Rainbow trout
Excellent
Prime. Shore fishing along the edges with bait, spinners and flies, and the rivers if the season is open.
Delatite River Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Delatite below Mount Buller: a small trout stream in the valley above Lake Eildon, with the Bureau’s gauge at Tonga Bridge.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Level
0.72 m
Air / High
13 °C / 20 °C
Wind
NW 4 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 405214, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Delatite River rewards patience today, with cool water and short feeding windows. The gauge reads 0.72 m, holding steady. Today brings clear skies, wind NW around 5 km/h, steady pressure near 1018 hPa and a high of 20 °C. Water sits around 13 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:23 PM-1:23 AM and 11:50 AM-1:50 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: 11:23 PM-1:23 AM, 11:50 AM-1:50 PM, 5:03 AM-6:03 AM. Warmer at 23 °C with a rain chance. 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 rainbow trout here? Check the size and bag limits with VFA before you keep anything; the Rainbow trout page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Delatite River today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (06:02), sunset (19:57), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:23 PM-1:23 AM and 11:50 AM-1:50 PM; minor 5:03 AM-6:03 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 405214 (DELATITE @ TONGA).
River level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 405214. Latest reading 2026-11-07 10:00.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp13 °C
High / Low20 °C / 4 °C
WindNW 4 km/h, gusts 10 km/h
Pressure1017.7 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain9% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset06:02 / 19:57
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~13 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Delatite River
The best day on Delatite River this week looks like Friday 13 Nov, at 4 out of 5, against 3 today.
Best day this week: Friday, 13 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
- 11:23 PM-1:23 AM and 11:50 AM-1:50 PM
- Minor period
- 5:03 AM-6:03 AM
- Sun
- 06:02 to 19:57
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Partly cloudy, 14 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Delatite River: 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 15 June 2027. Rivers and streams close from the Tuesday after the King’s Birthday weekend to the Friday before the first Saturday in September. Lakes and reservoirs stay open all year. Rule as read from Victorian Fisheries Authority 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 15 June 2027. Rivers and streams close from the Tuesday after the King’s Birthday weekend to the Friday before the first Saturday in September. Lakes and reservoirs stay open all year. Rule as read from Victorian Fisheries Authority 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 Delatite 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 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 17 °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 13 °C, wind to 21 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
3/5 Fair. Fish the windows. A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day. Rainbow trout led the card at excellent. High of 21 °C, wind to 14 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
You will need a Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence unless you are exempt, with fees listed on our Victoria page.
About this water
Delatite River is a river in Victoria, Australia, covered from the Victoria reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Delatite River: the full guide
The reach
The Delatite is the river that comes off Mount Buller through the valley east of Mansfield, small, cold and clear over gravel and rock past Mirimbah and Merrijig to the Tonga Bridge and on to the Delatite arm of Lake Eildon, with the Mount Buller road beside it. It is a high-country trout stream, and the Bureau of Meteorology’s gauge at Tonga Bridge, station 405214, supplies the level and the 30-day chart on this page.
Species and seasons
Brown and rainbow trout are the fish, in the runs and pools on spinners, bait and the fly; the VFA’s stocking record lists rainbow trout released into the Delatite. It is a Victorian stream under the general rule of no minimum size and five salmonids a day, no more than two over 35 cm, with trout closed from the Tuesday after the King’s Birthday weekend to the Friday before the first Saturday of September as the species card computes. Blackfish have their own rules.
Where to fish it
Road crossings and public reserves give bank access, and the river is waded from the upper valley down toward the lake. Dawn and dusk are the trout hours. On a small stream like this, walk upstream and fish each pocket once; a trout that has seen you will not take a second cast.
Reading the report
The chart shows a mountain river that rises with snowmelt and after rain and drops to its gravel through summer. Early spring flows can be high and cold. The water temperature here is an estimate from a model, labelled as one, and reads cold for most of the year.
Licence, access and rules
You will need a Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence unless you are exempt, with fees listed on our Victoria page. The VFA trout rules and blackfish rules are linked from this page. Lake Eildon has its own page.
Mansfield as a base
Mansfield sits within reach of the Delatite, the Howqua, the Jamieson and the Goulburn below Eildon, and each has its own page and rules; the Goulburn below the pondage is a tailrace with a total closed-season ban, while the Delatite follows the ordinary stream season. The Delatite is the smallest and the closest, the quickest to fish on a short evening.
Common questions
When is the Delatite open for trout?
From the first Saturday of September until the Tuesday after the King’s Birthday weekend in June, computed on the species card from the VFA stream rule.
Is the Delatite stocked?
The VFA stocking record lists rainbow trout released into the Delatite River.
Is fishing good at Delatite River 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
- Storage and river readings
- Bureau of Meteorology, Water Data Online, station 405214 — DELATITE @ TONGA
- 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.