Port Hedland Things to Do

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Follow the tide out at a walking pace. As the water receeds, huge pools are formed and the fish that wern't fast enough to make it out through the narrow necks to open water are trapped. For beginners, you have a better than even chance of catching a whiting or two for dinner. I don't eat fish but I've heard they make a tasty meal. Bream and flathead can occasionally be caught at this time too. The best bait is squid or prawns which you can get frozen from any supermarket or service station.

Just watch out for shovel nosed sharks, stingrays and the odd stonefish (highly poisonous) which hide in the shallows. If you only walk on the sandy bits and don't go deeper than calf height, you should be ok. Oh and don't do what I did and answer the mobile before casting out. Whilst I was chatting on the phone, a starfish decided to take advantage of my bait lying on the sandy floor and tried to eat it. I had to peel the starfish off my hook!

If you did have to stay in Port Hedland, longer than a day probably the only thing i can think that you could do apart from get drunk is go fishing down in the docks, we didn`t give it ago but saw some locals fishing down there and they were getting a few bites apparently theres a good number of Flathead in the area.