Bream
Excellent
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Scamander Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
A bream river on the east coast: the Scamander’s black bream above and below the highway bridge, the beach’s salmon and the rocks, between St Helens and Bicheno.
5/5
Excellent. Go now.Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor.
Next tide
Low 3:03 pm model
Air / High
11 °C / 15 °C
Wind
SE 1 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Scamander sits in the warm band: moving baits, moving tides and fish on the edges. Today brings a mixed sky, wind SE around 2 km/h, falling pressure near 1021 hPa and a high of 14 °C. Tides: high 8:10 am and 9:17 pm, low 1:45 am and 3:03 pm: the moving water either side of each change is when this place feeds. Water sits around 22 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:13 PM-1:13 AM and 11:42 AM-1:42 PM: 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: 11:13 PM-1:13 AM, 11:42 AM-1:42 PM, 4:43 AM-5:43 AM. Warmer at 21 °C. 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 bream here? Check the size and bag limits with IFS Tasmania before you keep anything; the Bream page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Scamander today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:44), sunset (19:57), the moon and today's score, with the modelled tide changes in the panel below. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:13 PM-1:13 AM and 11:42 AM-1:42 PM; minor 4:43 AM-5:43 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
A modelled tide curve for these coordinates and the forecast for the day.
Tides (modelled)
Modelled sea level curve from Open-Meteo Marine for these coordinates, datum mean sea level. Fish the moving water either side of each change.
A model, not the official prediction: times can drift by tens of minutes inside bays and estuaries. Check the Bureau of Meteorology tide predictions for the exact times before you rely on them.
Mon
LOW1:45 am-0.38 m
HIGH8:10 am0.40 m
LOW3:03 pm-0.64 m
HIGH9:17 pm0.11 m
Tue
LOW2:15 am-0.27 m
HIGH8:48 am0.49 m
LOW3:42 pm-0.54 m
HIGH10:07 pm0.18 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp11 °C
High / Low15 °C / 9 °C
WindSE 1 km/h, gusts 8 km/h
Pressure1020.7 hPa, falling
Sky / Rain58% cloud, 14%
Sunrise / Sunset05:44 / 19:57
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~22 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Scamander
Today is the pick of the week on Scamander, at 5 out of 5.
Best day this week: today, 9 Nov — excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 9 Nov — Excellent
Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor.
- Solunar majors
- 11:13 PM-1:13 AM and 11:42 AM-1:42 PM
- Minor period
- 4:43 AM-5:43 AM
- Sun
- 05:44 to 19:57
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 16 km/h
- Rain chance
- 14%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Scamander: 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 Scamander 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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SlowPeak
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
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 14 °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. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 15 °C, wind to 19 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 21 °C, wind to 24 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
The seaward limit of the Scamander is the downstream side of the Tasman Highway bridge, so the river above it is inland water.
About this water
Scamander is a coastal town in Tasmania, Australia, covered from the Tasmania reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Scamander: the full guide
Scamander and the river
Scamander is the village at the mouth of the Scamander River on Tasmania’s east coast between St Helens and Bicheno, where, in the Inland Fisheries Service’s words, the river flows through the township under the Tasman Highway bridge before it enters the sea. The tidal reaches wind back into the hills, the long beach runs north to Beaumaris and south to Four Mile Creek, and rock platforms mark the headlands. It is a river-mouth village fished for one species above all, and the report on this page is scored for the village’s coordinates. St Helens, to the north, has its own page.
Species and seasons
Black bream are the reason the village is fished: IFS notes that bream are common throughout the tidal regions and that trout live in the upper reaches. The bream hold on the snags, around the bridge and through the tidal reaches all year; Australian salmon run the beach and the mouth in the cooler months; flathead fish the beach sand and the mouth; silver trevally and mullet fish the bridge; luderick fish the river walls in winter; and the rocks give salmon and wrasse.
Where to fish it
The Scamander from the highway bridge up through the tidal reaches is the bream water for small boats and kayaks, fished on the snags and the change of the tide and from the bridge and the banks at the village, and the mouth on the beach is the flathead and salmon spot; the beach north to Beaumaris and south to Four Mile Creek is the salmon sand, and the headland rocks are the wrasse and salmon platforms. Light line, fresh local bait and a quiet approach on the snags suit bream in clear water.
Reading this report here
The river is sheltered and the beach faces east, so the wind row decides which: an easterly swell closes the beach and the river fishes. The tide panel is a modelled curve for the coordinates of Scamander, labelled as a model, and the river runs on it, with the bream moving on the change. Pressure and sky build the score at Scamander, and the rain row matters because a fresh pushes the bream down the river; the planner shows the day.
Licence, access and rules
The seaward limit of the Scamander is the downstream side of the Tasman Highway bridge, so the river above it is inland water. Bream there need no inland licence, because the Scamander below Ryans Bridge is listed for native fish in the Inland Fisheries Regulations, and the inland bream limit is five fish of at least 250 mm measured to the end of the tail; trout need the inland angling licence, and IFS lists the river at five trout over 220 mm in the general season. Our Tasmania licence page has the fees.
Common questions
What can I catch in the Scamander River?
Black bream all year on the snags and at the bridge, flathead at the mouth, silver trevally and mullet at the bridge, luderick in winter, and trout in the upper reaches.
Do I need a licence at Scamander?
Not for bream: the river below Ryans Bridge is listed for native fish, so no inland licence is needed for them, and none is needed in the sea. Trout need the Tasmanian inland angling licence.
Is fishing good at Scamander right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Excellent. Go now. Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor.
Nearby waters
Where this page's numbers come from
- Tide curve (modelled)
- Open-Meteo Marine, sea level height including tides
- 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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