Tailor
Excellent
The main run. Fish the gutters and headlands into the evening; ganged pilchards, metals, and a wire-free trace only if you accept the bite-offs.
Narooma Fishing Report
Updated Fri, 25 Sept 2026 from live weather and tide data
Wagonga Inlet, the breakwalls and Montague Island: a clear inlet, a famous bar and the kingfish grounds of the far south coast.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
Low 12:25 pm model
Air / High
15 °C / 26 °C
Wind
SW 9 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Narooma is in its cool-water rhythm: slower presentations and the warmest hours of the day. Today brings cloud cover, wind SW around 8 km/h, rising pressure near 1024 hPa and a high of 26 °C. Tides: high 6:35 am and 6:38 pm, low 12:25 pm: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 17 °C for the season (estimated). With the full moon, the solunar majors run 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM: the windows to build the day around.
Australian salmon
Good
The main season. Beach gutters, rock platforms and bay edges on the rising tide; metals, surf poppers and bait all work.
Mulloway
Fair
The estuary fish move to the deeper reaches. Long, quiet sessions on the bottom with fresh bait across the top of the tide.
Yellowtail kingfish
Slow
The fish thin out as the current cools; jig the deeper offshore marks and work the harbours on the warmer afternoons.
Tie on: Blade or vibe, slow hops · Lightly weighted plastic · Whole pilchard or squid on the bottom · Suspending hardbody. Prime windows: 10:25 AM-12:25 PM, 10:25 PM-12:25 AM, 4:55 AM-5:55 AM. Cooler at 22 °C with likely rain: fish ahead of the front. 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 tailor here? Check the size and bag limits with DPIRD NSW before you keep anything; the Tailor page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Narooma today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:45), sunset (17:58), the moon and today's score, with the modelled tide changes in the panel below. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM; minor 4:55 AM-5:55 AM. Full Moon, 99% lit.
Water and weather
A modelled tide curve for these coordinates and the forecast for the day.
Tides (modelled)
Modelled sea level curve from Open-Meteo Marine for these coordinates, datum mean sea level. Fish the moving water either side of each change.
A model, not the official prediction: times can drift by tens of minutes inside bays and estuaries. Check the Bureau of Meteorology tide predictions for the exact times before you rely on them.
Fri
HIGH6:35 am0.39 m
LOW12:25 pm-0.47 m
HIGH6:38 pm0.60 m
Sat
LOW12:58 am-0.64 m
HIGH7:12 am0.52 m
LOW1:09 pm-0.53 m
HIGH7:14 pm0.59 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp15 °C
High / Low26 °C / 11 °C
WindSW 9 km/h, gusts 16 km/h
Pressure1024.0 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain61% cloud, 47%
Sunrise / Sunset05:45 / 17:58
MoonFull Moon, 99%
Water temp (seasonal)~17 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Narooma
The best day on Narooma this week looks like Monday 28 Sept, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today. Every day is scored by the same engine as the report above: pressure trend first, then wind, sky and season. Pick a species and the plan for that day changes with it.
Best day this week: Monday, 28 Sept — good at 4/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 25 Sept — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:25 PM-12:25 AM
- Minor period
- 4:55 AM-5:55 AM
- Sun
- 05:45 to 17:58
- Moon
- Full Moon, 99% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 10 km/h
- Rain chance
- 47%
Scores are a planning aid built from forecast data, not a promise.
Species guide
The species that matter on Narooma: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Tailor
Autumn and winter on the east coast; August to September on Fraser Island
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. The main run. Fish the gutters and headlands into the evening; ganged pilchards, metals, and a wire-free trace only if you accept the bite-offs.
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. The estuary fish move to the deeper reaches. Long, quiet sessions on the bottom with fresh bait across the top of the tide.
Yellowtail kingfish
Best: December to April
The hardest-pulling fish within reach of the shore. Headlands, harbour markers, offshore reefs and the warm current in summer. The fish thin out as the current cools; jig the deeper offshore marks and work the harbours on the warmer afternoons.
Australian salmon
Winter and spring on the southern beaches
Not a salmon at all: a hard-fighting schooling fish of the surf and the bays, from WA around to NSW. Great on light gear, poor on the plate. The main season. Beach gutters, rock platforms and bay edges on the rising tide; metals, surf poppers and bait all work.
When to come: the Narooma 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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Australian salmon
SlowPeak
Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 17 °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 dataThu, Sep 24
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 22 °C, wind to 18 km/h.
Wed, Sep 23
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 18 °C, wind to 16 km/h.
Tue, Sep 22
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Tailor led the card at excellent. High of 16 °C, wind to 13 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 covers this water, fresh and salt, from A$7 for three days; the durations, the exemptions and where to buy are on our New South Wales licence page.
About this water
Narooma is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Narooma: the full guide
Narooma and Wagonga
Narooma sits at the entrance of Wagonga Inlet on the far south coast of New South Wales, an inlet of clear water, oyster leases, sand flats and deep holes that opens to the sea between two breakwalls over a bar with a reputation. Montague Island lies offshore, with its seals and its kingfish; the beaches and headlands run north to Dalmeny and south to Mystery Bay; and the town’s wharves and walls put the fishing in the middle of it. The area is inside the Batemans Marine Park.
Species by season
Bream and flathead are the inlet’s fish, the bream on the leases and the walls all year, the flathead on the flats from spring to autumn; whiting fish the flats in summer; luderick the walls in winter; and mulloway the walls and the holes at night. Kingfish are the fish Narooma is known for, at Montague Island and the headlands from late spring through autumn, and the island also gives snapper in winter and the pelagics in summer for the boats that cross the bar. Tailor and salmon run the beaches and the walls in the cooler months, and squid work the inlet weed and the wharf lights.
Reading this report here
The wind row decides between the inlet and the sea: a southerly or a swell closes the bar and the rocks and puts the fishing in Wagonga, a westerly gives the calm mornings the island trips need. Pressure and sky build the score and the planner shows the day; the tide panel is a modelled curve for these coordinates, labelled as a model, and the inlet and the bar run hard on the tide, so use the curve for direction and the Bureau of Meteorology page for the exact times.
Licence, access and rules
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee covers this water, fresh and salt, from A$7 for three days; the durations, the exemptions and where to buy are on our New South Wales licence page. The breakwalls, the wharves, the inlet foreshores and the beaches are public, with ramps in the inlet and at the harbour; the DPIRD limits and the Batemans Marine Park zoning, including the sanctuary zones around Montague Island, are on the pages in the sources.
Common questions
When are the kingfish at Montague Island?
From late spring through autumn, with summer the peak; the species card rates the month and today’s conditions, and the marine park sanctuary zones around the island are linked in the sources.
Do I need a fishing licence in Narooma?
Yes. The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies, from A$7 for three days.
Is fishing good at Narooma 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
- Tide curve (modelled)
- Open-Meteo Marine, sea level height including tides
- Open-Meteo forecast model
- https://open-meteo.com/
- Moon and solunar windows
- Calculated on this site
- The written guide on this page
Pablo Ruiz Quintero
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.