Bream
Good
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Mandurah Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Peel-Harvey estuary, its canals and the Dawesville Cut: bream, crabs, tailor and mulloway an hour south of Perth.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
High 7:00 pm model
Air / High
17 °C / 20 °C
Wind
SSE 19 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Mandurah has the water in the comfortable band where most of its fish feed through the day. Today brings a mixed sky, wind SSE around 19 km/h, steady pressure near 1020 hPa and a high of 19 °C. Tides: high 7:00 pm, low 5:45 am: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 22 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:20 PM-1:20 AM and 10:56 AM-12:56 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Flathead
Good
The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
Mulloway
Fair
Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Fair
Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
Blue swimmer crab
Closed today
Reopens 1 Dec 2026. All waters, including rivers, estuaries, man-made waterways and Cockburn Sound, from the Swan and Canning rivers to Rich Road, Minninup Beach (15 km south of Bunbury) are closed to all crab fishing from 1 September to 30 November.
Tie on: Soft plastic on a 1/4 oz jighead · Small hardbody, shallow diver · Squid jig, size 3.0 · Fresh pipi or worm on a small hook. Prime windows: 11:20 PM-1:20 AM, 10:56 AM-12:56 PM, 4:18 AM-5:18 AM. Warmer at 24 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Western Australia requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from A$40.00. Western Australia fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing bream here? Check the size and bag limits with DPIRD WA before you keep anything; the Bream page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Mandurah today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:12), sunset (18:49), the moon and today's score, with the modelled tide changes in the panel below. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:20 PM-1:20 AM and 10:56 AM-12:56 PM; minor 4:18 AM-5:18 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
A modelled tide curve for these coordinates and the forecast for the day.
Tides (modelled)
Modelled sea level curve from Open-Meteo Marine for these coordinates, datum mean sea level. Fish the moving water either side of each change.
A model, not the official prediction: times can drift by tens of minutes inside bays and estuaries. Check the Bureau of Meteorology tide predictions for the exact times before you rely on them.
Mon
LOW5:45 am-0.30 m
HIGH7:00 pm0.29 m
Tue
LOW4:30 am-0.32 m
HIGH7:30 pm0.28 m
HIGH9:00 pm0.29 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp17 °C
High / Low20 °C / 12 °C
WindSSE 19 km/h, gusts 33 km/h
Pressure1019.8 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain57% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset05:12 / 18:49
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~22 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Mandurah
The best day on Mandurah this week looks like Tuesday 10 Nov, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Tuesday, 10 Nov — good at 4/5, rising pressure behind a front, typically the slowest.
Today, 9 Nov — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 11:20 PM-1:20 AM and 10:56 AM-12:56 PM
- Minor period
- 4:18 AM-5:18 AM
- Sun
- 05:12 to 18:49
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 32 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Mandurah: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Bream
Year-round; summer and autumn in the estuaries, winter at the mouths
Yellowfin bream on the east coast, black bream in the southern estuaries. Structure fish: rock walls, jetty piles, oyster racks, snags and pontoons. Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Flathead
Best: November to April
Dusky flathead in the eastern estuaries, sand flathead in the southern bays. An ambush predator lying on sand and mud edges waiting for whatever the tide brings. The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
Mulloway
Best: summer and autumn, especially after rain
Jewfish. The big silver prize of the estuaries, breakwalls and surf beaches: nocturnal, tide-driven and unforgiving of noise. Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Autumn and winter on the east coast; the run reaches K'gari (Fraser Island) in late winter, where the east beach from Waddy Point to Indian Head is closed to all fin fish from 1 August to 29 September
The surf and rock fish of the east coast, running north in autumn and winter. Fast, toothy and best at dawn, dusk and into the dark. Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
Blue swimmer crab
December to May in the Perth and South West estuaries; closed 1 September to 30 November from the Swan River to Minninup Beach
Closed now Reopens 1 Dec 2026. All waters, including rivers, estuaries, man-made waterways and Cockburn Sound, from the Swan and Canning rivers to Rich Road, Minninup Beach (15 km south of Bunbury) are closed to all crab fishing from 1 September to 30 November. Rule as read from DPIRD Western Australia on 2026-09-29.
Blue manna crab to West Australians: it lives in sheltered estuaries and inshore bays, hides under the sand by day and moves about at night. DPIRD sets a 127 mm minimum across the carapace spikes, and undersize crabs and egg-carrying (berried) females must go straight back.
When to come: the Mandurah calendar
Activity by species and month for the southern year, and how the water warms and cools. Tap any cell.
Species activity by month
1 = slow, 5 = peak. Current month highlighted. January is midsummer here.
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Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 22 °C (estimated, not a reading).
Angler reports
Real reports from real anglers, reviewed before publishing. Nothing here is copied from a shop or a charter. The water log below tracks each day automatically.
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Water log, last days
Auto-logged from live dataSun, Nov 8
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Bream led the card at good. High of 21 °C, wind to 31 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Bream led the card at good. High of 21 °C, wind to 24 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 26 °C, wind to 23 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Western Australian recreational fishing licences, from A$40.00, the same for residents and visitors. Details and where to buy →
Regulations
Size and bag limits, closed seasons and marine park zones are set by DPIRD WA and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Western Australia licence page before you keep anything.
Access
Line fishing from the shore is not among Western Australia’s licensed activities, but fishing from a boat needs the boat licence and the crab rules are strict on gear, size and season; our Western Australia licence page has the fees.
About this water
Mandurah is a coastal town in Western Australia, Australia, covered from the Western Australia reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Mandurah: the full guide
Mandurah and its estuary
Mandurah is built on the Peel-Harvey estuary, a broad, shallow inlet fed by the Serpentine, Murray and Harvey rivers and joined to the ocean by the old Mandurah channel and the Dawesville Cut. It is a fishery of walls, bridges, canals and flats: the estuary walls, the Cut and its rock groynes, the canal developments and the long shorelines of the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary, with blue swimmer crabs the reason many visitors come. Outside are the beaches from Falcon to Preston and the reef grounds off the Cut. A Mandurah fishing report is a report on the estuary and the Cut before anything else, and that is what this page is scored for.
Species and seasons
Blue swimmer crabs are the summer and autumn fishery of the inlet, by scoop net and drop net, and DPIRD closes crabbing from 1 September to 30 November across Perth and the South West, the Peel-Harvey included, so spring is not crab season here. Bream are year-round on the walls, the bridges and the canals, tailor push into the estuary and the Cut in the warmer months, and herring and whiting fish the channel and the beaches. Mulloway are the night fish of the Cut and the estuary walls, especially after rain, and the beaches give tailor, herring, salmon in the cooler months and the occasional mulloway. Squid work the weed off the groynes. The offshore reef would be dhufish and pink snapper country, but boat-based demersal fishing in the West Coast bioregion is closed until spring 2027.
Reading this report for Mandurah
The sea breeze runs this coast in summer, so the wind row tells you whether the afternoon is worth it; mornings and evenings are the estuary’s times. Pressure and sky build the score, the planner shows the calmest day, and the tide panel is a modelled curve for these coordinates, labelled as a model; the Cut runs hard on the tide and the estuary follows slowly, so read the curve for the direction and take the times from the Bureau of Meteorology.
Licences and access
Line fishing from the shore is not among Western Australia’s licensed activities, but fishing from a boat needs the boat licence and the crab rules are strict on gear, size and season; our Western Australia licence page has the fees. The estuary walls, the bridges, the Cut groynes and the beaches are public, and the Department of Transport lists public ramps at Mary Street and the Breakwater in Mandurah, Batavia Quay and Parks Ridge at Dawesville for the inlet and the sea.
Common questions
Do I need a licence to fish in Mandurah?
Not for line fishing from the shore, which is not on DPIRD’s list of licensed activities; fishing from a boat needs the boat licence. Our Western Australia page lists the licences and fees.
When are the crabs in Mandurah?
Blue swimmer crabs are a summer and autumn fishery in the Peel-Harvey estuary. Crabbing is closed from 1 September to 30 November in Perth and the South West, and DPIRD sets the size and bag limits, linked in the sources.
Is fishing good at Mandurah right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- Tide curve (modelled)
- Open-Meteo Marine, sea level height including tides
- Open-Meteo forecast model
- https://open-meteo.com/
- Moon and solunar windows
- Calculated on this site
- Pages checked
- The written guide on this page
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