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Hi @Acoustix , Most of the lakes around Canberra have decent weed beds around them. These can be a great place to find fish hunting for food, but you can get fouled by the weed. Using bait this is likely less of a concern, but with lures it can be a pain. I found that I have much more success form my kayak as I can target the outside edge  and either cast or troll along. I mainly fish Lake Ginninderra up in the north. Lake Burley Griffin is pretty good from the bank as you have a lot of areas with deep water right near the edge where the old river flows. Some of the banks are pretty steep though, but there can be good snags in those deep sections which will hold cod or Yellowbelly. I'm keen to get my kayak out there at some stage to try and pick up something decent.
The lakes can be pretty fickle at times around Canberra, depending on how stirred up they are by the rain and cold weather can shut down the fishing pretty quickly. That being said, apparently you get some cracking cod during the winter, it may just take alot of work.
As Bretto77 said, @KhalidMSyed has some great videos of the Molonglo River near Uriarra crossing that would be good places to try.
I bought the AFN Fishing Atlas for Canberra, which is written by Andrew McGovern, who has fished this area for a long time and it gives you a great run down of the lakes around Canberra and a decent outline of spots on the Murrumbidgee.

Hi @Acoustix , Most of the lakes around Canberra have decent weed beds around them. These can be a great place to find fish hunting for food, but you can get fouled by the weed. Using bait this is likely less of a concern, but with lures it can be a pain. I found that I have much more success form my kayak as I can target the outside edge  and either cast or troll along. I mainly fish Lake Ginninderra up in the north. Lake Burley Griffin is pretty good from the bank as you have a lot of areas with deep water right near the edge where the old river flows. Some of the banks are pretty steep though, but there can be good snags in those deep sections which will hold cod or Yellowbelly. I'm keen to get my kayak out there at some stage to try and pick up something decent.
The lakes can be pretty fickle at times around Canberra, depending on how stirred up they are by the rain and cold weather can shut down the fishing pretty quickly. That being said, apparently you get some cracking cod during the winter, it may just take alot of work.
As Bretto77 said, @KhalidMSyed has some great videos of the Molonglo River near Uriarra crossing that would be good places to try.
I bought the AFN Fishing Atlas for Canberra, which is written by Andrew McGovern, who has fished this area for a long time and it gives you a great run down of the lakes around Canberra and a decent outline of spots on the Murrumbidgee.

Hi @Acoustix , Most of the lakes around Canberra have decent weed beds around them. These can be a great place to find fish hunting for food, but you can get fouled by the weed. Using bait this is likely less of a concern, but with lures it can be a pain. I found that I have much more success form my kayak as I can target the outside edge  and either cast or troll along. I mainly fish Lake Ginninderra up in the north. Lake Burley Griffin is pretty good from the bank as you have a lot of areas with deep water right near the edge where the old river flows. Some of the banks are pretty steep though, but there can be good snags in those deep sections which will hold cod or Yellowbelly. I'm keen to get my kayak out there at some stage to try and pick up something decent.
The lakes can be pretty fickle at times around Canberra, depending on how stirred up they are by the rain and cold weather can shut down the fishing pretty quickly. That being said, apparently you get some cracking cod during the winter, it may just take alot of work.
As Bretto77 said, @KhalidMSyed has some great videos of the Molonglo River near Uriarra crossing that would be good places to try.
I bought the AFN Fishing Atlas for Canberra, which is written by Andrew McGovern, who has fished this area for a long time and it gives you a great run down of the lakes around Canberra and a decent outline of spots on the Murrumbidgee.

Hello All,
Starting a new thread as I would like to share some of my good fishing spots in Molonglo River, Canberra. The spots shown in the attached image below are not easy to reach but that's exactly what makes them such good fishing spots. I have been fishing in this area a while now and will post some of my fishing reports from this area over the next few days. Stay tuned!

Thanks mate.
The spots are all documented under the Community tab of my channel, here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9LUwj-kj0wH5BTQ3sVhqjw/community?lb=UgkxX7xxK1OosaCSzD4dGLbMRVhpo6ll0E6-

Awesome work Khalid! I'm still yet to crack a Murray Cod, just Yellowbelly and Redfin but I have only tried a few of the lakes from the shore and kayak so far. I'm trying to pick where on the Molonglo your videos are from and have a bit of an idea. Might have to plana hike to try and locate the.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Awesome work Khalid! I'm still yet to crack a Murray Cod, just Yellowbelly and Redfin but I have only tried a few of the lakes from the shore and kayak so far. I'm trying to pick where on the Molonglo your videos are from and have a bit of an idea. Might have to plana hike to try and locate the.
 
Cheers,
Andrew

Thanks mate. My pleasure.
BTW. What I have shared so far is my Tier 2 freshwater fishing spots. I have some Tier 1 freshwater fishing spots that are much better but those will remain secret for the foreseeable future.

Here is the third video report of the series. Once again I was fishing between spots #2 and #3 as shown in the map at top of this thread:
 

Here is the second video report of the series. This time I was fishing between spots #2 and #3 as shown in the map at top of this thread:
 

As promised, here is my first fishing report video from Molonglo River in Canberra. This video report shows a 62cm Murray Cod being caught from spot #4 as shown in the map in the previous post above.
 
 

Sold my 2 kayaks and then bought a cheapy. Put it to the test for its second time this morning. With the rain, nearly wasnt going to go but glad I did, managed 16 bass on beetlespins and blades and home for a late breakfast.
Dino

Hey @Messyfish good to see there's at least one other ACT angler on here. I've tried for ages to even get a bite from a Murray Cod. What lake do you normally fish? I have usually taken the kayak out on Lake G but am keen to explore the Molonglo and Lake Burley Griffin. I use mostly lures from the yak. Do you get many reddies or Yellows using bait?

Hi @TBG There's good fishing here in most of the lakes for Redfin (European Perch), Yellowbelly Perch and Murray Cod. Oh and plenty of carp....
 
I spend more time at Jervis Bay when I'm down the coast but have fished a bit around Batemans Bay as well. Good beach fishing at Murramarang just north of Batemans as well, I got a few flatties and a salmon in a short session when I was there one weekend with the family.

Hi @TBG There's good fishing here in most of the lakes for Redfin (European Perch), Yellowbelly Perch and Murray Cod. Oh and plenty of carp....
 
I spend more time at Jervis Bay when I'm down the coast but have fished a bit around Batemans Bay as well. Good beach fishing at Murramarang just north of Batemans as well, I got a few flatties and a salmon in a short session when I was there one weekend with the family.

Hey @Messyfish good to see there's at least one other ACT angler on here. I've tried for ages to even get a bite from a Murray Cod. What lake do you normally fish? I have usually taken the kayak out on Lake G but am keen to explore the Molonglo and Lake Burley Griffin. I use mostly lures from the yak. Do you get many reddies or Yellows using bait?

Hi @TBG There's good fishing here in most of the lakes for Redfin (European Perch), Yellowbelly Perch and Murray Cod. Oh and plenty of carp....
 
I spend more time at Jervis Bay when I'm down the coast but have fished a bit around Batemans Bay as well. Good beach fishing at Murramarang just north of Batemans as well, I got a few flatties and a salmon in a short session when I was there one weekend with the family.

Hi @TBG There's good fishing here in most of the lakes for Redfin (European Perch), Yellowbelly Perch and Murray Cod. Oh and plenty of carp....
 
I spend more time at Jervis Bay when I'm down the coast but have fished a bit around Batemans Bay as well. Good beach fishing at Murramarang just north of Batemans as well, I got a few flatties and a salmon in a short session when I was there one weekend with the family.

Hey @Messyfish good to see there's at least one other ACT angler on here. I've tried for ages to even get a bite from a Murray Cod. What lake do you normally fish? I have usually taken the kayak out on Lake G but am keen to explore the Molonglo and Lake Burley Griffin. I use mostly lures from the yak. Do you get many reddies or Yellows using bait?

Hey @Messyfish good to see there's at least one other ACT angler on here. I've tried for ages to even get a bite from a Murray Cod. What lake do you normally fish? I have usually taken the kayak out on Lake G but am keen to explore the Molonglo and Lake Burley Griffin. I use mostly lures from the yak. Do you get many reddies or Yellows using bait?

I only have a small Humminbird sounder with the transducer mounted inside the hull. Seems to work fine but is a very basic unit. In the future I'll hopefully be able to upgrade to something new. Just waiting for slightly warmer weather to really test it out in the local lakes. I have a small agm battery, 4ah I think, right in underneath where I've mounted the sounder.
 

Mine is in the hull with silicone. I just made sure yo put it in hot water for a good while to try and avoid bubbles. I only had white silicon, not clear but it doesn't seem to have affected it. 

Mine is in the hull with silicone. I just made sure yo put it in hot water for a good while to try and avoid bubbles. I only had white silicon, not clear but it doesn't seem to have affected it. 

Nice work! Dad and I have not been able to get our sounder working at all. I think we will have to invest in a sidemount for the yak.

I managed to get out last Sunday arvo to test out the sounder. I tried a smaller lake I'd fished from the bank before but it was choked with weed so no luck this time. 
 
In good news ut looks like the sounder works perfectly shooting through the hull.