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South Australia Fishing Spots

Jetties, beaches, rock walls and river banks across Adelaide Metro, Adelaide Plains, Fleurieu Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, Yorke Peninsula, Upper Spencer Gulf, Eyre Peninsula, Limestone Coast, and Murray River, each with its own bite forecast.

72 spots, grouped by region.

Adelaide Metro

16 spots

Aldinga Beach (south of the reef reserve)

Start with the boundary, because it decides whether the trip is legal. The beach from Zephyr Terrace south to Thomas Street, about 2.3 km...

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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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Sellicks is where metropolitan Adelaide stops — the last suburb before the Fleurieu proper, 53 km by road from the city centre, a long st...

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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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Adelaide Plains

2 spots

Port Parham (crab flats)

The official name is Parham and nobody uses it, which is a fair introduction to a settlement of 216 people whose entire tourism propositi...

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Thompson Beach (Adelaide Plains crab flats)

Thompson Beach sits 56 km north of the Adelaide city centre and it is not a fishing platform in any normal sense — it is a crab-raking fl...

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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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Kangaroo Island

5 spots

American River Wharf

This is a wharf, not a jetty, and the difference is the whole character of the place. There has been a landing on this shore since 1854, ...

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Christmas Cove & Hog Bay (Penneshaw)

Start with the jetty, because it is the first thing anyone asks about here. Penneshaw's public jetty has been closed since Tuesday 2 Apri...

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Emu Bay is the north coast's front door and the family end of Kangaroo Island fishing. The jetty is 122.5 metres of timber, redecked with...

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Kingscote Jetty

Kingscote is the island's biggest town and its jetty is the platform every other Kangaroo Island mark gets measured against. The main jet...

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Vivonne Bay Jetty

Vivonne Bay is the south coast's one jetty, and it is the only platform on Kangaroo Island where the gulf closures do not reach. The fish...

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Yorke Peninsula

13 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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Browns Beach (Innes National Park)

Browns Beach is South Australia's best-known surf-salmon beach and the geography is the fishery. An outer reef system fronts the sand and...

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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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Marion Bay Jetty

Marion Bay is the last town before Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park, and its jetty is 270 metres of timber built in 1889 to ship gypsu...

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Moonta Bay Jetty

Moonta Bay is the family jetty of the Copper Triangle — 500 metres of L-shaped timber off the end of Bay Road, with a netted swimming enc...

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Point Turton Jetty

Point Turton is the night jetty of the peninsula's south-west corner. The deck is short by Yorke standards: a 126 metre main run with a 4...

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Port Broughton Jetty

Port Broughton sits on Mundoora Arm Inlet, a piece of water almost totally protected from strong winds, and that shelter is the whole arg...

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Port Giles Jetty

Port Giles is the deepest water you can walk to on Yorke Peninsula's east coast, and the least guaranteed. It is a working grain terminal...

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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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Port Vincent Wharf

The official Yorke Peninsula fishing guide is blunt about Port Vincent — "no jetty for recreational fishing, but there is a conveniently ...

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Stansbury Jetty

Stansbury calls itself the home of the Pacific oyster, and the same clean, shallow seagrass water that grows the oysters makes its 1905 t...

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Stenhouse Bay Jetty

Stenhouse Bay Jetty is the southernmost jetty on Yorke Peninsula, a pier the official guide puts at 290 metres though mapped survey makes...

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Wallaroo is the working port of the Copper Coast, and its jetty is the biggest piece of fishing infrastructure on this side of Spencer Gu...

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Upper Spencer Gulf

2 spots

Port Augusta Foreshore Jetty

Start with the structure, because half the internet still has this wrong. The Port Augusta wharf — 1886, about 355 metres, State Heritage...

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Port Germein Jetty

The first thing to say is the thing locals are tired of saying: the jetty is closed. The May 2025 storms broke it, repair designs are wit...

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Eyre Peninsula

12 spots

Arno Bay is the squid jetty of the eastern Eyre Peninsula, which makes the timing of your visit unfortunate. Three separate guides rate t...

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Ceduna Jetty is the last big jetty before the Nullarbor, and it fishes like a town that knows it — the species list is the longest on the...

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Coffin Bay Town Jetty

Coffin Bay is the oyster town on the postcard, and its fishing platform is the working end of that industry: the old timber town wharf on...

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Only about 113 metres of Elliston Jetty is open. The District Council of Elliston reopened that much of it on 26 September 2025 after an ...

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Locks Well Beach (Elliston)

Locks Well is one of the most renowned Australian salmon beaches in the country, and the price of admission is a 120-metre timber stairca...

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Point Lowly (Whyalla)

Point Lowly is a rocky headland 37 km by road north of Whyalla with an 1883 lighthouse on it, and it is not a jetty — you fish off ledges...

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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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Port Neill Jetty

Port Neill's jetty went up in 1912 to ship wheat, wool and barley off the eastern Eyre Peninsula, and the commerce left decades ago — the...

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Streaky Bay Jetty

Streaky Bay Jetty is the town's front porch, and since October 2025 it is also the good-news story of South Australia's jetty crisis — wh...

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Tumby Bay Jetty

Tumby Bay's jetty is 350-odd metres of timber off the town centre, with a lineage going back to 1874 — the second jetty ever built on Eyr...

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Venus Bay Jetty

Venus Bay is a bay about 16 km across that is almost entirely land-locked, drained through one narrow sea entrance at South Head and diss...

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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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Limestone Coast

7 spots

42 Mile Crossing (Coorong)

Coorong National Park

This is not a structure, a town or a headland — it is the door onto 194 kilometres of Southern Ocean surf beach behind the Younghusband P...

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Beachport Jetty

Beachport's 772-metre jetty is the second-longest in South Australia after Port Germein, and walking the length of it is the thing you do...

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Carpenter Rocks (Bucks Bay)

Carpenter Rocks

One correction before anything else: there is no jetty at Carpenter Rocks. A travel site or two says there is, and no amount of driving w...

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The jetty first, because it is why most people land on this page. Kingston SE's 161-year-old town jetty was storm-damaged in May 2025 and...

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Port MacDonnell Jetty & Breakwater

Port MacDonnell

South Australia's southernmost town is a working rock lobster port that happens to own two good land-based platforms 800 metres apart. Th...

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Robe (Lake Butler Marina & Long Beach)

The jetty first, because that is what most people arrive asking about. Robe's jetty was already storm-damaged in late May 2025 and was sp...

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Southend Jetty (Rivoli Bay)

Southend is what Beachport would be if you removed the tourists — the same bay, the same fish, a fraction of the foot traffic, and a jett...

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Murray River

3 spots

Lock 1 (Blanchetown)

Two rules shape a Lock 1 trip before any tackle does. There is no fishing within 150 metres of any lock or weir on the River Murray, perm...

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Mary Ann Reserve (Mannum)

Start with the closure, because it decides what the trip is. Murray cod cannot be targeted anywhere in the South Australian Murray betwee...

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Sturt Reserve (Murray Bridge)

Two things decide a Sturt Reserve trip this month and both are status rather than technique. Murray cod cannot be targeted anywhere in th...

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