Albany is a popular fishing location because it offers safe sea access for boaters, and has beaches facing in different directions, allowing anglers to fish out of prevailing winds.

There is reasonably sheltered water near the town, along with a summer prawn and blue crab run. The annual salmon run occurs on scenic beaches, and the fish will bite until anglers are exhausted.

Sadly, rock fishing off Albany combines big waves and smooth, slippery rocks, a proven fatal recipe.

Boat launching is at the town ramp, Frenchmans Bay, Emu Point, Misery Beach and Lower King.

A few of Albany’s better spots are:
Bornholm Beach – accessible via rough 4WD track, produces salmon and herring.
Shelley Beach – accessible by 2WD, has mostly salmon;
Mutton Bird Island – most species, can be reached by 2WD to the carpark, and 4WD beyond.
Torbay Inlet – black bream.
Salmon Holes – one of the best salmon spots near Albany in late summer and autumn, accessible by 2WD. Avoid the rocks, people have drowned there.
Frenchman Bay – a good spot to take the boat, beach launching.
Princess Royal Harbour – most species for small boat fishos.
Oyster Harbour – bream in the snaggy King and Kalgan Rivers.
Middleton Beach – easy access to salmon fishing from town.
Two Peoples Bay – boat launching in calm weather.
The Sand Patch – landbased reef fishing for most species, a long walk down steep stairs located next to the local prison.
Normans Beach – salmon. Fishermen must park and walk.
Cheyne Beach – one of the best salmon beaches.

Albany also has the HMAS Perth artificial reef for divers, and there are several natural reefs in and near King George Sound.

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Bremer Bay, almost 500km east of Perth, has some of the best beach salmon fishing on Western Australia’s south coast.

The combination of clear water and white sand surf beaches that in many cases drop away quickly into deep water, with large WA salmon often present, are the highlights of this region.

There is also excellent offshore fishing.

A 4WD is needed to reach the best surf beaches, but for the family fisho with a 2WD vehicle, Short Beach on Point Henry Peninsula has a sealed road access, but with no vehicle access to the beach.

Short Beach beach has deep water with a reef near shore, with salmon schools moving inside the reef at times. silver trevally and herring are also caught, and occasional tailor and kingfish.

Night fishing can be productive, with mulloway and school and gummy sharks caught in the dark.

Fishery Beach is a relatively sheltered beach, also on the Point Henry Peninsula. It has a marina, toilet facilities and a fish cleaning table. Squid are caught here, along with herring and salmon.

Little Boat Harbour is on Point Henry Peninsula at the end of Point Henry Road. There are boat launching facilities for 4WD vehicles, with deep water close in. silver trevally, squid, king george whiting, sand whiting and flathead are caught here.

Bremer Beach is at the end of Bremer Bay Road. It produces mainly silver trevally, salmon, flathead, whiting and herring.

Rock fishos can try Flat Rock off Cuneo Drive. This is near Bremer Bay Caravan Park, with a staircase giving access to the rocks. Expect salmon, herring, king george whiting, silver trevally and squid.

There is bream fishing in the Wellstead Estuary, which also produces blue swimmer crabs, prawns, yelloweye mullet, flathead, flounder and whiting.

There is a boat ramp in the lower river at Muirs Point, suited to small boats.

The estuary entrance beach has mulloway after heavy rain when the bar opens.

Fosters and Reef Beaches are two of the best locations but require high-clearance 4WD to access. These beaches produce large salmon and silver trevally, with a chance of mulloway, especially at Reef Beach.

The big salmon can be caught all year.

The use of 4WD is allowed on many beaches in this region.

Rock platforms in this area drop into deep water and produce samson, kingfish, pink snapper and mulloway, along with salmon, but the Southern Ocean demands respect.

A 4WD track leads 17km north of Bremer township to Gordon Inlet, with bream in the upper river for cartopper and canoe fishos.

Further north, beach launching is inside Point Ann at Cheadanup, located on the rabbit-proof fence.

This is part of Fitzgerald River National Park.

Boaters who go wide along the Bremer Bay coast will find pink snapper, nannygai, morwong, harlequin, kingfish, samson, sharks and more.

Further afield, there are launch sites in this region at Two People’s Bay, Cheynes Beach, and Cape Riche.

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Israelite Bay, part of Cape Arid National Park, has good beach and rock fishing, but high-clearance 4WD is needed to explore this area.

Visitors also need to be fully self-sufficient.

Israelite Bay itself is sheltered and shallow and has good whiting and flathead fishing, but beach fishing is better on the deeper 40-Mile Beach north of the bay, or around Point Malcolm 25km to the south.

Salmon is the main species around the rocks and deeper beaches, usually available all year, with silver trevally, herring, mullet and mulloway all a chance.

Storms can carpet the beaches with weed, making access hard.

Never drive over seaweed piles, as bogging is inevitable. Tyres must be deflated for the sand tracks.

Beach launching within the shallow bay is only for cartoppers or kayaks. Bigger boats are better launched elsewhere within Cape Arid NP.

The Eastern Group of Islands are 10km and 25km out.

For visitors who drive in from Esperance via Fisheries Rd (the usual route), the last fuel outlet is Condingup, 80km from Esperance.

There are shaded camp sites near Israelite Bay and at Point Malcolm.

More coastal camps are to the south-west at Seal and Jorndee Creeks, and Thomas Fishery. See the Cape Arid NP link above.

Heading north-east from Israelite Bay, well organised 4WD fishos can travel via the beach at low tide about 120km north to Point Culver, where there is more good surf fishing.

A track leads up the cliffs and back to the highway.

A Commonwealth marine sanctuary applies wide of Israelite Bay.

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