Rainbow trout
Excellent
Prime. Shore fishing along the edges with bait, spinners and flies, and the rivers if the season is open.
Snowy River Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
Below Jindabyne through Dalgety to the gorge: trout in the cold reaches, native fish under special protection, and a flow set by Snowy Hydro’s environmental releases.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Water temp
~13 °C est.
Air / High
2 °C / 10 °C
Wind
N 4 km/h
Sources: Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Snowy River rewards patience today, with cool water and short feeding windows. Today brings clear skies, wind N around 5 km/h, steady pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 10 °C. Water sits around 13 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:14 PM-1:14 AM and 11:41 AM-1:41 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: 11:14 PM-1:14 AM, 11:41 AM-1:41 PM, 4:56 AM-5:56 AM. Similar at 11 °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 Snowy River today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:54), sunset (19:47), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:14 PM-1:14 AM and 11:41 AM-1:41 PM; minor 4:56 AM-5:56 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 temp2 °C
High / Low10 °C / -4 °C
WindN 4 km/h, gusts 15 km/h
Pressure1018.4 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain4% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset05:54 / 19:47
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~13 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Snowy River
The best day on Snowy River 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
- 11:14 PM-1:14 AM and 11:41 AM-1:41 PM
- Minor period
- 4:56 AM-5:56 AM
- Sun
- 05:54 to 19:47
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 11 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Snowy River: 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 now Closes 15 June 2027. General trout streams close from the Tuesday after the June long weekend to the last Friday before the October long weekend. Lakes and dams have no closed season. 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 now Closes 15 June 2027. General trout streams close from the Tuesday after the June long weekend to the last Friday before the October long weekend. Lakes and dams have no closed season. 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 Snowy 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 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 4 °C, wind to 14 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 3 °C, wind to 13 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Rainbow trout led the card at excellent. High of 10 °C, wind to 11 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
Anglers on the Snowy need the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, from A$7 for three days; our New South Wales licence page lists every option.
About this water
Snowy River is a river in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Snowy River: the full guide
The river
The Snowy River rises on the Kosciuszko massif and runs south through Jindabyne and Dalgety into the gorge country of the Monaro before crossing into Victoria to reach the sea near Marlo. The Snowy Scheme diverts its headwaters west through the Great Dividing Range, and under its water licence Snowy Hydro must make environmental releases from Jindabyne Dam into the river. The reach this page scores is the New South Wales one below the dam, from Jindabyne through Dalgety towards the gorge: a cold, clear trout river of rock, gravel and long pools whose flow rises and falls with those releases. Lake Jindabyne above it has its own page, and the Victorian Snowy near its mouth enters in a later phase.
Species and seasons
Brown and rainbow trout are the river’s fish, on bait, spinners and flies through the pools and the runs, with spring and autumn usually the best of it. The reach below Jindabyne is trout stream water, closed from the Tuesday after the June long weekend to the Friday before the October long weekend. Native fish are a different matter: every river and creek of the Snowy catchment in New South Wales is listed as an endangered ecological community, and a ministerial order allows only catch-and-release fishing for Australian bass and estuary perch and the taking of eels within the normal possession limits, by lure or baited line. Trout, as an introduced fish, are not affected by the order.
Reading this report for the Snowy
The flow decides everything, and it is the environmental release from Jindabyne, whose daily pattern Snowy Hydro publishes on its website rather than on this page: a big release makes the river hard to wade and a low flow concentrates the fish in the pools. The wind matters little in the valley. The water temperature decides whether the trout feed, and the seasonal curve on this page is an estimate for an alpine river that says so; pressure and sky build the score, and the planner shows which day to take. The Monaro’s weather can turn quickly.
Licence, access and rules
Anglers on the Snowy need the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, from A$7 for three days; our New South Wales licence page lists every option. The reserves at Jindabyne, Dalgety and the road crossings are public, and much of the gorge downstream is national park reached on foot. The DPIRD trout stream rules and the Snowy River ecological community rules, which decide what may be kept, are on the pages in the sources.
Common questions
When is trout season on the Snowy River?
The reach below Jindabyne follows the NSW trout stream closure, from the Tuesday after the June long weekend to the Friday before the October long weekend; the species card computes this year’s dates.
Can I keep native fish from the Snowy River?
Only eels, within the usual limits. The Snowy catchment in NSW is an endangered ecological community, and bass and estuary perch may be fished on a catch-and-release basis only.
Is fishing good at Snowy 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.