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Queensland Fishing Spots

Jetties, beaches, rock walls and river banks across Gold Coast, Brisbane & Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast, Fraser Coast, Bundaberg & Gladstone, and Capricorn Coast, each with its own bite forecast.

90 spots, grouped by region.

Gold Coast

17 spots Regions

Barney Street Platform (Sundale Bridge)

The Barney Street platform sits at the river end of Barney Street in Southport, beside Sundale Bridge where the Gold Coast Highway crosse...

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Budds Beach (Nerang River)

Surfers Paradise

Budds Beach is a strip of river sand on the Nerang River, tucked behind the towers of Surfers Paradise and a short walk from Cavill Avenu...

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Coombabah Creek Jetty (Turana Street)

The council's concrete jetty on Coombabah Creek sits at the northern end of The Esplanade, next to the public boat ramp, opposite the mou...

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Currumbin Creek (Thrower Drive Boardwalk)

Two council fishing platforms sit along the Beree-Badalla boardwalk, which winds across the mangrove flats on the western bank of Currumb...

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Currumbin Creek Mouth

Currumbin Creek squeezes out to sea between the entrance wall on the Palm Beach side and Currumbin Rock, with The Alley surf break runnin...

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Gold Coast Seaway South Wall

The Gold Coast Seaway is the man-made entrance that drains the Broadwater, and its south wall at the tip of The Spit is the most popular ...

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Jacobs Well Jetty

Jacobs Well sits at the top of the Gold Coast where the Broadwater opens into southern Moreton Bay, a maze of channels, mangrove islands ...

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The Kirra groyne is the rock wall at Kirra Point that splits Coolangatta Beach from Kirra Beach, built to hold sand on one of the most fa...

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Labrador Fishing Platforms (Marine Parade)

A string of council fishing platforms lines the Marine Parade esplanade at Labrador, between the Grand Hotel and just south of Whiting St...

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Marine Stadium (The Spit)

Marine Stadium is the sheltered bay tucked inside The Spit, separated from the open Broadwater by the sandy finger of Moondarewa Spit. Be...

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Narrowneck Beach (Main Beach)

Narrowneck is the thin strip of land where the Nerang River and the ocean nearly meet, just south of Main Beach and north of Surfers Para...

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Nerang River Platform (Weedons Crossing)

This council platform sits on the bank of the Nerang River at the northern tip of Burchill Park, just downstream of the M1 at Nerang. Wee...

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Palm Beach Groyne (21st Avenue)

Palm Beach has two short rock groynes, at 11th and 21st Avenues, and the one at 21st Avenue is the pick for anglers: it pushes out past t...

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Paradise Point Pier

Paradise Point pier runs out from the parklands at the end of the Paradise Point shopping strip into the northern Broadwater. The water h...

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Snapper Rocks is the black basalt reef at the foot of Point Danger, where the Queensland coast runs out of road and the swell wraps aroun...

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Southport Broadwater Parklands Pier

The Broadwater Parklands pier runs out about 100 metres from Southport's waterfront park into the Broadwater, with the high-rises of Main...

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Tallebudgera Creek Mouth

Tallebudgera Creek runs out to sea in the shadow of Burleigh headland, with a rock training wall on the Palm Beach side holding the entra...

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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

21 spots Regions

Amity Point Jetty & Rock Wall

Amity Point is the north-western tip of North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), where the tide pours in and out of Moreton Bay past a shor...

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Bongaree Jetty sits on the Pumicestone Passage side of Bribie Island, about 2 km south of the bridge, where the full tidal flow between M...

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Bribie Island Bridge (Bongaree)

The Bribie Island Bridge has crossed the Pumicestone Passage between Sandstone Point and Bellara since 1963, and its pylons are the main ...

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Cleveland Point

Cleveland Point is the narrow headland that marks the town's waterfront, with a historic lighthouse at the tip and rocks and seawall runn...

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Colmslie Beach Reserve (Brisbane River)

Colmslie Beach Reserve is a riverside park at Murarrie on the lower Brisbane River, where the river widens on its final run past Hamilton...

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Coochiemudlo Island Jetty

Coochiemudlo Island

Coochiemudlo is a small island in the southern bay, a short ferry ride from Victoria Point, and its jetty on the south-western shore, fac...

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Hornibrook Bridge Fishing Platform

The old Hornibrook Bridge carried cars from Brighton to the Redcliffe Peninsula from 1935 until the Houghton Highway opened beside it in ...

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Kangaroo Point Cliffs (Brisbane River)

The riverwalk at the foot of the Kangaroo Point Cliffs puts you on the bank of the Brisbane River directly across from the City Botanic G...

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Main Beach (North Stradbroke Island)

North Stradbroke Island

Main Beach runs for more than 30 km down the ocean side of North Stradbroke Island from Point Lookout, and it is the island's main surf f...

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Manly Boat Harbour Walls

Manly Boat Harbour is one of the biggest recreational boat harbours in the country, and its rock walls run out across the flats to deeper...

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One Mile Jetty (Dunwich)

One Mile Jetty sits on the calm bay side of North Stradbroke Island at Dunwich (Goompi), and it doubles as the landing for the Stradbroke...

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Point Lookout (Frenchmans & Headland)

Point Lookout is the rocky headland at the north-eastern corner of North Stradbroke Island, facing straight into the open Pacific. Small ...

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Redcliffe Jetty

Redcliffe Jetty is the centrepiece of the Redcliffe foreshore, a concrete jetty that runs out from Redcliffe Parade into the open water o...

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Shorncliffe Pier

Shorncliffe Pier runs about 350 m out from the cliff-top suburb into Bramble Bay, which makes it one of the longest fishing platforms in ...

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Tangalooma Wrecks (Moreton Island)

The Tangalooma Wrecks are a line of old ships scuttled off the western beach of Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) to form a sheltered anchorage,...

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Toorbul Esplanade

Toorbul is a small, quiet township on the mainland shore of the Pumicestone Passage, looking across the water to the western side of Brib...

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Victoria Point Jetty

Victoria Point Jetty is the departure point for the Coochiemudlo Island ferry, and it reaches out over the sand and seagrass flats of the...

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Wellington Point Jetty

Wellington Point

Wellington Point sticks out into Moreton Bay north of Cleveland, and the jetty on the end of the point looks across to King Island, a sma...

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Woody Point Jetty

Woody Point Jetty sticks out from the south-western corner of the Redcliffe Peninsula into Bramble Bay, and the current version was built...

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Woorim is Bribie Island's surf beach, facing east across the northern end of Moreton Bay toward Moreton Island. It is less exposed than a...

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Wynnum Jetty is the T-shaped jetty that sticks out over the flats beside the Wynnum wading pool, and locals still call it the T Jetty. Th...

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Sunshine Coast

20 spots Regions

Bulcock Beach Boardwalk

The Bulcock Beach boardwalk runs along the seawall at the northern mouth of the Pumicestone Passage, right in front of Caloundra's cafés....

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Chambers Island (Maroochy River)

Chambers Island is a small park island in the Maroochy River, joined to the Maroochydore bank by a footbridge. The main channel bends aro...

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Cotton Tree (Maroochy River Mouth)

Cotton Tree sits on the southern side of the Maroochy River mouth, where the river swings around a sandy point and runs past the groynes ...

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Currimundi Lake Mouth

Currimundi Lake is a small coastal lake that breaks out to the sea across the beach, with bushland on the northern side and parkland on t...

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Golden Beach & Military Jetty

South of Caloundra the Pumicestone Passage widens over sand flats and yabby banks, and Golden Beach is where the locals wade them. The Mi...

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Gympie Terrace (Noosaville)

Gympie Terrace runs along the Noosa River at Noosaville, with a strip of parkland and sand between the cafés and the water. The river flo...

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Kings Beach Rocks

The rock platform at the eastern end of Kings Beach is Caloundra's closest taste of ocean rock fishing, a short walk from the car park an...

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La Balsa Park (Mooloolah River)

La Balsa Park runs along the eastern bank of the Mooloolah River just inside the entrance, opposite the Mooloolaba marina. The tide runs ...

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Moffat Headland

Moffat Headland is the point between Moffat Beach and the run of rock and sand south toward Kings Beach, and it faces more open ocean tha...

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Mooloolaba Spit Wall

The Spit wall is the long rock training wall on the western side of the Mooloolah River entrance, and every fish that comes in or out of ...

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Mudjimba Beach faces Mudjimba Island, the small rocky island locals call Old Woman Island, about a kilometre and a bit offshore. The isla...

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Muller Park (Maroochy River, Bli Bli)

Muller Park sits on the eastern bank of the Maroochy River at Bli Bli, beside the boat ramp and just downstream of the David Low Way brid...

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Noosa National Park Headland (Boiling Pot)

The rocks below the Noosa National Park coastal track at Boiling Pot face north across Laguna Bay, so they are sheltered from the south-e...

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Noosa North Shore Beach

Noosa North Shore

Across the river from Noosa, the beach runs north along the Cooloola coast toward Double Island Point, and this southern stretch is the s...

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Noosa River Mouth (Noosa Spit)

The Noosa Spit is the sandy point at the end of Hastings Street, where the Noosa River meets the sea beside a rock groyne. The river beac...

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Noosa Woods (Woods Bay)

Woods Bay is the calm stretch of water on the inside of Noosa Woods, the bushland reserve at the end of the spit. The sand edges slope ge...

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Point Arkwright

Point Arkwright

Point Arkwright is a rocky headland between Coolum and Yaroomba, with ledges that drop into reef and sand below. It is far enough from th...

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Point Cartwright

Point Cartwright is the headland on the eastern side of the Mooloolah River mouth, with the lighthouse on top and rock ledges dropping in...

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Stumers Creek is a small, dark-water creek that winds through bushland at the northern end of Coolum and meets the beach in a lagoon. Its...

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Sunshine Beach runs south from the edge of Noosa National Park, and its gutters and holes hold whiting, dart, bream and tailor. It is Noo...

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Fraser Coast

15 spots Regions

Burrum Heads is a holiday village on the southern shore of the Burrum River mouth, where four rivers — the Burrum, Isis, Cherwell and Gre...

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Carlo Point is Rainbow Beach's back door onto Tin Can Inlet: a small boat harbour and ramp cut into the shore, with sand flats and weed b...

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Inskip Point is the sandy finger of land north of Rainbow Beach that points at the southern tip of K'gari, with the Wide Bay Bar entrance...

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Kingfisher Bay Jetty (K'gari)

Kingfisher Bay Jetty runs out from the beach at Kingfisher Bay Resort on the calm western side of K'gari, into the Great Sandy Strait. It...

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Maaroom is a small village on the mainland shore of the Great Sandy Strait, south-east of Maryborough, where a mangrove creek runs out pa...

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Mary River (Maryborough)

The Mary River swings past the centre of Maryborough as a wide, tidal river, lined by parks, the old wharf precinct and the city's sailin...

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Point Vernon (Gatakers Bay)

Point Vernon is the rocky western headland of the Hervey Bay foreshore, and Gatakers Bay on its northern side is a run of flat rock ledge...

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Rainbow Beach is the surf beach in front of the town of the same name, running south-east from the township under the coloured sand cliff...

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River Heads sits on the point where the Mary and Susan rivers meet the Great Sandy Strait, and it is where the barges and ferries leave f...

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Scarness Jetty is a short jetty off the beach at Scarness, in the busy middle of the Hervey Bay Esplanade. Like its neighbour at Torquay ...

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Tin Can Bay (Norman Point)

Norman Point is the northern tip of the Tin Can Bay township, where the boat ramp, the Coast Guard jetty and the dolphin-feeding centre s...

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Toogoom (Beelbi Creek Mouth)

Toogoom is a quiet beach village west of Hervey Bay, and Beelbi Creek meets the bay at its western end through a wide mouth of sand banks...

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Torquay Jetty is a short jetty off the beach in the middle of the Hervey Bay Esplanade, a few steps from cafes, parks and the bike path. ...

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Urangan Boat Harbour Wall

The eastern rock wall of Urangan Boat Harbour runs north along the edge of the channel at the top of the Great Sandy Strait, with a servi...

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Urangan Pier runs about 868 m out from the Esplanade at Urangan, one of the longest remaining piers in Australia, and it is the reason a ...

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Bundaberg & Gladstone

9 spots Regions

Agnes Water Main Beach

Agnes Water's Main Beach is a long curve of surf-washed sand ending at a rocky headland, and it is the Discovery Coast's classic beach-fi...

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Auckland Creek & East Shores (Gladstone Marina)

Gladstone Central

Auckland Creek is where Gladstone's estuary fishing starts: the tidal inlet runs past the East Shores parkland and the Gladstone Yacht Cl...

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Boyne River (Benaraby Bridge)

The Boyne River runs down from Lake Awoonga to the harbour at Boyne Island and Tannum Sands, and at Benaraby, south of Gladstone, the bri...

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Burnett Heads South Wall (Burnett River Mouth)

The Burnett River reaches the sea at Burnett Heads, about 15 km downstream of Bundaberg, between a pair of rock training walls. The south...

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Burnett River Town Reach (Bundaberg)

Bundaberg Central

The Burnett River runs straight through the middle of Bundaberg, and the town reach — the tidal stretch along the CBD riverbank and the B...

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Calliope River (Hanson Road Boat Ramp)

The Calliope River meets Gladstone Harbour on the north-west edge of the city, and the reach beside the Port Curtis Way bridge has been a...

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Elliott Heads (Elliott River Mouth)

Elliott Heads is the seaside village where the Elliott River meets the coast south of Bargara, and the river mouth is its fishing heart. ...

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Town of 1770 (Round Hill Creek)

Seventeen Seventy

The Town of 1770 sits on the sandy point where Round Hill Creek meets Bustard Bay, and the creek in front of town is one of the prettiest...

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Woodgate Beach & Theodolite Creek

Woodgate is a quiet beach town on the Burrum Coast, with a long, gently shelving beach facing north-east across Hervey Bay and Burrum Coa...

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Capricorn Coast

8 spots Regions

Causeway Lake sits halfway along the Scenic Highway between Yeppoon and Emu Park, where a bridge and rock wall built across the mouth of ...

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Coorooman Creek Boat Ramp (Zilzie)

Coorooman Creek winds through mangroves and salt flats south of Emu Park and meets Keppel Bay just north of Keppel Sands. The Coorooman C...

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Emu Park (Fishermans Beach & the Point)

Emu Park's headland, crowned by the Singing Ship memorial, separates Fishermans Beach to the north from the smaller beaches running south...

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Farnborough Beach

Farnborough Beach runs north from Yeppoon's last houses in a long, straight stretch of sand, and it is the Capricorn Coast's open-beach w...

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Fitzroy River — Queens Wharf (Rockhampton)

Rockhampton City

Rockhampton bills itself as the home of the barra, and the Fitzroy River — Tunuba to the Darumbal people — is why. Below the barrage the ...

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Keppel Sands Beach & Groyne

Keppel Sands is a small beach village at the end of the road south of Emu Park, facing Keppel Bay across a beach that drains to enormous ...

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Ross Creek Mouth (Yeppoon)

Ross Creek runs through the middle of Yeppoon and meets the sea at the south end of Main Beach, between the town and Cooee Bay. The last ...

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Rosslyn Bay Harbour Breakwall

Rosslyn Bay is the Capricorn Coast's working harbour: the Great Keppel ferries, the trawler fleet, the marina and two public ramps, all t...

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