Patterson River Launching Way is tidal estuary water in Carrum, Port Phillip, with shore and boat and kayak access. Anglers target Black Bream, Yellow-Eye Mullet, Australian Salmon and more. Sourced from the official listing, 8 July 2026.
Patterson River Launching Way is rated WAIT · 40/100 for fishing today, and the best day in the next week is Thu, 17 Sept at 58/100.
Scored from tide, wind, swell, pressure and light for this location. Generated 2026-09-16 and refreshed daily — open the app for the current hour.
Predicted from harmonic constituents at Melbourne Williamstown, 28.9 km away. The marked points are the predicted extremes; the curve between them is interpolated.
Today's swell is running about 1.2 m where you are. Black Rock Jetty sits out of it, 15 km NW from here, nearer 0.2 m. Frankston Pier is out of it too, 8.6 km S.
Scored the same way as Patterson River Launching Way and adjusted for each spot's own exposure, so a sheltered estuary can beat an open platform on the same weather. Distances are straight-line.
Patterson River is VFA's Port Phillip estuary spot at Carrum, with both bank and boat access. It gives Fishare a compact urban estuary row with several natural user intents: bream, flathead, salmon and mulloway.
Best conditions: Start around Launching Way, then work banks, landings and the rock wall near the mouth on a moving tide. Further upstream suits bream and mulloway, while the mouth can turn on salmon and flathead.
-38.06, 145.12 ± 2 km
Approximate area, not an exact mark. Fishare publishes fishing spots to a ~2 km range — the spot is somewhere inside this circle.
VIC regs SSOT; check the VFA guide, Port Phillip rules and local boating/fishing restrictions before fishing.
Bag limits, size limits and closures are set by the Victoria fisheries authority and change through the year. Fishare tracks the current rules on the VIC fishing regulations page — check it before you keep a fish.
Details for Patterson River Launching Way come from the official source, retrieved 8 July 2026.
Source detail: VFA page lists Patterson River as Spot 7, names Launching Way as a starting point, and lists species and amenities. Coordinate is the mapped Launching Way lower-river access area.
Conditions change. Access closes, sand moves and structure shifts — check locally before you travel a long way.
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