Wynnum Jetty

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. The first jetty here went in during the 1880s, and the T-shaped jetty has been rebuilt and extended since. It reaches deeper water than the shoreline and has covered shelters at the head, which makes it one of the more comfortable places in Brisbane to sit out a high tide with a rod. The view runs across the bay to the islands, and on a still morning that view is often the main thing on offer.

Fish the top half of the tide, because the flats around the jetty dry out a long way at low water. Bream and whiting take peeled bait prawns, yabbies or worms on a light running sinker cast off the head. Flathead sit on the sand edges and take small soft plastics. Garfish school around the jetty in the cooler months and are caught on tiny hooks with bread or prawn under a small float with a little berley. Squid sometimes come in under the jetty after dark in winter.

Bream are the main catch and peak in winter, while whiting and grunter take over in summer. Flathead are best in spring, garfish and tailor arrive in winter, and squid are an occasional cool-month bonus. Bream 25 cm (possession limit 30, combined with tarwhine), whiting 23 cm (30), dusky flathead 40–75 cm (5), garfish no size limit (50), tailor 35 cm (20), grunter 40 cm (10), tiger squid 20.

The Wynnum foreshore is a worm closure: you can't take marine worms by any method within 100 m of the high-water mark between the north bank of Lota Creek and the Wynnum North groyne, or off the Esplanade between Cedar and Charlotte streets. Use a yabby pump or buy bait instead. The water off the jetty is in the Moreton Bay Marine Park's habitat protection zone, where standard Queensland limits apply: up to 3 lines and 6 hooks in total per person. Bivalves and gastropods other than pipis (oysters, mussels, whelks and the like) are no take in Moreton Bay Marine Park and the tidal waters that flow into it. At dead low tide, the jetty is mainly a good place to look at mud.

The jetty is on the Wynnum Esplanade beside the Wynnum wading pool, with street parking and parkland along the foreshore. Toilets, barbecues, fish and chips and the wading pool make it an easy family outing. The deck is flat and wide, with covered shelters at the head.

The jetty faces east into the bay, so westerly winds blow offshore and leave the water flat. North-easterly sea breezes in summer afternoons roughen the water and make light-line fishing harder. After heavy rain, floodwater from the Brisbane River and local creeks discolours the bay, which can improve the bream but slows the whiting.

The deck is high above the mud at low tide, so keep children back from the edges. The flats are soft mud with oyster-encrusted rocks near the seawall, so don't walk out on them to retrieve gear. Stingrays are common on the flats. Leave the jetty if a storm approaches across the bay.

Yes. The jetty is a popular fishing spot, particularly on the higher part of the tide. Standard Queensland line limits apply (up to 3 lines and 6 hooks in total per person).

No. Taking marine worms by any method is banned on the Wynnum foreshore from the north bank of Lota Creek to the Wynnum North groyne, within 100 m of the high-water mark, or off the Esplanade between Cedar and Charlotte streets.

The top half of the tide. The flats around the jetty dry out at low tide, leaving little water under the head.