Bass closed season starts monday!

[Feral]

Dont forget fella's those who target bass outside of stocked impoundments that the closed season starts monday, closed until 1st of September!

[jmacphee]

Does this include perch?

[Little Grey Men]

Thanks for the update Feral, I'll be getting my fix of newly introduced river bass early in the morning.

[Davo_Dinkum]

so bass like to do IT when colder.

smart fish nothing better to do when it cold.

[adambris]

does this mean you cant taget bass or just cant keep them??

adam

[Dinodadog]

means you cant target them, but if one gets on accidently while targeting yellas you just release them quickly

[Terry H]

A good reminder there Feral! I was thinking baout this the other day...

[yoyo]

How on earth can they ping you for specifically targetting bass in a multi-species environment ?

I dont keep any of them anyway, but there are easily 5 diff species that could latch on in the "bass" areas I fish, on the rare occasions i do fish the fresh....

[chris_stewart14]

yoyo wrote:

How on earth can they ping you for specifically targetting bass in a multi-species environment ?

I dont keep any of them anyway, but there are easily 5 diff species that could latch on in the "bass" areas I fish, on the rare occasions i do fish the fresh....

Yeah Yo Yo - I agree.. Has 10 tonne of grey area. I suppose the rule is just to curb the amount of people rather than rule with an iron fist. Anywhere you are a chance of a freshwater fish your really a chance of a Bass.

I dont keep any of my fish either but I suppose it interupts their breeding season.. Pretty easy to say I was fishing for Perch or Yellaz though. Would be an impossible rule to inforce.

[yoyo]

"Yes Sir i assure you I was targetting catfish with this $35 lure..........."

hahahha...

[Feral]

Well I suppose with the DPI spread far and thin, like most of these rules it comes down to your personal honesty and integrity.

chris_stewart14 wrote:

yoyo wrote:

How on earth can they ping you for specifically targetting bass in a multi-species environment ?

I dont keep any of them anyway, but there are easily 5 diff species that could latch on in the "bass" areas I fish, on the rare occasions i do fish the fresh....

Yeah Yo Yo - I agree.. Has 10 tonne of grey area. I suppose the rule is just to curb the amount of people rather than rule with an iron fist. Anywhere you are a chance of a freshwater fish your really a chance of a Bass.

I dont keep any of my fish either but I suppose it interupts their breeding season.. Pretty easy to say I was fishing for Perch or Yellaz though. Would be an impossible rule to inforce.

[bretto]

I am pretty sure that CIW is included in the closures too.

[AZZA]

If you managed to get pulled up and checked on the road how do you tell a impoundment bass from a wild river bass

[rayke1938]

From DPI website.

Why do we have closed seasons?

Closed seasons prevent people from fishing at certain times of the year to protect species at vulnerable times in their life cycle, such as during spawning seasons.

Australian bass

A closed season applies to Australian bass throughout Queensland from 1 June to 31 August except in and from waterways upstream of Baroon Pocket, Bjelke-Petersen, Boondooma, Borumba, Cania, Cressbrook, Fred Haigh (Lake Monduran), Gordonbrook, Hinze, Lenthalls, Maroon, Moogerah, North Pine, Somerset, Wuruma and Wivenhoe dams; Claude Wharton and Jones weirs; Isis Balancing Storage (Lake Gregory) and Clarendon, Dyer (Bill Gunn Dam) and MacDonald lakes.

* Contact the Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol (QBFP) for more details of the timing of closed seasons.

There is no need to try and be a bush layer to try and circumvent the regs just please try and do the right thing if you think that bass mayy be in the waters you intend fishing in do the right thing and fish somewhere else.

Also please note that Lake Kurwongbah is NOT included in the dams where bass fishing is allowed during the closed season.

Cheers

Ray

[pcsolutionman]

Neither is Ewen maddock,wappa, or cooloolabin

Lee

[Terry H]

with regards to Ewen: that's ok, theres no bass in there :laugh:

[JackBarrett13]

did you hear about the bass being caught in the brisbane river. Due to th run off from the dams.

[jmacphee]

rayke1938 wrote:

A closed season applies to Australian bass throughout Queensland from 1 June to 31 August except in and from waterways upstream of Baroon Pocket, Bjelke-Petersen, Boondooma, Borumba, Cania, Cressbrook, Fred Haigh (Lake Monduran), Gordonbrook, Hinze, Lenthalls, Maroon, Moogerah, North Pine, Somerset, Wuruma and Wivenhoe dams; Claude Wharton and Jones weirs; Isis Balancing Storage (Lake Gregory) and Clarendon, Dyer (Bill Gunn Dam) and MacDonald lakes.

Does anyone know if this means the Stanley River is a no-go for bass? I'm not sure if it runs into, or out of Somerset.

[James W]

shouldnt matter mcphee..just target yellas

cant help it if a bass jumps on

[Davo_Dinkum]

i wonder if the bass in the rivers breed.

the weir's would be a problem ,they go over they wouldn't be able to get back up.

wonder if the go to the salt to breed then back to the fresh near the weir's.

i guess that's all they could do.

[kiwifisho]

Oh well its look out yellas and cod then i guess

Dean

[wesfish]

jmacphee wrote:

rayke1938 wrote:

A closed season applies to Australian bass throughout Queensland from 1 June to 31 August except in and from waterways upstream of Baroon Pocket, Bjelke-Petersen, Boondooma, Borumba, Cania, Cressbrook, Fred Haigh (Lake Monduran), Gordonbrook, Hinze, Lenthalls, Maroon, Moogerah, North Pine, Somerset, Wuruma and Wivenhoe dams; Claude Wharton and Jones weirs; Isis Balancing Storage (Lake Gregory) and Clarendon, Dyer (Bill Gunn Dam) and MacDonald lakes.

Does anyone know if this means the Stanley River is a no-go for bass? I'm not sure if it runs into, or out of Somerset.

the stanley runs into somerset i thought, so there is no chance the bass can breed as there is no brackish water for them in somerset it is waterways where bass move downstream to brackish water for breeding, eg; brisbane river the bass migrate down towards colleges crossing and kookaburra park, at least i think bass need the brackish for breeding, can anyone confirm this?

[Feral]

You can take bass from the Stanley during closed season, the rules are above the dam walls of the listed impoundments, which includes the creeks and rivers upstream as well.

[Davo_Dinkum]

i read a thing on the net about bass last night was a short info sheet.it said they move down the river to breed .

[Davo_Dinkum]

Bass start to migrate into estuaries to breed in mid to late Winter, starting first with the northern populations and finishing with the Victorian populations. Unusually cold or dry weather may cause a delay in this migrations and some years it appears that the more mature fish do not migrate at all.

Once in the salty water the males congregate in large schools of several hundred fish. Females are not found in such large groups. Females may produce several hundred thousand eggs which are small (about 1 mm when water hardened), non-adhesive and free floating.

Newly hatched larvae are quite small, around 2.5 mm, and start to feed when about three days old. After around a month and a half, the fry begin to school up, although the schools appear to break up during feeding. Pigmentation develops at around three months of age when the fish are about 20 mm in length.

After a currently unknown amount of time in the estuary, the juvenile fish begin to migrate up into the fresh water. Juvenile bass between 25 and 50 mm in length have been found in freshwater at the end of November