Halls Head is a long stretch of beach on the ocean side of Mandurah that forms consistent gutters between here and Falcon. The rocky sections break up the sand and create natural fish-holding features that the flat beaches either side lack. It's a solid bread-and-butter spot that reliably produces herring and tailor without the circus of the more famous locations.

Work the gutters — look for depressions in the sand where waves break differently. The rocky patches hold bait, so fish close to them with metals or float a pilchard along the edges. In autumn, the herring stack up thick in the gutters and everything else follows them in. Small metal slugs retrieved fast through the gutters work well.

Herring (strong autumn numbers), tailor (summer dawn and dusk), whiting (year-round in sandy gutters), and the occasional mulloway in deeper holes at night.

The stretch from Halls Head south to Falcon is all fishable — don't lock into one spot if it's quiet. Walk 500m in either direction and you'll often find fish where the gutter is deeper or where bait is holding. The rocks can be slippery at low tide, so watch your footing.