643 covered waters, each with a daily report. Filter by type, state and the main species, or search by name.
643 waters
The Abercrombie above Wyangala: cod and golden perch in the granite gorges of the central tablelands, with the Bureau’s gauge at the crossing.
The Acheron at Taggerty below the Cathedral Range: trout in a clear valley river near Alexandra, with a Bureau gauge.
Two gulfs, a long run of metropolitan jetties and the best King George whiting water in the country, all within an hour of the CBD.
The Adelaide River at the Arnhem Highway: barramundi in the tidal river of the jumping crocodile cruises, an hour from Darwin, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The Adelaide River at the township on the Stuart Highway: barramundi in the upper river south of Darwin, with a Bureau gauge at the railway bridge.
The Adelaide River at Tortilla Flats on the floodplain: barramundi in the tidal river’s middle reaches, with a Bureau gauge.
The last surf beach going north and the town of 1770: whiting and dart on the beach, bream and mangrove jack in Round Hill Creek, and the reef of the Bunker Group outside.
The gateway to the Whitsundays: the marinas, Shute Harbour, the mangrove creeks and seventy-four islands with the reef beyond.
King George Sound, Oyster Harbour and the Southern Ocean beaches: Albany fishes two sheltered waters and a wild coast from the same town.
The Albert at Kerry under the Lamington ranges: bass in the clear pools of a Scenic Rim river, with the Bureau’s gauge at the crossing.
The Allyn River at Halton below the Barrington Tops: bass in a clear, rocky valley river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Surf Coast town on the Anglesea River: bream in the river, salmon on the beach and Point Roadknight’s reef, with the Great Ocean Road running through.
The Annan River at Mount Simon south of Cooktown: barramundi and jungle perch in a Cape York river, with no current Bureau level series.
A harbour on the Great Ocean Road: salmon on the beaches, snapper and gummies in the bay, and the Otways behind it.
The Yorke Peninsula’s east-coast jetty: Ardrossan’s blue swimmer crabs, whiting and squid, the cliffs and the gulf’s grounds off the town.
The Arm River above the Mersey: brown trout in forest country below the Walls of Jerusalem, with a Bureau gauge.
The Arthur River below the Rapid in the takayna / Tarkine: blackfish and browns in remote rainforest, with no current Bureau level series.
The Central Plateau’s most fished lake: a hydro storage of wild brown trout, drowned timber and the Cowpaddock and Jonah bays, with a level read from the Bureau every day.
Where the Blackwood meets the Southern Ocean: the Hardy Inlet’s bream and whiting, the Cape Leeuwin rocks, the salmon beaches and the whales of Flinders Bay.
The Burdekin delta from Ayr: the creeks and mouths of the Burdekin, Alva Beach and Cape Bowling Green, with barra, jacks, grunter and mackerel.
The Richmond River, its breakwalls and the beaches of the far north coast: bream, flathead, jew and the winter tailor at the top of New South Wales.
The Balonne at St George: cod and golden perch in the weir pool of the cotton town on the Queensland side of the Darling basin, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Balonne at Surat: cod and yellowbelly in the stocked Surat Weir pool, with a Bureau gauge and the Murray-Darling cod closure.
The Balonne at Warroo between Surat and St George: cod and yellowbelly in the western river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Balonne at Weribone above St George: cod and yellowbelly in the red gum river, with a Bureau gauge.
Bundaberg’s beach: the Bargara rocks and beaches, the turtle coast of Mon Repos, with whiting, bream, tailor and the mackerel of the reef.
The reservoir at Harcourt near Castlemaine: Murray cod on the VFA’s specified-lakes list, with the cod closure applying and a Bureau gauge.
The Blackall Range lake below Montville and Maleny: stocked Australian bass among the drowned timber, a Stocked Impoundment Permit water with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Barrington River at Bobs Crossing below the Tops: bass in a clear, cold river, with a Bureau gauge at the crossing.
The Barron at Kuranda: sooty grunter and jungle perch in the rainforest river above the falls, with the Bureau’s gauge at the village.
The Barron at Mareeba: sooty grunter and barramundi in the tableland river below Tinaroo, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Barwon River mouth at the Bluff: bream and whiting in the river, salmon on Thirteenth Beach and the bluff’s rocks, with the Bellarine’s tide people search for.
The Barwon at Brewarrina, beside the ancient Aboriginal fish traps: cod and yellowbelly in the north-west’s big river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Barwon at Collarenebri: cod and yellowbelly in the river town between Mungindi and Walgett, with a Bureau gauge.
The Barwon at Inverleigh west of Geelong: brown trout, redfin and blackfish in the plains river, with a Bureau gauge and the Victorian trout stream closure.
The Barwon at Mungindi on the Queensland border: cod and yellowbelly in the border town’s river, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Barwon at Pollocksford on Geelong’s western edge: trout, redfin and blackfish between Inverleigh and the city, with a Bureau gauge.
The Barwon at Walgett where the Namoi joins: Murray cod and golden perch in the north-west’s big river, with a Bureau gauge at Dangar Bridge.
The Barwon at Winchelsea on the way to the Otways: brown trout, redfin and blackfish in a willowed river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Clyde River and its bay on the Eurobodalla coast: bream on the oyster leases, flathead on the flats, snapper on the reefs and a marine park to read first.
The rock platforms between Ulladulla and Batemans Bay: Bawley and Kioloa, the beaches and lakes of Murramarang, with drummer, tailor and kingfish.
The second-longest jetty in the state on the Limestone Coast: Beachport’s whiting, salmon and squid, Rivoli Bay and the Southern Ocean beaches.
The Bega at Bega: bass in the fresh reaches above the town, bream and perch in the tidal ones, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Bellinger above Bellingen at Thora: bass in the clear pools under the Dorrigo escarpment, with the Bureau’s gauge at the village.
Lake Macquarie’s eastern shore: Belmont Bay, the pier and the jetties, Belmont Baths and the flats and drop-offs a short run from Swansea.
The Bemboka River at Morans Crossing below the Brown Mountain escarpment: trout in a clear stream near the Bega valley, with a Bureau gauge.
Sydenham Inlet and the Bemm: the bream village of East Gippsland, with the inlet flats, the river snags and the entrance that opens to the sea.
The Burnett River barrage at Bundaberg: stocked barramundi in the town’s freshwater pool, open through the closed season, with a Bureau gauge at the barrage.
A weir pool on Macintyre Brook in the border country: Murray cod, golden perch and silver perch, a Stocked Impoundment Permit water with a Bureau gauge.
A small harbour on the Sapphire Coast with the shelf close in: tuna and kingfish outside, salmon, bream and flathead inside.
The east coast fishing village under the granite: the Gulch and the blowhole rocks, Waubs Bay and the Diamond Island reef, with flathead, salmon, squid and the crayfish fleet.
The Big River in the forest above Lake Eildon: trout in a clear mountain river, with a Bureau gauge near Jokers Creek.
Lake Dyer at Laidley in the Lockyer Valley: bass, golden perch, Mary River cod and silver perch, a Stocked Impoundment Permit water with a Bureau gauge.
Lake Barambah near Murgon: bass and golden perch in a shallow South Burnett lake with a holiday park, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Snowy Scheme’s long lake above Tumut: trout and natives in the one water, cod open all year, and a level the Bureau reads at the dam.
The Tanjil storage in the Latrobe Valley: bass, trout and redfin in a small, deep lake that reads its level from the Bureau every day.
The lower Bogan at Gongolgon between Brewarrina and Nyngan: yellowbelly and cod in remote plains country, with a Bureau gauge.
The Bogan at Nyngan: yellowbelly and cod in the western river through the town, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Bombala River at Bombala on the southern Monaro: trout and platypus in the town’s river, with a Bureau gauge at Bombala.
The McArthur River and the Gulf: Borroloola’s barra, the river’s rocky bars, King Ash Bay and the Sir Edward Pellew islands, with the run-off season and the Gulf’s reef.
The Yabba Creek dam near Imbil: bass, saratoga and the protected Mary River cod in a timbered lake behind the Mary Valley, with a camp, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
Sydney’s southern bay: the Georges and Cooks rivers, Kurnell and La Perouse, the flats and the heads, a fishery inside the airport’s flight path.
The mango town between the Whitsundays and Townsville: the harbour, Queens Beach and the Don River mouth, with mackerel, barra, whiting and the reef.
The Boyne River from the island side: the river’s barra, bream and whiting, the Lilley’s Beach coast and the Awoonga fish downstream of the dam.
The quiet beach between Innisfail and Cairns: the beach, the Russell and Mulgrave mouths and the creek, with whiting, barra, jacks and the reef off Frankland Islands.
The Break O’Day River in the Fingal Valley: wild browns in a small river between St Marys and Fingal, with a Bureau gauge at Killymoon Bridge.
The south coast’s remote bay: the Wellstead Estuary, the beaches and the granite, with salmon, herring, bream, whiting and the orcas of the canyon offshore.
Pumicestone Passage on one side, surf beach on the other: an island you drive to, with bream, flathead, whiting and tailor a short walk apart.
The north-east coast holiday town on Anderson Bay: the jetty, the Brid River and the beaches, with flathead, salmon, squid and the Bass Strait reef.
A river city with the bay at its door: bream and jew in the Brisbane River, snapper on the bay beacons and flathead on the flats within the suburbs.
A tidal river through a capital: bream on the pontoons, threadfin and jew in the deep reaches, jack in the snags, and the port at the mouth.
The upper Brisbane River at Gregors Creek: bass in a clear valley river north of Somerset, with a Bureau gauge.
The upper Brisbane River at Linville: bass in the quiet upper valley above Somerset, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Brisbane River at Savages Crossing below Wivenhoe: Australian bass in the fresh river, with a Bureau gauge at the crossing.
The Bega Valley’s bass lake in the hills behind Bega: a small, steep storage of Australian bass and the odd perch, reached by a gravel road, with a Bureau gauge at the wall.
The Broken at Benalla: cod and golden perch in Lake Benalla and the river through the town, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The Broken River at Casey Weir below Benalla: Murray cod and golden perch in the weir pool, with a Bureau gauge and the cod closure.
The Broken River at Gowangardie near Shepparton: cod and yellowbelly in the lower Broken, with a Bureau gauge and the cod closure.
The Central Highlands lagoon on the Lyell Highway: wild browns and rainbows in shallow, weedy water with a camp and a Bureau gauge.
Roebuck Bay, Cable Beach and the creeks of the Dampier Peninsula: the pearling town where the tide moves ten metres and the barramundi follow it.
The Brunswick River mouth: the breakwalls, the river’s bream and flathead, and the beaches north of Byron, with a tide people search for.
The Brunswick River at Durrumbul near Mullumbimby: bass in the fresh upper river of the Byron hinterland, with a Bureau gauge.
The island south of Hobart: the D’Entrecasteaux Channel’s flathead and squid, Adventure Bay’s salmon, the Neck and the Cloudy Bay surf, with the reef of the southern cape.
The Buckland above Porepunkah: a clear trout stream off Mount Buffalo with camps along the valley, and the Bureau’s gauge at Buckland.
The upper Buffalo River at Abbeyard under Mount Buffalo: trout in a clear alpine valley, with a Bureau gauge and the river trout closure.
Koombana Bay, the Leschenault Estuary and the Cut: Bunbury fishes a harbour, an estuary and a coast from the middle of town.
The Burnett River, the Elliott and the Kolan, Bargara’s rocks and the reefs off the coast: the southern gateway to the reef with an estuary at its door.
Queensland’s largest dam on the Burdekin: barramundi, sooty grunter and the vast timbered lake behind the falls, exempt from the closure, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The lower Burdekin at Clare: barramundi in the weir pool and the delta reaches of the cane country, with the Bureau’s gauge at the Clare weir.
The Burdekin at Sellheim near Charters Towers: barramundi, sooty grunter and the big dry-country river below the falls dam, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The Burnett at Gayndah: bass, golden perch and the protected lungfish in the citrus town’s river, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The upper Burnett at Mundubbera: bass, golden perch and lungfish in the river between the dams, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The north-west port on Bass Strait: the breakwater and the wharves, the Emu and Cam river mouths, and a coast of beaches and reef toward Wynyard.
The lake south of Ulladulla: flathead flats, bream on the edges, prawns on the dark nights and a channel to the sea at Dolphin Point.
The Murrumbidgee storage below Yass: golden perch and Murray cod in the drowned timber, redfin in the bays, and a level that runs the fishing.
The Burrum River mouth on Hervey Bay: whiting, bream and flathead in the river, the flats and the bay, with the sand banks at the mouth and mud crabs in the mangroves.
Geographe Bay and the longest timber jetty in the southern hemisphere: whiting, squid and herring in the calm, and the Capes coast around the corner.
The easternmost point of the mainland: Cape Byron’s rocks, the beaches either side, the Brunswick River to the north and a tide that people search for every day.
The Loddon storage near Maldon: golden perch, Murray cod, redfin and trout in a central Victorian reservoir that reads its level from the Bureau every day.
The tropical north: barramundi in the creeks and the Trinity Inlet, reef fish and pelagics off the Great Barrier Reef, and a wet season that runs the calendar.
The Callide Valley dam near Biloela: warm water from the power station, barramundi that feed through winter, exempt from the closure, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
Where the Pumicestone Passage meets the sea: the bar, the beaches and the passage flats at the southern end of the Sunshine Coast.
The Cam River above Somerset near Burnie: brown trout in a north-west coast river, with a Bureau gauge at the intake.
The Camden Haven River at Kendall: bass in the fresh water above the Camden Haven estuary, with a Bureau gauge at the village.
The Campaspe at Barnadown below Lake Eppalock: cod and yellowbelly in the red gum river toward Rochester, with a Bureau gauge.
The Campaspe at Redesdale above Lake Eppalock: Murray cod and golden perch in a granite river, with a Bureau gauge and the cod closure.
The Campaspe at Rochester: cod and golden perch in the lower river below Eppalock, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Three Moon Creek dam in Cania Gorge: bass, saratoga and golden perch under sandstone cliffs near Monto, with a camp, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Cann River at the Cann River township in East Gippsland: Australian bass and estuary perch in a forest river, with no current Bureau level series.
The Belubula River storage below Blayney: a small central west lake of golden perch, cod and the odd trout, with a foreshore camp and a Bureau gauge.
The town on the Hinchinbrook Channel: the jetty, the creeks and the mangroves, with barra, jacks and grunter, and the island across the water.
The Gascoyne River mouth and the fascine: Carnarvon’s mulloway, mangrove jack and whiting, the One Mile Jetty coast and the Shark Bay water to the south.
The Castlereagh at Coonamble: yellowbelly and cod in the sandy plains river, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The lower Castlereagh at Gungalman near Walgett: yellowbelly and cod in the plains river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Condamine at Cecil Plains on the western Darling Downs: yellowbelly, Murray cod and silver perch in a stocked weir pool with a Bureau gauge.
The last town before the Nullarbor: the Ceduna and Thevenard jetties, Murat Bay and Denial Bay, with whiting, snapper, salmon and the mulloway of the beaches.
Brisbane Water, Tuggerah Lakes, The Entrance and a coast of beaches and headlands: the Central Coast fishes three estuaries and the sea between Sydney and Newcastle.
The Peel River storage south of Tamworth: golden perch, cod, catfish and a rebuilt wall, with the level read at the dam by the Bureau.
The biggest river on the east coast south of the tropics: from Grafton down to Yamba and Iluka, bream, flathead, jew, jack and bass across a hundred kilometres of tide.
The upper Clarence at Tabulam: Australian bass in the clear river of the Northern Rivers, with protected eastern cod and a Bureau gauge.
The Burnett at Gayndah: stocked bass, barramundi and golden perch in the weir pool, open through the barra closure, with a Bureau gauge.
The Derwent hydro lagoon below Repulse: brown trout in the river storage above Meadowbank, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
One of the cleanest rivers on the coast: oyster leases, deep holes and snags from Batemans Bay up to Nelligen and beyond, bream water end to end.
The Clyde at Bothwell in the Central Highlands foothills: wild browns in the river that drains Lake Crescent, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Coal River at Richmond, under Australia’s oldest bridge: brown trout in the Coal valley below Craigbourne, with a Bureau gauge.
The oyster town on the Eyre Peninsula: King George whiting in the bay, salmon on the national park beaches, with the flats, the channels and Point Avoid.
The Solitary Islands, the harbour breakwalls and a run of beaches and headlands: Coffs Harbour fishes where the warm current meets the coast.
The Colo at Upper Colo, where the Wollemi gorge opens: bass in a wild sandstone river, with a Bureau gauge at the bridge.
The Condamine at Chinchilla: cod and golden perch in the weir pool of the western Downs, under the Queensland cod closure, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Condamine through Warwick: cod and golden perch in the Darling Downs town’s river, under the Queensland cod closure, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The stocked dam north of Toowoomba: golden perch, Murray cod and silver perch, exempt from the cod closure, a Stocked Impoundment Permit water.
The Endeavour River and the Cape York coast: barramundi in the river, the reef offshore, and a tide that most people search for before the fish.
The Macintyre Brook dam near Inglewood: cod, golden perch and yellowbelly in a Murray-Darling lake exempt from the cod closure, with a camp, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Sunshine Coast’s surf town under Mount Coolum: the beach, Point Perry and Point Arkwright rocks, with whiting, tailor, bream and the reef outside.
The upper Coomera at Witheren: bass in the clear pools under the Lamington ranges, with the Bureau’s gauge at the crossing.
A hundred kilometres of lagoon behind the dunes: mulloway at the mouth, bream and salmon trout in the channel, and the ocean beach on the other side.
The big storage on the Gwydir near Inverell: Murray cod water of reputation, golden perch on the points and a level that swings with the irrigation year.
The Ningaloo reef from the beach: Bills Bay and the lagoon, the sanctuary zones and the outer reef, with the spangled emperor, the trevally and the mackerel of the reef edge.
Franklin Harbour on the Eyre Peninsula: the sheltered harbour’s whiting, garfish and crabs, the oyster town’s jetty and the gulf outside the entrance.
The point break village with Killick Creek and the Goolawah beaches: bream in the creek, tailor and jew on the beach, tailor off the point.
Toowoomba’s supply dam in the Brisbane Valley: bass, golden perch and cod-stocked water at Crows Nest, with a camp, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
Sydney’s southern beaches and Port Hacking: the Cronulla rocks and beaches, Gunnamatta and Burraneer bays, and the mouth of the Hacking, with tailor, bream, kingfish and squid.
The fishing harbour and headland north of the Manning: the breakwater, the lighthouse rocks and Crowdy Bay, with kingfish, drummer and the reef outside.
The Daintree above the ferry: barramundi, mangrove jack and jungle perch in the rainforest river of the far north, with the Bureau’s gauge at Bairds.
The Territory’s barramundi river: the Daly from the crossing down through the freshwater reaches, famous for the run-off and the Barra Classic.
The Daly River above Dorisvale Crossing, in the upper river west of Katherine: barramundi and sooty grunter in clear dry-season water, with a Bureau gauge.
The Daly River at Nauiyu, the community at the crossing: the Territory’s best-known barramundi water, with a Bureau gauge at the police station.
The Dampier Archipelago: forty-two islands off the Pilbara port, with mackerel, trevally, queenfish, coral trout and the mangrove creeks, and the tides that rule everything.
The outback river: from Bourke down through Wilcannia and Menindee to the Murray, golden perch and cod in a river that runs, or does not, with the rain far to the north.
The Darling at Burtundy above Wentworth: cod and yellowbelly in the last reach before the Murray, with a Bureau gauge.
The Darling at Louth, below Bourke: Murray cod and yellowbelly in the outback river, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Darling at Menindee town, between the lakes: cod and yellowbelly in the river below the Menindee Lakes scheme, with a Bureau gauge.
The lower Darling at Pooncarie: cod and yellowbelly in the river between Menindee and Wentworth, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Darling at Tilpa between Louth and Wilcannia: cod and yellowbelly in remote outback country, with a Bureau gauge.
Darwin Harbour, the creeks and the run-off: the barramundi capital, where the tide is huge, the wet season sets the calendar and no licence is needed.
The Dawson at Baralaba: golden perch, saratoga and barramundi in the Neville Hewitt weir pool of central Queensland, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Dawson at Taroom: golden perch and saratoga in the central Queensland river, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Dawson at Theodore: golden perch and saratoga in the town weir pool of the irrigation district, with the Bureau’s gauge at the weir.
The deep highland lagoon off the Lyell Highway: browns and rainbows in clear, cold water with a camp and a Bureau gauge at the tunnel inlet.
The Delatite below Mount Buller: a small trout stream in the valley above Lake Eildon, with the Bureau’s gauge at Tonga Bridge.
Wilson Inlet and the Denmark River: bream and whiting in the inlet, salmon on Ocean Beach, with the Southern Ocean coast of William Bay and the Nullaki.
The Derwent below Meadowbank: browns, rainbows and the odd salmon in the river between the dam and New Norfolk, with the Bureau’s gauge below the dam.
The Deua above Moruya at Wamban: bass in the clear pools of a river that runs out of the wilderness, with the Bureau’s gauge at the crossing.
The Mornington Peninsula’s former reservoir at Tuerong: bass, estuary perch and redfin in a natural features reserve opened to shore fishing, with a Bureau gauge.
The ferry port on the Mersey: the breakwaters and the Bluff, the river’s wharves, the beaches east to Port Sorell and a Bass Strait coast of salmon, flathead and squid.
The Douglas River at Tipperary Crossing in the Douglas-Daly: barramundi and sooty grunter in a spring-fed Top End river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Duck River near Smithton in the far north-west: wild browns and blackfish in a lowland river, with a Bureau gauge at Scotchtown.
The Dumaresq at Bonshaw on the border: cod and yellowbelly below the granite country, with a Bureau gauge on the New South Wales bank.
The canal between Frederick Henry Bay and Blackman Bay: Dunalley’s flathead, squid, salmon and bream, the Marion Bay beach and the Tasman Peninsula beyond.
The beach west of Darwin: the Dundee ramp, the Finniss River mouth and the Bynoe Harbour creeks, with barra, jewfish, golden snapper and the reef of the Peron Islands.
Geographe Bay’s western corner: the Dunsborough beaches, the Quindalup ramp and Cape Naturaliste, with whiting, herring, squid, salmon and the dhufish grounds.
The East Alligator River above Cahills Crossing, on the Kakadu–Arnhem Land border: barramundi in a tidal river famous for its crocodiles, with a Bureau gauge.
Twofold Bay and the far south coast: a deep bay, a wharf, the rocks of Ben Boyd and the tuna and kingfish grounds off the shelf.
The Yorke Peninsula’s bottom-end jetty: Edithburgh’s squid, whiting and garfish, the tidal pool and the reefs of Troubridge Shoal, with the wrecks coast beyond.
The Edward at Deniliquin in the Riverina: Murray cod among the red gums of the Murray’s great anabranch, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The lower Edward at Moulamein, the oldest town in the Riverina: cod and yellowbelly in a quiet red gum river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Elizabeth River at Campbell Town in the Midlands: wild browns in a small river under the Red Bridge, with no current Bureau level series.
The Elliott River mouth south of Bundaberg: whiting and bream in the river, tailor on the beach and the rocks, with the flats that dry at low water.
The Capricorn Coast south of Yeppoon: Emu Park’s rocks and beaches, Kinka and Zilzie, and the Keppel islands, with whiting, bream, mackerel and the reef.
The Endeavour River at Flaggy, upstream of Cooktown: barramundi and mangrove jack in Cook’s river, with no current Bureau level series.
Brisbane’s old reservoir in the forest at The Gap: a new stocked impoundment for bass and Mary River cod, paddle access, and a Bureau gauge.
White beaches, granite headlands and the Recherche Archipelago: Esperance fishes for salmon, herring, whiting and the reef species from the far south coast.
The Esperance River at Dover in the far south: brown trout in a forest river above the town, with a Bureau gauge at the intake.
The high dam on the Broken River above the Eungella range: sooty grunter and barramundi in cool mountain water, exempt from the closure, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Evans River mouth and the walls: bream, whiting, mulloway and the beaches of the Broadwater and Bundjalung parks, with a tide people search for.
The Sunshine Coast hinterland lake at Landsborough: bass, golden perch, Mary River cod and saratoga among the lilies, a permit water with a Bureau gauge.
The Ningaloo coast: a gulf on one side, the reef on the other, and a fishery of pelagics, bonefish flats and the deep water off the North West Cape.
The Fergusson River at the railway bridge north of Katherine: sooty grunter and barramundi in a Daly tributary, with a Bureau gauge.
The Finniss River at Gitchams Crossing south-west of Darwin: barramundi in the upper Finniss, with a Bureau gauge.
The Southern Highlands reservoir above the falls: bass and trout in a Sydney-supply lake with shore access, and a Bureau gauge on the level.
The estuary west of Portland: a small, quiet river of bream and estuary perch that opens to the Southern Ocean beaches when it fills.
The Kimberley’s Fitzroy at the crossing: barramundi, sooty grunter and the sawfish of a wild river that floods and dries, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Fitzroy above Rockhampton at Riverslea: barramundi, golden perch and saratoga in the fresh reaches of the big river, with the Bureau’s gauge at the crossing.
The Mornington Peninsula’s Bass Strait village: Flinders pier’s squid and whiting, the Cape Schanck and West Head rocks, and the reefs off the point.
The largest of the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait: granite headlands, white beaches, the lagoons and a flathead, salmon and squid coast reached by air or the ferry.
The Flinders at Hughenden: golden perch and the inland fishing of the Gulf country’s longest river, in the pools when it holds water, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Flora River above Stoney Creek south-west of Katherine: barramundi and sooty grunter in a spring-fed river, with a Bureau gauge.
Wallis Lake and the breakwalls: flathead flats, bream on the leases and the Forster-Tuncurry bar where the lake meets the sea.
The lower Forth below the Wilmot junction: wild browns and sea-run trout between the hydro lakes and the Bass Strait coast, with a Bureau gauge.
K’gari: a sand island with a hundred kilometres of surf beach, where the tailor run each winter and the gutters change with every tide.
The port’s moles and the river mouth: the North and South moles, the fishing boat harbour and the Swan mouth, with tailor, herring, squid, mulloway and the kingfish of the harbour.
Corio Bay and the western shore of Port Phillip: piers, the Bellarine, snapper in spring and whiting when the weather settles.
The Genoa River at Gipsy Point, the quiet arm of Mallacoota Inlet: bream, flathead, estuary perch and mulloway, with no current Bureau level series.
The George River above St Helens: trout in the fresh water and bream below, on Tasmania’s north-east coast, with a Bureau gauge at the town intake.
The mid-west port with the Abrolhos offshore: tailor and herring from the beaches, whiting in the bay, and the demersal reef for the boats.
The south coast dairy town on the sea: Werri Beach and its lagoon, the Boat Harbour rocks and Seven Mile Beach, with tailor, bream and drummer.
The Gilbert River at the Burke Developmental Road: Gulf barramundi in the savanna country, with a Bureau gauge and the Gulf closure.
Lakes Victoria, King and Wellington and the rivers that feed them: the largest inland waterway in the country and Victoria’s bream water without equal.
A harbour city on the Capricorn coast: the Boyne and Calliope rivers, the harbour islands, Lake Awoonga behind it and the reef offshore.
The estuary at Nelson: a long, deep, tidal reach of bream and mulloway between limestone cliffs, from the Princess Margaret Rose Caves to the sea.
The Glenelg at Casterton: cod, golden perch, redfin and trout in the middle river of the south-west, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Pike Creek dam on the border near Texas: cod and golden perch in a deep lake shared with New South Wales, exempt from the cod closure, with a camp, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Gloucester River at Gloucester under the Bucketts: bass in a clear valley river, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
Surf beaches, the Seaway, the Broadwater and a network of canals: a city built on water that fishes from the sand, the rocks and the jetty in the same afternoon.
The Goodradigbee at Wee Jasper: trout in a limestone valley river running into Burrinjuck, with a Bureau gauge at Wee Jasper.
The reservoir south-east of Canberra: trout, golden perch and cod in a water the ACT manages and New South Wales licenses, with a level read from the Bureau.
Where the Murray meets the sea: the barrages, the Coorong mouth, Hindmarsh Island and the Goolwa beach, a fishery of two waters in one town.
The Goulburn tailrace at Alexandra: trout in the lower runs of the tailwater, with the same closed-season ban and the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Goulburn tailrace below Eildon: Victoria’s most fished trout river, cold and regulated, with a total ban in the closed season and the Bureau’s gauge at Eildon.
The Goulburn at Murchison between Nagambie and Shepparton: Murray cod and golden perch in the red gum river, with a Bureau gauge and the cod closure.
The Goulburn at Seymour: cod and golden perch below the trout tailrace, in the deep pools and snags of the middle river, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Goulburn through Shepparton: cod and golden perch in the lower river below the weir, with Victoria Park Lake, the river parks and the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Great Forester in the north-east: brown trout and sea-run fish in the river that meets the sea near Bridport, with a Bureau gauge.
The biggest of the Central Plateau lakes: wild brown trout and stocked rainbows in cold, windy water, with a level read from the Bureau every day.
The lake near Corop in northern Victoria: Murray cod and golden perch on the VFA’s specified-lakes list, with the cod closure applying and a Bureau gauge.
The spring-fed Gregory River at Gregory in the Gulf country: sooty grunter and barramundi in a clear, running river, with a Bureau gauge.
The upper Gwydir above Copeton at Bundarra: cod and golden perch in a granite-country river with the Bureau’s gauge at the village.
The Gwydir at Gravesend between Warialda and Moree: cod in the slopes-to-plains reach, with a Bureau gauge at the crossing.
The Gwydir at Pallamallawa east of Moree: cod and yellowbelly on the northern plains, with a Bureau gauge at the crossing.
The northern mouth of the Manning: the Harrington breakwall, the flats and Crowdy Bay, bream, whiting and jew, with a tide people search for.
The south-west’s stocked trout dam above Harvey: rainbow trout, redfin and marron in season, a freshwater licence, and a Bureau gauge on the level.
Western Port’s working port: the jetty and the marina, the channels off Long Island and the mangrove creeks of the northern shore.
The upper Hastings at Mount Seaview inland from Wauchope: bass in a clear mountain valley river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Haughton River near Giru south of Townsville: barramundi and sooty grunter in the sugar country, with a Bureau gauge on the river.
A tidal river of drowned valleys north of Sydney: jewfish in the deep holes, bream on the rock walls, flathead on the sand and hairtail in winter.
The upper Hawkesbury at Windsor: bass, bream and mullet in the tidal river on Sydney’s western edge, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The northern side of Port Stephens’ entrance: the Myall River, Jimmys Beach and Bennetts Beach, bream, whiting and the tailor of the ocean beach.
The Herbert at Abergowrie above Ingham: barramundi and sooty grunter in the rainforest-edged river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Herbert at Ingham: barramundi, sooty grunter and jungle perch in the wet-tropics river through the cane, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The sheltered water between the mainland and K’gari: whiting flats, the Urangan Pier, and a bay where the tide is the whole story.
The Gold Coast’s dam in the hinterland: bass, saratoga and golden perch at Advancetown, permit-only shore and electric-boat fishing, with a Bureau gauge.
The Derwent estuary through the middle of a capital: bream and salmon off the city wharves, flathead on the sand, and the trout lakes an hour away.
The jetty and the beaches of the Fitzgerald coast: Hopetoun’s herring, whiting and salmon, the Culham Inlet and the granite of the national park.
The Hopkins at Framlingham above Warrnambool: brown trout, blackfish and estuary perch in a quiet western river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Howqua from the high country to Lake Eildon: wild trout in a clear, rocky river with the camps of Sheepyard Flat, and the Bureau’s gauge at Glen Esk.
The Hunter between Singleton and Maitland at Greta: bass, cod and perch in the lower valley river, with the Bureau’s gauge at Greta.
The Hunter at Singleton: bass, cod and perch in the river through the coal town, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The Huon above Huonville at Judbury: wild browns and sea-runners in the river of the apple valley, with the Bureau’s gauge at Judbury.
The Jervis Bay village at the Currambene Creek mouth: the wharf, the creek, the white-sand beaches and the bay’s kingfish and whiting.
The northern side of the Clarence mouth: the Iluka breakwall, the bluff and the rainforest beaches, quieter than Yamba across the water.
The Inglis River at Flowerdale near Wynyard: wild browns and sea-run trout in a north-west coast river, with no current Bureau level series.
The wet-tropics river town: the Johnstone River and its north and south branches, Flying Fish Point and Etty Bay, and the barramundi, jack and grunter of the cane country.
Anderson Inlet and the surf beach: whiting and flathead on the inlet flats, salmon on the beach and the Eagles Nest rocks, with a tide that runs.
The southern Moreton Bay channels: the Pimpama and Logan mouths, Jumpinpin bar and the Stradbroke back channels, with whiting, bream, flathead and the jew of the Pin.
The Jamieson above the lake at the old gold town: wild trout in a rocky high-country river, with the Bureau’s gauge at Gerrang Bridge.
White sand, clear water and a deep bay open to the Tasman: kingfish at the heads, flathead on the sand, squid over the weed and a marine park on every map.
The Burnett near Mundubbera: bass, golden perch and silver perch in a stocked weir pool, a permit water with a Bureau watercourse gauge.
The Jordan River at Mauriceton in the southern midlands: brown trout in a small, dry-country river, with a Bureau gauge.
The small Snowy Scheme pondage between Talbingo and Blowering: trout and natives in a water that rises and falls with the power station, with a Bureau gauge.
The Turquoise Coast town and its marine park: the jetty, the islands and the reef, with whiting, tailor, herring, dhufish and the crayfish of the coast.
The Murchison River mouth and the cliffs: tailor and mulloway on the beaches, whiting and bream in the river, and the mackerel and dhufish off the cliffs.
A big island off the Fleurieu with a coast for every wind: whiting and squid in the sheltered bays, salmon on the southern beaches, snapper on the reefs.
The Kangaroo River at Hampden Bridge in Kangaroo Valley: bass above Tallowa Dam, outside the river closure, with no current Bureau level series.
The Karuah River at Booral north of Port Stephens: bass in the fresh river above the tide, with a Bureau gauge at the crossing.
The Gulf of Carpentaria’s fishing town: the Norman River mouth, the sandbar, the beach at Karumba Point and the barramundi and salmon of the Gulf.
The Katherine River at Nitmiluk: barramundi, sooty grunter and the gorge, with the Bureau’s gauge at the Nitmiluk Centre.
Kawana Waters and the Mooloolah River: the canals, the river mouth and the Point Cartwright rocks, with bream, whiting, flathead and mulloway a walk from the beach.
The blowhole town: harbour, rock platforms, Minnamurra River and the beaches of the Illawarra’s southern end.
The Kiewa at Mongans Bridge: a trout stream in the valley below the Bogong High Plains, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The off-stream barramundi dam behind Mackay: big fish over weed in a stocked lake exempt from the closure, with a permit, a camp and a Bureau gauge.
The King River at Cheshunt below Lake William Hovell: trout in a clear mountain valley river, with a Bureau gauge and the river trout closure.
Cudgen Creek and the beaches south of the Tweed: bream and whiting in the creek, tailor and jew on the beach, and a tide people search for.
The Limestone Coast town at the bottom of the Coorong: Kingston jetty and Lacepede Bay, the beaches to the Granites, with whiting, salmon, mulloway and the crayfish fleet.
The Kolan River at Springfield below Lake Monduran: barramundi in the river toward Bundaberg, with a Bureau gauge.
The Loddon River weir below Cairn Curran: a warm, shallow cod and golden perch lake near Maldon with foreshore camping and a Bureau gauge.
The lower Lachlan at Booligal on the Hay Plains: cod and yellowbelly in a slow red gum river, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Lachlan at Condobolin in the central west: Murray cod and golden perch in the red gum river, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Lachlan below Wyangala at Cowra: cod and golden perch in the river through the town and the valley, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Lachlan through Forbes: cod and golden perch in the town lake and the river bends, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The lower Lachlan at Hillston: cod and yellowbelly in the western river town, with no current Bureau level series.
The Lachlan at Nanami above Forbes: cod and golden perch in the upper-middle river below Wyangala, with a Bureau gauge.
The lower lake beside Lake Alexandrina at Meningie: callop, redfin and the other fish of the freshwater lakes behind the barrages, with no current gauge.
The Murray’s terminal lake at the Coorong: callop, cod, mulloway at the barrages and carp by the tonne in a vast, shallow lake, with a Bureau gauge.
The Ord’s inland sea in the Kimberley: barramundi, sooty grunter, catfish and freshwater crocodiles by the thousand, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The highest storage on the Central Plateau: wild browns in shallow, rocky water at the gateway to the Nineteen Lagoons, with a Bureau gauge at the intake.
The barramundi lake behind Gladstone: a stocked storage on the Boyne where metre fish are the target, with a level read from the Bureau every day.
The Forth River lake in the north-west: brown and rainbow trout in a deep hydro lake with a rowing course, a camp and a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Fyans Creek storage above Halls Gap: a deep mountain lake in the Grampians where cod and trout share the water and the Bureau reads the level.
The Boyne River dam near Proston: bass, golden perch and yellowbelly in the South Burnett’s big lake, with a camp, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The small storage on the Buffalo River near Myrtleford: trout and redfin with stocked natives, a quiet valley lake with a Bureau gauge.
The west coast’s big hydro lake under Frenchmans Cap: browns and rainbows in the rain country near Queenstown, with a camp and a Bureau gauge.
Canberra’s lake: Murray cod and golden perch stocked in the water the capital was built around, fished from the foreshores and the bridges with no licence.
The big Macquarie River storage near Wellington: golden perch on the points, cod in the timber, and a level that swings with the irrigation year.
The Lachlan River lake on the western plains: a shallow, warm town lake of golden perch, cod and catfish beside the town of the same name, with a Bureau gauge.
A Derwent River hydro lake between Wayatinah and Repulse: brown trout in a long, narrow river storage with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The lake south of Port Macquarie that opens when it fills: bream, flathead and whiting in the lake and the channel, and the beaches of Lake Cathie and Bonny Hills.
The deep Forth River gorge lake of the Mersey-Forth scheme near Moina: brown trout below the rainforest, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
A lake that opens to the sea when it fills: flathead flats, bream on the edges and prawns in summer, between Ulladulla and Jervis Bay.
The Interlaken lake of trophy browns: shallow, weedy water managed for big fish beside Lake Sorell, with its own rules and a Bureau gauge.
Victoria’s deepest lake in the Mitta Mitta valley: wild trout, a Macquarie perch fishery under its own rules, and a level the Bureau reads at the dam.
The big, remote hydro lake on the Central Plateau: wild browns and rainbows along drowned forest shores, reached by gravel from the Lyell Highway, with a Bureau gauge.
Victoria’s big lake in the foothills: Murray cod and golden perch in the timber, trout in the cold arms, and a level that moves the fishing every season.
The Campaspe storage near Bendigo: golden perch and Murray cod in the timber, redfin in the bays, and a level that swings with the irrigation year.
The largest of the Snowy Mountains lakes: a trout fishery of long shorelines, drowned rivers and a level that decides where the fish are.
The Grampians lake near Stawell: trout, redfin and stocked natives in a shallow off-river storage beside a caravan park, with a Bureau gauge.
The Wilmot River storage of the Mersey-Forth scheme: brown trout in a quiet north-west lake below the Cradle Mountain country, with a Bureau gauge.
Belconnen’s lake in northern Canberra: golden perch and stocked cod off the foreshores and the peninsula, with no licence and a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Hunter Valley’s big bass lake at Scone: Australian bass in the schools and the timber, golden perch and catfish, and a level read by the Bureau at the dam.
The Macalister River storage above Maffra in Gippsland: bass, golden perch, trout and redfin in a lake that fills fast and empties for the irrigators, with a Bureau gauge.
The deepest hydro lake in the south-west, behind the Gordon Dam: browns and rainbows in a drowned-forest wilderness reached from Strathgordon, with a Bureau gauge at the intake.
The Isis Balancing Storage near Childers: stocked barramundi, bass and saratoga, open through the barra closure, with a Bureau gauge.
The Murray’s big storage above Albury: Murray cod in the timber, golden perch on the points, trout in the cold water and a level that runs the whole fishery.
The big coastal lake south of Wollongong: flathead flats, bream on the entrance walls, prawns on the dark summer nights and a tide that reaches everything.
The Snowy Mountains lake below Kosciuszko: brown and rainbow trout, a town on its shore and a level that reads from the Bureau every day.
The Leichhardt River dam north of Mount Isa: barramundi and sooty grunter in a Gulf-country lake exempt from the Gulf closure, with a camp and a Bureau gauge.
The Namoi River storage near Gunnedah: golden perch water first, cod in the timber, and a level that empties and refills with the north-west seasons.
The Derwent’s headwater lake at Derwent Bridge: browns and rainbows in a long hydro lake between the mountains, with camping and a Bureau gauge at Clark Dam.
The Ord River lake at Kununurra: barramundi and sooty grunter in the diversion dam’s pool below Argyle, fished from the town and the river, with a Bureau gauge.
Sideling Creek Dam at Petrie: bass, golden perch, Mary River cod and saratoga in Moreton Bay’s suburban lake, a permit water with a Bureau gauge.
Lake Lenthall on the Burrum near Hervey Bay: barramundi and bass in a timbered dam exempt from the closure, with a permit and the Bureau’s headwater gauge.
The Noosa hinterland’s lake at Cooroy: bass and saratoga in a shallow supply lake with a botanic garden on its shore, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The high lake on the Fisher River above Mole Creek: wild browns under the Great Western Tiers, bait on one handheld rod only, with a Bureau gauge.
The big West Coast lake at Tullah: wild browns among the drowned forest, open to the end of May as an extended-season water, with a Bureau gauge.
The largest coastal lake in the country, an hour north of Sydney: flathead flats, bream on the leases, jew in the channel and a tidal entrance at Swansea.
Lake Maraboon at Emerald: the Fairbairn Dam’s barramundi, saratoga and red claw in the central highlands, exempt from the closure, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The small high lake above Queenstown that has fed a power station since 1914: brown trout in West Coast rainforest, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Burnett Creek dam near Boonah: a small Scenic Rim lake of bass, saratoga and golden perch with a quiet camp, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Darling River’s outback lake near Broken Hill: golden perch and cod when it holds water, dry sand when it does not, with the Bureau’s gauge telling which.
The barramundi impoundment north of Bundaberg: a stocked storage on the Kolan where metre fish are the target and the permit is the ticket.
The Scenic Rim dam under Mount Edwards: bass, golden perch and saratoga in a lake ringed by peaks, with a camp, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
Cairns’ water supply in the hills above the city: Lake Morris at the Copperlode Falls Dam, barramundi and sooty grunter from the shore, exempt from the closure, with a Bureau gauge.
The Murray’s drowned forest at Yarrawonga: Murray cod among the dead red gums, golden perch on the edges, and a lake that straddles the border.
A West Coast storage of the Pieman scheme near Tullah: brown trout in rainforest country, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Goulburn Weir pool at Nagambie: cod and golden perch in the drowned timber of a river lake, with a town on its shore and a Bureau gauge at the weir.
The Broken River storage south of Benalla: a year-round Murray cod fishery by VFA rule, golden perch and trout, with the level read by the Bureau.
The lowest lake of the Mersey-Forth scheme, inland from Devonport: brown and rainbow trout close to town, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Mersey River storage below Lake Rowallan: brown trout in a narrow forest lake of the Mersey-Forth scheme, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The vast south-west lake behind Strathgordon: wild browns and rainbows in a wilderness water, with camps, ramps and a Bureau gauge at the Serpentine Dam.
The lowest lake of the Pieman scheme behind Reece Dam: brown trout in remote West Coast forest, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
A high, exposed West Coast storage of the Anthony scheme: wild browns with a two-fish bag, with a Bureau gauge at the intake.
Lake Proserpine behind the Whitsundays: the Peter Faust Dam’s big barramundi in a stocked lake exempt from the closure, with a permit, a camp and a Bureau gauge.
A Derwent River hydro lake near Ouse: brown trout between Catagunya and Cluny, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Lake River at Parknook below Woods Lake: brown trout in the midlands river toward the Macquarie, with a Bureau gauge.
The Pieman scheme lake between Tullah and Rosebery: wild browns open to the end of May as an extended-season water, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The upper Mersey lake at the edge of the Walls of Jerusalem: big browns in drowned timber, open from October to May, with a Bureau gauge.
Lake Samsonvale north of Brisbane: bass and golden perch in a suburban water-supply lake with permit-only shore and electric-boat access, and a Bureau gauge.
The storage on the Stanley above Wivenhoe: bass and golden perch water an hour from Brisbane, with a level read from the Bureau every day.
The big Interlaken lake beside Crescent: wild browns in shallow, weedy water reopened after the carp program, with a Bureau gauge.
Glennies Creek Dam in the Hunter Valley: bass, golden perch and catfish in a stocked storage near Singleton, with a level read from the Bureau every day.
Australia’s deepest lake at the foot of the Overland Track: wild browns and rainbows in cold, clear water inside the national park, with a Bureau gauge at Pump House Point.
The Atherton Tableland’s barramundi lake: metre fish in a stocked dam exempt from the closed season, sooty grunter and red claw, with a Bureau gauge and a permit to fish.
The Wimmera’s trophy trout lake south of Horsham: big browns under their own minimum size, redfin and cod, with a Bureau gauge on a level that decides everything.
Launceston’s lake on the South Esk above Cataract Gorge: brown trout minutes from the city, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The southern Canberra lake: perch and cod stocked in a shallow town lake that warms early, fished from the foreshores with no licence and read by the Bureau at the dam.
A quiet, forested estuary east of Lakes Entrance: bream in the arms, flathead on the sand and an entrance that opens and closes with the seasons.
The oldest Grampians reservoir, high on the MacKenzie River: a cold, shallow trout and redfin lake in the ranges with a Bureau gauge.
Ballarat’s lake in the middle of town: stocked trout and redfin in a shallow, weedy water that fishes from the footpath.
The King River storage above Cheshunt: a small, cold alpine-fringe lake of trout and redfin in the King Valley, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
Brisbane’s big lake on the Brisbane River: bass, golden perch and cod-stocked water an hour from the city, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
Where the Gippsland Lakes meet the sea: the entrance, the lakes behind it, the Ninety Mile Beach in front and a fishing town built around all three.
The Moorabool River reservoir south of Ballarat: a stocked trout and redfin lake near the falls, opened to shore fishing, with a Bureau gauge.
The dunes and the islands north of Perth: Lancelin’s beaches and jetty, the reef and the islands, with tailor, whiting, herring and the dhufish grounds.
The upper Latrobe at Noojee: a small, cold trout stream in the Gippsland forest, with the trestle bridge and the Bureau’s gauge at the village.
A Central Highlands hydro lagoon the Inland Fishing Code names as a general-rules water: wild browns on the fly, lure and bait, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Camden Haven: Laurieton’s river walls, Queens Lake and Watson Taylors Lake, and the beaches under North Brother, with a tide people search for.
The Coliban River storage near Kyneton: a trout and redfin lake with cod on the VFA’s lake list, shore access, and the level read by the Bureau.
A Condamine weir pool on the Darling Downs: golden perch, Murray cod and silver perch, a Stocked Impoundment Permit water with a Bureau gauge.
The Sandy Creek dam at Warwick on the Darling Downs: cod and golden perch in Murray-Darling water with a camp, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Leven above Ulverstone: wild browns in the gorge and the runs of a north-west river, with the Bureau’s gauge at Bannons Bridge.
The fly-only lagoon of the Central Plateau: wild browns tailing in the shallows, artificial fly only by rule, with a camp and a Bureau gauge.
The Gippsland Lakes village between Lake Victoria and the Ninety Mile: bream and flathead in the lake, salmon on the beach, with the jetties and the Bunga Arm.
The lower Loddon at Appin South near Kerang: cod and yellowbelly on the northern plains, with a Bureau gauge and the cod closure.
The Loddon at Bridgewater on the Calder: cod and golden perch in the weir pool and the red gums north of Bendigo, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The lower Loddon at Kerang: Murray cod and golden perch among the lakes and red gums of the northern plains, with a Bureau gauge.
The upper Loddon at Newstead: trout, redfin and the first natives in the pools above Cairn Curran, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The river between Brisbane and the Gold Coast: bream and flathead in the tidal reaches, jack in the snags, and the mouth on southern Moreton Bay.
The upper Logan at Beaudesert: bass and the Scenic Rim’s fresh river above the tide, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
Lake Brockman in the scarp above Harvey: stocked trout, redfin and marron in a small dam with camping, a freshwater licence and a Bureau gauge.
The Great Ocean Road resort: the Lorne pier’s squid and salmon, the Erskine River mouth and the reefs of Louttit Bay, with snapper and gummies for the boats.
The small Paterson River storage above Gresford: a quiet Hunter bass and perch lake with a camping foreshore and a Bureau gauge at the wall.
The sugar jetty and the Hinchinbrook Channel: the world’s longest jetty, the channel’s barra and jacks, and the reef beyond Hinchinbrook Island.
The Macalister above Glenmaggie at Licola: a mountain trout stream on the edge of the Alpine National Park, with the Bureau’s gauge at the village.
The Macintyre at Goondiwindi on the border: Murray cod and golden perch, with the stocked weir pool at the town and a Bureau gauge.
The Macintyre at Inverell in New England: Murray cod in the granite-country river through the town, with a Bureau gauge.
The Macintyre at Yetman on the Queensland border: cod and yellowbelly in the border river, with a Bureau gauge at the bridge.
The Pioneer River, the harbour and the islands: a sugar city on the central coast with the reef offshore and barramundi in the creeks.
The Macleay at Kempsey: bass in the fresh reaches, bream and jew in the tidal ones, on the mid north coast with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Macquarie through Dubbo: cod and golden perch off the town’s river parks and bridges, with the Bureau’s gauge in the city.
The Macquarie at Warren on the way to the Marshes: cod and yellowbelly in the western river, with no current Bureau level series.
The Macquarie below Burrendong at Wellington: cod, golden perch and the trout of the cold releases at the Bell junction, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Macquarie through the midlands near Ross: the classic Tasmanian mayfly river of wild browns, with the Bureau’s gauge at Trefusis.
Townsville’s island: the jetties of Picnic Bay and Nelly Bay, the bays and headlands, with mackerel, queenfish, trevally and the reef around the island.
The last town before the border: an inlet of two lakes, a bar to the sea and a coast of empty beaches and rock at the far east of Victoria.
The Coliban reservoir at Malmsbury: golden perch, redfin and stocked trout in a shallow lake beside the old railway viaduct, with a Bureau gauge.
The Peel-Harvey estuary, its canals and the Dawesville Cut: bream, crabs, tailor and mulloway an hour south of Perth.
Manly on both sides: the harbour wharf and Fairy Bower, the ocean beach and the North Head rocks, with kingfish, bream, squid and tailor a ferry ride from the city.
The river of Taree: a double-mouthed estuary at Harrington and Old Bar, oyster leases, sand flats and deep bends, bream, flathead, jew and bass.
The Manning at Wingham, near the tidal limit: bass in the fresh water and bream below, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Maranoa at Mitchell: yellowbelly and cod in the Maranoa town’s river, with a Bureau gauge and the Murray-Darling cod closure.
The Snowy River mouth: bream and estuary perch in the Snowy and the Brodribb, salmon on the beach and the Frenchs Narrows, with Cape Conran down the coast.
The Sunshine Coast’s long sandy estuary: flathead flats, bream on the leases, whiting in summer and the mouth at Cotton Tree.
From Gympie to the Great Sandy Strait: the tidal Mary through Maryborough, a river of barramundi, bass, threadfin and mud crabs.
The Mary at Gympie: bass, golden perch and the protected Mary River cod in the fresh river through the gold town, with the Bureau’s gauge at the weir.
The Mary River at Miva between Gympie and Maryborough: Australian bass in a river of protected cod and lungfish, with a Bureau gauge.
Shady Camp on the Mary River: the Territory’s most famous barramundi spot, where the fresh meets the salt at the barrage, with no gauge and every crocodile in the north.
The lowland Derwent lake above New Norfolk: browns, rainbows and the odd Atlantic salmon, open all year by IFS rule, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Meander at Deloraine: wild browns in the river through the town below the Great Western Tiers, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The Mehi River through Moree: cod and yellowbelly in the Gwydir’s anabranch on the northern plains, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
A city that fishes its bay from the piers, its rivers from the banks and the Yarra from the CBD: Melbourne is a Port Phillip fishing report with a skyline.
The Werribee River reservoir at Melton, west of Melbourne: Murray cod on the VFA’s urban-lakes list, open all year south of the Divide, with a Bureau gauge.
A lake, a bar, a wharf and two beaches on the Sapphire Coast: Merimbula fishes for bream and flathead inside and salmon, tailor and kingfish outside.
The upper Mersey at Liena: wild browns and rainbows in the gorge below the highland lakes, with the Bureau’s gauge at Liena.
The Cassowary Coast beaches and Dunk Island: whiting and dart on the beach, barra and jacks in the creeks, mackerel and reef fish from Clump Point.
The river of the silt jetties: from Bairnsdale down to Lake King through the longest river delta of its kind, bream water from end to end.
The Mitta Mitta below Dartmouth at Mitta Mitta: a cold tailwater of big trout in the valley, with the Bureau’s gauge at the village.
The Montagu River at Stuarts Road in the far north-west: brown trout and whitebait water near Smithton, with a Bureau gauge.
The Moonie at Fenton upstream of Nindigully: cod and yellowbelly in the remote Moonie country, with a Bureau gauge.
The Moonie at Nindigully, beside the historic Nindigully pub: cod and yellowbelly in a quiet western river, with a Bureau gauge.
The lower Moorabool at Batesford on Geelong’s edge: trout, redfin and blackfish in a basalt valley river, with a Bureau gauge.
Brisbane’s bay: sand islands, shipping channels, artificial reefs and the flats where flathead, bream, whiting and snapper share a tide.
Mulgumpin: a sand island of surf beaches, the Tangalooma wrecks and the bay flats, reached by barge and driven on the sand.
The pier, the harbour and the eastern shore of Port Phillip: Mornington’s snapper, squid and garfish an hour from Melbourne.
The Moruya River, its breakwalls and the beaches of the Eurobodalla: bream and flathead in the river, salmon and tailor at the mouth, a marine park to read first.
The Mossman and Daintree rivers and the Newell and Wonga beaches: barra, jacks and sooty grunter, with the reef off Port Douglas.
The old town dam at Mount Morgan above Rockhampton: a new stocked impoundment for golden perch, saratoga and sleepy cod, with a Bureau gauge.
The Mulgrave River at Peets Bridge near Gordonvale: jungle perch, sooty grunter and barramundi below the rainforest, with a Bureau gauge.
The Murray below Hume: cod and golden perch in the cold, regulated river through Albury and Wodonga, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Murray at Barham and Koondrook: cod and yellowbelly among the red gum forests of the Riverina, with a Bureau gauge at Barham.
The Murray at Berri: cod and callop in the Riverland’s citrus town, on the pool above Lock 4, with the Bureau’s gauge at the pump station.
The River Murray at Lock 1, Blanchetown: the first lock above the lakes, callop, cod and redfin under the limestone cliffs, with a Bureau gauge at the lock.
The Murray at Cobram in the trout cod protection reach: Murray cod and golden perch, with all fishing closed from September to November, and a Bureau gauge.
The Murray between Hume and Mulwala: cod water through the red gums at Corowa and Rutherglen, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The Murray at the paddle-steamer port: cod and golden perch through the red gums at Echuca and Moama, with the Bureau’s gauge at the wharf.
The upper Murray at Jingellic below the Snowy foothills: cod and trout in a fast, clear river, with a Bureau gauge at Jingellic.
The River Murray at Lock 2, downstream of Waikerie: callop and cod in the Riverland’s cliff country, with a Bureau gauge at the lock.
The River Murray at Lock 3 near Overland Corner: cliffs, backwaters and red gums in the Riverland, callop and cod, with a Bureau gauge at the lock.
The River Murray at Lock 4, Bookpurnong, near Loxton: callop and cod among the Riverland’s red gum flats, with a Bureau gauge at the lock.
The River Murray at Lock 6, Murtho, near the Victorian and NSW borders: callop and release-only cod beside the Chowilla country, with a Bureau gauge at the lock.
The Murray at Mannum: cod and callop on the houseboat river below the cliffs, with the ferry, the wharf and the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Murray at Mildura: cod and golden perch on the Sunraysia river, with the Lock 11 weir pool, the town wharf and the Bureau’s gauge above the city.
The Murray at Morgan: cod and callop where the river turns south at the old port, on the pool above Lock 1, with the Bureau’s gauge below the town.
The Murray at Murray Bridge: cod and callop on the last town reach before the lakes, under the road and rail bridges, with the Bureau’s gauge at Long Island.
The Murray at Renmark: cod and callop on the Riverland’s river between Lock 5 and the town, with the paddle-steamer wharf and the Bureau’s gauge at the pump station.
The Murray at Robinvale: cod and golden perch on the Euston weir pool between the vineyards and the Mallee, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Murray at Swan Hill: cod and golden perch through the Mallee river town and its red gums, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The Murray below Yarrawonga: cod and perch in the wide sandy river at Tocumwal, with the town beach, the red gum forests and a Bureau gauge.
The junction of the Murray and the Darling: cod, golden perch and the big-river fishing of the far west at Wentworth, with the Bureau’s gauge at Lock 10.
The river of the Riverina and the capital: cod and golden perch in the lowland reaches, trout in the mountains, and a thousand kilometres between them.
The Murrumbidgee below Burrinjuck at Gundagai: cod and golden perch in the river of the song, under the old bridges, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Murrumbidgee on the Hay plains: slow, wide cod and perch water through the saltbush, with the town weir and the Bureau’s gauge at Hay.
The Murrumbidgee in the heart of the Riverina: cod, golden perch and the river camps of Narrandera, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Murrumbidgee through the Riverina’s capital: cod and golden perch off the town beach, the bends and the snags of Wagga Wagga, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Fleurieu reservoir opened to shore fishing and kayaks: native fish stocked into a SA Water lake above Myponga, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Nambucca River mouth: the V-Wall, the river flats and the beaches, bream, flathead and whiting on the mid north coast, with a tide people search for.
The Nambucca above Bowraville: bass in the fresh upper river of the Nambucca valley, with a Bureau gauge above the town.
The Namoi at Boggabri below Gunnedah: cod and yellowbelly in the red gum river of the Liverpool Plains, with a Bureau gauge.
The Namoi at Gunnedah below Keepit: golden perch, cod and catfish through the Liverpool Plains town, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The Namoi at Mollee Weir below Narrabri: cod and yellowbelly in the cotton country weir pool, with a Bureau gauge.
The Namoi through the cotton country at Narrabri: golden perch, cod and catfish in a warm north-west river, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Namoi below Keepit Dam: cod and yellowbelly in the tailwater river, with a Bureau gauge just below the wall.
Wagonga Inlet, the breakwalls and Montague Island: a clear inlet, a famous bar and the kingfish grounds of the far south coast.
The town at the heart of Port Stephens: the D’Albora marina, the breakwater, Little Beach and the run out to the heads and Broughton Island.
The Nepean at Penrith: bass in the gorge and the town reach under the Blue Mountains, with the rowing course, the weir and the Bureau’s gauge.
The Nerang below Hinze at Nerang: bass in the fresh reaches and the weir pools of the Gold Coast hinterland, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
Harbour breakwalls, Stockton Beach, the Hunter River and the rocks of the coast: a working port that fishes from the middle of town.
The small reservoir north of Ballarat: a stocked trout and redfin lake on the tableland with shore access and a Bureau gauge.
Gove on the Arnhem Land coast: the beaches and reefs of the peninsula, Melville Bay and the islands, with Spanish mackerel, coral trout, barra and the permits of Yolngu country.
The Nive River at Gowan Brae below Pine Tier: brown trout in the highland river of the Derwent scheme, with a Bureau gauge.
The Noosa River, the headland and the beaches: a river fishery of bream, flathead and jack with the surf and the reef at its mouth.
From the lakes of the Great Sandy country to the bar at Noosa Heads: a river of sand flats, rock walls and snags that fishes for tens of kilometres.
The lighthouse headland of the Central Coast: the rock platforms, Soldiers and Cabbage Tree beaches, and the reef off the light, with drummer, tailor and kingfish.
The Norman River at Glenore Weir above Normanton: Gulf barramundi in the fresh water, under the Gulf closure, with a Bureau gauge.
The North Esk east of Launceston: wild browns in the farmland and forest river above the city, with a Bureau gauge at Ballroom.
The North Johnstone at Goondi above Innisfail: barramundi, jungle perch and sooty grunter in a rainforest river, with no current Bureau level series.
Minjerribah: the eastern wall of Moreton Bay, with surf gutters and rock platforms on the ocean side and calm flats, jetties and the Rainbow Channel on the bay side.
The town on the Shoalhaven: the river’s bridges, walls and bends through the city, bass upstream, jew and bream in the tidal reaches, and Jervis Bay a short drive away.
The Nymboida at Nymboida west of Grafton: bass in a clear rapid-and-pool river, with protected eastern cod and a Bureau gauge.
The Fish River storage on the Central Tablelands: a cold trout lake above the Blue Mountains with a Bureau gauge and a short drive from Sydney.
The Bellarine’s surf town across the river from Barwon Heads: the main beach’s salmon and whiting, the river mouth and the reef off the point.
The Pilbara coast between Exmouth and Dampier: Onslow’s beaches, creeks and the Mackerel Islands, with mackerel, trevally, mangrove jack, mud crabs and the reef.
The Orara at Glenreagh between Coffs Harbour and Grafton: bass in a quiet valley river, with a Bureau gauge at the village.
The Ouse River at Ashton in the Central Highlands: wild browns below the plateau, with a Bureau gauge.
The upper Ovens at Bright: a clear trout stream under the alps, open from the first Saturday of September, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The upper Ovens at Harrietville under Mount Hotham: trout in a clear alpine river, with a Bureau gauge and the river trout closure.
The Ovens at Myrtleford: trout in the runs and the first natives in the pools, between the tobacco flats and the alps, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The lower Ovens at Peechelba near the Murray: Murray cod and protected trout cod in a red gum river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Ovens at Wangaratta: cod and golden perch in the lower river through the town, at the King junction, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
Sydney’s northern tip: the Barrenjoey rocks, the Pittwater wharf and the ocean beach, with kingfish, tailor and the mouth of Broken Bay.
The Sapphire Coast south of Merimbula: Pambula Lake and its oyster leases, the river mouth, Pambula Beach and the rocks at Haycock Point.
The Burnett River dam above Bundaberg: barramundi and bass in a lake the state is rebuilding, exempt from the closure, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Paterson River at Gostwyck in the Hunter: Australian bass in a green valley river, with a Bureau gauge and the winter bass closure.
The plateau lagoon reserved for the fly: wild browns in shallow, weedy water near Miena, with a Bureau gauge at the canal outlet.
A capital with a river through its middle, a string of surf beaches, Rottnest on the horizon and a boat fishery that starts at the harbour mouth.
Between Western Port and Bass Strait: the Cowes and Rhyll piers on the calm side, San Remo and the surf beaches on the wild side, and the channels in between.
The Severn River storage near Inverell: a cod and golden perch lake with camping at the wall and a level the Bureau reads every day.
The Nive River lagoon on the plateau’s edge: browns and rainbows in a hydro water above Bronte, with camping and a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Pioneer River at Pinevale west of Mackay: sooty grunter and barramundi in the cane-valley river, with no current Bureau level series.
Sydney’s northern estuary: a drowned valley of moorings, weed beds and sandstone shores where kingfish, squid, bream and flathead fish within sight of the city.
The oldest port in Gippsland: the jetties and channels of Nooramunga, whiting, flathead and gummies, with the Ninety Mile Beach beyond the islands.
The top of Spencer Gulf: a tidal creek city where the gulf narrows to a channel, with snapper, whiting, mulloway and blue swimmer crabs on a strong tide.
Where the rainforest meets the reef: Dickson Inlet, the Daintree and Mossman rivers, Four Mile Beach and the outer reef an hour offshore.
The Moyne River port on the Shipwreck Coast: bream in the river, salmon on the beaches, snapper and tuna outside, with the wharf and the breakwater in the middle of town.
The iron ore port and its creeks: the Hedland spoil bank and the harbour, the Pretty Pool and Cooke Point rocks, with mackerel, trevally, mangrove jack and the biggest tides in the state.
The seafood capital at the foot of Eyre Peninsula: King George whiting, snapper and the tuna pens of Boston Bay, with the Southern Ocean over the hill.
The southernmost town in the state: the crayfish port’s breakwater, the reefs and the beaches, with salmon, whiting, sweep and the Southern Ocean.
The Hastings River, its breakwalls and the beaches either side: a mid-north coast town that fishes the estuary, the walls and the surf in one day.
Adelaide’s southern jetty and reef: Port Noarlunga jetty, the Onkaparinga mouth and the reef, with squid, whiting, garfish, bream and salmon.
Melbourne’s bay, where the spring snapper run, the whiting grounds and the pier fishing of a whole city share one shallow, tidal basin.
Adelaide’s working river: the Port River and Barker Inlet, mangroves, ship channels and the dolphins, a fishery of bream, mulloway and crabs inside the city.
A drowned river valley north of Newcastle: flathead flats, bream on the leases, kingfish at the heads and the game grounds beyond.
The gateway to Corner Inlet and Wilsons Promontory: whiting over the seagrass, snapper in the channels and a long jetty into the tide.
Victoria’s deep-water port on the far west coast: tuna season off the shelf, snapper and whiting in the bay, salmon on the beaches.
The Proserpine River at the Bruce Highway: barramundi and jacks in a Whitsunday river of crocodiles, with a Bureau gauge at the highway.
The Werribee catchment reservoir near Ballan: trout, redfin and golden perch in a lake beside the Western Freeway, with a Bureau gauge.
At the heads of Port Phillip: the harbour, the pier, the Rip and the Bellarine whiting grounds, where the bay meets Bass Strait.
The coloured cliffs, Inskip Point and the beach to Double Island Point: tailor gutters, whiting and the barge to K’gari at the top of the Cooloola coast.
The peninsula at the top of Moreton Bay: the Redcliffe and Woody Point jetties, the Hornibrook remnants and the bay flats a half-hour from Brisbane.
The Reynolds River in Litchfield country: barramundi in the billabongs and floodplain channels south-west of Darwin, with no current Bureau level series.
From Casino and Lismore down to Ballina: the tidal Richmond and its Wilsons arm, a big northern river of bream, flathead, jack, jew and bass.
The Richmond River at Casino in the Northern Rivers: bass in the fresh water above the tide, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Ringarooma above Branxholm: brown trout in the upper north-east valley, with a Bureau gauge at the town intake.
The Ringarooma at Moorina in the north-east: brown trout in the old tin-mining valley, with a Bureau gauge.
The Limestone Coast’s harbour town: the marina, Lake Butler, the obelisk rocks and the long beaches, with rock lobster country all around.
The Fitzroy River through the beef capital: barramundi below the barrage, the delta creeks and Keppel Bay downstream, and the reef beyond.
Cockburn Sound and the Shoalwater islands: the Rockingham beaches and jetties, Garden Island and Penguin Island, with whiting, herring, squid, snapper and the pink snapper closure.
The Glenelg River storage in the southern Grampians: a Wimmera-basin lake where cod are open all year by VFA rule, with golden perch, redfin and trout, and a Bureau gauge.
The Roper River at Mataranka Homestead: barramundi and sooty grunter in the spring-fed upper Roper, with a Bureau gauge.
The Roper at Roper Bar: barramundi where the fresh crosses to the salt on the road to the Gulf, with the store, the crossing and the Bureau’s gauge at the police station.
Townsville’s big supply lake: barramundi, sooty grunter and the closed season that still applies here, with shore fishing under the council’s rules and a Bureau gauge.
Perth’s island: the jetties and bays of Rottnest, the reef and the sanctuary zones, with herring, whiting, squid, tailor and the samson fish of the deep.
The Rubicon near Thornton: a small trout stream with its own 25 cm minimum, part of the Goulburn tailrace rules, with the Bureau’s gauge at Rubicon.
The Russell south of Cairns: barramundi, jungle perch and sooty grunter in a clear wet-tropics river under the Bellenden Ker range, with the Bureau’s gauge at Mirriwinni.
The Mornington Peninsula’s bay town: Rye pier’s squid and whiting, the shallow bay flats and the back beach on Bass Strait, with the pier lights at night.
The Phillip Island bridge town: the San Remo jetty and the Eastern Entrance rip, whiting and salmon, with the pelicans and the fishing fleet.
The beaches south of Mackay: Sarina Beach, Grasstree and Campwin, the creeks and the Cape Palmerston coast, with whiting, barra and mackerel.
The bream river of the east coast: the Scamander River’s bream, the beach’s salmon and the rocks, between St Helens and Bicheno.
The beaches and creeks north of Mackay: Seaforth, Halliday Bay and the Cape Hillsborough coast, with barra, grunter, whiting and mackerel off the islands.
The lighthouse village between Port Stephens and Forster: Sugarloaf Point rocks, Number One and Boat beaches, and the reef and seals of the point.
The Severn below Pindari at Ashford: cod and golden perch in the Border Rivers country, with the Bureau’s gauge at the village.
The Severn at Ballandean in the Granite Belt: Murray cod in the granite pools of Queensland’s high country, with a Bureau gauge.
The plateau lagoon below Great Lake at Miena: wild browns, no motorised boats, a five-fish bag, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Shannon River at Hermitage below Great Lake: brown trout in the plateau river the fly anglers know, with a Bureau gauge.
A harbour village south of Wollongong: the boat harbour and its breakwater, Bass Point, the beaches and the southern end of Lake Illawarra.
From the gorge to the sea: the tidal Shoalhaven from Nowra to Shoalhaven Heads and Crookhaven, a river of bream, flathead, jew and bass.
From Jindabyne down through the gorge to the Victorian border: trout in the cold reaches below the dam, and the environmental flows that have brought the river back.
The Snowy River at Dalgety below Jindabyne: trout in the environmental-flow river on the Monaro, with no current Bureau level series.
The Snowy at McKillops Bridge in the Snowy River National Park: bass in a wild gorge river, with a Bureau gauge at the bridge.
The lower Snowy at Orbost: Australian bass and estuary perch on the river flats above the estuary, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The tip of the Mornington Peninsula: the Sorrento and Portsea piers on the bay, the Rip and Point Nepean, and the back beaches on Bass Strait.
The upper South Esk at Llewellyn: wild browns in the midlands river below Fingal, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The South Esk at Perth: wild browns in the lowland river above Launceston, open in the Tasmanian season, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The upper South Esk at the Upper Esk Road bridge: brown trout above Avoca, on the general season, with a Bureau gauge.
The Barossa’s big reservoir opened to shore fishing and kayaks: native fish stocked into SA Water’s South Para lake, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The mouth of the Macleay and Trial Bay: the breakwalls, the gaol beach, the Smoky Cape rocks and the Fish Rock grounds outside, with a tide people search for.
The Manilla River storage north of Manilla: golden perch, cod and catfish in a lake that empties in the dry years, with the Bureau’s gauge at the wall.
The big lake behind Jervis Bay: flathead flats, bream on the edges, jew in the channel and the Sussex Inlet run to the sea.
Georges Bay and the Bay of Fires: the east coast town where the sheltered bay fishes for flathead, bream and squid and the ocean beaches for salmon.
The St Pauls River above the South Esk near Avoca: brown trout in the midlands, with a Bureau gauge above the junction.
The end of the road on the Shoalwater coast: Stanage Bay’s creeks, flats and islands, with barra, grunter, mud crabs and the reef, and a ramp that dries on the tide.
The Nut and its harbour on the north-west coast: Stanley’s wharf and breakwater, the Godfreys and Tatlows beaches, with flathead, salmon, squid and the crayfish fleet.
The Stanley River at Woodford: bass and the stocked Woodford Weir pool, with a Bureau gauge at the town.
The Steavenson at Marysville: a small trout stream below the falls, rebuilt after the fires, with the Bureau’s gauge at the falls.
Macquarie Harbour from the west coast port: the harbour’s trout and salmon, the Gordon and King rivers, Hells Gates and the Ocean Beach surf.
The far west coast’s big bay: the jetty, the flats and the channels, with whiting, snapper, salmon and the sharks of the Great Australian Bight beaches.
The Styx River at Jeogla on the New England tablelands: wild trout below the escarpment, with a Bureau gauge.
From Caloundra to Noosa: surf beaches, the Maroochy and Mooloolah rivers, the Pumicestone Passage and the reefs off Mooloolaba.
The channel between St Georges Basin and the sea: bream, flathead and whiting in the inlet, jew at the mouth and the beaches of Bherwerre, with a tide people search for.
The river through Perth: bream and flathead from the Narrows to Fremantle, mulloway at night, and the blue swimmer crabs of the lower reaches.
Tasmania’s Swan River at The Grange near Swansea: brown trout in the east coast river above Moulting Lagoon, with a Bureau gauge.
The channel between Lake Macquarie and the sea: the bridge, the breakwalls, the flats and the ocean beaches, where the lake’s fish come and go.
A harbour, three big estuaries, the northern and southern beaches and the rocks in between: the most varied fishing of any Australian city.
The deep Snowy Scheme reservoir above Tumut: trout in cold water between steep ridges, a pondage fishery at each end, and the Bureau’s gauge on the level.
The weir near Allora on the southern Darling Downs: golden perch, Murray cod and silver perch in a stocked pool, with a Bureau gauge.
The Shoalhaven River storage in the gorge above Nowra: bass water of the first rank, reached by a long road to Kangaroo Valley, with a Bureau gauge at the wall.
A Gippsland river of bream and bass, from the mountains down to Lake King: the Tambo fishes its lower reaches on the tide and its upper ones on the snags.
The upper Tambo at Swifts Creek: a trout stream in the high country between Omeo and the coast, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
Gladstone’s beach: the Boyne River mouth, the Tannum beach and the Wild Cattle Creek, with whiting, bream, flathead and the barra of the river.
The high Snowy Scheme storage on the upper Murrumbidgee: a wild, windswept trout lake at 1,200 metres, reached by a gravel road, with its level read by the Bureau.
The Melbourne Water reservoir near Neerim South: a trout, bass and redfin lake opened to shore fishing, with a Bureau gauge on the level.
The Tarwin at Meeniyan in South Gippsland: estuary perch, bass and eels in a slow dairy-country river toward Anderson Inlet, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The historic wharf on the Sapphire Coast: the Tathra wharf’s bream and kingfish, the Bega River mouth at Mogareeka and the beaches, with the reef outside.
Horsham’s recreation lake in the Wimmera: Murray cod open all year as Wimmera basin water, with golden perch and redfin, and a Bureau gauge.
The Teemburra Creek dam in the hills west of Mackay: barramundi and sooty grunter in a timbered lake exempt from the closure, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Central Coast’s resort beach: the Skillion and its rocks, Terrigal Haven and the lagoon, the beach gutters and the reefs a short run offshore.
Where the Tuggerah Lakes meet the sea: the channel, the bridge, the pelicans and the beaches, the Central Coast’s busiest fishing town.
The Thomson at Walhalla: wild trout in the gorge below the dam and above the old gold town, with the Bureau’s gauge at Walhalla.
The Thomson at Wandocka below the high country: brown trout in a Gippsland valley river, with a Bureau gauge.
The calm side of the Cooloola coast: mangrove flats, the Great Sandy Strait and the barge to K’gari, with the surf a few kilometres away.
The Pumicestone Passage from the mainland: the Toorbul flats and jetty, the Bribie channels and the Glass House creeks, with whiting, bream, flathead and crabs.
The start of the Great Ocean Road: surf beaches, the Point Danger and Bells rock platforms, and the Anglesea and Spring Creek estuaries, on a coast that lives by the swell.
The Towamba River at Towamba inland from Eden: bass in a quiet far south coast valley, with a Bureau gauge at the village.
Cleveland Bay, the Strand, the Ross River and Magnetic Island: the dry-tropics city with the reef offshore and barramundi in the creeks.
The Maria Island port on Spring Bay: the wharf and the bay’s flathead, squid and salmon, Prosser River and the Mercury Passage, with the island across the water.
The Tullaroop Creek storage near Maryborough: one of Victoria’s best big-trout lakes, with redfin for the numbers and a Bureau gauge on the level.
The Tully at Euramo: barramundi and sooty grunter in the wettest river in Australia, below the rafting gorge and above the tide, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The jetty town north of Port Lincoln: Tumby Bay jetty’s whiting, garfish and squid, the Sir Joseph Banks islands and the beaches of the peninsula’s east coast.
The Tumut below Blowering: a cold trout tailwater through the town, open from the October to the June long weekend, with the Bureau’s gauge at Tumut.
The Derwent scheme lagoon near Tarraleah that is open all year: wild browns and rainbows, a five-fish bag, with a Bureau gauge at the dam.
Two lakes and a headland on the Eurobodalla coast: Tuross Lake, Coila Lake, the bar and the beaches, a flathead and bream village between Moruya and Narooma.
The Tuross above the lake at Eurobodalla: bass in the pools and the rapids of a wild south coast river, with the Bureau’s gauge at the village.
The Tweed River and its border town: bream on the walls, flathead on the flats, jack in the snags and the bar where the river meets the Gold Coast surf.
The river behind the border town: from the breakwalls at the mouth up past Chinderah and Tumbulgum, a tidal estuary of bream, flathead, jack and jew.
The Tyenna near Maydena: a small, rich trout stream on the road to Mount Field, with the Bureau’s gauge at Newbury Road.
A working harbour on the south coast: the breakwaters, the rocks at Warden Head and the beaches, with Burrill Lake and the Milton lakes around it.
The southern end of the Central Coast: Umina and Ocean beaches on Broken Bay, the Ettalong channel, Box Head and the mouth of Brisbane Water.
The highest of the Coliban reservoirs near Trentham: a cold trout and redfin lake on the VFA’s year-round cod list, with a Bureau gauge on the level.
The five surf beaches and the Anderson Inlet back door: salmon and gummies on the beaches, whiting in the inlet, and the pipis of the sand.
The Fleurieu’s holiday town: Encounter Bay, the causeway to Granite Island, the Bluff and the Coorong beaches within reach.
The Victoria River at the highway crossing: barramundi in the big river of the western Territory, between the Victoria River Roadhouse and the gorges, with the Bureau’s gauge at the bridge.
The Victoria River at Dashwood Crossing, in the upper river of the cattle country: sooty grunter and barramundi, with a Bureau gauge.
The big lake north of Bermagui: bream, flathead and whiting in a lake that opens to the sea, with the bridge, the Aboriginal lands of its shores and the Bermagui coast outside.
The Yorke Peninsula’s copper-coast port: Wallaroo jetty’s squid, whiting and garfish, the marina and the gulf’s snapper grounds outside.
The huge, shallow irrigation basin near Rushworth: cod, golden perch and redfin in an off-river storage the Goulburn fills, with a Bureau gauge.
The small trout and redfin dam in the scarp above Waroona: Lake Navarino’s stocked rainbows, marron in season, a freshwater licence and a Bureau gauge.
The upper Warrego at Augathella: yellowbelly in the outback river north of Charleville, with a Bureau gauge.
The Warrego at Cunnamulla: yellowbelly and cod below the Allan Tannock Weir, with a Bureau gauge and the Murray-Darling cod closure.
The Barossa reservoir opened to shore fishing: native fish stocked into a SA Water supply lake near Williamstown, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The Warren River at Pemberton in the karri forest: trout and redfin under the south-west freshwater licence, with no current Bureau level series.
The Hopkins River, Lady Bay and the breakwater: Warrnambool fishes an estuary, a sheltered bay and the Shipwreck Coast beaches in one town.
The Derwent lagoon at the hydro village of Wayatinah: brown trout under the general lake rules the Code names it for, with a Bureau gauge.
The mining town on the western Cape: the Embley and Mission rivers, the Gulf beaches and creeks, and barramundi, queenfish and salmon in remote tropical water.
The big Collie River dam with the mural wall: redfin by the thousand, stocked trout, marron in season, a freshwater licence and a Bureau gauge.
Port Phillip’s wilder neighbour: tidal channels, mudflats, mangroves and the whiting, snapper and gummy shark fishery of Victoria’s second bay.
Macintyre Brook at Whetstone in the border country: golden perch, Murray cod and silver perch in a stocked weir pool with a Bureau gauge.
The steel city on Spencer Gulf: the snapper capital of the state, with whiting on the flats, squid off the jetty and the cuttlefish of Point Lowly.
The Wildman River on the floodplains east of Darwin: barramundi between the Mary River and the Alligator Rivers, with no current Bureau level series.
The Williams River near Clarence Town in the lower Hunter: Australian bass below Chichester Dam, with a Bureau gauge at Glen Martin.
The Wilsons River at Eltham above Lismore: bass in a Northern Rivers creek-river, with a Bureau gauge at the village.
The Wimmera at Dimboola: Murray cod, golden perch and redfin in the red gum river of the Wimmera, with a Bureau gauge and the cod closure.
The Wimmera through Horsham: cod, golden perch and redfin in the town weir pool and the river, with the Bureau’s gauge at the city.
The Cudgegong River storage near Mudgee: golden perch by the thousand, cod in the timber and clear water that made the lake’s name, with a Bureau gauge at the wall.
The Southern Highlands trout lake near Moss Vale: shore fishing for rainbows and browns in a Sydney-supply reservoir, with the level read by the Bureau.
The Illawarra coast: rock platforms under the escarpment, the harbour and Belmore Basin, Lake Illawarra to the south and beaches all the way.
The Wonnangatta at Crooked River in the Victorian Alps: wild trout in remote high country, with a Bureau gauge.
The long beach between Bundaberg and Hervey Bay: whiting and dart on the sand, the Theodolite Creek mouth and the Burrum coast, with tailor in winter.
The plateau lake below Arthurs: wild browns in shallow, weedy water reached by gravel, with a camp, a ramp and a Bureau gauge at the dam.
The Nogo River dam near Eidsvold: bass, golden perch and saratoga in a quiet North Burnett lake with a camp, a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The storage on the Lachlan below Cowra: golden perch on the points, Murray cod in the timber, and a level that swings with the irrigation year, read from the Bureau every day.
The newest dam in the Scenic Rim, on Teviot Brook near Beaudesert: bass and golden perch in a shallow lake for paddlers, with a permit and a Bureau gauge.
The mouth of the Clarence: breakwalls, Main Beach and the rocks of Yamba, with mulloway, bream and tailor and a tide most people search for.
The upper Yarra at Warburton: trout in the runs and the pools of a forest river an hour from Melbourne, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
The Yarra at Warrandyte on Melbourne’s edge: trout, redfin, blackfish and Murray cod in a bush river, with a Bureau gauge.
The Capricorn Coast: Keppel Bay, the islands, the creeks and the Causeway Lake, a coast that fishes from the Tropic of Capricorn.