Bream
Good
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Pambula Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Sapphire Coast south of Merimbula: Pambula Lake and its oyster leases, the river mouth at Pambula Beach and the rock platforms of Haycock Point.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
Low 2:55 pm model
Air / High
11 °C / 17 °C
Wind
S 10 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Pambula is fishing in its best temperature window, with the bite spread across the day. Today brings clear skies, wind S around 10 km/h, steady pressure near 1020 hPa and a high of 17 °C. Tides: high 8:21 am and 8:55 pm, low 1:53 am and 2:55 pm: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 22 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:07 PM-1:07 AM and 11:35 AM-1:35 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Flathead
Good
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
Fair
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
Fair
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: 11:07 PM-1:07 AM, 11:35 AM-1:35 PM, 4:48 AM-5:48 AM. Similar at 18 °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 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 Pambula today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:47), sunset (19:41), 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 11:07 PM-1:07 AM and 11:35 AM-1:35 PM; minor 4:48 AM-5:48 AM. New Moon, 0% 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.
Mon
LOW1:53 am-0.47 m
HIGH8:21 am0.64 m
LOW2:55 pm-0.59 m
HIGH8:55 pm0.28 m
Tue
LOW2:20 am-0.41 m
HIGH8:54 am0.68 m
LOW3:35 pm-0.57 m
HIGH9:36 pm0.23 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp11 °C
High / Low17 °C / 8 °C
WindS 10 km/h, gusts 28 km/h
Pressure1020.2 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain3% cloud, 63%
Sunrise / Sunset05:47 / 19:41
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~22 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Pambula
The best day on Pambula 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
- 11:07 PM-1:07 AM and 11:35 AM-1:35 PM
- Minor period
- 4:48 AM-5:48 AM
- Sun
- 05:47 to 19:41
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 18 km/h
- Rain chance
- 63%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Pambula: 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 Pambula 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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SlowPeak
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 dataSun, Nov 8
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Bream led the card at good. High of 15 °C, wind to 29 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Bream led the card at good. High of 17 °C, wind to 35 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
5/5 Excellent. Go now. Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 19 °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
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee is needed here, and the three-day receipt costs A$7; our New South Wales licence page lists every duration.
About this water
Pambula is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Pambula: the full guide
Pambula and its waters
Pambula is the village on the Sapphire Coast of far southern New South Wales, between Merimbula and Eden. Its estuary, which the state’s environment department classes as a barrier river, runs through Pambula Lake and its oyster leases and reaches the sea at the southern end of Merimbula Bay, at Pambula Beach. Large parts of the lower estuary, the lake included, run through the northern section of Ben Boyd National Park, and the rock platforms of Haycock Point lie to the south. Merimbula, a few minutes north, has its own page for its lake and its wharf; this one is scored for Pambula’s coordinates and reads the lake, the river mouth and the beach first. The department’s monitoring has graded the estuary’s water quality as excellent.
Species and seasons
Bream are the lake’s fish, taken all year on the leases, the snags and the entrance rocks, with the biggest usually in the cooler months; flathead lie on the sand of the lake and the channel from spring to autumn; whiting work the flats and the beach in summer; and luderick feed along the entrance rocks and the leases in winter. Tailor and salmon run the beach and Haycock Point in the cooler months, mulloway are the night fish of the river mouth and the beach gutters, and squid hunt the weed off the rocks. Prawning in the lake is allowed only with the gear and limits DPIRD sets. The estuary does not flow into a marine park, so the state’s general rules are the ones that apply here.
Reading this report here
The beach faces east, so a southerly or a big swell closes it and the rocks while a westerly flattens the coast; the wind row tells you which. Around Pambula the score comes from the barometer and the cloud, and the planner sets out the coming days. The tide panel is a modelled curve for these coordinates, labelled as a model; the department’s 1979 measurements put the tidal range inside the estuary at around a metre, and the channel at the mouth still runs hard on the change, so use the curve for the direction and the Bureau of Meteorology for the minute.
Licence, access and rules
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee is needed here, and the three-day receipt costs A$7; our New South Wales licence page lists every duration. The lake foreshore, the river mouth and the beach are open to the public, and much of the lower estuary is national park. Bega Valley is not among the council areas where NSW law makes lifejackets compulsory on the rocks, but a lifejacket is still the sensible choice on an exposed platform. The DPIRD limits and the prawning rules are on the pages in the sources.
Common questions
What can I catch in Pambula Lake?
Bream on the oyster leases, flathead on the sand, whiting on the flats in summer, luderick at the entrance in winter, and prawns under the DPIRD rules.
Do I need a fishing licence in Pambula?
Yes: the NSW fee covers the lake, the river and the beach, starting at A$7 for a three-day receipt.
Is fishing good at Pambula 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
- 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.