Entrance Point (Broome boat ramps / point rocks)

Entrance Point is where Broome anglers throw metals for queenfish and trevally off the rocks on the run-in, at the southern tip of the peninsula where Roebuck Bay opens to the sea. The town's main boat ramps sit either side of it beside the Broome Fishing Club, and it is the bay's main launch point — a Fisheries camera counted 6,057 recreational launches in 2012–13. What it no longer offers is a jetty: the port jetty, for years Broome's premier land-based spot, is now a security-restricted working wharf with no pedestrian access.

From the rocks, fish the run-in and the top of the tide, casting 40–60g metal slugs or 120–150mm stickbaits along the edge of the current for queenfish and trevally, and watch for bait being pushed into the shallows. Kimberley Ports keeps a permanent 60-metre exclusion zone around every part of both port terminals, so work the point and the rocks either side, not the wharf pylons. By boat, the creeks of Roebuck Bay — the Fingers, Dampier Creek and Crab Creek — hold threadfin on hard-bodied lures and vibes worked on the run-in, while the reef out from Gantheaume Point gives bluebone, Spanish mackerel and tuna. Launch and retrieve with the tide chart in hand, because at Broome ramps the waterline often sits a long way from the end of the concrete.

Queenfish and trevally are the shore catch. The port jetty pylons used to give up mangrove jack, barramundi and mulloway, but the jetty is closed to the public, so treat those reports as history. Boats leaving from here target threadfin in the bay's creeks — the Fingers, Dampier Creek and Crab Creek all hold them — and bluebone, Spanish mackerel and tuna on the reef out from Gantheaume Point. King threadfin carry a 450mm minimum and a daily bag of 2.

Watch the shallows either side of the point: when bait is pushed in, the queenfish and trevally are rarely far behind, so keep a metal tied on and cast the moment it shows. The port works changed the road in: follow Port Drive and the signs at the new roundabout, which splits port trucks from traffic heading to Entrance Point, the ramps, Broome Volunteer Marine Rescue and the fishing club, and ignore older maps that route you down Kabbarli Road. Within 400 metres of either terminal every vessel, recreational boats included, is limited to 8 knots with minimal wake, and must give a berthed ship 150 metres at no more than 5 knots. Fishing from a powered boat needs a Recreational Fishing from Boat Licence and, for demersal species such as bluebone, a release weight on board, while a cast net for bait needs a Recreational Net Fishing Licence.

Entrance Point is at the end of the public road past the port, with car and trailer parking at the point, a boat ramp on each side of it and the Broome Fishing Club beside them. The rocks are broken, uneven and slippery near the waterline, so no part of the fishing ground suits wheelchairs, and children need a firm hand on the rocks when a big tide is running. The ramps are busiest in the dry season, July and August above all, so expect company. They are open beach ramps, and the Shire of Broome warns that big tides, strong currents, wind and waves can make them hazardous with little warning, the more exposed southern ramp especially. A planned Broome Boating Facility would replace them, and the Shire expects the existing ramps to close while it is built, so check the Shire's project page before towing in.

Port of Broome tides have a maximum range of 10.5 metres and a mean spring range of 7.7 metres, and tidal streams reach 5 knots in the harbour approaches and 3 knots at the wharf. That current is what pushes bait past the point, and it is also what makes small-boat launching and retrieving here a matter of timing. The water off the point is Port of Broome water, outside the Yawuru Nagulagun / Roebuck Bay Marine Park; head east into the bay and you are inside the park, which has no sanctuary zones and allows recreational fishing in every zone — in its cultural heritage zones, Yawuru ask visitors to respect their privacy during cultural activities. The dry season, May to October, brings the settled weather, and the wet, November to April, brings cyclone risk.

Entrance Point is inside Broome's crocodile control zone, and crocs move along this waterfront — don't stand at the waterline to land or clean fish, and don't wade. The tide floods quickly over the rocks around the point — don't get caught far from shore on a fast-rising tide. Box jellyfish and irukandji are mostly reported from November to June, with cases recorded in every month. DBCA warns that the cliff edges along this coast are fragile and can crumble, and that jumping off the rocks is dangerous because of large submerged objects.

No. Kimberley Ports puts the whole wharf neck and wharf inside its landside restricted zone: entry needs a Maritime Security Identification Card and a port induction, and pedestrians are not permitted on either terminal. The public can't fish from the new Terminal 2 jetty either, and a permanent 60-metre exclusion zone surrounds both terminals. The walkway that made the jetty famous was closed for safety in 2016, partly reopened in 2017 and closed again for the port works by early 2025; Kimberley Ports described that closure as temporary, so check its website for any change. Fish the Entrance Point rocks or the Town Beach jetty instead.

Entrance Point, at the southern tip of the Broome peninsula, has a ramp on each side of the point, beside the Broome Fishing Club; the Department of Transport also lists the Town Beach ramp. Entrance Point handles thousands of launches a year — 6,057 in a 2012–13 Fisheries camera count. Broome's tides can leave the waterline a long way from the end of the ramp, so plan both the launch and the retrieve around the tide.

From the rocks, queenfish and trevally, mostly on the run-in and at the top of the tide when bait is pushed into the shallows. By boat from the ramps, threadfin in the Roebuck Bay creeks and bluebone, Spanish mackerel and tuna on the reef out from Gantheaume Point.

Yes, if the boat has a motor. A Recreational Fishing from Boat Licence covers line fishing, crabbing and any other fishing from a powered boat, and you also need one to use a powered boat to carry your catch or gear to a shore spot. A release weight must be on board when boat fishing for demersal species such as bluebone, and a cast net needs a Recreational Net Fishing Licence. No licence is needed for line fishing from the shore.