Bite Compass

South Australia fishing spots

31 spots across Adelaide Metro, Fleurieu Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, and Eyre Peninsula, grouped by region.

Adelaide Metro

14 spots

Brighton Jetty is widely regarded as Adelaide's best metro fishing platform, and it earns the title by holding fish twelve months a year ...

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Glenelg Jetty is the busiest pier on Holdfast Bay, and the fishing is better than its tourist-strip address suggests. The current 215-met...

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Grange Jetty runs about 300 metres into Gulf St Vincent, midway along Grange Beach, and has been a metro fishing fixture since the origin...

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Henley Beach Jetty

Henley Beach Jetty earns its reputation as the most varied of Adelaide's northern metro jetties — the same outing can produce tommy ruff,...

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Largs Bay Jetty

Largs Bay is the northernmost jetty in Adelaide's metro string and one of the shortest, which tells you exactly what it is — a shallow, s...

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Marino Rocks is a low, flat rock-and-reef platform tucked under the cliffs south of Seacliff, where Marino Conservation Park drops to the...

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North Haven Breakwater

North Haven's rock walls guard the entrance to the marina just south of the Outer Harbor breakwaters, where the Port River tide funnels p...

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Onkaparinga River Mouth

Port Noarlunga South

Where the Onkaparinga finishes its run from the Mount Lofty hills and pushes through the dunes at Port Noarlunga South, the river spreads...

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Outer Harbor Breakwater

Outer Harbor sits at the Port River entrance, and the southern rock wall there carries a long reputation as the breakwall with the widest...

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Port Noarlunga Jetty

Port Noarlunga's jetty is one of the most productive land-based platforms in the Adelaide metro stretch, and it owes that to geology rath...

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Port River (Garden Island)

Garden Island sits at the top of the Port River estuary, where The Grand Trunkway crosses the bridge onto a flat tongue of land wrapped i...

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Semaphore Jetty

Semaphore Jetty runs around 585 metres straight out over white sand a short drive north-west of the Adelaide CBD, which makes it one of t...

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West Beach Boat Ramp Breakwall

The breakwall wrapping the West Beach boat ramp is a small wall doing a lot of work. It sits where the Patawalonga spills into Gulf St Vi...

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West Lakes (Trimmer Parade Inlet)

West Lakes is an artificial saltwater lake cut into the old Torrens wetlands last century, and the Trimmer Parade inlet at its southern e...

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Fleurieu Peninsula

12 spots

Cape Jervis Jetty

Cape Jervis sits at the bottom of the Fleurieu Peninsula, where the gulf empties into Backstairs Passage and the deep, fast water that se...

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Carrickalinga Beach

Carrickalinga is a wide arc of white sand on Yankalilla Bay, split into two beaches by Haycock Point on the Fleurieu Peninsula, around 60...

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Goolwa Beach, Barrage & Murray Mouth

Goolwa is where the River Murray finally meets the Southern Ocean, and the meeting is a fishery in its own right. The surf along the Sir ...

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Horseshoe Bay Jetty (Port Elliot)

Horseshoe Bay is the rare south-coast spot where the water does the work for you. The bay is scooped between two headlands — Freemans Kno...

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Middleton Beach

Middleton Beach is a long, open stretch of Southern Ocean surf running between the rocky point at Middleton and the Murray Mouth end of G...

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Myponga Reservoir

Myponga is a 250-hectare freshwater impoundment on the Myponga River, dammed between 1958 and 1962 and opened to recreational fishing in ...

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Normanville Beach & Bungala River Mouth

Normanville is a low-energy surf beach on the eastern shore of Gulf St Vincent, where the Bungala River drains across the sand and seagra...

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Rapid Bay Jetty

Rapid Bay runs two jetties side by side on the Fleurieu's western shore, 90 minutes south of Adelaide: the 1940 ore-loading original, now...

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Second Valley Jetty

Second Valley is a short jetty tucked into a limestone-cliff inlet about 15km north-east of Cape Jervis, and it earns its reputation on o...

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Victor Harbor Causeway & Screwpile Jetty (Granite Island)

The 620-metre causeway and the stubby Screwpile Jetty off Granite Island are Victor Harbor's signature land-based water, and they fish as...

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Waitpinga Beach

Waitpinga is the surf-fishing benchmark on the Fleurieu south coast — a long, exposed Southern Ocean beach about 10km southwest of Victor...

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Wirrina Cove Marina (Marina St Vincent)

Wirrina Cove's two rock breakwaters wrap the entrance to Marina St Vincent, ~90km south of Adelaide on Yankalilla Bay, and they have a lo...

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Yorke Peninsula

3 spots

Ardrossan Jetty

Ardrossan calls itself the blue swimmer crab capital of South Australia, has a giant fibreglass crab at the jetty entrance to prove it, a...

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Edithburgh Jetty

First things first — Edithburgh Jetty is closed. The state closed it on 24 July 2026 for a full structural renewal (new steel piles and t...

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Port Hughes Jetty

Port Hughes is the Copper Coast's fishing jetty, and the one Adelaide anglers drive two hours for when they want a Spencer Gulf session w...

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Eyre Peninsula

2 spots

Port Lincoln Town Jetty

Port Lincoln is the seafood capital of Australia and the town jetty is where the locals fish when the boat is on the trailer. The 222-met...

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Whyalla Jetty (Circular Jetty & Marina)

Whyalla was the snapper capital of Australia for decades — the Easter Australian Snapper Championships drew a thousand anglers and 15-kil...

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