Rainbow trout
Excellent
Prime. Shore fishing along the edges with bait, spinners and flies, and the rivers if the season is open.
Lake Jindabyne Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Snowy Mountains lake below Kosciuszko: brown and rainbow trout, a town on its shore, the state trout hatchery up the Thredbo and a level read from the Bureau every day.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Level
907.52 m277,570 ML
Air / High
9 °C / 14 °C
Wind
W 0 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 222540, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Lake Jindabyne rewards patience today, with cool water and short feeding windows. The gauge reads 907.52 m, holding steady. Today brings clear skies, wind W around 0 km/h, steady pressure near 1019 hPa and a high of 14 °C. Water sits around 13 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:12 PM-1:12 AM and 11:40 AM-1:40 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: 11:12 PM-1:12 AM, 11:40 AM-1:40 PM, 4:54 AM-5:54 AM. Warmer at 21 °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 Lake Jindabyne today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:53), sunset (19:45), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:12 PM-1:12 AM and 11:40 AM-1:40 PM; minor 4:54 AM-5:54 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 222540 (Lake Jindabyne RL).
Storage level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 222540. Latest reading 2026-11-05 02:00.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp9 °C
High / Low14 °C / 4 °C
WindW 0 km/h, gusts 4 km/h
Pressure1018.7 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain0% cloud, 7%
Sunrise / Sunset05:53 / 19:45
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~13 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Lake Jindabyne
The best day on Lake Jindabyne this week looks like Thursday 12 Nov, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Thursday, 12 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
- 11:12 PM-1:12 AM and 11:40 AM-1:40 PM
- Minor period
- 4:54 AM-5:54 AM
- Sun
- 05:53 to 19:45
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 11 km/h
- Rain chance
- 7%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Lake Jindabyne: 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 Lake Jindabyne 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 11 °C, wind to 19 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 13 °C, wind to 23 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Rainbow trout led the card at excellent. High of 20 °C, wind to 16 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
Jindabyne is New South Wales water, so the Recreational Fishing Fee applies, from A$7 for three days; our New South Wales licence page lists every option.
Storage levels
Compare it with every other storage in the state on New South Wales dam levels today.
About this water
Lake Jindabyne is a lake in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Lake Jindabyne: the full guide
The lake
Lake Jindabyne is the Snowy Mountains Scheme storage on the Snowy River below Kosciuszko, with the town of Jindabyne on its northern shore, the Thredbo and Eucumbene rivers feeding it and the dam wall at its southern end. It is the trout lake with a town on it: shore fishing from the town foreshore, the dam wall and the bays, trolling and spinning from small boats, and the river mouths where the browns run in autumn. The Gaden Trout Hatchery, on the Thredbo River about 10 kilometres north-west of the town, breeds trout for the region. Eucumbene, the bigger lake to the north, has its own page. The storage level here is read from the Bureau of Meteorology’s Water Data Online, and the page shows when that reading was taken.
Species by season
Brown and rainbow trout are the lake’s fish: the browns run up the feeder rivers to spawn in autumn and are caught in the cooler months along the edges, often at night on bait and slow lures, while the rainbows are most active from spring through autumn and are taken trolling, spinning and on the fly along the drop-offs. DPIRD’s Gaden hatchery produces rainbow, brown and brook trout and Atlantic salmon for the Snowy Mountains fisheries, and the department’s stocking map records what has gone into this lake. The lake itself is open all year; the streams that feed it fall under the NSW trout stream rules, so check the freshwater guide for each stream’s category and dates. Those streams, the Thredbo and Eucumbene among them, belong to the Snowy River Endangered Ecological Community, where native fish are protected but trout, being introduced, are not affected; the waters of the lake itself are excluded from the community.
Reading this report for Jindabyne
The level is in the report and the 30-day chart, and it matters because a rising lake floods the grass where the trout feed and a fast fall pulls them off the edges; the wind row decides which shore to fish, because the lake is open to the west and a westerly makes the town foreshore rough while sheltered bays stay fishable. Pressure and sky build the score, the water temperature is an estimate for a high-country lake and the page says so, and the planner shows which day to take.
Licence, access and rules
Jindabyne is New South Wales water, so the Recreational Fishing Fee applies, from A$7 for three days; our New South Wales licence page lists every option. The town foreshore, the dam wall and the river mouths are public; the DPIRD trout rules, with the limits for lakes and the stream closures, are on the pages in the sources. Fishing is not permitted at the Gaden hatchery itself, although its grounds on the Thredbo are open to visitors from Thursday to Sunday.
Common questions
Is Lake Jindabyne open all year?
Yes, the lake fishes all year. General trout streams, which close from the Tuesday after the June long weekend to the last Friday before the October long weekend, and the longer-closed spawning streams are listed in the NSW freshwater guide.
Do I need a fishing licence at Lake Jindabyne?
Yes. The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee covers the lake and the rivers alike, starting at A$7 for three days.
Is fishing good at Lake Jindabyne 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 222540 — Lake Jindabyne RL
- 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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