Golden perch
Excellent
Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
Murrumbidgee River Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The river of the Riverina and the capital: cod and golden perch in the lowland reaches, trout in the mountains, and a long run of water between them.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Water temp
~19 °C est.
Air / High
10 °C / 17 °C
Wind
N 4 km/h
Sources: Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Murrumbidgee River sits in the warm band: moving baits, moving tides and fish on the edges. Today brings a mixed sky, wind N around 5 km/h, rising pressure near 1019 hPa and a high of 17 °C. Water sits around 19 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:10 PM-1:10 AM and 11:38 AM-1:38 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: 11:10 PM-1:10 AM, 11:38 AM-1:38 PM, 4:54 AM-5:54 AM. Warmer at 24 °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 Murrumbidgee River today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:53), sunset (19:42), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:10 PM-1:10 AM and 11:38 AM-1:38 PM; minor 4:54 AM-5:54 AM. New Moon, 0% 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 temp10 °C
High / Low17 °C / 5 °C
WindN 4 km/h, gusts 6 km/h
Pressure1019.1 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain37% cloud, 2%
Sunrise / Sunset05:53 / 19:42
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~19 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Murrumbidgee River
The best day on Murrumbidgee River this week looks like Thursday 12 Nov, at 5 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Thursday, 12 Nov — excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 9 Nov — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 11:10 PM-1:10 AM and 11:38 AM-1:38 PM
- Minor period
- 4:54 AM-5:54 AM
- Sun
- 05:53 to 19:42
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 21 km/h
- Rain chance
- 2%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Murrumbidgee River: 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 Murrumbidgee 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 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
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 14 °C, wind to 27 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
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 20 °C, wind to 24 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
5/5 Excellent. Go now. Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 24 °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
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies on the New South Wales reaches, from A$7 for three days.
About this water
Murrumbidgee River is a river in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Murrumbidgee River: the full guide
The river
The Murrumbidgee rises in the Snowy Mountains, runs north through the Monaro and the Australian Capital Territory past Canberra, then west across the Riverina through Gundagai, Wagga Wagga, Narrandera, Hay and Balranald to join the Murray, and it is fished along its whole length. This page is scored for a point on the river in New South Wales a short way south of the ACT border, upstream of Canberra, where it runs through gorges and grazing country. One point cannot stand for the whole river, and the Riverina reaches, with their cod and perch water at Wagga and Narrandera, are meant to get pages of their own.
Species by season
Murray cod are the river’s fish in the lowland reaches and the gorges, in the snags, the rock bars and the deep bends in the warmer months, closed from 1 September to 30 November in New South Wales; golden perch fish the same water from spring to autumn; trout hold in the cold upper reaches and the mountain tributaries; and redfin and carp are present. Several natives are protected: DPIRD closes silver perch in every NSW river all year, and Macquarie perch and trout cod must go back from any NSW water, so learn to tell a trout cod from a Murray cod before you keep one.
Reading this report for the Murrumbidgee
The river’s flow decides much of the fishing, and upstream of this point it is regulated from Tantangara Dam in the Snowy Mountains Scheme: a rising or falling river moves the cod and the perch, and the flows are published by the water authorities, not on this page. The wind matters little in the gorges; the water temperature decides whether the cod feed, and the seasonal curve on this page is an estimate for a tableland river and says so. The barometer and the cloud set the score, and the planner names the day.
Licence, access and rules
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies on the New South Wales reaches, from A$7 for three days. Inside the ACT no licence is needed in public waters, where the territory’s Fisheries Act 2000 applies instead, as the ACT Parks and Conservation Service states; its public reserves on the river include Kambah Pool. Our New South Wales and ACT licence pages explain both, and the DPIRD limits, the cod closed season and the protected species list are on the pages in the sources.
Common questions
Which licence do I need on the Murrumbidgee?
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee on the New South Wales reaches; in the ACT’s public waters no licence is needed and the territory’s own rules apply.
When is cod season on the Murrumbidgee?
In New South Wales Murray cod are closed from 1 September to 30 November; the ACT sets its own closures in its fishing declaration, linked from the territory’s page.
Is fishing good at Murrumbidgee River 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
- 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.