Shelley Foreshore is the Canning's classic wading water — extensive sand flats lined with seagrass, broken up by rocky patches and the looming structure of Mount Henry Bridge. Bream patrol the weed edges on the rising tide, flathead sit on the sand lanes ready to ambush, and the bridge pylons hold fish when the flats go quiet. It's the go-to for Perth bream anglers who'd rather wade than sit on a jetty.

Wade out carefully onto the flats on a rising tide — subtle soft plastics or small hardbodies worked along weed edges and over rocky patches are the bream recipe. For flathead, drag soft plastics along the sandy lanes between the weed. Step over to the Mount Henry Bridge pylons for a structure change; tailor and tarwhine hold in the current lines, and mulloway move through deeper water after dark on a rising tide.

Black bream (weed-edge sight-casting on the flats), flathead (sand lanes), mulloway (deeper water, after dark), tailor (autumn), tarwhine and herring around structure, and yellowfin whiting on the cleaner sand patches in summer.

Clear, shallow water — light leaders and clean presentations beat everything else. The flats look uniformly shallow but the drop-off into the main channel is closer than it looks; wade no deeper than waist. Cobbler are fully protected in the Swan-Canning — release any caught immediately. Mount Henry Bridge traffic noise carries across the water, which weirdly doesn't seem to bother the bream.