Coolmunda dam

[Aaron H]

Anyone on here fished Lake coolmunda near Inglewood recently? Was having a look on Sunwater and it seems to have had a sharp rise 13% in water level. Have driven past it but never fished it have heard there is good cod and yellas in there though

[ellicat]

I've personally never pulled a cod from there but they are certainly there. You'll usually find the yellas easy to find.

The locals weren't fishing it early October when I was last out that way, but I bet they are now it has some more water.

I'll talk to my dad next week and get an update then. (He's currently not there)

It's not that big, but it has it's spots. A man with a surf rod caught a 20lb cod from the boat ramp a couple of years ago.

Some night landbased fisherman also pull some monsters where you wouldn't fish when you could be seen.

You can fish the sticks for yellas - down the southern end there are some trees that when you look at them you can see where a road used to be. That's a spot. If you follow the old creek beds on your sounder and find where they join (Coolmunda's fed by two creeks) you might be able to entice a few as well.

The eastern side has some weed beds to play in as well.

Let me know if/when you're going and I'll be more specific with a map.

[Aaron H]

Sweet thanks mate karma for that, I was just looking at your photos from there, some solid yellas mate, do ski lice go there much?

[ellicat]

Never seen one there....the locals know too many places to hide bodies;)

[STU]

Aaron I have fished it we caught alot of nice yellas and some big eeltail cattys on trolled lures like boomerangs we trolled the rock wall and casted around the standing timber they sat the timber is good for cod or trolling the river bed counts for many cod

[Aaron H]

ellicat wrote:

Never seen one there....the locals know too many places to hide bodies;)

Two movies I wish I never saw with the amount of exploring I do, Wolf creek and Deliverance:unsure:

I hope I don't hear banjos,

Stu thats the magic word I like to hear cod;) I will catch a Queensland cod yet

[Brian D]

Sounds like a weekend to me. Lets go!

[Aaron H]

Sweet Brians in, by memory there is a campground right near the lake, now to run this past the missus:unsure:

[STU]

Yep you can stay on tne dam or a caravan park that is very close thats were we stayed but watch out for all the peacocks plasticmans nephew likes to walk all the peacock crap off his shoes onto my nice carpeted floor.Doh

[Plastic Man]

i was just about to bring that up stu classic ha ha ha

[Feral]

The camp ground is at the turnoff, about 1k from the dam. They hire boats there as well.

Coolmunda is just a big shallow basin, no real structure etc, so would be an interesting fish! Have a look in the gallery, there are some photo's of it somewhere I took last year.

[STU]

Yeah it is not the greatest looking dam but thats why you just mainly stick to trolling the river bed not like some dams there are numerous different techniques

[Schultzy]

Fishing techniques at Coolmunda depend on the water level.

As Stu says working the edges of the creek channel is the way to go. The lake fishes quite well for cod at times, usually only for a few weeks then the locals have killed and grilled all of the active fish and it shuts down for another six months.

Have pics some where of parts of the lake. Will dig some out in the next day or two.

[Oztrav]

as for deliverance whatever you do dont pull up on the shore to use the \" toilet\" whatever you do

[ellicat]

It's now at 70% and the McIntyre brook is flowing nicely. Coupling that info with a new tent palace means we might be heading out there in the next coupla weeks.:woohoo: