Recreational Fishing Spots - Western Port
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The Victorian Fishing Atlas – 2001 identified 44 fishing spots and fishing locations in the Western Port region, from Flinders on the eastern side of Mornington Peninsula in the west to Waratah Bay in the east.
The table below shows that only two of these fishing spots are in a Marine National Park or Marine Sanctuary. Recreational fishing opportunities continue in the other 42 fishing spots in this region.
Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries form approximately 6% of Western Port.
| Fishing allowed in 42 of 44 existing fishing spots |  |
| No fishing allowed in 2 of 44 existing fishing spots |  |
Great alternative fishing spots can be found in the following table.
Fishing Spots and Other Locations
Waratah Bay
| Location | Fish | Fishing allowed/not allowed | Nearest alternative fishing spot |
| Waratah Bay | King George whiting, flathead, barracoutta, Australian Salmon | |  |
| Shallow Inlet | whiting, flathead, trevally, barracoutta, tailor, Australian salmon | | |
Anderson Inlet
| Location | Fish | Fishing allowed/not allowed | Nearest alternative fishing spot |
| Anderson Inlet | King George whiting, pinkie snapper, silver trevally, Australian salmon | | |
| Tarwin River | estuary, perch, bream | | |
| Inverloch Jetty | various | | |
| Anderson Inlet entrance | snapper, King George, whiting | | |
| Back beaches of Anderson Inlet / Venus Bay | Australian salmon, mullet, trevally | | |
Western Port South
| Location | Fish | Fishing allowed/not allowed | Nearest alternative fishing spot |
| Corinella Channel | Snapper, whiting | | |
| Somers to Balnarring Beach | Whiting | | |
| Balnarring Beach to Flinders | Whiting | | |
| Ocean side of Phillip Island - rocks and The Blowhole | reel fish | | |
| Kitty Miller Bay Beach | silver trevally, Austalian salmon | | |
| Cat Bay | whiting, squid, snapper | | |
| Off McHaffief Point | snapper | | |
| Out from Cowes Piew (meeting of North and East Arms) | snapper, whiting | | |
| Gardiners and Blakes channels (near French Island) | whiting, snapper | | |
| Mosquito and Elizabeth Channels | whiting, snapper | | |
| Channels off Rhyll | whiting, flathead | | |
| East Arm - Tortoise Head to Corinlella | elephant fish | | |
| San Remo Pier | various | | |
| Bass River | bream, estuary perch, mullet | | |
| Tankerton Jetty | various | | |
| Stony Point | various | | |
| Flinders Pier | various | | |
| Rocks at West Head | whiting, pike, leatherjacket | | |
| Cowes Pier | various | | |
| Red Point, Cape Woolamai | barracoutta, Australian salmon, flathead | | |
| South end of Phillip Island, The Nobies | various | | |
Western Port North
| Location | Fish | Fishing allowed/not allowed | Nearest alternative fishing spot |
| Northern Bay sand flats | whiting, snappern salmon | | |
| Cockyanes Channel | whiting, flathead, mullet, snapper, gummy shark | | |
| Lyalls Channel | whiting, flathead, mullet, snapper, gummy shark | | |
| Boulton Channel | whiting, flathead, mullet, snapper, gummy shark | | |
| Bouchier Channel | whiting, flathead, mullet, snapper, gummy shark | | |
| Joe's Island | snapper, gummy shark, bronze whaler shark | | |
| Western Port North - Inside Channel | flathead, whiting, trevally | |
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| Western Port North - Post Office gutter | whiting, snapper | |
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| Crawfish Rock | snapper, gummy shark | | |
| Channels on eastern side of Western Port | whiting, snapper, gummy shark, Australian salmon | | |
| Tooradin Channel | whiting | | |
| Foreshores of river inlets at Tooradin and Warneet | whiting, mullet | | |
| Gentle Anne Channel | whiting | | |
| The Basket beacon | snapper | | |
| Middle Channel | whiting, snapper, gummy shark | | |
| North Arm, Shipping Channel | whiting, snapper, snook, gummy shark, flathead | | |