Golden perch
Excellent
Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
Wyangala Dam Fishing Report
Updated Tue, 10 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The storage at the junction of the Lachlan and the Abercrombie below Cowra: golden perch on the points, Murray cod in the timber, and a level the Bureau reads every day.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Level
370.11 m806,720 ML
Air / High
11 °C / 26 °C
Wind
E 5 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 412010, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Wyangala Dam has the water in the comfortable band where most of its fish feed through the day. The gauge reads 370.11 m, easing 0.13 over the week. Today brings clear skies, wind E around 5 km/h, rising pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 26 °C. Water sits around 19 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:59 PM-1:59 AM and 12:27 PM-2:27 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Murray cod
Closed today
Reopens 1 Dec 2026. Closed 1 September to 30 November in all waters except Blowering and Copeton dams.
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: 11:59 PM-1:59 AM, 12:27 PM-2:27 PM, 5:33 AM-6:33 AM. Warmer at 31 °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 murray cod here? Check the size and bag limits with DPIRD NSW before you keep anything; the Murray cod page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Wyangala Dam today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:55), sunset (19:40), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:59 PM-1:59 AM and 12:27 PM-2:27 PM; minor 5:33 AM-6:33 AM. New Moon, 1% lit.
Wyangala Dam Level today, and the weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 412010 (WYANGALA STORAGE).
Storage level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 412010. Latest reading 2026-11-08 23:45.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp11 °C
High / Low26 °C / 8 °C
WindE 5 km/h, gusts 10 km/h
Pressure1017.8 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain6% cloud, 4%
Sunrise / Sunset05:55 / 19:40
MoonNew Moon, 1%
Water temp (seasonal)~19 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Wyangala Dam
The best day on Wyangala Dam this week looks like Friday 13 Nov, at 5 out of 5, against 2 today.
Best day this week: Friday, 13 Nov — excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 10 Nov — Tough
Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
- Solunar majors
- 11:59 PM-1:59 AM and 12:27 PM-2:27 PM
- Minor period
- 5:33 AM-6:33 AM
- Sun
- 05:55 to 19:40
- Moon
- New Moon, 1% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 13 km/h
- Rain chance
- 4%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Wyangala Dam: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Murray cod
Closed 1 September to 30 November in NSW, Victoria and the ACT, and 1 August to 31 October in Queensland; check the exempt lakes
Closed now Reopens 1 Dec 2026. Closed 1 September to 30 November in all waters except Blowering and Copeton dams. Rule as read from DPIRD NSW on 2026-09-23.
The giant of the inland rivers and the big lakes (Hume, Mulwala, Eildon). A snag fish that eats big lures, and a species with a closed season across the Murray-Darling.
Golden perch
Best: November to April
Yellowbelly. The bread-and-butter native of the Murray-Darling lakes and rivers; loves warm water, structure and a lure worked slowly past its nose. Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
When to come: the Wyangala Dam 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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Golden perch
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Water temperature through the year
Typical surface temperature for this water type in degrees Celsius; today is around 19 °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
2/5 Slow. Work for them. Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 21 °C, wind to 13 km/h.
Sun, Nov 8
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 19 °C, wind to 16 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 24 °C, wind to 26 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
Fishing Wyangala takes the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, A$7 for three days at the cheapest, with the full list on our New South Wales licence page.
Storage levels
Compare it with every other storage in the state on New South Wales dam levels today.
About this water
Wyangala Dam is a lake in New South Wales, Australia, covered from the New South Wales reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Wyangala Dam: the full guide
The lake
Wyangala Dam sits at the junction of the Lachlan and Abercrombie rivers, about 48 kilometres upstream of Cowra in the central west of New South Wales. WaterNSW lists it at 1,217 gigalitres and 54 square kilometres of lake, and notes that it was the second major dam built for irrigation in the state when construction began in 1928; it still supplies the irrigators of the Lachlan Valley around Cowra, Forbes, Condobolin and Hillston. Two holiday parks run on the foreshores, Wyangala Waters about 8 kilometres north of the wall and Grabine Lakeside on the eastern shore, and both have boat ramps and camping. The level in the report is the Bureau of Meteorology’s reading at the Wyangala storage gauge, with the time it was taken.
Species and seasons
Golden perch are the lake’s fish, on the points, the timber and the drop-offs from spring to autumn, trolled, cast and on bait; Murray cod fish the timber and the rock walls in the warmer months and are closed from 1 September to 30 November under the DPIRD rule. DPIRD’s stocking plan shows golden perch and cod released in 2025/26 and rainbow trout in 2024/25. Wyangala is one of the impoundments where DPIRD allows silver perch and freshwater catfish to be taken, both closed in most western waters. Redfin school in the bays and fill the winter, carp are present and must not go back alive, and the Macquarie perch WaterNSW says are caught here are protected in every NSW water and must be released.
Reading this report for Wyangala
The level is in the report and the 30-day chart, and it matters because a rising lake floods new ground where the perch feed while a fast summer draw-down pulls the fish back to the points and the deep timber. The wind row decides which arm is fishable, because the lake is long and open enough to chop up in a westerly. The barometer and the sky fill in the rest of the score, the water temperature is a seasonal estimate for a central west storage and is marked as one, and the planner picks the day.
Licence, access and rules
Fishing Wyangala takes the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, A$7 for three days at the cheapest, with the full list on our New South Wales licence page. The two holiday parks, each with a kiosk, ramps and camping, are the main access points, and WaterNSW closes its recreation areas on total fire ban days. The DPIRD limits, the cod closure and the list of dams where silver perch and catfish may be kept are on the pages in the sources.
Common questions
What can I catch at Wyangala?
Golden perch on the points and the timber from spring to autumn, Murray cod outside the 1 September to 30 November closure, silver perch and catfish, which may be kept here, redfin and stocked trout.
Do I need a fishing licence at Wyangala?
Yes: the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee, A$7 for three days at the least, covers the lake and both its arms.
Is fishing good at Wyangala Dam right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Slow. Work for them. Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- Storage and river readings
- Bureau of Meteorology, Water Data Online, station 412010 — WYANGALA STORAGE
- 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.