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[Jono4500]

Rubbish from south-east Queensland flood washes up on K'gari (Fraser Island) beaches weeks later
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-16/south-east-qld-flood-debris-washes-up-on-kgari-fraser-island/100911752

[Old Scaley]

I was walking around Kangaroo Point cliffs area on Wednesday and the amount of debris still making its way downstream is significant. All sorts of stuff from logs to house doors to plastic cr@p. Saw quite a few fish belly up as well. It is going to take more than a few tides for all of that to work its way out of the system, so those beaches will cop it for a while yet. Be careful if you are boating- some pretty big logs just under the surface.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

2 hours ago, Old Scaley said:

I was walking around Kangaroo Point cliffs area on Wednesday and the amount of debris still making its way downstream is significant. All sorts of stuff from logs to house doors to plastic cr@p. Saw quite a few fish belly up as well. It is going to take more than a few tides for all of that to work its way out of the system, so those beaches will cop it for a while yet. Be careful if you are boating- some pretty big logs just under the surface.

It's a shame about the dead fish. Did you get an ID on any?

Interestingly enough I have found a fair few catties jammed in the rails of jetties that got flooded. I assume they got trapped when the water receded. The water looked putrid too. I wonder how the fishing will go in the long term. 

[Gad]

14 hours ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

 I wonder how the fishing will go in the long term. 

 IMO, in the long term this will be very good for the river itself, from Wivenhoe Dam spillway to the mouth. In 2011 the amount of water quickly released from the dam scoured out the river bed to bed rock in places taking bottom crap/toxin built up over the last century+ out of the river.
This latest rain event/flooding along with the gentler dam releases should have lifted and a lot of the recent bottom deposit that have occured since 2011
Hopefully this adds to a better/healthier river system, and a stronger fishery system.
The added bonus for the avid 'hunter gatherer' fisho will be all the new structure/snags to be checked out and worked over.... in a couple of months with clean river water and good incoming tidal flows getting into the upper reaches the fishing should improve out of sight