Deep Water Point is the most civilised fishing spot on the Canning — reserve, car park, BBQs, jetty — but don't let the picnic tables fool you. Long sand flats drop off hard into the main channel right in front of the jetty, and that drop is where bream patrol and flathead ambush. It's also the Perth family crab headquarters once the season opens in December.

Work the edge where the flats fall into the channel — that's the feeding line. Small soft plastics dragged along the bottom are deadly for flathead. For bream, fish light leaders with prawn or blade lures around the jetty pylons and along the drop-off on the turn of the tide. Fish dawn, dusk, or the tide change. After dark, switch to heavier bait for mulloway in the deeper water.

Black bream (the main target, year-round on the drop-off), flathead (sand flats, soft plastics), tailor (autumn), herring, tarwhine, yellowfin whiting (summer on the flats), and mulloway in the channel. Blue swimmer crabs are the headline from December 1.

The old jetty has seen better days — watch your footing on the timber. The flats are walkable at low water but stop before waist deep; the drop-off is genuinely steep. Cobbler are fully protected in the Swan-Canning — release any caught. Check algal-bloom warnings before eating anything out of the river; DPIRD posts them for the Swan/Canning whenever they flare up. Arrive early on weekends — parking fills once the BBQs start.