Golden perch
Excellent
Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
Ben Dor Weir Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
A weir pool on Macintyre Brook near Whetstone in the border country: Murray cod, golden perch and silver perch, a Stocked Impoundment Permit water with a Bureau gauge.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Level
250.29 m840 ML
Air / High
19 °C / 26 °C
Wind
SE 9 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 416406A, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Ben Dor Weir sits in the warm band: moving baits, moving tides and fish on the edges. The gauge reads 250.29 m, easing 0.06 over the week. Today brings clear skies, wind SE around 10 km/h, rising pressure near 1016 hPa and a high of 26 °C. Water sits around 19 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 10:30 AM-12:30 PM and 10:52 PM-12:52 AM: the windows to build the day around.
Murray cod
Slow
Prime. Cast big spinnerbaits, hardbodies and swimbaits tight to timber and rock, and work the same snag several times.
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: 10:30 AM-12:30 PM, 10:52 PM-12:52 AM, 4:02 AM-5:02 AM. Warmer at 29 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Queensland has no general fishing licence, but rules and permits apply. Queensland fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing murray cod here? Check the size and bag limits with Queensland DPI before you keep anything; the Murray cod page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Ben Dor Weir today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (04:58), sunset (18:22), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 10:30 AM-12:30 PM and 10:52 PM-12:52 AM; minor 4:02 AM-5:02 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 416406A (MacIntyre at Ben Dor).
Storage level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 416406A. Latest reading 2026-11-08 11:00.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp19 °C
High / Low26 °C / 11 °C
WindSE 9 km/h, gusts 15 km/h
Pressure1016.1 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain11% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset04:58 / 18:22
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~19 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Ben Dor Weir
The best day on Ben Dor Weir this week looks like Tuesday 10 Nov, at 4 out of 5, against 2 today.
Best day this week: Tuesday, 10 Nov — good at 4/5, rising pressure behind a front, typically the slowest.
Today, 9 Nov — Tough
Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
- Solunar majors
- 10:30 AM-12:30 PM and 10:52 PM-12:52 AM
- Minor period
- 4:02 AM-5:02 AM
- Sun
- 04:58 to 18:22
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Partly cloudy, 16 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Ben Dor Weir: 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
Open now Closes 1 Aug 2027. Closed 1 August to 31 October in Queensland’s Murray-Darling fresh waters, except Connolly, Cooby, Coolmunda, Glenlyon, Leslie and Storm King dams. Rule as read from Queensland Department of Primary Industries 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. Prime. Cast big spinnerbaits, hardbodies and swimbaits tight to timber and rock, and work the same snag several times.
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 Ben Dor Weir 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 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 dataSun, Nov 8
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 27 °C, wind to 18 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
5/5 Excellent. Go now. Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 30 °C, wind to 14 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
2/5 Slow. Work for them. Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 28 °C, wind to 11 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Queensland has no general recreational fishing licence; permits apply on some waters and the limits and closures do. Details and where to buy →
Regulations
Size and bag limits, closed seasons and marine park zones are set by Queensland DPI and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Queensland licence page before you keep anything.
Access
Ben Dor Weir is a Stocked Impoundment Permit water: from age 18, A$13.60 a week or A$64.58 a year, as read from the Queensland Government, with the details on our Queensland licence page.
Permit
Ben Dor Weir is in Queensland’s Stocked Impoundment Permit scheme: anyone 18 or over fishing it with a line needs the permit, and one permit covers every scheme water. What the permit costs and where to buy it. Compare it with every other storage in the state on Queensland dam levels today.
About this water
Ben Dor Weir is a lake in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Ben Dor Weir: the full guide
Ben Dor Weir
Ben Dor Weir holds a pool on Macintyre Brook off Springborg Road near Whetstone, about 55 km east of Goondiwindi by the Queensland Government’s reckoning and about 30 km south of Inglewood by Sunwater’s. It is one of three small weirs built on the brook in the 1940s and 1950s to ease water shortages for tobacco growers, originally timber crib structures, and the brook itself runs from Coolmunda Dam through Inglewood toward the Dumaresq. The Queensland Government stocks it for the permit scheme, and the Bureau of Meteorology’s gauge on the brook at Ben Dor supplies the level and the 30-day chart on this page.
Species and seasons
The Queensland Government lists golden perch, Murray cod and silver perch as stocked at Ben Dor. Golden perch, yellowbelly to most anglers, are the everyday fish of the pool, taken on shrimp, worms and lures around the timber; Murray cod hold in the deeper snags and are the prize; silver perch school in the open water. Murray cod are closed from 1 August to 31 October in Queensland’s Murray-Darling waters, and Ben Dor is not one of the exempt dams; the species card computes it.
Where to fish it
The banks of the weir pool are fished where the country roads meet the brook, casting to the fallen timber and the undercut banks, and a kayak or a small boat covers the length of the pool where the cod sit on the snags. Stay well away from the weir wall itself, and remember that much of the brook runs through private land, so fish only where access is public or you have the landholder’s permission.
Planning a visit
Ben Dor is in the Queensland border country between Inglewood and Goondiwindi, the two towns along the Cunningham Highway with supplies and accommodation. Bring the permit, cod lures and bait for yellowbelly, and water and shade in summer, when the border country is hot and dry.
Reading this report here
Ben Dor is small, sheltered water and the wind row matters little; the chart shows the weir level, which rises with releases from Coolmunda and after storms. The water temperature estimate, labelled as one, is warm through summer, when the yellowbelly bite, and cold in winter, when the cod are the fish to target; pressure and sky build the score at Ben Dor Weir.
Licence, access and rules
Ben Dor Weir is a Stocked Impoundment Permit water: from age 18, A$13.60 a week or A$64.58 a year, as read from the Queensland Government, with the details on our Queensland licence page. The government lists the Inglewood Fish Stocking Association, Goondiwindi Regional Council and the Dumaresq-Barwon Border Rivers Commission as the weir’s managers; the Murray cod closed season and the Queensland freshwater size and bag limits apply.
Common questions
Can I keep Murray cod at Ben Dor Weir in spring?
Not from 1 August to 31 October: Queensland’s Murray cod closed season applies in the weir, which is not one of the exempt dams.
Do I need a permit at Ben Dor Weir?
Yes. It is on the Queensland Government’s list of stocked impoundments, so anglers aged 18 and over need a Stocked Impoundment Permit.
What is stocked at Ben Dor Weir?
Golden perch, Murray cod and silver perch, as the Queensland Government lists them.
Is fishing good at Ben Dor Weir 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 416406A — MacIntyre at Ben Dor
- 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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