City Beach Groyne has been a Perth fishing institution for generations. The groyne creates a defined break in the surf that concentrates bait and creates ambush points for tailor and herring. The reef system running offshore adds structure that most flat beaches lack, and the Floreat Drain nearby washes nutrients into the surf zone.

Fish the seam where turbulent water from the groyne meets cleaner water — that transition zone is where fish sit in ambush. Cast metals or pilchards along the groyne edge and work them through the wash. At dawn and dusk, tailor patrol the groyne edges aggressively. The Floreat Drain outflow attracts bait when it's running after rain.

Tailor (the groyne's bread and butter, autumn dawn and dusk), herring (year-round), whiting (clean sand patches), tarwhine, and mulloway at night in the deeper sections.

The Town of Cambridge has proposed fishing restrictions along parts of this coastline in the past — check current regulations before fishing. The groyne gets busy at dawn during autumn tailor season. Keep casts controlled around other anglers and swimmers. Wet limestone is slippery.