Jurien Bay is the north's answer to Busselton — a small coastal town built around a marine park, with a jetty that produces pink snapper off the end, marina walls that hold squid and tailor, and beaches that fire in autumn for salmon. The Marine Park status protects the good inshore reef and seagrass while leaving plenty of legal water to fish. Pink snapper are genuinely a land-based possibility here, which is rare anywhere south of Geraldton.

Fish the new jetty at dawn, dusk and after dark. Light baits and jigs at the inshore end for herring, skippy, whiting and tarwhine; heavier gear further out with whole mulies, mullet strips or bigger soft plastics for pink snapper, mulloway, samson and summer kingfish. Work squid jigs along the marina walls under the lights at night. The beaches either side of town fire in autumn for tailor and salmon schools — metal slugs and poppers retrieved through the wash.

Pink snapper (the headline — jetty, marina walls and bay-wide), mulloway and samson fish (jetty end), tailor and salmon (autumn beach runs), herring, skippy, whiting, squid and tarwhine (bread and butter), flathead on sand edges, and summer visitors: yellowtail kingfish and the odd Spanish mackerel just behind the reef.

Jurien Bay Marine Park has several no-take sanctuary zones — east of Boullanger Island, the shallow reef/seagrass between North Head and Sandy Point, and towards North Head from Sandy Point. Check the DBCA Marine Park Visitor Guide before casting anywhere near them. West Coast Bioregion demersal closure Cervantes–Kalbarri runs 15 October – 15 December — hard stop on snapper/dhufish in that window. Last fuel stop from Perth is Lancelin if you're coming straight up.