Recfishwest's State-Wide Fishing Report 7 February 2025 🎣

Israelite Bay has continued to fire for metre-plus mulloway, while the Cape Arid area has been consistent for gummy sharks and bronze whalers. Dunns Beach has held big skippy, salmon and small gummy sharks, while Roses and Christies Beaches have offered gummy sharks. Salmon Beach and Fourth Beach have yielded salmon and decent flathead, while Bandy Creek Boat Harbour has produced skippy and King George whiting. Town Jetty and Taylor Street Jetty have held big squid and bull herring at night. Bream chasers should head to Stokes Inlet.  
    
Hats off to the very knowledgeable team at Southern Sports & Tackle for their tips! These guys love their fishing as well, so make sure you swing by their store for the best gear and advice before wetting a line around Esperance. 

Beach fishing has been hard with the prevailing easterly winds, so plenty of fishers have opted to target bream in the King and Kalgan rivers this week where they found some good fish, while a nice school mulloway was a bonus for an angler fishing in the Kalgan. The town marina has held a few herring and whiting among the many pickers, while small King George whiting, herring and juvenile salmon have been caught at Emu Point. The town marina and Emu Point have held squid, while Quaranup is sheltered from the easterlies and should also throw up a few. Scoop netters have done best on blue swimmer crabs in Princess Royal Harbour.

Cheers to the Trailblazers Albany crew for their tips this week! Swing by their store if you're after some top gear and advice ahead of your next fishing trip. Remember, you'll also catch just as many fish off the beaches than the rocks and it is always much safer to go with this option on the south coast. 

The good run of tailor has continued at South Beach, Port Beach and the reefy areas of Cottesloe. They have turned up at the Fremantle Moles as well, mostly at night. A few tailor have been at Floreat and City Beach but it’s been mostly herring and garfish filling up fishers’ buckets. Near the E-Shed Wharf in Fremantle has yielded nice sand whiting and Fremantle Harbour has been thick with herring. The rock walls along Mews Road and the Freo Fishing Boat Harbour have offered a good mix of species including herring, whiting, skippy, tarwhine and chopper tailor. Catching them on micro jigs and small blades rather than bait can be a lot of fun and helps to keep the blowies at bay. Some good tailor have been landed at Trigg, while on the northern beaches there have been some hot sessions on big tailor that have been chasing garfish schools. A couple of small baldchin groper were landed by drone fishers around Two Rocks along with the odd small pink snapper. In the Swan River some nice mulloway have hit the jetty boards in the lower reaches with a big model landed at the Keane Street Jetty recently. Tailor catches have been good under the lights at the Narrows, Applecross Jetty and Canning Bridge, while Point Walter Jetty, Point Resolution and drop-offs and jetties in Claremont and North and East Fremantle should also produce. Flathead and flounder have been quiet in the lower reaches but a few big flathead have been taken up river from the Causeway. Giant herring action has slowed in the upper reaches and the elusive speedsters are now being targeted around Mounts Bay Road, Point Resolution, Alfred Cove and the Claremont and Como flats. Night-time yellowfin whiting chasers have found the bite has slowed, while those chasing school prawns for a feed have managed to scoop enough small ones for one or two sandwiches. Scoopers chasing blue swimmer crabs have found it hard going in the middle and lower reaches, but a few have been around at night, while bream fishing has been steady but not spectacular with bridges and structure up river from the Narrows to Guildford producing them in modest sizes. Canning Bridge and Mt Henry Bridge could be worth a crack too. Soapy mulloway action has been good as well, again around structure, with Redcliffe and Garratt Road bridges producing a few. Saturday morning is looking great for a land-based session.