Golden perch
Excellent
Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
Condamine River at Warwick Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Condamine through Warwick: Murray cod and golden perch in the southern Downs town’s river, under the Queensland cod closure, with the Bureau’s gauge in town.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Level
0.97 m
Air / High
16 °C / 25 °C
Wind
ESE 9 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 422310C, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Condamine River at Warwick has the water in the comfortable band where most of its fish feed through the day. The gauge reads 0.97 m, easing 0.16 over the week. Today brings clear skies, wind ESE around 10 km/h, rising pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 24 °C. Water sits around 19 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:47 PM-12:47 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: 10:25 AM-12:25 PM, 10:47 PM-12:47 AM, 3:58 AM-4:58 AM. Warmer at 27 °C with a rain chance. 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 Condamine River at Warwick today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (04:54), sunset (18:17), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:47 PM-12:47 AM; minor 3:58 AM-4:58 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 422310C (Condamine_R Warwick).
River level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 422310C. Latest reading 2026-11-08 18:00.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp16 °C
High / Low25 °C / 10 °C
WindESE 9 km/h, gusts 18 km/h
Pressure1018.2 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain4% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset04:54 / 18:17
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~19 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Condamine River at Warwick
The best day on Condamine River at Warwick 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, 9 Nov — Tough
Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
- Solunar majors
- 10:25 AM-12:25 PM and 10:47 PM-12:47 AM
- Minor period
- 3:58 AM-4:58 AM
- Sun
- 04:54 to 18:17
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Partly cloudy, 18 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Condamine River at Warwick: 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 Condamine River at Warwick 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
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 27 °C, wind to 21 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 28 °C, wind to 16 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
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 26 °C, wind to 19 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
Queensland has no general fishing licence and the river at Warwick is not a stocked impoundment.
About this water
Condamine River at Warwick is a river in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Condamine River at Warwick: the full guide
The reach
The Condamine at Warwick is the upper Murray-Darling river as it passes through the southern Downs town, slow and snag-lined between river gums and black-soil flats, with deeper pools where the river bends. It is cod and golden perch water on Queensland’s side of the basin, and Bureau of Meteorology station 422310C, Condamine_R Warwick, supplies the river level and the 30-day chart on this page.
Species and seasons
Murray cod hold on snags and in deep bends and feed best in the warmer months; Queensland sets a 60 cm minimum and a limit of two. The cod closure from 1 August to 31 October covers all Queensland freshwaters in the Murray-Darling Drainage Division, and the river at Warwick has no exemption. Golden perch, 30 cm minimum and ten per person, are the fish most anglers catch from spring to autumn.
Where to fish it
Riverside parkland in town gives the easiest bank access, and road crossings reach the river outside it; the rest is largely private land. For cod, work big lures or baits slowly past the heaviest timber in the deepest water, especially at dawn, dusk and after dark in summer. Golden perch respond to rising water and to baits or lures fished near the bottom around snags.
Reading the report
The gauge at Warwick shows how much water is in the upper Condamine; after summer storms it rises and colours, and through long dry spells the flow can fall to very little. A rise after a dry period is often the trigger for golden perch to feed. The water temperature is an estimate, labelled as one, and cold Downs winters slow everything down well before the cod closure begins.
Rules and access
Queensland has no general fishing licence and the river at Warwick is not a stocked impoundment. Leslie Dam nearby is: line fishers 18 and over need a permit there, the dam is exempt from the cod closure, and fishing is banned from 100 metres upstream to 200 metres downstream of its wall on Sandy Creek. All three rules are on the Queensland Government pages linked below.
Leslie Dam and the headwaters
Upstream of Warwick the Condamine rises on the Main Range and runs down through Killarney as a smaller stream of pools and rock. West of town, Leslie Dam on Sandy Creek is the district’s stocked water, with Murray cod, golden perch and silver perch on the state’s stocking list, and it has its own page; during the cod closure it is the obvious local alternative to the river.
Common questions
When is cod closed on the Condamine at Warwick?
From 1 August to 31 October, across Queensland’s Murray-Darling freshwaters; Connolly, Cooby, Coolmunda, Glenlyon, Leslie and Storm King dams are exempt, the river is not.
Do I need a permit at Warwick?
Not on the river. Queensland sells no general licence; a stocked impoundment permit is needed at Leslie Dam for anyone 18 or older.
Is fishing good at Condamine River at Warwick 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 422310C — Condamine_R Warwick
- 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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