The sheltered waters inside Bribie Island are perfect for family fishing trips.

Here’s some spots where you can expect to catch bream, flathead, sand whiting, goldspot cod, mangrove jacks (summer), trevally, mulloway (night), tailor (winter), garfish and more.

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1. Bongaree Jetty & Foreshore

Bongaree Jetty is one of Bribie Island’s most accessible shore-based fishing platforms, offering deep water access into the main channel of Pumicestone Passage. Species include bream, flathead, whiting, estuary cod and occasional mulloway. Night fishing around jetty lights produces prawns and baitfish, attracting predators.

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2. Brennan Park Foreshore

Grassed foreshore adjacent to Bongaree Jetty with sandy gutters and yabby flats. Productive for whiting, bream and flathead on run-out tides. Family-friendly access with lighting for evening sessions.

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3. Sylvan Beach Esplanade

Long shoreline stretch facing shallow sandbanks and channels. Ideal for whiting, bream and flathead, with summer garfish and winter tailor also present. Best fished on rising tides over yabby beds.

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4. Bellara Foreshore

Mix of rock walls, sand flats and mangrove edges. Produces bream, cod, flathead and occasional mangrove jack in warmer months. Night sessions effective around structure.

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5. Banksia Beach Canal Mouths

Canal outlets draining into Pumicestone Passage create current lines holding bait. Species include flathead, bream, trevally and school mulloway. Fish moving water around tide changes.

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6. Col Fisher Park

Open shoreline with channel access within casting distance. Produces whiting, bream and flathead, with occasional pelagics chasing bait schools in warmer months.

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7. Cosy Corner (Banksia Beach North)

Sheltered shoreline with seagrass beds and yabby flats. Productive for whiting, bream and flathead. Calm-weather option when winds affect exposed areas.

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8. Sandstone Point Facing Shoreline

Western shore facing the Sandstone Point channel drop-off. Deeper water within casting range. Bream, flathead and mulloway possible, especially at night.

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9. Buckleys Hole Conservation Park Beach

Natural shoreline with adjacent lagoon system. Passage side produces bream, flathead and whiting, particularly around dawn on making tides.

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10. Kakadu Beach Foreshore

Quiet shoreline stretch with consistent flathead and bream captures. Weed patches hold bait and summer predators.

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 has been  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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