Bream
Good
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Anglesea Fishing Report
Updated Tue, 10 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Surf Coast town on the Anglesea River: bream in the river, salmon on the beach and Point Roadknight, with Point Addis Marine National Park next door.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Next tide
High 12:34 am model
Air / High
12 °C / 25 °C
Wind
NE 11 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Anglesea is fishing in its best temperature window, with the bite spread across the day. Today brings clear skies, wind NE around 11 km/h, steady pressure near 1017 hPa and a high of 25 °C. Tides: high 12:34 am and 12:17 pm, low 6:30 am and 6:14 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 12:19 AM-2:19 AM and 12:47 PM-2:47 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Flathead
Good
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
Fair
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
Fair
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: 12:19 AM-2:19 AM, 12:47 PM-2:47 PM, 5:40 AM-6:40 AM. Cooler at 16 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Victoria requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from A$10.00. Victoria fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing bream here? Check the size and bag limits with VFA before you keep anything; the Bream page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Anglesea today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (06:06), sunset (20:08), 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 12:19 AM-2:19 AM and 12:47 PM-2:47 PM; minor 5:40 AM-6:40 AM. New Moon, 1% 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.
Tue
HIGH12:34 am0.81 m
LOW6:30 am-0.39 m
HIGH12:17 pm0.48 m
LOW6:14 pm-0.97 m
Wed
HIGH1:17 am0.96 m
LOW7:25 am-0.46 m
HIGH12:58 pm0.43 m
LOW6:57 pm-1.11 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp12 °C
High / Low25 °C / 10 °C
WindNE 11 km/h, gusts 24 km/h
Pressure1016.5 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain1% cloud, 22%
Sunrise / Sunset06:06 / 20:08
MoonNew Moon, 1%
Water temp (seasonal)~22 °C est.
Why the tide matters here: tides and fishing in Australia.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Anglesea
The best day on Anglesea this week looks like Friday 13 Nov, at 5 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Friday, 13 Nov — excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 10 Nov — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 12:19 AM-2:19 AM and 12:47 PM-2:47 PM
- Minor period
- 5:40 AM-6:40 AM
- Sun
- 06:06 to 20:08
- Moon
- New Moon, 1% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 13 km/h
- Rain chance
- 22%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Anglesea: 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 Anglesea 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 dataMon, Nov 9
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Bream led the card at excellent. High of 18 °C, wind to 21 km/h.
Sun, 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 21 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Bream led the card at good. High of 13 °C, wind to 29 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence (RFL), from A$10.00, 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 VFA and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Victoria licence page before you keep anything.
Access
Anglesea is covered by the Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence; exemptions and fees are on our Victoria page.
About this water
Anglesea is a coastal town in Victoria, Australia, covered from the Victoria reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Anglesea: the full guide
Anglesea and the river
Anglesea is the Surf Coast town between Torquay and Lorne on the Anglesea River, which runs through the town to a mouth that opens and closes at the beach, with Point Roadknight to the south-west and cliffs and heathland along the Great Ocean Road. Point Addis Marine National Park lies between Anglesea and Torquay and is closed to all fishing. Weather for the score and the modelled tide are both taken at Anglesea’s coordinates. Torquay has its own page.
Species and seasons
Black bream are the river’s fish all year, around snags, the bridge and the banks; flathead lie on sandy bottom in the warmer months; Australian salmon run the beach and Point Roadknight in the cooler months; and squid work the weed off the point. When the mouth is open, fish move between the river and the sea, and the lower river changes character with it.
Where to fish it
The river through town is fished from the banks for bream, and the mouth at the beach is worth a cast for salmon and flathead when it is open. Point Roadknight’s rocks and the reef off the point are for salmon from the shore and for whiting and flathead by boat. Stay west of the Point Addis Marine National Park boundary, which is marked by shoreline markers pointing into the park.
Reading this report here
The coast faces south, so a south-westerly closes the beach and the point while the river stays fishable, so the wind row decides between coast and river. The tide panel is a modelled curve for Anglesea, labelled as a model, and it only matters in the river when the mouth is open. Bream in a small river like this respond to quiet approaches and light line, especially in clear water.
Licence, access and rules
Anglesea is covered by the Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence; exemptions and fees are on our Victoria page. VFA size and bag limits apply in the river and on the coast, and Point Addis Marine National Park, like all Victorian marine national parks and sanctuaries, is closed to every form of fishing, including bait collecting.
Common questions
What can I catch in the Anglesea River?
Black bream all year around the snags and banks, flathead in the warmer months, and whatever the sea sends in when the mouth is open.
Can I fish at Point Addis?
No. Point Addis Marine National Park, between Anglesea and Torquay, is closed to all fishing, from the shore or a boat.
Do I need a licence at Anglesea?
Yes, in the river and on the coast alike, unless you are exempt from Victoria’s Recreational Fishing Licence.
Is fishing good at Anglesea 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
- 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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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.