Rainbow trout
Excellent
Prime. Shore fishing along the edges with bait, spinners and flies, and the rivers if the season is open.
Harvey Dam Fishing Report
Updated Mon, 9 Nov 2026 from live weather and tide data
Water Corporation’s Harvey Dam: trout and marron re-established with Fisheries WA and Recfishwest, a south-west freshwater licence, and a Bureau gauge on the level.
3/5
Fair. Fish the windows.A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
Level
73.43 m34,788 ML
Air / High
17 °C / 21 °C
Wind
SE 12 km/h
Sources: Bureau of Meteorology gauge ODSS_47866_WSLAHD.1, Open-Meteo, solunar calculated for these coordinates.
Today's Fishing Report
Harvey Dam rewards patience today, with cool water and short feeding windows. The gauge reads 73.43 m, holding steady. Today brings clear skies, wind SE around 13 km/h, steady pressure near 1020 hPa and a high of 22 °C. Water sits around 13 °C for the season (estimated). With the new moon, the solunar majors run 11:19 PM-1:19 AM and 10:55 AM-12:55 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: 11:19 PM-1:19 AM, 10:55 AM-12:55 PM, 4:16 AM-5:16 AM. Similar at 23 °C. The solunar majors shift about 50 minutes later.
Before you go
Western Australia requires a fishing licence for most fishing, from A$40.00. Western Australia fishing licence: cost, rules and where to buy →
Chasing rainbow trout here? Check the size and bag limits with DPIRD WA before you keep anything; the Rainbow trout page has the seasons and the tactics.
Fishing times for Harvey Dam today
Hour-by-hour bite forecast for today from sunrise (05:10), sunset (18:49), the moon and today's score. Tap a bar to see why.
Bite planner
Solunar majors 11:19 PM-1:19 AM and 10:55 AM-12:55 PM; minor 4:16 AM-5:16 AM. New Moon, 0% lit.
Water and weather
Live readings from Bureau of Meteorology station ODSS_47866_WSLAHD.1 (Harvey Dam Water Level-Logger).
Storage level, last 30 days
Bureau of Meteorology Water Data Online, station ODSS_47866_WSLAHD.1. Latest reading 2026-11-07 02:00.
Right now
Latest readings
Air temp17 °C
High / Low21 °C / 10 °C
WindSE 12 km/h, gusts 34 km/h
Pressure1019.5 hPa, steady
Sky / Rain23% cloud, 0%
Sunrise / Sunset05:10 / 18:49
MoonNew Moon, 0%
Water temp (seasonal)~13 °C est.
7-day fishing forecast: which day to fish Harvey Dam
Today is the pick of the week on Harvey Dam, at 3 out of 5.
Best day this week: today, 9 Nov — fair at 3/5, steady pressure, neither help nor hindrance.
Today, 9 Nov — Fair
A steady pattern: dawn and dusk carry the day.
- Solunar majors
- 11:19 PM-1:19 AM and 10:55 AM-12:55 PM
- Minor period
- 4:16 AM-5:16 AM
- Sun
- 05:10 to 18:49
- Moon
- New Moon, 0% lit
- Sky and wind
- Overcast, 21 km/h
- Rain chance
- 0%
Forecast-based scores, less reliable further out.
Species guide
The species that matter on Harvey Dam: 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
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
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 Harvey Dam 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 24 °C, wind to 21 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 25 °C, wind to 23 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 26 °C, wind to 29 km/h.
Before you go
Licence
Western Australian recreational fishing licences, from A$40.00, 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 DPIRD WA and change: confirm the current rules on the agency page linked from the Western Australia licence page before you keep anything.
Access
A South-west freshwater angling licence is required for all freshwater angling south of Greenough and above the tidal influence, dams included, and marroning needs a separate licence; anglers under 16 do not need the freshwater licence.
Storage levels
Compare it with every other storage in the state on Western Australia dam levels today.
About this water
Harvey Dam is a lake in Western Australia, Australia, covered from the Western Australia reports and listed in all Australia waters.
Fishing Harvey Dam: the full guide
The lake
Harvey Dam is a Water Corporation storage just outside the town of Harvey, 2.5 km along Weir Road, and a protected drinking water source. The corporation lists an amphitheatre, walkways, grassed picnic areas with gazebos and barbecues, fenced playgrounds and walking trails, plus a spillway path with stairs that climb the 45-metre embankment to a lookout. The dam is open every day. Readings from the Bureau of Meteorology’s gauge at Harvey Dam drive the level and 30-day chart on this page.
Species and seasons
Water Corporation says it worked with Fisheries WA and Recfishwest to re-establish trout and marron in the reservoir for licensed anglers and marroners, and DPIRD names Harvey Dam among the most popular trout waters in the state. Trout have a 300 mm minimum and fall within a mixed daily bag of four with freshwater cobbler. Redfin are a pest that DPIRD asks anglers not to return to the water. Marron have their own licence and a short season set by DPIRD.
Where to fish it
Because this is a drinking water source, stay on the permitted paths, roads and recreation areas shown by the signs, and keep off walls and operational infrastructure. Rainbow trout feed best in cool water, so autumn to spring is the time to plan around, with dawn the strongest window from the bank; in summer the fish that remain go deep. Check Water Corporation’s page for its current rules on boats before bringing one.
Reading the report
The south-west has hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters, and the water temperature estimate, labelled as one, puts the trout band from about May to October. The level chart shows the summer draw-down and the winter fill. Pressure and sky complete the score, and in trout season the planner’s dawn window counts for more than the midday reading.
Licences, access and rules
A South-west freshwater angling licence is required for all freshwater angling south of Greenough and above the tidal influence, dams included, and marroning needs a separate licence; anglers under 16 do not need the freshwater licence. Each costs A$50, as read from DPIRD, and our Western Australia licence page has the concessions. Water Corporation asks anglers to fish only in the designated seasons; DPIRD’s guide and the corporation’s page are in the sources.
Common questions
Do I need a licence to fish Harvey Dam?
Yes, from age 16: the South-west freshwater angling licence, A$50, and a separate marron licence for marroning. See our Western Australia licence page.
When is marron season at Harvey Dam?
A short season that DPIRD sets and publishes each year; marroning needs its own licence, and the gear and limits are in DPIRD’s marron rules.
Is fishing good at Harvey Dam 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 ODSS_47866_WSLAHD.1 — Harvey Dam Water Level-Logger
- 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.