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Lake Boondooma bass update
THE following dashboard pro- vides a sum- mary of Australian bass data from Lake Boondooma covering the past 10 years, from 2011-2020.
vember 2020, there have been 715 fish tagged for 76 recap- tures, with a recapture rate of 10.6 percent over the past 10 years.
recaptured above the lake and eight went over the same wall and were recaptured downstream.
Over the past 10 years, most postcodes of fishers recapturing fish were 4610 Kinga- roy with 12 fishers, 4405 Dalby with 12 fishers and 4606 Won- dai with 11 fishers.
Catch rates in Fish- ing Freshwater com- petitions from 2018- 2020 ranged from 1.8 in 2019 to 2.7 fish per fisher per day in 2018.
As at the end of Oc- tober 2020, the Boon- dooma Dam level was at 31 percent.
Annual growth cal- culated from tag re- captures at the end of year one was 46mm and at the end of year five was 120mm.
Two fish were re- captured in Splitters Creek near Bunda- berg, 340km below the dam and after going over two dam walls and four weirs.
Five recaptures were by fishers with NSW postcodes and two from Victoria.
Only legal fish were submitted to the com- petitions, with average lengths ranging from 346mm in 2020 to 351mm in 2019.
There was no catch data for 2020, while the 10-year average historic catch rate was 4.2 fish per fisher per day.
The longest time out for a tagged bass was around 15 years, however one fish was recaptured after 18.9 years.
The average length of Australian bass in 2019 was 264mm and ranged from 155- 445mm.
During the 10-year period, fish have been tagged in length of growth period map grids E15 with 82 fish, F15 with 73, G15 with 53, I12 with 47 and H21 with 46.
The percentage of legal fish in 2019 was 25.5 percent, with 0 percent of trophy fish 500mm and over.
Of the 118 fish re- captured over the past 10 years, one has been
From 2011 to No-
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