Bream
Excellent
Prime bream weather. Cast small vibes, crankbaits and 2 to 3 inch plastics at every piece of structure on the rising tide.
Lake Tyers Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
A quiet, forested estuary east of Lakes Entrance: bream in the arms, flathead on the sand and an entrance that opens and closes with the seasons.
4/5
Good. Solid day ahead.Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
Next tide
Low 3:08 pm model
Air / High
10 °C / 16 °C
Wind
ENE 11 km/h
Sources: modelled tide curve, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Lake Tyers sits in the warm band: moving baits, moving tides and fish on the edges. Today brings a mixed sky, wind ENE around 11 km/h, steady pressure near 1020 hPa and a high of 17 °C. Tides: high 8:21 am and 9:06 pm, low 1:52 am and 3:08 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 11:14 PM-1:14 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: 11:14 PM-1:14 AM, 11:42 AM-1:42 PM, 4:53 AM-5:53 AM. Warmer at 21 °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 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 Lake Tyers today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:53), sunset (19:50), 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 11:14 PM-1:14 AM and 11:42 AM-1:42 PM; minor 4:53 AM-5:53 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
LOW1:52 am-0.45 m
HIGH8:21 am0.44 m
LOW3:08 pm-0.60 m
HIGH9:06 pm0.04 m
Tue
LOW2:15 am-0.38 m
HIGH9:00 am0.52 m
LOW3:50 pm-0.49 m
HIGH9:45 pm0.08 m
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp10 °C
High / Low16 °C / 7 °C
WindENE 11 km/h, gusts 19 km/h
Pressure1020.1 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain56% cloud, 69%
Sunrise / Sunset05:53 / 19:50
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 Lake Tyers
The best day on Lake Tyers this week looks like Thursday 12 Nov, at 5 out of 5, against 4 today.
Best day this week: Thursday, 12 Nov — excellent at 5/5, falling pressure, usually the best window of a week.
Today, 9 Nov — Good
Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
- Solunar majors
- 11:14 PM-1:14 AM and 11:42 AM-1:42 PM
- Minor period
- 4:53 AM-5:53 AM
- Sun
- 05:53 to 19:50
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Showers, 14 km/h
- Rain chance
- 69%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Lake Tyers: 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 Lake Tyers 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 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 15 °C, wind to 16 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 27 km/h.
Fri, Nov 6
5/5 Excellent. Go now. Everything lines up: pressure, wind and light are in your favor. Bream 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
Lake Tyers is licensed water: a Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence is needed unless one of the broad exemptions applies, and the 2026/2027 fees are on our Victoria licence page.
About this water
Lake Tyers is a bay or coastal water in Victoria, Australia, covered from the Victoria reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Lake Tyers: the full guide
The lake
Lake Tyers is an estuarine lake east of Lakes Entrance in East Gippsland, long, branching arms of dark water lined with forest, with a sand bar at the mouth that, in the VFA’s words, is often closed to Bass Strait and only occasionally open for short periods when water levels are high. That entrance decides the lake’s character: closed, it is a still lake that fishes for bream and flathead in the arms; open, it is tidal and the sea fish come in. The Lake Tyers Beach settlement sits near the mouth, the Toorloo and Nowa Nowa arms run inland, and the surf beach runs east from the entrance.
Species by season
Bream are the lake’s fish, all year in the arms around the snags, the fallen timber and the sandy points, schooling in deeper holes and upriver in spring; dusky flathead push into the shallows and off the points in summer; and the VFA notes a surprising population of large tailor as well as whiting, luderick, salmon and silver trevally. Estuary perch hold in the upper arms near snags and overhanging cover. Three artificial reefs sit in the main lake and one off Mill Point in the Toorloo Arm, and the surf beach outside gives salmon and sometimes tailor.
Reading this report here
Whether the entrance is open is the first thing to know, and the tide panel, a modelled curve for these coordinates labelled as a model, only matters when it is; the lake itself is barely tidal. The wind row decides which arm to fish, because the arms are long and a south-westerly makes the open water uncomfortable while the sheltered reaches stay glassy. The barometer and the cloud cover complete the score; the planner shows which of the seven days lines up.
Licence and access
Lake Tyers is licensed water: a Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence is needed unless one of the broad exemptions applies, and the 2026/2027 fees are on our Victoria licence page. The VFA lists ramps at Mill Point, Nowa Nowa, Fishermans Landing and the town of Lake Tyers Beach; shore anglers use the town jetty, the Glasshouse, the sandbank at the mouth and the Fishermans Landing jetty. The arms are best explored by boat or kayak, and the VFA limits are on the page in the sources.
Common questions
Is Lake Tyers open to the sea?
Usually not: the VFA describes the entrance as often closed and only occasionally open for short periods. This page cannot tell you the state of the bar, so check locally before planning around the tide.
Do I need a licence at Lake Tyers?
Yes. Lake Tyers needs a Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence unless one of the VFA exemptions applies, such as being under 18 or 70 or over.
Is fishing good at Lake Tyers right now?
Check the daily report at the top of this page: it is regenerated every morning from live data. Today's read: Good. Solid day ahead. Stable-to-falling pressure and workable wind line things up.
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.