Trellys Fishing Report 14th August 2026

Trellys Fishing Report 14th August 2026

A lot has changed since I wrote last week's fishing report. Floods! Water, water and more water has fallen from the sky and this is very good news for us anglers.

While the current flood situation might make it hard, or impossible in many cases to access our favourite rivers, we still have plenty of lakes to fish in and some of them should start fishing very well soon. 

Because some of these lakes have been so low for a few years, grasses and shrubs have grown in the lake beds. In many lakes these grasses are now becoming submerged by water which will provide fantastic food sources for the fish. 

This week we have seen Lake Nillahcootie fill and spill over for the first time in a few years. Meanwhile lakes Eppalock and Cairn Curran have both risen by over 10% in the last week alone and are still rising. 

Lake Mulwala

I have seen a few photos of Murray cod turning up in my social media news feeds this week, this biggest that I have seen looked to be around 70%. 

Considering I had not seen or heard of anything from there for a while, I see this as a possible slight improvement in the fishing which is what I have experienced in the Ovens River catchment. More on that later… 

If you are heading to Lake Mulwala to try and catch a late season Murray cod, it is worth noting that the water will be very dirty. 

The Ovens River is pumping a lot of dirty water into the top end of Lake Mulwala at the moment, and yesterday when I drove to Albury the Kiewa River was pumping huge amounts of very dirty water into the Murray River as well. 

Lake Eppalock

Across the region there has been a slight increase in redfin activity. I have seen photos from a number of different lakes of redfin being caught, but by far the best session was from Grazza on his YouTube Channel, Grazza’s  Freshwater Fishing. 

Grazza fished Lake Eppalock last week and cleaned up on the redfin, some of which were quite large fish. 

Grazza caught his redfin on soft plastic curl tail grubs covered with S factor lure scent. 
Grazza’s awesome video can be found here: 

 

Waranga Basin

In last week's report I mentioned that there have been a few decent sized redfin caught in the Waranga basin, but only 1 or 2 here and there. Well this week I have a better report. 
Peter Hamilton trolled 6 magnificent redfin up to 41cm long on a Fish Craft Hound Dog lure in yellow tiger colour.

Waranga Basin is certainly a viable fishing option at the moment. It’s not fishing red hot and some anglers are missing out (Like me when I went over there 2 weeks ago).  Clearly the rewards are there for those willing to put the time in and troll some deep diving lures. 

Ovens River

With heaps of rain in the forecast, I fished the Ovens River system a few times late last week and I am glad I did for two reasons. 1)The fish were biting. 2)The river is stuffed for a while now. 

The fishing wasn’t red hot in the Ovens River last week but it had certainly improved from recent weeks. 

Over a few days I managed to catch 2 Trout cod and 2 Murray cod. The smallest Murray cod was caught on cheese, while the other 3 were caught on lures.
I caught one fish on a Blue Dog Diving lure and 2 on OneWell diving lures. 

It is unlikely that we will get a chance to lure fish in the Ovens River again this season, but I may be wrong. If the floods clear quickly enough, we might get a short opportunity at the end of the month. 

If not, I am confident that we will at least get the chance to bait fish in the high water, and as I found out the fish are starting to get active so catching a cod on bait in the Ovens River before seasons end isn’t out of the question.