the dry, alongside sooty grunter and protected freshwater sawfish. Remote, hot, and worth every kilometre.
Ord River, Kununurra
Below Lake Argyle the Ord runs clear and cool year-round, holding barra in the rock bars and weed edges. It fishes reliably even when the tidal systems are blown out.
Jurien Bay
Sheltered water behind a long reef line makes Jurien one of the safest dhufish fisheries on the mid-west coast. Whiting and squid fill the lagoon, dhuies and baldchin sit out wide.
Lancelin
A short, sheltered run to good reef ground plus a beach system that lights up when the salmon and tailor schools push through in autumn.
Two Rocks and the Perth Trench
The fastest access to deep water from the northern Perth suburbs. Dhufish and pinkies hold on the lumps in 30–60 m, and the shelf is close enough for a day trip on the right forecast.
Rowley Shoals
Three coral atolls rising from deep ocean, protected and almost untouched. It is the closest thing Australia has to a wilderness blue-water fishery, with strict sanctuary zoning.
Walpole and Nornalup Inlet
Deep, tannin-stained inlets surrounded by karri forest. Big black bream hold along the timbered edges and the system stays fishable when the coast is unworkable.
Hervey Bay
Protected by K'gari, Hervey Bay offers big-water species in small-boat conditions. Longtail tuna busting bait over the shallow banks in autumn is the highlight of the calendar.
Town of 1770 and Agnes Water
The southern gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. Bustard Bay and the inshore shoals hold trout and mackerel, and the creeks behind town are full of jacks and flathead.
Gold Coast Broadwater
A big, busy estuary with genuine fish in it. The Seaway holds mulloway and tailor, the canals hold jacks, and the sand banks produce flathead year-round.
Lake Monduran
Australia's best-known metre-barra impoundment. Timbered bays and weed points hold enormous fish, and a single session can be all patience for one shot at 120 cm.
Hinchinbrook Channel
A 50 km mangrove-lined channel between the mainland and Hinchinbrook Island — arguably the finest barramundi estuary system in Queensland.
K'gari (Fraser Island) Beaches
The winter tailor run along the eastern beach is an Australian fishing institution. Gutters form and shift daily, and reading them is the whole game.
Port Stephens
A deep drowned-valley harbour twice the size of Sydney Harbour, with kingfish on the inside reefs and a light-tackle marlin fishery a short run outside the heads.
Clarence River, Yamba
The biggest river system on the NSW coast. Kilometres of rock walls, deep holes and mangrove flats hold mulloway, big flathead and jacks in the upper reaches.
Narooma and Montague Island
Montague Island is one of the most reliable kingfish grounds in the country, and the shelf out from Narooma turns on for tuna and marlin when the current pushes in.
Lake Macquarie
Australia's largest coastal saltwater lake, and a flathead factory. Weed edges, drop-offs and the Swansea Channel give consistent fishing in any weather.
Jervis Bay and the Shoalhaven
Clear water, white sand and deep reef inside one of the most sheltered bays on the coast, with a big estuary system next door for flathead and bream.
Portland
The centre of Victoria's southern bluefin tuna season. Fish of 20–100 kg run within 10 nm of the harbour in autumn and winter, and the inshore reefs fish well year-round.
Western Port
A powerful tidal bay with deep channels, mangrove flats and enormous water movement. Big snapper and gummy sharks are the mainstays, plus elephant fish in autumn.
Mallacoota Inlet
A big, quiet inlet backed by wilderness. Flathead and bream throughout, bass in the freshwater reaches, and mulloway in the bottom lake near the entrance.
Yorke Peninsula
Some of the best King George whiting water in the country, plus squid over every seagrass patch and reef systems that hold snapper and nannygai.
Coorong and the Murray Mouth
A 130 km lagoon behind the Younghusband Peninsula. When the barrages release fresh water, mulloway stack at the mouth in numbers you will not see anywhere else in the state.
Arthur River and the Pieman
Deep tannin rivers running out of rainforest into the wildest coastline in Tasmania. Bream and trout share the same water, and the coast delivers salmon in any swell.
Arnhem Land Coast
Untouched coastline, endless creek systems and headlands that have barely been fished. Access is restricted, which is exactly why the fishing stays this good.
Borroloola and the McArthur River
Gulf-country barra fishing at its most reliable, with the Pellew Islands offering blue-water options when the river runs dirty.
Ammunition Jetty, Coogee
One of Perth's most productive free land-based platforms. The jetty runs out over sand into patchy reef, so herring and skippy hold close in while tailor and squid work the deeper end after dark.
Busselton Jetty (land-based)
At 1.8 km the longest timber jetty in the southern hemisphere, giving walk-out access to water most anglers need a boat to reach. The pylon field is a fish magnet.
Hillarys Boat Harbour Walls
A safe, family-friendly rock wall fishery north of Perth with deep water inside the marina and reef and sand on the ocean side.
Mandurah Canals and Foreshore
Walkable canal and foreshore fishing minutes from town, with bream holding on the canal walls and pontoons and mulloway patrolling the estuary channel at night.
Albany Town Jetties and Emu Point
Sheltered, deep and consistently productive, Albany's town jetties fish well in almost any weather and Emu Point channel funnels bait past the rocks on every tide.
Esperance Foreshore and Bandy Creek
Gin-clear water and one of the best autumn salmon runs in the country, with schools pushing along the beaches right in front of town.
Geraldton Foreshore and Point Moore
Mid-west land-based fishing with easy access to deep water off the breakwaters and long beaches with defined gutters either side of town.
Exmouth Town Beach and Bundegi
Tropical land-based fishing where the flats drop straight into deep gulf water, giving shore anglers a genuine shot at queenfish and trevally.
Broome Town Beach and Gantheaume Point
Huge tides drive land-based fishing in Broome, with threadfin and queenfish working the shore on the push and rock ledges producing on the drop.
Port Hedland Spoilbank and Cemetery Beach
Pilbara land-based fishing with genuine barramundi and threadfin potential straight off the rocks, especially on the big tides around the full moon.
North Mole and South Mole, Fremantle
Fremantle's harbour walls give shore anglers deep water, constant shipping-channel current and one of Perth's best chances at a land-based mulloway.
St Kilda Pier and Breakwater
Melbourne's most accessible land-based fishery, with spring snapper caught within sight of the CBD and squid available almost every month.
Portsea and Rye Piers
Two of Port Phillip's best land-based squid platforms, with clear water over seagrass and easy family access.
Queenscliff Pier and Swan Bay
The Rip's tidal flow pushes food past Queenscliff on every tide, making the pier one of the most consistent land-based spots in Victoria.
Lakes Entrance Footbridge and Walls
Where the Gippsland Lakes meet the sea, the entrance channel funnels bait and predators past accessible rock walls on every tide.
Nobbys Breakwall, Newcastle
A long, safe breakwall on a working harbour entrance, giving shore anglers access to deep channel water and constant tidal movement.
La Perouse and Botany Bay Rocks
Sydney's most accessible land-based sportfishing, with deep water close to the rocks and kingfish caught on live bait within the bay.
Long Reef Rock Platform
A classic Sydney northern beaches platform with deep gutters, heavy wash and excellent winter drummer and luderick fishing.
Forster Breakwall and Tuncurry Rocks
Wallis Lake's entrance is one of the most reliable land-based systems on the mid-north coast, with clean water and structure on both sides of the channel.
Coffs Harbour Jetty and Breakwall
A protected harbour with a long jetty and a walkable breakwall to Muttonbird Island, giving shelter and deep water in the same session.
Redcliffe Jetty and Woody Point
Moreton Bay's most family-friendly land-based fishing, with lit jetties, sand flats and enough tidal movement to keep fish feeding.
Cairns Esplanade and Marlin Marina
Genuine tropical land-based fishing in the middle of a city, with barramundi and threadfin caught off the boardwalk on the right tide.
The Strand and Rock Walls, Townsville
Kilometres of accessible rock wall and beach on the doorstep of the CBD, with queenfish and trevally patrolling the wall on the tide.
Gladstone Marina and Auckland Point
Deep harbour water, big tides and structure everywhere make Gladstone one of the best land-based barramundi options in Queensland.
Glenelg Jetty and Breakwater
Adelaide's best-known land-based platform, with squid along the jetty at dusk and garfish and tommies in a berley trail all year.
Port Noarlunga Jetty and Reef
The jetty runs out to a shallow aquatic reserve reef, giving land-based anglers structure that normally requires a boat.
Wynyard and Burnie Breakwaters
North-west Tasmanian land-based fishing where the Inglis River meets Bass Strait, producing salmon runs and reliable flathead over the sand.
Hobart Waterfront and Bellerive
The Derwent's deep harbour water is fishable straight off the city jetties, with squid and flathead available almost every month of the year.