What fish can you catch at Brighton-Le-Sands and Dolls Point?

The western Botany Bay foreshore, Lady Robinsons Beach, produces sand whiting on the flats, dusky flathead in the sandy gutters, and yellowfin bream, tarwhine and silver trevally around the rock groynes. Cooler months add tailor, Australian salmon and luderick. Note the NSW PFAS Taskforce advice for Botany Bay — Australian salmon caught here should be released rather than eaten, and weekly servings of tailor, silver trevally and mulloway are capped. A NSW Recreational Fishing Fee is required to fish anywhere in NSW, at $7 for three days, $14 for a month, $35 for a year or $85 for three years.

Where do you fish the groynes on Lady Robinsons Beach?

Stand on the sand or the lower rocks and fan five or six casts to one side of a groyne, then the other, before moving to the next wall. The groynes reach out past the shallows into deeper water, and the ones nearer the Cooks River mouth tend to hold the most variety thanks to the deeper, moving water. Watch the boundary, though: the tidal Cooks River starts at its junction with Botany Bay, and DPIRD advises that fish and shellfish caught in the river should not be eaten and that you release your catch, so the groynes south of the junction are the ones to fish if you want to keep something.

What is the size and bag limit for dusky flathead in NSW?

In NSW only dusky flathead between 36 cm and 70 cm may be kept — it is a slot limit, so anything over 70 cm goes back — with a daily bag of 5 and 10 in possession. Sand whiting are 27 cm on a bag of 20 shared across the whiting, yellowfin bream 25 cm and tarwhine 20 cm on a combined bag of 10, and tailor 30 cm on a bag of 10 with 20 in possession. A NSW Recreational Fishing Fee is required to fish here, and the receipt must be on you while you fish.

What is the best bait for whiting at Brighton-Le-Sands?

Live nippers, the pink yabbies, and live bloodworms are the standout baits for sand whiting here, fished on a light running-sinker rig with a long-shank hook over the top of the tide. Pump them on clean sand only — digging for bait in seagrass, mangroves or saltmarsh is prohibited state-wide, and this foreshore carries a lot of seagrass. Keep a low profile, because whiting spook easily in the clear, shallow water.

When is the best time and tide to fish the Botany Bay foreshore here?

Dawn and dusk lift the bite for every species. A run-in tide suits flathead in the gutters, while the top of the tide and early run-out suit whiting on the flats. The foreshore fishes easiest on a westerly wind and is hard to fish in a southerly, which blows straight onto this shore.

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Brighton-Le-Sands / Dolls Point (Lady Robinsons Beach)

Fri 23 Oct 2026 · Australia/Sydney

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📍 Brighton-Le-Sands / Dolls Point (Lady Robinsons Beach)

waxing gibbous · 89%

Weather: Rainy Wind: NE 30° · 15 km/h Swell: 1.2 m @ 5 s E Water: 18.0 °C Pressure: 1018.7 hPa ↓ falling Faces east · Offshore: SW, W, NW · Onshore: NE, E, SE · Forecast wind: cross-shore

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Moon waxing gibbous all day

Water temp 18.0 °C all day

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Major Minor Tide Twilight

First light 5:39 am Last light 7:40 pm

Low 12:32 am High 6:47 am Low 12:42 pm High 6:46 pm

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Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

5:00 am → 7:30 am

2h 30m

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7:00 pm → 8:30 pm

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First light

5:39 am

Last light

7:40 pm

Sunrise

6:04 am

Sunset

7:15 pm

Moonrise

4:13 pm

Moonset

4:04 am

Low tide

12:32 am

High tide

6:47 am

Low tide

12:42 pm

High tide

6:46 pm

Hourly Wind

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Water Temp (°C)

↘ cooling — down 1.9° over the last 3 days

Tue

20 Oct

19.9°

Wed

21 Oct

19.9°

Thu

22 Oct

18.4°

Fri

23 Oct

18.0°

Sat

24 Oct

18.2°

Sun

25 Oct

18.3°

Mon

26 Oct

18.3°

Tue

27 Oct

18.6°

Wed

28 Oct

18.6°

Thu

29 Oct

19.0°

Wind Map

Wind data (text)

Now: 15 km/h NE (30°).

Wind map data: ECMWF HRES (operational), updated every 6 hours. Not for navigation.

Feeding Windows

Best times to fish based on activity score.

Peak

5:00 am → 7:30 am

2h 30m

Good

7:00 pm → 8:30 pm

1h 30m

Good

10:00 am → 12:00 pm

Good

10:00 pm → 12:00 am

First light

5:39 am

Last light

7:40 pm

Sunrise

6:04 am

Sunset

7:15 pm

Moonrise

4:13 pm

Moonset

4:04 am

Low tide

12:32 am

High tide

6:47 am

Low tide

12:42 pm

High tide

6:46 pm

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