Access here has not been confirmed on the ground — treat every way in as unverified.
The Goodradigbee is a NSW trout river with both brown and rainbow trout in it, and the rainbows are topped up by stocking, which makes it a sound choice for a day on moving water within reach of the Murrumbidgee.
The river has two parts. There is the running river itself, with its creeks and tributaries, and there is the point where it ends, spilling into the backed-up water of a large dam on the Murrumbidgee, Burrinjuck Dam. Your trout fishing is on the running water above that point. The gradient chart shows how the river falls on its way down.
Start with the rainbows. They are the fish the state releases here, and the stocking chart shows those releases across recent seasons, so in our experience a rainbow is the likelier first fish. Fish the warmer months from the access sites on the card with a dry and a nymph under it. The season and limits come from the current NSW fishing guide and its trout waters listing, so check that guide before you pick a date.
The second trip is for the browns. They are not in the stocking ledger for those same seasons. In our experience a brown is the more careful fish, so give it a slower day at first and last light, with a quieter approach and, once the dry has gone quiet, a streamer through the deeper water. The same check on the NSW guide applies.
Twospine blackfish are also recorded here, and redfin and carp have turned up in the records. None of them is a reason to make the drive, but a blackfish on a small nymph is a pleasant surprise on a trout day.
Check the NSW fishing guide, then the flow card, then pick an access site off the card and fish upstream from it.
Water and habitat
The Goodradigbee is running water down to the point where it meets the backed-up water of Burrinjuck Dam, and its creeks and tributaries feed it along the way. The gradient chart and the bank cover chart show how steeply it falls and how much of its bank is treed, which is more than words can.
In our experience, trout in a river like this sit where the current brings food to them without making them work: the seam where a fast run meets slower water, the cushion in front of a boulder, the slack behind one, the head of a pool where a riffle drops in, and under an overhanging bank where there is shade. Browns favour the deeper, covered spots more than rainbows do. Rainbows will sit further out in faster water.
Fish and forage
Brown trout and rainbow trout are the two fish to plan around. Rainbows have been released here across recent seasons, so a good share of the rainbows you catch are likely to be stocked fish. Browns do not appear in the same stocking ledger.
Twospine blackfish are recorded here too. Redfin and European carp have turned up in the records. Mountain galaxias, a small native fish, have been recorded in the river as well.
In our experience a trout stream in this part of NSW feeds on mayfly and caddis nymphs, terrestrial insects off the banks in summer, and small fish. That is why a box of generic dries, bead-head nymphs and one dark streamer covers most days.
When to fish it
The season is set by the NSW fishing guide, so start there. Within whatever season it gives you, our read is that the warmer months are the best bet for dry flies, with the mornings and evenings strongest once summer heat sets in. Early in the season, with the river cooler, nymphs fished deep usually do more of the work. Autumn can be a good time for a bigger brown on a streamer.
Whatever the month, look at the flow card first. A high or discoloured river fishes poorly with a dry; a river dropping and clearing after rain can be a good day for a streamer.
How to fish it
A 9-foot 4 or 5 weight with a floating line and a 9-foot leader tapered to 5X is a good all-round outfit here in our experience. Fish upstream, keep low and short, and cover each run with a few good drifts before you move.
Start with a size 12 to 14 Stimulator and a bead-head Hare's Ear in size 14 to 16 on a short dropper. The Stimulator floats in broken water and the nymph finds the fish that will not rise. As the light goes, change to an Elk Hair Caddis in size 14 to 16 and fish the tails and slow edges. For a brown at first or last light, swing and strip a dark Woolly Bugger in size 8 to 10 through the deepest water you can find.
Access and safety
The access card names the known entry points on the river. Treat them as locations, not a statement of permission, and confirm the way in on the ground before you cross any land.
As on any bush river, tell someone where you are going and when you expect to be out, carry water and a first-aid kit, and wade slowly with a firm check on each step. Check the flow card before you set off and stay out of the river if it is running high.
Regulations
Before you fish, check the current NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development recreational fishing guide for the licence, the season, and the bag and size limits for trout, and look at its trout waters and closed-waters listings for the Goodradigbee. Take the rules from the guide.
29 named access sites
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.
Appletree FlatInspected access site · Access mode not stated · Public Reserve
Billy Grace ReserveInspected access site · Access mode not stated · Public Reserve
Dries and nymphs on the rainbows· Nov to MarIn our experience a size 12 to 14 Stimulator with a bead-head Hare's Ear on a short dropper is a good first rig through the warmer months. Confirm the season in the current NSW fishing guide before you go.
Caddis in the evening· Nov to MarA size 14 to 16 Elk Hair Caddis through the tails and edges as the light goes. A guide's read, not a record of a hatch on this river.
Streamer for the browns· Oct to AprA dark size 8 to 10 Woolly Bugger swung and stripped through deeper water at first and last light is our pick for a bigger brown. Check the current NSW fishing guide for the season before you plan the date.
Watch the flow card· Jan to DecThe gauge on the card sits on this river. Look at it before you drive; a high or discoloured river is a day to stay home or fish the edges.
What the record shows
Flows, river gradient, changing water levels, fish surveys and stocking
What the record shows
The river's year
Daily flow at Goodradigbee River at Wee Jasper (Kashmir), every year 1914 to 2026
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112 years of the gauge, week by week. The dark band is the middle half of all years, the pale band nine years in ten, the line the median. The shaded strip is the typical range: the band the river sits in about half of all days. In a typical year the river sits in it from mid November through the turn of the year to early July, and runs higher than that from early July to mid November. Whether a given day is one to wade is a call made at the bank, not a reading off this chart. Median flow peaks in mid September and bottoms out in mid March. The orange line is median water temperature, from about 6° in the coldest weeks to 22° in the warmest.
40,702 days at Goodradigbee River at Wee Jasper (Kashmir), 1914 to 2026
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Read it left to right: the river runs above the flow on the left edge almost never, and above the flow on the right edge almost always. Half of all days sit below 4.5 m³/s. The shaded band is the typical range, where it sits about half the time; it runs higher than that one day in three and above the high-flow mark about one day in seven. These are frequency bands drawn from the record, not a measured limit — judge the water when you get there.
Gauge pins identify the monitoring stations. The slope shows how steeply the river falls; it does not show rapids or safe wading routes.
The banks, seen from space
Land cover in the 120 m beside the water, Landsat 2023 to 2024 to 2025
dense forestopen woodlandscattered trees and scrubnative grass and heathfarmed or clearedbare groundlake
Along the river itself about 84% of the bank is under trees, 8% is native grass or heath and 8% is farmed. The most wooded stretch is 0 to 10 km from the source; the most open is 100 to 110 km.
electrofishing (boat), 15 recordselectrofishing (backpack), 1 record
Capture records by decade — electrofishing, netting, trapping and rotenone surveys only; a sighting, an eDNA water sample or a stocking release is not a capture and is not counted here. A record is not an abundance estimate, and a decade with no bar is a decade with no capture survey on file, not evidence the water was empty.
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
96,818 fish in 55 records, 2020 to 2025
Rainbow Trout, 96,818 across 55 records
Stocked in 6 of the 6 years from 2020 to 2025. These are site-by-year totals, which can combine more than one release. A record is not a promise that stocking continues, and not evidence of what is in the water now.
Source: NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (Fisheries). Source details and licence
NSW Fish Stocking — ArcGIS site markers and linked histories. retrieved 2026-08-29.
Conditions
What the gauges say
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Live weather for Goodradigbee River at Brindabella (No.2&no.3-cabbans) loads here. If it does not, check the Bureau of Meteorology forecast before you go.
Brown and rainbow trout are the fish to plan around, and twospine blackfish are recorded here too. Redfin and carp have also turned up. Rainbows have been stocked across recent seasons; the stocking chart shows the releases.
Where do I get in?+
The access card names the known entry points on the river. Treat them as locations, not permission, and confirm on the ground before you cross any land.
Do I need a licence, and is there a closed season?+
Take both from the current NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development recreational fishing guide, including its trout waters and closed-waters listings, before you fish. Check it before you pick a date, not after.
What rod should I bring?+
In our experience a 9-foot 4 or 5 weight with a floating line covers the river, from a dry and dropper in the runs to a small streamer in the deeper water.
