Bream
Excellent
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Tweed Heads Fishing Report
Updated Tue, 10 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Tweed River and its border town: bream on the walls, flathead on the flats, jack in the snags and the bar where the river meets the Gold Coast surf.
4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Next tide
Low 2:04 am model
Air / High
17 °C / 24 °C
Wind
SSW 3 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Tweed Heads is fishing in its best temperature window, with the bite spread across the day. Today brings cloud cover, wind SSW around 3 km/h, rising pressure near 1020 hPa and a high of 24 °C. Tides: high 8:45 am and 8:48 pm, low 2:04 am and 3:16 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 11:41 PM-1:41 AM and 12:08 PM-2:08 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: 11:41 PM-1:41 AM, 12:08 PM-2:08 PM, 5:29 AM-6:29 AM. Warmer at 28 °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 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 Tweed Heads today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:48), sunset (19:12), 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 11:41 PM-1:41 AM and 12:08 PM-2:08 PM; minor 5:29 AM-6:29 AM. New Moon, 1% 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.
Tue
LOW2:04 am-0.35 m
HIGH8:45 am1.16 m
LOW3:16 pm-0.24 m
HIGH8:48 pm0.58 m
Wed
LOW2:38 am-0.37 m
HIGH9:23 am1.08 m
LOW3:58 pm-0.26 m
HIGH9:30 pm0.44 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp17 °C
High / Low24 °C / 17 °C
WindSSW 3 km/h, gusts 7 km/h
Pressure1019.5 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain100% cloud, 98%
Sunrise / Sunset05:48 / 19:12
MoonNew Moon, 1%
Water temp (seasonal)~22 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Tweed Heads
Today is the pick of the week on Tweed Heads, at 4 out of 5.
Best day this week: today, 10 Nov — good at 4/5, rising pressure behind a front, typically the slowest.
Today, 10 Nov — Good
Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
- Solunar majors
- 11:41 PM-1:41 AM and 12:08 PM-2:08 PM
- Minor period
- 5:29 AM-6:29 AM
- Sun
- 05:48 to 19:12
- Moon
- New Moon, 1% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 24 km/h
- Rain chance
- 98%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Tweed Heads: 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 Tweed Heads 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 dataMon, Nov 9
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 22 °C, wind to 16 km/h.
Sun, 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 25 °C, wind to 27 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
5/5 Excellent. Go now. Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 27 °C, wind to 21 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 Tweed and its beaches, from A$7 for three days, even though Queensland across the border has no general licence; our New South Wales licence page has the fees and the Queensland page the difference.
About this water
Tweed Heads is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Tweed Heads: the full guide
Tweed Heads and the river
Tweed Heads sits on the Tweed River at the Queensland border, joined to Coolangatta across the state line. The river is the fishery: a long tidal estuary with rock walls, sand flats, deep holes and the islands of the lower reaches, opening to the sea between two breakwalls over a bar, with the beaches of the Gold Coast to the north and Kingscliff and Cabarita to the south. Point Danger, on the border itself, and Fingal Head give the rock platforms. The river has a page of its own for its middle and upper reaches.
Species by season
Bream and flathead are the estuary’s staples, the bream on the walls, the leases and the snags in every month with a winter run to the mouth, the flathead on the flats and the drop-offs from spring to autumn; whiting fish the flats and the beaches in summer; mangrove jack push into the snags through the warm months; and mulloway are the night fish of the walls and the holes. Tailor run the beaches and the walls in the cooler months, luderick the walls in winter, and Point Danger and Fingal give trevally, tailor and the summer pelagics to rock anglers.
Reading this report here
The wind row decides between the river and the coast: a south-easterly or a swell closes the beaches and the walls and pushes the fishing upstream, while a westerly settles the coast. The pressure trend and the cloud cover make the score, and the planner shows the week ahead; the tide panel is a modelled curve for these coordinates, labelled as a model, and since the Tweed runs hard through the bar, read the curve for the direction and the Bureau of Meteorology prediction for the minute.
Licence, access and rules
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies on the Tweed and its beaches, from A$7 for three days, even though Queensland across the border has no general licence; our New South Wales licence page has the fees and the Queensland page the difference. The breakwalls, the river foreshores, the beaches and the headlands are public. South of Tweed Heads, the Cape Byron Marine Park begins at the northern training wall of the Brunswick River, and its zoning and the DPIRD limits are on the pages in the sources.
Common questions
Do I need a fishing licence in Tweed Heads?
Yes. Tweed Heads is in New South Wales, so the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies, from A$7 for three days, even though Coolangatta across the border needs none.
What can I catch at Tweed Heads?
Bream and flathead in the lower river, whiting in summer, mangrove jack in the warm months, luderick on the walls in winter and mulloway at night.
Is fishing good at Tweed Heads 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.