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.
Tweed River Fishing Report
Updated Sun, 27 Sept 2026 from live weather and tide data
The river behind the border town: from the breakwalls at the mouth up past Chinderah and Tumbulgum, a tidal estuary of bream, flathead, jack and jew.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Water temp
~18 °C est.
Air / High
15 °C / 23 °C
Wind
WNW 10 km/h
Sources: Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Tweed River is in its cool-water rhythm: slower presentations and the warmest hours of the day. Today brings clear skies, wind WNW around 10 km/h, steady pressure near 1028 hPa and a high of 23 °C. Water sits around 18 °C for the season (estimated). With the full moon, the solunar majors run 12:06 AM-2:06 AM and 12:06 PM-2:06 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Bream
Fair
Slow the retrieve right down: blades and lightly weighted plastics along the deeper rock walls and drop-offs, or unweighted bait drifted into the snags.
Flathead
Fair
Fish the deeper channels and the last of the run-out; slower hops with a heavier jighead, and a bait on the bottom as back-up.
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.
Tie on: Blade or vibe, slow hops · Lightly weighted plastic · Whole pilchard or squid on the bottom · Suspending hardbody. Prime windows: 12:06 AM-2:06 AM, 12:06 PM-2:06 PM, 6:36 AM-7:36 AM. Cooler at 20 °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 River today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:30), sunset (17:44), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 12:06 AM-2:06 AM and 12:06 PM-2:06 PM; minor 6:36 AM-7:36 AM. Full Moon, 99% 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 temp15 °C
High / Low23 °C / 14 °C
WindWNW 10 km/h, gusts 17 km/h
Pressure1027.8 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain0% cloud, 25%
Sunrise / Sunset05:30 / 17:44
MoonFull Moon, 99%
Water temp (seasonal)~18 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Tweed River
The best day on Tweed River this week looks like Tuesday 29 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: Tuesday, 29 Sept — good at 4/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 27 Sept — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 12:06 AM-2:06 AM and 12:06 PM-2:06 PM
- Minor period
- 6:36 AM-7:36 AM
- Sun
- 05:30 to 17:44
- Moon
- Full Moon, 99% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 14 km/h
- Rain chance
- 25%
Scores are a planning aid built from forecast data, not a promise.
Species guide
The species that matter on Tweed River: 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. Slow the retrieve right down: blades and lightly weighted plastics along the deeper rock walls and drop-offs, or unweighted bait drifted into the snags.
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. Fish the deeper channels and the last of the run-out; slower hops with a heavier jighead, and a bait on the bottom as back-up.
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.
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.
When to come: the Tweed 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 18 °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 dataSat, Sep 26
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 13 km/h.
Fri, Sep 25
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 14 km/h.
Thu, 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.
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 river, from A$7 for three days; our New South Wales licence page has the fees.
About this water
Tweed River is a river in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Tweed River: the full guide
The river
The Tweed River runs from the Border Ranges through Murwillumbah, Tumbulgum and Chinderah to the sea at Tweed Heads, tidal for most of that length, and it is the fishery of the far north coast of New South Wales: rock walls at the mouth, oyster leases and sand flats in the lower reaches, deep bends and snags upstream, and the islands and channels around Chinderah where the river splits. Tweed Heads has its own page for the town, the beaches and the headlands; this one is scored for the river and reads its reaches first.
Species and seasons
Bream fish the walls, the leases and the snags all year with a winter run to the mouth; flathead lie on the flats and the drop-offs of the lower river from spring to autumn; whiting fish the flats in summer; mangrove jack push into the snags of the middle and upper river through the warm months and are the river’s summer prize; and mulloway are the night fish of the walls and the deep bends, best after rain. Luderick work the walls in winter, trevally and tailor run the lower river on the tide, and bass hold in the fresh reaches above Murwillumbah.
Reading this report for the river
The river runs hard on the tide and the tide panel, a modelled curve for these coordinates labelled as a model, is the thing to read: the flats fish on the run-in, the walls and the bends on the change; the Bureau of Meteorology has the official times. Rain matters as much as wind, because a fresh colours the water and moves the bream and the jew. Pressure and sky build the score and the planner shows the day.
Licence, access and rules
The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies on the river, from A$7 for three days; our New South Wales licence page has the fees. The breakwalls, the river parks at Chinderah and Tumbulgum and the town foreshores are public, with ramps at Tweed Heads, Chinderah, Tumbulgum and Murwillumbah; the DPIRD limits are on the page in the sources.
Common questions
What can I catch in the Tweed River?
Bream and flathead, whiting in summer, mangrove jack in the warm months, luderick on the walls in winter, mulloway at night and bass in the fresh reaches.
Do I need a fishing licence on the Tweed River?
Yes. The NSW Recreational Fishing Fee applies, from A$7 for three days.
Is fishing good at Tweed 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
- 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.