The Moruya River has 20km of tidal water, becoming Deua River and Burra Creek in the upper reaches.
The river is shallow, running mostly 2m to 3m deep, with many sandbanks and rocks upstream of the highway bridge.
Small-boat access is generally good except for 1km of river adjacent to the highway bridge.
Most fishing is done between the Moruya bridge and the sea entrance, an area that has fishable rock walls, weedbeds, flats and side creeks.
flathead and whiting are the drawcard on the Moruya and can be caught on lures or bait by drifting or casting.
Bream are also usually about, and the river has estuary perch and bass.
The Moruya River has good landbased access, with fishable rock walls on the northern and southern sides.
Bream, tailor, salmon, luderick and flathead are the main catch from the walls, with a chance of mulloway.
For boaters, the rock walls in the lower river are also the best place to fish for bream, tailor, trevally, mulloway, luderick, salmon, kingfish and flathead.
The lower river flats on the north side are the place for whiting and flathead. Try casting to the edges of weedbeds.
Quarry Wharf has mainly bream, flathead and tailor, while Preddys Wharf near Moruya Heads has bream, whiting, flathead, mullet, garfish, trevally and luderick.
Dolphin Beach and Pedro Point nearby have good beach fishing, with mainly flathead, bream and whiting. Beach worms are the best bait, but squid or prawns also work.
Shellys Beach is another good spot.
Moruya bridge pylons usually hold flathead, bream and luderick, with a chance of estuary perch.
The upper Moruya has bream and bass in winter.
As with all NSW rivers, heavy rain tends to push marine fish down the river, and mulloway may be feeding on flushed bait at the sea entrance after flooding.
Good boat fishing can be had in 50m-60m of water off Pedro Point and Congo. flathead, snapper, mulloway, kingfish, leatherjackets, tailor and salmon are caught.
Given a choice, most river fishos prefer to fish the nearby Tuross system, which is larger and hence has more fishing options, but nonetheless the Moruya is a great place to fish.
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