Mosman Bay is one of the deepest pockets in the lower Swan, and the jetty off Johnson Parade puts you straight over it. Big mulloway patrol the deep water after dark, bream hold along the pylons, and the east-facing aspect means the afternoon sea breeze is someone else's problem. When the coast is blown out, Mosman fishes anyway.

Drop baits straight down the pylons for bream and tarwhine — prawn, bloodworm or small mulie strips on a light running sinker. For mulloway, fish the deep channel on dusk and into dark with a whole mulie or live herring. Work soft plastics along the drop-off for flathead, and keep a squid jig in the rotation during spring — the clear water behind the jetty can hold good calamari.

Black bream (around pylons, year-round), flathead (sand edges), mulloway (deep water after dark), tailor (autumn, dawn/dusk), tarwhine, herring, yellowfin whiting (summer), and southern calamari (spring through autumn).

Short walk, solid lighting, benches — it's a civilised session, not an expedition. Parking on Johnson Parade fills up fast on calm evenings, so arrive early or walk in. Cobbler are fully protected in the Swan-Canning — release any caught immediately. If the bream go quiet on the pylons, step out to the end and work the drop-off; the depth change is where the bigger fish sit.