Golden perch
Excellent
Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
Burrinjuck Dam Fishing Report
Updated Tue, 10 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Murrumbidgee storage south-west of Yass: golden perch and Murray cod in the drowned timber, redfin in the bays, and a level that runs the fishing.
4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Water temp
~19 °C est.
Air / High
10 °C / 24 °C
Wind
ESE 8 km/h
Sources: Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Burrinjuck Dam is fishing in its best temperature window, with the bite spread across the day. Today brings a mixed sky, wind ESE around 8 km/h, steady pressure near 1020 hPa and a high of 24 °C. Water sits around 19 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 12:00 AM-2:00 AM and 12:28 PM-2:28 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Murray cod
Closed today
Reopens 1 Dec 2026. Closed 1 September to 30 November in all waters except Blowering and Copeton dams.
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: 12:00 AM-2:00 AM, 12:28 PM-2:28 PM, 5:32 AM-6:32 AM. Warmer at 28 °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 murray cod here? Check the size and bag limits with DPIRD NSW before you keep anything; the Murray cod page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Burrinjuck Dam today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:55), sunset (19:43), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 12:00 AM-2:00 AM and 12:28 PM-2:28 PM; minor 5:32 AM-6:32 AM. New Moon, 1% lit.
Water and weather
Bureau of Meteorology station 410131 (BURRINJUCK DAM) has sent no reading in the last 30 days, so conditions here are modelled from weather, season and the nearest stations.
No recent gauge reading
Readings come back here when station 410131 reports again. Until then the seasonal curve below is the estimate.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp10 °C
High / Low24 °C / 6 °C
WindESE 8 km/h, gusts 22 km/h
Pressure1019.7 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain46% cloud, 6%
Sunrise / Sunset05:55 / 19:43
MoonNew Moon, 1%
Water temp (seasonal)~19 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Burrinjuck Dam
The best day on Burrinjuck Dam this week looks like Friday 13 Nov, at 5 out of 5, against 4 today.
Best day this week: Friday, 13 Nov — excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 10 Nov — Good
Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
- Solunar majors
- 12:00 AM-2:00 AM and 12:28 PM-2:28 PM
- Minor period
- 5:32 AM-6:32 AM
- Sun
- 05:55 to 19:43
- Moon
- New Moon, 1% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 16 km/h
- Rain chance
- 6%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Burrinjuck Dam: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Murray cod
Closed 1 September to 30 November in NSW, Victoria and the ACT, and 1 August to 31 October in Queensland; check the exempt lakes
Closed now Reopens 1 Dec 2026. Closed 1 September to 30 November in all waters except Blowering and Copeton dams. Rule as read from DPIRD NSW on 2026-09-23.
The giant of the inland rivers and the big lakes (Hume, Mulwala, Eildon). A snag fish that eats big lures, and a species with a closed season across the Murray-Darling.
Golden perch
Best: November to April
Yellowbelly. The bread-and-butter native of the Murray-Darling lakes and rivers; loves warm water, structure and a lure worked slowly past its nose. Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
When to come: the Burrinjuck 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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Golden perch
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Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 19 °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 dataMon, Nov 9
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 21 °C, wind to 10 km/h.
Sun, Nov 8
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 17 °C, wind to 16 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 19 °C, wind to 26 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, from A$7 for three days; our New South Wales licence page lists every duration.
Storage levels
Compare it with every other storage in the state on New South Wales dam levels today.
About this water
Burrinjuck Dam is a lake in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Burrinjuck Dam: the full guide
The lake
Burrinjuck Dam is the storage on the Murrumbidgee River south-west of Yass, a long, deep, branching lake in the gorges of the Southern Tablelands, with the Murrumbidgee, Goodradigbee and Yass arms, drowned timber in the shallower reaches, and reserves and ramps near the dam wall. It is a native fish lake first: DPIRD names Burrinjuck among the impoundments where stocking supports the Murray cod and golden perch fisheries, with redfin in the bays, and its level swings with the irrigation year, generally rising through winter and spring and drawing down through summer. The level shown on this page is the Bureau of Meteorology’s Water Data Online reading for Burrinjuck Dam, dated and timed.
Species by season
Golden perch are the lake’s fish, from spring through autumn around the timber, the rocky shores and the points on lures and bait; Murray cod fish the same timber in the warmer months, closed from 1 September to 30 November under the NSW rules DPIRD publishes; and redfin school in the bays and along the drop-offs and carry the winter fishing. Silver perch may be kept at Burrinjuck, which DPIRD lists among the impoundments exempt from the silver perch closure, but freshwater catfish are protected here, since the dam is west of the Great Dividing Range and not on the catfish exemption list. Trout cod and Macquarie perch must go back in all NSW waters.
Reading this report for Burrinjuck
The level is in the report and the 30-day chart, and it matters because a rising lake floods the timber edges where the perch and the cod feed and a fast summer draw-down pulls the fish to the points and the deep timber; the wind row decides which arm is fishable, because the lake is long and a westerly funnels down it. Pressure and sky build the score, the water temperature is an estimate for a tableland storage and the page says so, and the planner shows which day to take.
Licence, access and rules
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies, from A$7 for three days; our New South Wales licence page lists every duration. The reserves near the dam wall, with ramps and camping, and the reserves on the arms give public access; the DPIRD limits, the cod closed season and the list of waters where silver perch and catfish may be taken are on the pages in the sources.
Common questions
Can I keep silver perch at Burrinjuck?
Yes. DPIRD lists Burrinjuck among the impoundments exempt from the silver perch closure, so they may be kept within the limits; in rivers they are protected.
When is cod season at Burrinjuck?
Murray cod are closed from 1 September to 30 November under the NSW rules DPIRD publishes; the species card rates the month.
Is fishing good at Burrinjuck Dam right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- 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.