The Mandorah boating facility opened in mid 2025. It features significant rock walls that are prime fishing locations.

Mandorah already has a great track record as a fishing location, with barramundi, blue and threadfin salmon, jacks and cod commonly caught along the foreshores by boat and from land.

Mackerel, trevally, queenfish and sharks are caught from the jetty.

About 80,000 tonnes of rock was used to build the two new breakwaters.

Fish the walls around high tide with livebait or lures.

Jacks tend to feed up close to rocky foreshores on a rising tide.

Going by experience elsewhere, mud crabs will also be found in the rock walls and could likely be potted on a rising tide.

Keep in mind that crocodiles, marine stingers and stonefish exist in Darwin Harbour.

Care is required walking on the rocks. Swell should not be a problem as the location is reasonably sheltered, but severe thunderstorms hit this area from September onwards.

For more information about the project go to: https://infrastructure.nt.gov.au/project/mandorah-marine-facilities

Drone footage is at https://youtu.be/u_q2z1mBcvQ

NOTE: Special snapper rules apply in SA. More recently, new restrictions were announced following a destructive marine algal bloom … view them here.

Normanville, immediately south of South Australia’s Myponga and Carrickalinga, is known for its relatively low-energy beach.

Flathead, yelloweye mullet, salmon trout and sand whiting are the main catch, usually around high tide.

There was a small jetty that could be fished at high tide, but this was destroyed by a storm in June 2025. It remains to be seen if it will be rebuilt.

There is a tidal creek at Normanville that is usually landlocked. After heavy rain when the creek flows, the area around the mouth is worth a try for school mulloway.

School mulloway swim South Australia’s low-energy beaches just as they do the surf beaches, however the difficulty in catching them is that sharks and rays will usually find your bait before a mulloway does.

If you drop a cartopper or yak in off the beach the seagrass beds have king george whiting, squid, tommies, flathead, red mullet and gar.

Holiday cabins are located on the beach near the creek.

Here are some tips on chasing Normanville’s mullet.

To catch flathead, try walking beach while flicking a bait or lure.

Normanville tides
Normanville on Beachsafe
SA fishing regulations
SA marine parks
SA stocked dams
SA dam water levels
Murray River fishing spots

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NOTE: Special snapper rules apply in SA. More recently, new restrictions were announced following a destructive marine algal bloom … view them here.

Port Noarlunga, south of Adelaide, is best known for its fishing jetty, but it also has landbased opportunities.

In 2025 the southern section of a raised coastal walkway called the Witton Bluff Base Trail was opened. This walkway runs north along the rocks from near the jetty.

At high tide some of the rocks along this walkway drop into deep water, a likely spot for chasing mulloway and more.

Nimble fishos could, with care, climb over the railing at several locations to access the rocks, but check the latest by-laws first, which are likely to evolve.

The walkway was still being built when we checked it out, and it remains to be seen if a gate will be built for fishermen to access the rocks.

Landbased fishos can also fish the mouth of the Onkaparinga River nearby.

Here’s a walkway website with a few pix … https://yoursay.onkaparinga.sa.gov.au/witton-buff-base-trail/boardwalk

Onkaparinga River mouth tides
South Port (Onkaparinga mouth) on Beachsafe
SA fishing regulations
SA marine parks
SA stocked dams
SA dam water levels
Murray River fishing spots

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