Bream
Excellent
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Noosa River Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
From the lakes of the Cooloola country to the bar at Noosa Heads: a river of sand flats, rock walls and snags, tidal a long way inland.
4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Water temp
~22 °C est.
Air / High
21 °C / 23 °C
Wind
NE 13 km/h
Sources: Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Noosa River is fishing in its best temperature window, with the bite spread across the day. Today brings a mixed sky, wind NE around 13 km/h, rising pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 23 °C. Water sits around 22 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 10:21 AM-12:21 PM and 10:43 PM-12:43 AM: the windows to build the day around.
Flathead
Excellent
The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
Mulloway
Good
Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Good
Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
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: 10:21 AM-12:21 PM, 10:43 PM-12:43 AM, 3:57 AM-4:57 AM. Similar at 24 °C with likely rain: fish ahead of the front. 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 bream here? Check the size and bag limits with Queensland DPI before you keep anything; the Bream page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Noosa River today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (04:53), sunset (18:10), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 10:21 AM-12:21 PM and 10:43 PM-12:43 AM; minor 3:57 AM-4:57 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Conditions here are modelled from weather, season and the nearest stations.
No live gauge on this water
Water readings appear when a Bureau of Meteorology station covers it. Until then the seasonal curve below is the estimate.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp21 °C
High / Low23 °C / 19 °C
WindNE 13 km/h, gusts 31 km/h
Pressure1018.1 hPa, rising
Sky / Rain49% cloud, 48%
Sunrise / Sunset04:53 / 18:10
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~22 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Noosa River
Today is the pick of the week on Noosa River, at 4 out of 5.
Best day this week: today, 9 Nov — good at 4/5, rising pressure behind a front, typically the slowest.
Today, 9 Nov — Good
Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
- Solunar majors
- 10:21 AM-12:21 PM and 10:43 PM-12:43 AM
- Minor period
- 3:57 AM-4:57 AM
- Sun
- 04:53 to 18:10
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 23 km/h
- Rain chance
- 48%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Noosa River: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Bream
Year-round; summer and autumn in the estuaries, winter at the mouths
Yellowfin bream on the east coast, black bream in the southern estuaries. Structure fish: rock walls, jetty piles, oyster racks, snags and pontoons. Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Flathead
Best: November to April
Dusky flathead in the eastern estuaries, sand flathead in the southern bays. An ambush predator lying on sand and mud edges waiting for whatever the tide brings. The best of it. Drift the sand and weed edges, bounce plastics or a strip of bait along the bottom, and cover ground until you find the school.
Mulloway
Best: summer and autumn, especially after rain
Jewfish. The big silver prize of the estuaries, breakwalls and surf beaches: nocturnal, tide-driven and unforgiving of noise. Fish the deep holes and the rock walls through a tide change after dark; live mullet, yellowtail or a large soft plastic worked slowly.
Tailor
Autumn and winter on the east coast; the run reaches K'gari (Fraser Island) in late winter, where the east beach from Waddy Point to Indian Head is closed to all fin fish from 1 August to 29 September
The surf and rock fish of the east coast, running north in autumn and winter. Fast, toothy and best at dawn, dusk and into the dark. Rock ledges and beach gutters on the rising tide; metals cast and retrieved fast, or a whole pilchard drifted through the wash.
When to come: the Noosa River 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 22 °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. Bream led the card at good. High of 28 °C, wind to 27 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 26 °C, wind to 19 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Bream led the card at good. High of 24 °C, wind to 26 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; the size and bag limits, the closed seasons and the national park rules in the upper river apply, on the Queensland Government pages linked below.
About this water
Noosa River is a river in Queensland, Australia, covered from the Queensland reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Noosa River: the full guide
The river
The Noosa River runs from the Cooloola sand country of the Great Sandy National Park through Lake Cootharaba and Lake Cooroibah, past Tewantin and Noosaville, to the bar at Noosa Heads. Its upper reaches, the stretch known as the Everglades, lie in the national park; the lower river, from the lakes to the bar, is the fishery most people mean: sand flats, drop-offs, the rock walls at the mouth, the jetties at Noosaville and the snags of the middle reaches, fished from the banks, the jetties and hire boats and kayaks. The town of Noosa has its own page for the beaches and the headland; this one is scored for the river.
Species and seasons
Bream and flathead are the river’s fish, the flathead on the sand edges and the drop-offs in the warmer months, the bream around the rock walls, the jetties and the leases all year; whiting fish the flats in summer; mangrove jack push into the snags of the middle river through the warm months; and trevally, tailor and queenfish run the mouth and the lower reaches on the tide. Mulloway are the night fish of the mouth and the deeper holes, and Australian bass live in the upper river, where Queensland closes bass in tidal waters from 1 June to 31 August.
Reading this report for the Noosa
This page is scored for a river point and so has no tide panel, but the Noosa runs on the tide all the way to the lakes: the run-in over the flats and the run-out at the mouth are the times to plan around, and the Bureau of Meteorology’s predictions for the nearest coastal port give the official times, later the further upstream you go. The wind matters mainly on the lakes, which chop up in a south-easterly, while the lower river stays fishable in most weather. The barometer and the cloud make up the score, and the planner picks the day.
Rules and access
Queensland has no general fishing licence; the size and bag limits, the closed seasons and the national park rules in the upper river apply, on the Queensland Government pages linked below. The river banks and the jetties at Noosaville and Tewantin are public, and Boreen Point sits on Lake Cootharaba at the top of the lakes, where paddlers set off for the upper river.
Common questions
What can I catch in the Noosa River?
Bream, flathead and whiting, mangrove jack in the warm months, trevally, tailor and queenfish at the mouth on the tide, and mulloway at night.
Do I need a licence on the Noosa River?
No licence is needed on the river; Queensland has none, and the size and bag limits and closed seasons are what apply.
Is fishing good at Noosa River right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- 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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