Rainbow trout
Excellent
Prime. Shore fishing along the edges with bait, spinners and flies, and the rivers if the season is open.
Blowering Dam Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The long Tumut River storage below the Snowy Scheme: trout and natives in one water, Murray cod open all year, and a level the Bureau reads at the dam.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Level
364.60 m1,078,900 ML
Air / High
9 °C / 19 °C
Wind
S 7 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 410102, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Blowering Dam is in its cool-water rhythm: slower presentations and the warmest hours of the day. The gauge reads 364.60 m, easing 0.37 over the week. Today brings clear skies, wind S around 8 km/h, steady pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 19 °C. Water sits around 13 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:14 PM-1:14 AM and 11:42 AM-1:42 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Brown trout
Excellent
Prime. Nymphs and streamers on the rivers, and the lake edges on the overcast days.
Tie on: Blade or vibe, slow hops · Lightly weighted plastic · Whole pilchard or squid on the bottom · Suspending hardbody. Prime windows: 11:14 PM-1:14 AM, 11:42 AM-1:42 PM, 4:58 AM-5:58 AM. Warmer at 23 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
New South Wales requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from A$7.00. New South Wales fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing rainbow trout here? Check the size and bag limits with DPIRD NSW before you keep anything; the Rainbow trout page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Blowering Dam today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:57), sunset (19:45), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:14 PM-1:14 AM and 11:42 AM-1:42 PM; minor 4:58 AM-5:58 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Blowering Dam Level today, and the weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 410102 (BLOWERING DAM).
Storage level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 410102. Latest reading 2026-11-08 09:00.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp9 °C
High / Low19 °C / 5 °C
WindS 7 km/h, gusts 15 km/h
Pressure1018.1 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain0% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset05:57 / 19:45
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~13 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Blowering Dam
The best day on Blowering Dam this week looks like Friday 13 Nov, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Friday, 13 Nov — good at 4/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 9 Nov — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 11:14 PM-1:14 AM and 11:42 AM-1:42 PM
- Minor period
- 4:58 AM-5:58 AM
- Sun
- 05:57 to 19:45
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 11 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Blowering Dam: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Rainbow trout
Streams from October to June in NSW and from September to June in Victoria; lakes open all year; Tasmania from the first Saturday of August
Open all year No closed season in lakes and dams; the winter closure applies to streams only. Rule as read from DPIRD NSW on 2026-09-23.
The stocked lakes of the Snowy Mountains, the Victorian highlands and the Tasmanian central plateau. Closed seasons apply on the rivers: check the state rules. Prime. Shore fishing along the edges with bait, spinners and flies, and the rivers if the season is open.
Brown trout
Streams from October to June in NSW and from September to June in Victoria; lakes open all year; Tasmania from the first Saturday of August
Open all year No closed season in lakes and dams; the winter closure applies to streams only. Rule as read from DPIRD NSW on 2026-09-23.
The wild trout of the highland rivers and Tasmania's lakes. Spawns in autumn, hence the closed rivers through winter in NSW and Victoria. Prime. Nymphs and streamers on the rivers, and the lake edges on the overcast days.
When to come: the Blowering Dam 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 13 °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. Rainbow trout led the card at excellent. High of 20 °C, wind to 11 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Rainbow trout led the card at excellent. High of 17 °C, wind to 23 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Rainbow trout led the card at excellent. High of 21 °C, wind to 13 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, from A$7.00, 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 NSW and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the New South Wales licence page before you keep anything.
Access
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies at Blowering, A$7 for three days or A$35 for a year; the New South Wales licence page on this site has the rest.
Storage levels
Compare it with every other storage in the state on New South Wales dam levels today.
About this water
Blowering Dam is a lake in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Blowering Dam: the full guide
The lake
Blowering Dam holds back the Tumut River about 13 kilometres upstream of Tumut, in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, a long, narrow storage fringed by the bushland of Kosciuszko National Park. WaterNSW gives its capacity as 1,628,000 megalitres, three times the size of Sydney Harbour: it stores water released upstream through the Snowy Scheme’s power stations and releases it for the Murrumbidgee irrigators. Its rock wall is 747 metres long and 114 metres high, and on 8 October 1978 Ken Warby set the world water speed record on the lake, at 511.1 kilometres an hour. The level shown on this page comes from the Bureau of Meteorology’s gauge at the dam, station 410102, with the time of the reading.
Species and seasons
WaterNSW lists Blowering as stocked with Murray cod, golden perch and silver perch, with brown and rainbow trout, redfin, catfish, river blackfish and Macquarie perch also present, and DPIRD’s stocking plan shows cod, golden perch and both trout species released in 2025/26. The trout fish best from autumn through spring along the edges and the drop-offs, trolled and cast, and go deep in summer; the cod are the summer and autumn fish among the timber, and Blowering is one of the two storages DPIRD exempts from the 1 September to 30 November cod closure, so the chip on this page reads open all year. Silver perch may be kept here, but freshwater catfish, river blackfish and Macquarie perch are protected in these waters and must be released. Carp must not go back alive.
Reading the report
A rising lake in spring floods grass and scrub where the natives feed; a fast summer draw-down pulls everything to the points and the deep timber, and the 30-day chart shows which way it is going. The wind funnels down the valley, and a northerly can whip the lake into whitecaps within an hour, so read the wind row before launching a small boat. The water temperature is a seasonal estimate for a foothills storage, labelled as such, and it decides whether the day is a trout day on the edges or a cod day in the timber.
Licence, access and rules
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies at Blowering, A$7 for three days or A$35 for a year; the New South Wales licence page on this site has the rest. The camping grounds on the foreshore, The Pines, Yolde, Humes Crossing and Yachting Point, are in Kosciuszko National Park and each has a boat ramp; no park entry fee applies in the Tumut area. WaterNSW posts temporary closures on its dam page, and in September 2026 the dam wall and West Blowering Road were closed after an electrical fault while the recreation areas stayed open. The DPIRD limits, the cod exemption and the trout rules are on the pages in the sources.
Common questions
Is Murray cod open all year at Blowering?
Yes. DPIRD exempts Blowering and Copeton dams from the 1 September to 30 November closure; the chip on the species card reads open all year and links the rule.
Can I catch trout and cod on the same day at Blowering?
In autumn and spring, yes: trout along the edges at first light and cod in the timber later in the day. Summer belongs to the cod, winter to the trout.
Is fishing good at Blowering Dam 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
- Storage and river readings
- Bureau of Meteorology, Water Data Online, station 410102 — BLOWERING DAM
- 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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Readings refresh on a 30-minute window. The full method, with every figure and its source, is on How our reports are made. Something wrong here? Tell us and it goes in the log with the date.