Golden perch
Excellent
Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
Goulburn River at Seymour Fishing Report
Updated Tue, 10 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
The Goulburn at Seymour: cod and golden perch in the deep pools below the trout tailrace, above the Nagambie weir pool, with the Bureau’s gauge at the town.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Level
1.61 m
Air / High
10 °C / 25 °C
Wind
SSE 4 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge 405202, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Goulburn River at Seymour sits in the warm band: moving baits, moving tides and fish on the edges. The gauge reads 1.61 m, holding steady. Today brings clear skies, wind SSE around 3 km/h, steady pressure near 1016 hPa and a high of 25 °C. Water sits around 19 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 12:15 AM-2:15 AM and 12:43 PM-2:43 PM: the windows to build the day around.
Murray cod
Closed today
Reopens 1 Dec 2026. Closed 1 September to 30 November inclusive, except in Lake Eildon, Eildon Pondage, Lake Eppalock, Cairn Curran, Lake Nillahcootie and the other waters the VFA lists.
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: 12:15 AM-2:15 AM, 12:43 PM-2:43 PM, 5:41 AM-6:41 AM. Similar at 24 °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 murray cod here? Check the size and bag limits with VFA before you keep anything; the Murray cod page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Goulburn River at Seymour today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (06:05), sunset (20:02), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 12:15 AM-2:15 AM and 12:43 PM-2:43 PM; minor 5:41 AM-6:41 AM. New Moon, 1% lit.
Water and weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station 405202 (GOULBURN @ SEYMOUR).
River level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station 405202. Latest reading 2026-11-07 10:30.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp10 °C
High / Low25 °C / 7 °C
WindSSE 4 km/h, gusts 8 km/h
Pressure1016.3 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain17% cloud, 20%
Sunrise / Sunset06:05 / 20:02
MoonNew Moon, 1%
Water temp (seasonal)~19 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Goulburn River at Seymour
The best day on Goulburn River at Seymour 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
- 12:15 AM-2:15 AM and 12:43 PM-2:43 PM
- Minor period
- 5:41 AM-6:41 AM
- Sun
- 06:05 to 20:02
- Moon
- New Moon, 1% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 14 km/h
- Rain chance
- 20%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Goulburn River at Seymour: seasons written for the southern year, and how to fish each one. Today's ratings live in the report above.
Murray cod
Closed 1 September to 30 November in NSW, Victoria and the ACT, and 1 August to 31 October in Queensland; check the exempt lakes
Closed now Reopens 1 Dec 2026. Closed 1 September to 30 November inclusive, except in Lake Eildon, Eildon Pondage, Lake Eppalock, Cairn Curran, Lake Nillahcootie and the other waters the VFA lists. Rule as read from Victorian Fisheries Authority on 2026-09-23.
The giant of the inland rivers and the big lakes (Hume, Mulwala, Eildon). A snag fish that eats big lures, and a species with a closed season across the Murray-Darling.
Golden perch
Best: November to April
Yellowbelly. The bread-and-butter native of the Murray-Darling lakes and rivers; loves warm water, structure and a lure worked slowly past its nose. Prime. Hop soft plastics and vibes around the timber, or fish shrimp and worms on the bottom.
When to come: the Goulburn River at Seymour 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 19 °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. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 21 °C, wind to 11 km/h.
Sun, Nov 8
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 18 °C, wind to 18 km/h.
Sat, Nov 7
4/5 Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up. Golden perch led the card at excellent. High of 14 °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
A Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence is needed unless you are exempt, and our Victoria page sets out the fees.
About this water
Goulburn River at Seymour is a river in Victoria, Australia, covered from the Victoria reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Goulburn River at Seymour: the full guide
The reach
The Goulburn at Seymour is the river just below Trawool Bridge, where the VFA’s tailrace section ends and the natives take over, running through the town past river parks and under the highway bridges over deep pools, snags and gravel toward Nagambie. It is Murray cod and golden perch water with some trout still in it, and the Bureau of Meteorology’s gauge at Seymour, station 405202, supplies the level and the 30-day chart on this page.
Species and seasons
Murray cod hold on the snags, in the deep pools and around bridge footings through summer and autumn; the VFA bag in rivers is one cod a day, 55 to 75 cm, and the 1 September to 30 November closure is computed on the species card. The VFA’s stocking record lists Murray cod released into the Goulburn from Seymour to Nagambie. Golden perch use the same pools and snags through the warmer half of the year. Trout below Trawool are under the general stream rules, not the tailrace ban.
Where to fish it
River parks and the bridges give bank access in town, and a kayak covers the pools upstream toward Trawool and downstream toward Nagambie. Cod want timber on the outside of the bends with depth beside it; golden perch will also take a lure worked slowly along rock and snag edges. Lake Nagambie downstream has its own page.
Reading the report
The level at Seymour responds to the Eildon releases upstream and to rain in the tributaries between. A steady summer flow keeps cod in the slack water behind snags; a low autumn river exposes the gravel bars. The modelled water temperature is an estimate, not a reading, and gives the cod band from December to April.
Licence, access and rules
A Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence is needed unless you are exempt, and our Victoria page sets out the fees. Downstream, the VFA defines the Nagambie Weir water, from the weir up to Chinamans Bridge and including Lake Nagambie, as a specified lake where the cod bag is two. The cod rules and the trout stream rules are linked here.
Common questions
How many cod can I keep at Seymour?
One a day in the river, between 55 and 75 cm, under the VFA rule; the specified Nagambie Weir water downstream allows two.
Is the Goulburn at Seymour part of the tailrace?
No. The VFA tailrace ends at Trawool Bridge upstream; at Seymour the general trout stream rules apply.
Is fishing good at Goulburn River at Seymour 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 405202 — GOULBURN @ SEYMOUR
- 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.