Bream
Excellent
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Clyde River Fishing Report
Updated Tue, 10 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
Oyster leases, deep holes and snags from Batemans Bay up past Nelligen into the forest: a south coast river of bream, perch and mulloway.
4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Water temp
~22 °C est.
Air / High
12 °C / 22 °C
Wind
NW 5 km/h
Sources: Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Clyde River has the water in the comfortable band where most of its fish feed through the day. Today brings cloud cover, wind NW around 5 km/h, steady pressure near 1020 hPa and a high of 22 °C. Water sits around 22 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:54 PM-1:54 AM and 12:22 PM-2:22 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Flathead
Excellent
The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
Mulloway
Good
Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Good
Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
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: 11:54 PM-1:54 AM, 12:22 PM-2:22 PM, 5:24 AM-6:24 AM. Warmer at 28 °C with a rain chance. 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 bream here? Check the size and bag limits with DPIRD NSW before you keep anything; the Bream page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Clyde River today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:48), sunset (19:39), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:54 PM-1:54 AM and 12:22 PM-2:22 PM; minor 5:24 AM-6:24 AM. New Moon, 1% lit.
Water and weather
Conditions here are modelled from weather, season and the nearest stations.
No live gauge on this water
Water readings appear when a Bureau of Meteorology station covers it. Until then the seasonal curve below is the estimate.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp12 °C
High / Low22 °C / 6 °C
WindNW 5 km/h, gusts 12 km/h
Pressure1019.8 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain77% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset05:48 / 19:39
MoonNew Moon, 1%
Water temp (seasonal)~22 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Clyde River
The best day on Clyde River 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
- 11:54 PM-1:54 AM and 12:22 PM-2:22 PM
- Minor period
- 5:24 AM-6:24 AM
- Sun
- 05:48 to 19:39
- Moon
- New Moon, 1% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 13 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Clyde River: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Bream
Year-round; summer and autumn in the estuaries, winter at the mouths
Yellowfin bream on the east coast, black bream in the southern estuaries. Structure fish: rock walls, jetty piles, oyster racks, snags and pontoons. Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Flathead
Best: November to April
Dusky flathead in the eastern estuaries, sand flathead in the southern bays. An ambush predator lying on sand and mud edges waiting for whatever the tide brings. The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
Mulloway
Best: summer and autumn, especially after rain
Jewfish. The big silver prize of the estuaries, breakwalls and surf beaches: nocturnal, tide-driven and unforgiving of noise. Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Autumn and winter on the east coast; the run reaches K'gari (Fraser Island) in late winter, where the east beach from Waddy Point to Indian Head is closed to all fin fish from 1 August to 29 September
The surf and rock fish of the east coast, running north in autumn and winter. Fast, toothy and best at dawn, dusk and into the dark. Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
When to come: the Clyde River 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 22 °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. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 18 °C, wind to 19 km/h.
Sun, Nov 8
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 17 °C, wind to 21 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 26 °C, wind to 19 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
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About this water
Clyde River is a river in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Clyde River: the full guide
The river
The Clyde River rises in the ranges behind the south coast and runs south through a forested valley to the sea at Batemans Bay, tidal up past Nelligen, with oyster leases along its lower reaches, deep holes and rock bars in its middle ones and snags and rapids in its upper. Batemans Bay has its own page for the bay and the town. This one is scored for a point on the tidal river at Nelligen, so its weather describes the lower valley between the forest and the bay. The tidal Clyde lies inside the Batemans Marine Park, which extends into the rivers and estuaries of its coast up to the mean high water mark.
Species by season
Bream are the Clyde’s fish, all year on the leases, the snags and the rock walls, with a run to the bay in winter; flathead lie on the sand of the lower river and the flats from spring to autumn; estuary perch hold in the middle reaches and feed at dusk; and mulloway are the night fish of the bridge, the deep holes and the bay mouth. Whiting fish the lower flats in summer, luderick the walls in winter, and Australian bass hold in the fresh reaches above the tide. DPIRD closes bass and estuary perch in rivers from 1 May to 31 August, so the perch of the middle reaches are off limits through the winter as well.
Reading this report for the Clyde
There is no tide panel on a river page; the Clyde is tidal a long way up, strong at the bridge and gentle by Nelligen, so for the estuary take the times from the Bureau of Meteorology’s predictions for the nearest port and add time as you go upstream. Rain matters, because a fresh colours the river and moves the bream; the wind matters little in the valley. The barometer and the cloud cover build the score and the planner shows the day.
Licence and the Batemans Marine Park
On the Clyde, as everywhere in New South Wales, the Recreational Fishing Fee applies, from A$7 for three days; our licence page has the other durations. The river reserves at Nelligen, the bridge approaches and the bay foreshore are public. The Batemans Marine Park has operated its zones since June 2007; in December 2019 the NSW Government reopened six sanctuary areas of the park to some recreational fishing, and every other sanctuary zone remains closed, so check the zoning map or the FishSmart app before fishing a new stretch.
Common questions
What is the Clyde River known for?
Black bream on the oyster leases and the snags, with estuary perch in the middle reaches and mulloway at night; the tidal river is inside the Batemans Marine Park.
Do I need a fishing licence on the Clyde River?
Yes. The Clyde is New South Wales water, and the Recreational Fishing Fee is sold from A$7 for three days.
Is fishing good at Clyde River 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.