Bream
Excellent
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Tuross Head Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
Two lakes and a headland on the Eurobodalla coast: Tuross Lake, Coila Lake, the bar and the beaches, a flathead and bream village between Moruya and Narooma.
4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Next tide
Low 2:52 pm model
Air / High
14 °C / 17 °C
Wind
SSW 10 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Tuross Head sits in the warm band: moving baits, moving tides and fish on the edges. Today brings cloud cover, wind SSW around 10 km/h, steady pressure near 1020 hPa and a high of 17 °C. Tides: high 8:17 am and 8:52 pm, low 1:50 am and 2:52 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 11:06 PM-1:06 AM and 11:34 AM-1:34 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Flathead
Excellent
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
Good
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
Good
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: 11:06 PM-1:06 AM, 11:34 AM-1:34 PM, 4:49 AM-5:49 AM. Similar at 19 °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 Tuross Head today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:48), sunset (19:39), 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 11:06 PM-1:06 AM and 11:34 AM-1:34 PM; minor 4:49 AM-5:49 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
LOW1:50 am-0.40 m
HIGH8:17 am0.73 m
LOW2:52 pm-0.54 m
HIGH8:52 pm0.34 m
Tue
LOW2:25 am-0.37 m
HIGH8:54 am0.74 m
LOW3:30 pm-0.51 m
HIGH9:30 pm0.28 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp14 °C
High / Low17 °C / 11 °C
WindSSW 10 km/h, gusts 21 km/h
Pressure1020.2 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain100% cloud, 29%
Sunrise / Sunset05:48 / 19:39
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 Tuross Head
The best day on Tuross Head this week looks like Thursday 12 Nov, at 5 out of 5, against 4 today.
Best day this week: Thursday, 12 Nov — excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 9 Nov — Good
Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
- Solunar majors
- 11:06 PM-1:06 AM and 11:34 AM-1:34 PM
- Minor period
- 4:49 AM-5:49 AM
- Sun
- 05:48 to 19:39
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 23 km/h
- Rain chance
- 29%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Tuross Head: 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 Tuross Head 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 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 17 °C, wind to 32 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 21 °C, wind to 31 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 20 °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.
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About this water
Tuross Head is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Tuross Head: the full guide
Tuross Head and its lakes
Tuross Head is a village on a headland between two lakes on the New South Wales far south coast: Tuross Lake to the south, the sandy estuary of the Tuross River that meets the sea over a bar, and Coila Lake to the north, a shallow coastal lake that is open to the sea only from time to time. The village has jetties and a foreshore on the Tuross side, beaches either side of the headland and the rocks of the head itself. It is a flathead and bream place first, inside the Batemans Marine Park, which takes in the estuaries and coastal lakes of this coast, and the report on this page is scored for the village’s coordinates.
Species by season
Flathead are the lake’s fish, on the sand flats and the drop-offs from spring to autumn; bream fish the leases, the snags and the jetties all year with the winter run to the bar; whiting work the flats and the beaches in summer; and mulloway are the night fish of the bar and the deeper holes. Luderick fish the rocks and the bar in winter, tailor and salmon run the beaches and the headland in the cooler months, squid work the weed near the bar, and Coila Lake gives bream and flathead, and prawns on the dark nights of summer, when it has been open to the sea.
Reading this report for Tuross
The wind row decides between the lakes and the coast: a southerly or a swell closes the beaches and the headland and puts the fishing in the lake, while a westerly flattens the coast. Pressure and cloud feed the score and the planner lays out the days; the tide panel is a modelled curve for these coordinates, labelled as a model, and Tuross Lake runs on the tide through the bar while Coila barely does, so read the curve for the direction and take the times from the Bureau of Meteorology.
Licence, marine park and rules
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies, from A$7 for three days; the full list is on our New South Wales licence page. The jetties, the foreshore, the beaches and the headland are public. Batemans Marine Park zones have applied since June 2007; some sanctuary areas were reopened to recreational fishing in December 2019 and the rest remain closed, so the zoning map in the sources, or the FishSmart app, is the check to make before you fish the lake.
Common questions
What can I catch in Tuross Lake?
Flathead on the flats, bream on the leases and snags, whiting in summer, luderick at the bar in winter and mulloway at night.
Do I need a fishing licence at Tuross Head?
Yes. The lakes and the coast here are New South Wales water, and the Recreational Fishing Fee starts at A$7 for three days.
Is fishing good at Tuross Head right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
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.