Rainbow trout
Excellent
Prime. Shore fishing along the edges with bait, spinners and flies, and the rivers if the season is open.
Lake Crescent Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Interlaken trophy trout water: a shallow, turbid lake with a 500 mm minimum, one fish a day, lure and fly only.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Water temp
~13 °C est.
Air / High
6 °C / 13 °C
Wind
NE 13 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 4205.1, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Lake Crescent is in its cool-water rhythm: slower presentations and the warmest hours of the day. The gauge reads 802.52 m. Today brings a mixed sky, wind NE around 13 km/h, steady pressure near 1020 hPa and a high of 13 °C. Water sits around 13 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:18 PM-1:18 AM and 11:47 AM-1:47 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Brown trout
Excellent
Prime. Nymphs and streamers on the rivers, and the lake edges on the overcast days.
Tie on: Blade or vibe, slow hops · Lightly weighted plastic · Whole pilchard or squid on the bottom · Suspending hardbody. Prime windows: 11:18 PM-1:18 AM, 11:47 AM-1:47 PM, 4:46 AM-5:46 AM. Similar at 15 °C with a rain chance. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Tasmania requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from A$29.00. Tasmania fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing rainbow trout here? Check the size and bag limits with IFS Tasmania before you keep anything; the Rainbow trout page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Lake Crescent today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:47), sunset (20:04), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:18 PM-1:18 AM and 11:47 AM-1:47 PM; minor 4:46 AM-5:46 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 4205.1 (LAKE CRESCENT AT TEA TREE POINT LAKE LEVEL).
Storage level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 4205.1.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp6 °C
High / Low13 °C / 3 °C
WindNE 13 km/h, gusts 23 km/h
Pressure1020.4 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain37% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset05:47 / 20:04
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~13 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Lake Crescent
The best day on Lake Crescent this week looks like Thursday 12 Nov, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Thursday, 12 Nov — good at 4/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 9 Nov — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 11:18 PM-1:18 AM and 11:47 AM-1:47 PM
- Minor period
- 4:46 AM-5:46 AM
- Sun
- 05:47 to 20:04
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 14 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Lake Crescent: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Rainbow trout
Streams from October to June in NSW and from September to June in Victoria; lakes open all year; Tasmania from the first Saturday of August
Open now Closes 3 May 2027. Most waters open from the first Saturday of August to the Sunday nearest 30 April; designated rainbow trout waters run from the Saturday nearest 1 October to the Sunday nearest 31 May. Rule as read from Inland Fisheries Service Tasmania on 2026-09-23.
The stocked lakes of the Snowy Mountains, the Victorian highlands and the Tasmanian central plateau. Closed seasons apply on the rivers: check the state rules. Prime. Shore fishing along the edges with bait, spinners and flies, and the rivers if the season is open.
Brown trout
Streams from October to June in NSW and from September to June in Victoria; lakes open all year; Tasmania from the first Saturday of August
Open now Closes 3 May 2027. Most waters open from the first Saturday of August to the Sunday nearest 30 April; designated rainbow trout waters run from the Saturday nearest 1 October to the Sunday nearest 31 May. Rule as read from Inland Fisheries Service Tasmania on 2026-09-23.
The wild trout of the highland rivers and Tasmania's lakes. Spawns in autumn, hence the closed rivers through winter in NSW and Victoria. Prime. Nymphs and streamers on the rivers, and the lake edges on the overcast days.
When to come: the Lake Crescent 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 13 °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. Rainbow trout led the card at excellent. High of 8 °C, wind to 19 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Rainbow trout led the card at excellent. High of 6 °C, wind to 27 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Rainbow trout led the card at excellent. High of 12 °C, wind to 29 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Tasmanian Inland Angling Licence, from A$29.00, the same for residents and visitors. Details and where to buy →
Regulations
Size and bag limits, closed seasons and marine park zones are set by IFS Tasmania and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Tasmania licence page before you keep anything.
Access
At Crescent, as elsewhere in Tasmania, an inland angling licence is needed from age 14; the fees are on our Tasmania licence page.
Storage levels
Compare it with every other storage in the state on Tasmania dam levels today.
About this water
Lake Crescent is a lake in Tasmania, Australia, covered from the Tasmania reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Lake Crescent: the full guide
The lake
Lake Crescent is a large, shallow storage, averaging 1.5 metres deep and 2.4 metres at its deepest, set among grassy woodland and pasture at Interlaken, the Inland Fisheries Service records. Water arrives by canal from Lake Sorell and leaves by the Clyde River, and the lake is naturally turbid. The Interlaken Lakeside Reserve at its northern end is a Ramsar-listed wetland. Roads come in from Bothwell and Oatlands on the C527 and from Tunbridge on the C526. The Bureau of Meteorology’s gauge at Tea Tree Point has not reported since 2021, so this page carries no live level.
Species and seasons
The service manages Crescent as a trophy trout fishery with a small population of large fish, and keeps trout numbers low with light stocking of browns and rainbows so the golden galaxias, found only in Crescent and Sorell, can live alongside them. The rules are artificial lures and flies only, one fish a day of at least 500 mm, and fishing only from an hour before sunrise to three hours after sunset, within the season from the first Saturday of August to the Sunday nearest 30 April, computed on the species card.
Where to fish it
There is one boat launching area, and the service notes that wading can be difficult and a boat is an advantage. Early season is the best time, when high water spreads into the marshes on the northern and western shores. Hard-bodied lures, soft plastics and large wet flies all take fish. All waters flowing into the lake are closed, except the section of the canal from Lake Sorell below Interlaken Road, which may be fished.
Reading the report
Crescent is exposed to extreme changes in weather and can become very rough, and its shallows hide many submerged hazards and reefs, so the service urges boat operators to take extreme care; read the wind row before anything else. For much of the season the water temperature estimate, labelled as such, sits in the cold band. The lake fishes best when the marshes are flooded, which a look at the shore edges shows better than any chart.
Licence, access and rules
At Crescent, as elsewhere in Tasmania, an inland angling licence is needed from age 14; the fees are on our Tasmania licence page. Camping is not permitted on the Crown land beside Lake Crescent, including the Island Reserve; the nearest campgrounds are at Dago Point on Lake Sorell. After a long eradication effort the service describes the lake as carp free, and moving any fish between waters is an offence with significant penalties. The sources list the service’s page for Crescent and the Inland Fishing Code.
Common questions
What are the rules at Lake Crescent?
Artificial lures and flies only, one fish a day with a 500 mm minimum, and fishing only from an hour before sunrise to three hours after sunset, within the brown trout season; all set in the Inland Fishing Code.
Are there carp in Lake Crescent?
The Inland Fisheries Service now describes Lake Crescent as carp free after considerable eradication effort. It is an offence to move fish between waters.
Is fishing good at Lake Crescent right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
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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