queensland NPD garfish translocation to Kurwongbah.

[rayke1938]

Today the PRFMA successfully translocated garfish from NPD to lake Kurwongbah as part of the Lake Kurwongbah programme.

There was a large roll up of members and we fished from 8.30 until aprox 11.30 when we knocked off and had a barby and a bit of a natter.

The whole exercise was organised and planned by George Walklin one of our junior members.

George is to congratulated for his efforts and I think that it is wonderful to see a young man getting involved in restocking.

There was a luck draw with a prize of a butterworth mongrel 6,6 heavy boat rod jervis walker aurora 5500 reel that was kindly donated by Jervis Walker.

I was fortunate to be the winner so looks like I will have to go fishing very soon to try it out.

I also had the pleasure to meet Dec for the first time.

I estimate that there would have been over 1000 gar caught plus a bycatch of around 100 tilapia.

We burleyed up the gar with bread and the most successful bait was small pieces of prawn on a no 12 hook. The people who were using worms caught most of the tilapia.

The gar were then transported to Kurwongbah in the PRFMA live fish trailer and released where they should thrive.

Here are some photos of the day. Cheers

Ray

Some of the cars. One of the conditions of use of the site is that all cars have to be parked parallel to the water in case of handbrake failure.

Tilapia

A few of the experts were flyfishing.:laugh:

The rod

Rhe Reel

[Dec]

It was a fun day caught around 35 gar and got to meet a few people thanks to George for organising it and everybodyelse for helping out:)

[EMP]

Thanks for the great info, Ray and Dec. It looks like there's a lot to look forward to at Lake Kurwongbah.

EMP

[2 wheels]

would of been a great day for a fish too only tiddler sized tilly's recovered from npd where are the big ones hiding

[jeff f]

i think they all died in the cold snap last winter wheels

there were tonnes of them floating around and washed up

[Dinodadog]

Was a good morning managed about 35 on the fly,good training and looks like I need it by the pic as I untangle my line ha ha. Nice to run into Dec and meet young George, thanks for setting it all up.

[jeff f]

what section of the dam was that

nicely mown grass

[rayke1938]

Water sports assn kindly allowed us access to their site. It is a great area. It would be really good if the PRFMA could get into bed with them.

Ray

[jeff f]

are you allowed to fish there normally

or was that a special

[username_taken]

what flies did you use for the Gar, and are the as catchable in the public access areas? A mate of mine would be really keen to go give it a try.

[big dyl]

sounded like a great day and good catches:)

[rayke1938]

jeff f wrote:

are you allowed to fish there normally

or was that a special

Special for the translocation. Even if you are a member of the water sports assn you are not allowed to fish there.

Cheers

Ray

[jeff f]

typical rank weeds and grass for the fisherman

parkland for everyone else

[Dinodadog]

We were only allowed in there for a few hours to catch gar for Kurwongbah, I had some s/baits in my bag and would of liked to try them out. The sailing and canoe club has a very large mown area at least 3 acres with some picnic tables under trees.

I was catching the gar on bread flies, which was good as the tillies wernt interested