Golden perch
Excellent
Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
Moonie River at Fenton Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Moonie at Fenton downstream of Nindigully: cod and yellowbelly in the remote lower Moonie near the border, with a Bureau gauge.
2/5
Slow. Work for them.Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing.
Level
1.53 m
Air / High
20 °C / 28 °C
Wind
SE 11 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 417204A, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Moonie River at Fenton sits in the warm band: moving baits, moving tides and fish on the edges. The gauge reads 1.53 m, easing 0.67 over the week. Today brings clear skies, wind SE around 11 km/h, rising pressure near 1016 hPa and a high of 28 °C. Water sits around 19 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:03 PM-1:03 AM and 10:39 AM-12:39 PM: 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: 11:03 PM-1:03 AM, 10:39 AM-12:39 PM, 4:10 AM-5:10 AM. Warmer at 32 °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 Moonie River at Fenton today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:06), sunset (18:31), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:03 PM-1:03 AM and 10:39 AM-12:39 PM; minor 4:10 AM-5:10 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 417204A (Moonie_R Fenton).
River level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 417204A. Latest reading 2026-11-08 18:00.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp20 °C
High / Low28 °C / 11 °C
WindSE 11 km/h, gusts 17 km/h
Pressure1016.0 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain0% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset05:06 / 18:31
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~19 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Moonie River at Fenton
The best day on Moonie River at Fenton 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
- 11:03 PM-1:03 AM and 10:39 AM-12:39 PM
- Minor period
- 4:10 AM-5:10 AM
- Sun
- 05:06 to 18:31
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Partly cloudy, 13 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Moonie River at Fenton: 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 Moonie River at Fenton 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
2/5 Slow. Work for them. Conditions favor short windows and patient fishing. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 27 °C, wind to 23 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 32 °C, wind to 23 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 29 °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
No general fishing licence is needed on the Moonie River at Fenton; the cod closure and limits apply, on the pages linked below..
About this water
Moonie River at Fenton is a river in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Moonie River at Fenton: the full guide
The Moonie at Fenton
Fenton is a gauging site on the lower Moonie River, downstream of Nindigully and close to the New South Wales border, in remote grazing and cropping country, where the river is a chain of long waterholes under coolibah. The Bureau of Meteorology’s gauge at Fenton supplies the river level and the 30-day chart on this page. The Moonie at Nindigully has its own page.
Species and seasons
Golden perch and Murray cod are the fish of the lower Moonie, yellowbelly on shrimp and worms in the waterholes, cod in the deeper holes. On the Moonie River at Fenton, Queensland’s Murray cod closed season runs from 1 August to 31 October; the species card computes it.
Where to fish it
Access is from the public road crossings; the land along the river is station country, so stay on public access. After rain the black-soil roads out here turn impassable quickly, so check conditions before leaving the bitumen.
Planning a visit
Mungindi, on the border, and St George are the nearest towns with supplies. Carry water and fuel.
The river through the year
The Moonie is one of the smaller rivers of the Queensland Murray-Darling, rising west of the Darling Downs and running south-west through brigalow and cypress country to the Barwon below the New South Wales border. At Fenton it is a chain of waterholes for much of the year, set running only when summer storms or a wet season in the upper catchment send a flow down, and the fish concentrate in the deeper holes when it is low. Golden perch bite best when a flow arrives in the warm months and the water starts to rise; cod stay in the timber of the bigger holes and are off limits during the Queensland closure from 1 August to 31 October. In a long dry the holes shrink, warm and clear, and the early mornings and evenings are the times to fish.
Reading this report here
The chart shows whether the Moonie is running. The water temperature estimate, labelled as one, is warm in summer; pressure and sky build the score at Fenton.
Licence, access and rules
No general fishing licence is needed on the Moonie River at Fenton; the cod closure and limits apply, on the pages linked below.
Common questions
When is Murray cod closed here?
Cod on the Moonie River at Fenton are closed from 1 August to 31 October.
What can I catch at Fenton?
Golden perch and Murray cod are the fish of the Moonie River at Fenton.
Do I need a licence here?
No. Queensland has no general recreational fishing licence, so the Moonie River at Fenton needs none.
Is fishing good at Moonie River at Fenton 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 417204A — Moonie_R Fenton
- 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.