Welcome to the Yarrambat Lake Fishing Guide. Yarrambat Lake is a small lake regularly stocked with trout and metro stonkers ( large broodstock rainbow trout ). There can be a lot of hype around the lake when this happens, and we have covered that in the last few years, so watch the embedded video below. It’s a great fishing location to take the kids, nestled within the Northern suburbs of Victoria, within Yarrambat Park. To get there, you’ll pass townships such as Mill Park and Morang. It’s an excellent spot for the family with open parklands, a lake, electric BBQs, picnic tables and lovely views. When it comes to fishing, there is an abundance of small redfin and carp. Thanks to recent state government initiatives, the lake has been heavily stocked with trout yearlings. It’s a great place to take the kids or beginners out fishing.
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Things to do at Yarrambat Lake Park
Yarrambat Lake is located within Yarrambat Park. There are plenty of things to keep the family occupied, including picnics, walking, feeding the ducks, and playing games in the open spaces, such as cricket or flying a kite, whilst enjoying the scenic views. The park has decent facilities, including BBQs and picnic tables, so enjoy lunch with the family. Nearby, you also have the Yarrambat public golf course and driving range. The course features an interesting hilly layout, often with many kangaroos scattered around. You also have the Yarrambat horse and pony club and the Northern Suburbs Fly Fishing Angling Club. There is ample parking at the entrance of Yarrambat Park on Yan Yean Road, Yarrambat. There are also BBQ facilities, picnic tables and toilets.
Fishing at Yarrambat Park Lake
Watch this video of FishingMad fishing at Yarrambat Lake for metro Stonkers in 2025.
At Yarrambat Lakes, you can target several freshwater fish species, including rainbow trout, redfin and carp. Yarrambat Lake is regularly stocked with rainbow trout just before school holidays. In 2019, Yarrambat Lake will be stocked with 2,600 rainbow trout yearlings. Use this link to follow Victorian trout stocking programs. If you’re bait fishing at Yarrambat Lake, then we would recommend using live minnows, scrub worms, Power Bait, yabbies, and mudeye under a float, paternoster rig or a small running sinker rig. When fishing with lures and soft plastics, we would strongly suggest starting with small soft plastics, including curl tails and paddle tails, spinners and shallow diving hard body lures.
Yarrambat Park Lake is unique in that it offers a fly fishing pool to practice your casting. This is thanks to the local Northern Suburbs fly fishing club. The pool has been built to competition standards and is situated just in front of the club rooms. Fly casting lessons can be arranged with an instructor from the angling club. When targeting freshwater species such as trout and redfin, we recommend fishing with a spinning light rod. This will make the experience more enjoyable whilst improving your catch rates. We recommend a fishing rod with a 2-4 kilo rod coupled with a 2000 or 2500 size reel and spooled with 6-10 pound finished with a rod length of a quality fluorocarbon leader. Redfin is more active in the warmer months, whilst trout are more active during the cooler months. Most freshwater species tend to feed more aggressively at Dawn and Dusk. My personal favourite is fishing at sundown, particularly in the warmer months.
Recommended baits for Yarrambat Lake
The video below demonstrates the best baits for trout and how to rig them correctly.
- Scrub worms
- Mudeye
- Powerbait
- maggots
- Earthworms
- yabbies
- live minnows
Recommended lures for Yarrambat Lake
Need some help choosing lures and soft plastics. The video below is a detailed guide to get you started.
- Daiwa Double Clutch
- Pontoon 21 paco spoon
- Tassie Devils 13.5 grams in pinks and whites
- Bluefox spinners
- Rapala countdown floating minnow
- EcoGear MX48
- YoZuri pins minnow
- Daiwa presso minnows
- Nories laydown minnow
- Bluefox spinners
- OSP bent minnow
- Daiwa DR joint minnows
- Strike tiger nymph
- Berkley powerbait grub
- Bullet lures 5-0 minnow
- Zman 2.5-inch grub
- Bullet lures 3cm lure
Watch this video of FishingMad fishing at Yarrambat Lake for huge trout.
Targeting Trout at Yarrambat Lake
We highly recommend you read our detailed guide on how to catch trout, which details our favourite lures, baits and techniques. You can follow when trout will be stocked using the Victorian trout stocking programs as part of the target 1 million by 2020 and 10 million by 2022 initiatives. We recommend shallow diving hard body minnows, metal spoons, spinners, and Tassie devils when using lures. Soft plastics are also very effective on trout. If you’re bait fishing, then Mudeye, scrub worms, powerbait, yabbies, and minnows suspended on a float or a running sinker rig. Fly fishing is a popular fishing method at this location. Trout are more active in cold conditions, with most catches on the first and last light of the day. We recommend a 2-4 kilo fishing rod, coupled with a 2000 or 2500 reel, spooled with 4-8-pound braid and an equivalent fluorocarbon leader. If trophy-size trout are around, you could go heavier, moving up the scale to a 3-5 kilo class spin rod spooled with fine 8-12-pound braid and equivalent fluorocarbon leader.
Targeting Redfin at Yarrambat Lake
We recommend targeting redfin with a light spin outfit. This will make the experience more enjoyable and improve your catch rates. A 2-4 kilo fishing rod coupled with a 2000 or 2500 reel spooled with 4-8-pound braid and equivalent fluorocarbon leader should be perfect. Redfin respond really well to lures and soft plastics, so be sure to check our guide on the best lures for catching Redfin. When using soft plastics, we highly recommend curl tails, minnow imitations, and paddle tails in both natural and bright colours, rigged on a 1/8 through to 1/16 jighead. The most effective way to use these is to cast towards visible structure and slow roll the soft plastic with lifts and pauses for the retrieve. Shallow diving hard body lures, blades and vibes are also very effective in this system. So are traditional spinners and Tassie devils in bright colours. Metal spoons also play a role, allowing you to cast great distances and target the bigger size reddies. Just remember, they are pretty heavy and very prone to snags in small inland systems like this one.
As with all areas that have water and high grass, always be cautious of snakes in the area. Images of fish supplied VFA and DEPI. All other photos and videos shown on the Yarrambat Lake Fishing Guide are Fishing Mad originals. Thank you for visiting the Yarrambat Lake Fishing Guide. If you believe this location guide is missing key information or requires corrections, please email our team at enquiries@fishingmad.com.au with specific details. Please also feel free to share any fishing pictures you have from this location with us. Thank you
