Golden perch
Excellent
Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
Glenlyon Dam Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
Pike Creek’s deep storage at Glenlyon near the border: stocked cod, golden perch and silver perch in a Queensland lake exempt from the cod closure, with a Bureau gauge.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Level
403.92 m136,382 ML
Air / High
18 °C / 24 °C
Wind
NNE 1 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 416315A, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Glenlyon Dam sits in the warm band: moving baits, moving tides and fish on the edges. The gauge reads 403.92 m, up 0.14 over the week. Today brings clear skies, wind NNE around 2 km/h, rising pressure near 1017 hPa and a high of 24 °C. Water sits around 19 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 10:28 AM-12:28 PM and 10:49 PM-12:49 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: 10:28 AM-12:28 PM, 10:49 PM-12:49 AM, 3:59 AM-4:59 AM. Warmer at 27 °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 Glenlyon Dam today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (04:55), sunset (18:20), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 10:28 AM-12:28 PM and 10:49 PM-12:49 AM; minor 3:59 AM-4:59 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 416315A (PIKE CREEK AT GLENLYON DAM - STORAGE GAUGE).
Storage level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 416315A. Latest reading 2026-11-07 09:00.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp18 °C
High / Low24 °C / 8 °C
WindNNE 1 km/h, gusts 4 km/h
Pressure1016.9 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain0% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset04:55 / 18:20
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~19 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Glenlyon Dam
The best day on Glenlyon Dam 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
- 10:28 AM-12:28 PM and 10:49 PM-12:49 AM
- Minor period
- 3:59 AM-4:59 AM
- Sun
- 04:55 to 18:20
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Clear, 11 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Glenlyon 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
Open all year Glenlyon Dam is exempt from the closed season 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 Glenlyon 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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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 25 °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 28 °C, wind to 14 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 27 °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
Glenlyon is a Stocked Impoundment Permit Scheme water: Sunwater’s page says a permit is required, and it applies from age 18 at A$13.60 a week or A$64.58 a year as read from the Queensland Government.
Permit
Glenlyon Dam 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
Glenlyon Dam is a lake in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Glenlyon Dam: the full guide
The lake
Glenlyon Dam holds Pike Creek about 7 km upstream of its junction with the Dumaresq River, at Glenlyon in Queensland’s border country. It belongs to the Border Rivers Commission, is run by Sunwater and supplies irrigators and towns in both Queensland and New South Wales, but the lake itself is Queensland water. Sunwater gives a storage of 253,000 ML behind a 62-metre earth and rockfill wall built between 1972 and 1976, with a boat ramp, picnic areas and barbecues, a lookout, toilets and privately run camping in a designated area. The Bureau of Meteorology’s gauge at the dam feeds the level and 30-day chart here.
Species and seasons
The Queensland stocked impoundment list gives Glenlyon golden perch, Murray cod and silver perch. The dam is one of six the state exempts from the Murray-Darling cod closure of 1 August to 31 October, so the species card shows cod open all year. Cod lie on the drowned timber, the rock and the steep points and feed hardest from late spring to autumn; golden perch use the same structure and school on the edges as the water warms; silver perch turn up on baits in summer.
Where to fish it
Sunwater prohibits shore fishing on or near the dam wall and keeps boats 200 metres from it behind the buoy line, so the arms and points up the lake are the water to fish. A steep, deep storage like this suits trolling deep-diving lures along the timber lines and slowly working the points with spinnerbaits, while a kayak gets into the backs of the arms where the timber is thickest. Bank anglers near the camping area do best at first and last light.
Reading the report
In a lake this deep the surface warms in spring well before the depths do, and the water temperature estimate, labelled as an estimate, gives the cod band from about October to April. The chart shows the draw-down as water is released downstream for the Border Rivers irrigators; a falling lake pushes fish off the flats and onto the steeper drop-offs. Wind along a long reach still chops the water up, so check the wind row, and read the barometer before a summer storm.
Permits, access and rules
Glenlyon is a Stocked Impoundment Permit Scheme water: Sunwater’s page says a permit is required, and it applies from age 18 at A$13.60 a week or A$64.58 a year as read from the Queensland Government. Because the lake is in Queensland, Queensland’s rules and limits are the ones that apply on the water. Our Queensland licence page has the concession price, and the permit list and the cod exemption are linked in the sources.
Common questions
Which state’s rules apply at Glenlyon Dam?
Queensland’s. The dam is owned by the Border Rivers Commission and supplies both states, but it sits on Pike Creek in Queensland, so the Queensland permit, limits and cod exemption apply.
Is cod open all year at Glenlyon?
Yes. The Queensland Government exempts Glenlyon from the 1 August to 31 October Murray-Darling cod closure; the rule is linked in the sources.
Is fishing good at Glenlyon 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 416315A — PIKE CREEK AT GLENLYON DAM - STORAGE GAUGE
- 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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