Golden perch
Excellent
Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
Lake Hume Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Murray’s big storage above Albury: Murray cod in the timber, golden perch on the points, trout in the cold water, and one set of Victorian rules for the whole lake.
4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Level
189.44 m2,515,407 ML
Air / High
14 °C / 20 °C
Wind
NNW 5 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 401027, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Lake Hume is fishing in its best temperature window, with the bite spread across the day. The gauge reads 189.44 m, easing 0.17 over the week. Today brings cloud cover, wind NNW around 5 km/h, rising pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 20 °C. Water sits around 19 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:19 PM-1:19 AM and 11:46 AM-1:46 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Murray cod
Closed today
Reopens 1 Dec 2026. Closed 1 September to 30 November inclusive, except in Lake Eildon, Eildon Pondage, Lake Eppalock, Cairn Curran, Lake Nillahcootie and the other waters the VFA lists.
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: 11:19 PM-1:19 AM, 11:46 AM-1:46 PM, 5:02 AM-6:02 AM. Warmer at 24 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Victoria manages the whole of Lake Hume, from the weir wall to Seven Mile Creek at Talmalmo, on both sides of the border. A Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence covers it, and the VFA also accepts a NSW Recreational Fishing Fee receipt here.
Victoria requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from A$10.00. Victoria fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing murray cod here? Check the size and bag limits with VFA before you keep anything; the Murray cod page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Lake Hume today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (06:00), sunset (19:51), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:19 PM-1:19 AM and 11:46 AM-1:46 PM; minor 5:02 AM-6:02 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Hume Dam Level today, and the weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 401027 (Hume Dam Storage).
Storage level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 401027. Latest reading 2026-11-08 23:00.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp14 °C
High / Low20 °C / 8 °C
WindNNW 5 km/h, gusts 12 km/h
Pressure1017.5 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain68% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset06:00 / 19:51
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~19 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Lake Hume
The best day on Lake Hume 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, 9 Nov — Good
Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
- Solunar majors
- 11:19 PM-1:19 AM and 11:46 AM-1:46 PM
- Minor period
- 5:02 AM-6:02 AM
- Sun
- 06:00 to 19:51
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Partly cloudy, 18 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Lake Hume: 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 inclusive, except in Lake Eildon, Eildon Pondage, Lake Eppalock, Cairn Curran, Lake Nillahcootie and the other waters the VFA lists. Rule as read from Victorian Fisheries Authority 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 Lake Hume 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 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 dataSun, Nov 8
2/5 Slow. Work for them. Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 18 °C, wind to 21 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 17 °C, wind to 29 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
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 22 °C, wind to 13 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence (RFL), from A$10.00, 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 VFA and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Victoria licence page before you keep anything.
Access
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Storage levels
Compare it with every other storage in the state on New South Wales dam levels today.
About this water
Lake Hume is a lake in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Lake Hume: the full guide
The lake
Lake Hume is the storage on the Murray River above Albury and Wodonga, where the constitutional border between New South Wales and Victoria runs through the water: a large reservoir of flooded valley with standing timber in its arms, the Mitta Mitta and the Murray running into it and the dam wall at its western end near Albury. The lake fishes from the bank, from small boats and from kayaks along a shoreline that changes with the level, which generally rises through winter and spring and falls through summer as water is released downstream. This page reads the storage level and volume from the Bureau of Meteorology’s Water Data Online, from the Hume Dam Storage station, with the date and time of the reading.
Species by season
Murray cod are the lake’s prize, in the timber and along the rocky shores in the warmer months on big lures and bait, and closed from 1 September to 30 November under the Victorian rules that govern the lake; golden perch fish the points, the timber and the drop-offs from spring to autumn; redfin school in the bays and are the winter fish; and trout hold in the colder water, taken trolling and from the bank in the cooler months. DPIRD describes Hume as a mixed fishery for trout, redfin, carp, silver perch and golden perch through the year, and the Victorian Fisheries Authority says it has stocked more than 2.6 million trout, golden perch, silver perch and Murray cod into the lake over ten years.
Reading this report for Hume
The level is the first number on this page: it is in the report and the 30-day chart, and a rising lake floods new ground where the perch and the cod feed while 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 big enough to chop up in a northerly or a westerly. The barometer and the cloud cover set the score; the water temperature is an estimate for an inland lake and the page labels it so; the planner shows the day.
Which rules and licence apply
Since 1 September 2004 Victoria has managed recreational fishing on all of Lake Hume, from the Hume Weir wall upstream to the Seven Mile Creek junction at Talmalmo, so the Victorian rules apply on both sides of the border. A Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence covers the lake, and since a trial in 2021 the VFA has exempted holders of a NSW Recreational Fishing Fee receipt, so either one is enough. Upstream of the Seven Mile Creek junction the Murray reverts to New South Wales rules. Our New South Wales and Victoria licence pages have the fees.
Common questions
Which licence do I need on Lake Hume?
Either one: Victoria manages the whole lake and requires its Recreational Fishing Licence, but it exempts anglers who hold a NSW Recreational Fishing Fee receipt. Victorian rules apply across the lake.
When is cod season on Lake Hume?
Murray cod are closed from 1 September to 30 November under the Victorian rules that apply to the lake; the rest of the year they are open within the VFA size and bag limits.
Is fishing good at Lake Hume 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
- Storage and river readings
- Bureau of Meteorology, Water Data Online, station 401027 — Hume Dam Storage
- 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.