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Adjungbilly Creek runs into the Tumut River in NSW, and the reason to fish it is the trout: browns and rainbows are recorded in it and have been stocked into it in recent seasons.
Treat it as one creek and start at an access point on the access card. Fish upstream in the warmer months with a dry and a small nymph under it.
The NSW trout guide decides when you can fish and what you can keep, so read it before you pick a date.
A creek that flows down into the Tumut River. In our experience trout on water like this sit where the current gives them cover and food: the head of a pool where the run tips in, the seam beside faster water, and the slack behind a log or boulder. Even, shallow water holds fewer fish and spooks them first.
Brown and rainbow trout are the fish to build a day around. Both are recorded in the creek and both have been stocked in recent seasons, which is why the stocking chart is worth a look before you plan. River blackfish, Macquarie perch and mountain galaxias have also been recorded, so you may meet a native fish on a nymph.
For flies, a good bet is a buoyant attractor dry such as a Royal Wulff, a hopper through summer where the banks are grassy, and a Pheasant Tail or Hare's Ear nymph for the days when nothing is rising.
Season dates come from the NSW trout guide, not from us, so settle those first. Inside them, in our experience the warmer months suit dry flies best, with hoppers coming into their own from late spring through summer. Cooler or brighter days call for nymphs fished deeper and slower.
Move upstream so the fish see you last, and keep casts short and accurate. Read the water for the head of each pool and the seam beside quicker current, and give those spots a few drifts before you move on. Dry and dropper is a good first rig; if the dry is ignored for a dozen casts, take it off and fish the nymph alone. Walk quickly past thin, even water.
The access card lists the access points as locations. They are a place to start, not a permission: read the signs and fences on the ground before you cross anything. As on any creek, tell someone where you are going, check the weather before you leave, and be ready to leave the water if it rises.
No water-specific rule was found for Adjungbilly Creek. Before you fish, check the current NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development fishing guide, including its trout-water lists and closed-waters list, and take any season, bag and size limits from it.
These authority-listed points are separate from the mapped track intersections above. Some were inspected and some are public boat-ramp records; each row says which. A listing does not grant permission across private land, so check closures, signs and gates when you arrive.
Sources: NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development.
The year on this water
A year at a glance; check current rules
The river's year
Daily flow at Adjungbilly Creek at Darbalara, every year 1967 to 2026
Bureau of Meteorology — Water Data Online series catalogue (Snowy/Monaro stations). Bureau of Meteorology, © Commonwealth of Australia. Licensed from the Commonwealth of Australia under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. retrieved 2026-08-12.
How often it runs this high
21,277 days at Adjungbilly Creek at Darbalara, 1967 to 2026
Bureau of Meteorology — Water Data Online series catalogue (Snowy/Monaro stations). Bureau of Meteorology, © Commonwealth of Australia. Licensed from the Commonwealth of Australia under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. retrieved 2026-08-12.
How well this water has been surveyed
22 capture records, 2 decades of 2 on file
Atlas of Living Australia — freshwater fish occurrence records (open licences, with coordinates). Occurrence records from the Atlas of Living Australia and its contributing datasets, including the Victorian Biodiversity Atlas, NSW BioNet Atlas, Sustainable Rivers Audit, Murray-Darling Basin fish monitoring programs, OZCAM museum collections and iNaturalist Australia. Each record carries its own licence and originating dataset. retrieved 2026-08-13.
Stocking on record
57,500 fish in 10 records, 2020 to 2024
NSW Fish Stocking — ArcGIS site markers and linked histories. retrieved 2026-08-29.
Adjungbilly Creek at Darbalara
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Readings from the Bureau of Meteorology's Water Data Online, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is a forecast. Check the gauge before you rely on it.
Live weather for Adjungbilly Creek at Darbalara loads here. If it does not, check the Bureau of Meteorology forecast before you go.
Brown and rainbow trout are the fish to plan for; both have been recorded in the creek and stocked into it in recent seasons. Native fish including river blackfish, Macquarie perch and mountain galaxias have also been recorded, so you may meet them on a nymph.
Check the current NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development trout guide, including its trout-water lists and closed-waters list, and take any season, bag and size limits from it before you fish.
Pick one of the access points on the access card and fish upstream from there. Treat the points as locations only, and read the signs and fences on the ground.
Not necessarily. The stocking chart shows which seasons trout went in, but a release does not guarantee fish on the day, so fish each pool carefully.
