Kingscliff has good surf fishing and some rock wall fishing.
Surf fishing for tailor is usually good in an area about a kilometre from the bowls club, but the gutters move around.
The southern wall of Cudgen Creek is a good spot with occasional very large mulloway caught there, as well as bream, tailor, luderick and flathead.
Immediately south of the southern wall are low-tide spots among the rocks, these fish well for tailor, bream, snapper, mulloway and more, but it is a hazardous area.
Cudgen Creek has whiting, flathead, bream, mangrove jacks and luderick.
There is reefy bottom 500m or so north of the creek mouth, and extensive reef further offshore.
Kayak fishing the inshore reefs is a popular activity, with snapper, cobia, kingfish, morwong, spangled emperor, cod and mackerel caught.
Tailor fishing in this area is from July to February, with the biggest fish often caught at night in summer.
flathead, whiting, bream and dart are the common catch in the surf, best in the early morning.
Other nearby spots to try include the Tweed River, Fingal Head and Norries Head.
At the Tweed, big whiting are caught at the mouth of the inlet near the caravan park at Chinderah.
Use worms for bait at night on ultralight tackle.
South of Kingscliff, Hastings Point rocks produce mainly yellowfin bream, with a chance of passing tailor and mulloway.
Cudgera Creek at Hastings Point produces flathead, bream, whiting, mangrove jacks and luderick.
Use lures to get past the small bream in the creeks.
Mulloway are a chance at all the local creek mouths after prolonged heavy rain.
The road south to Pottsville follows the beach and it is easy to stop along the way and look for gutters.
Bream, tarwhine, tailor, dart, flathead, whiting and mulloway can be caught in the surf throughout this area.
Shallow Mooball Creek, between Hastings Point and Pottsville, has flathead.
South of Pottsville is a beach near a rock patch “Black Rocks” – this area produces quality tailor.
Beaches in this region have cockles (pipis) and beach worms.
Kingscliff tides
Kingscliff coastline
NSW fishing regulations
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