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Kevin Sharman caught this 93cm Murray cod on his rst day shing.
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The best times to
I spoke to Dr Stu- art Rowland about the above event as well as the low water levels in dams and rivers.
AThat’s 2020
s we head into the 2021 sum- mer season,
Glenlyon Dam
by BRIAN DARE
at the time of writing the storage at Glenlyon Dam was sitting at 15 percent capacity.
the Beardy River junc- tion.
fish were from 5.20am through to 9.30am and then 4.30pm through to 7.45pm, before return- ing back to base.
Hopefully a rise of wa- ter level will take place at Leslie, Coolmunda, Connolly, Storm King and Glenlyon dams over the coming weeks.
There is however a little recovery taking place in that section at the moment – though we need rain.
YouTube, Facebook, cameras, phone calls and the adrenaline rush to the body was the or- der of the day.
It has been a tough 12 months for all dur- ing 2020 – for our lo- cals along with visi- tors to this neck of the woods, with low water levels in our rivers and dams.
COVID-19 was and still is a major world event, killing many around the world – put- ting tension on count- less people that will be felt for many years.
Quite a few anglers saw for the first-time egg sites of Murray cod, with dad looking after the 100-170,000 eggs.
We saw Glenlyon rise from 4 percent capac- ity to 15 percent during March last year, thanks to a rain event.
To come out the other side of this callous life- taking event will be beneficial to everyone around the world.
Dadhadajobtodoand he stuck to it, ignoring everything that was on offer.
There was a downside though – with a fish kill in the Dumaresq River for about 20km, from Reedy Creek down to
Winter proved to be an eye-opener for quite a few anglers as borders shut and Glenlyon Dam became the only option for many fishers.
Not all cod had sites to look after and good numbers of big cod were caught.
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Stuart said with a little luck we may see rain- fall during this summer and see the yellowbelly and silver perch head upstream to breed.
We have about $60,000 to spend on golden perch, silver perch and the odd cod into 2021.
While mentioning Dr Stuart Rowland, both Debbie and I will have on sale at the kiosk his book called The Codfa- ther, recently released for Christmas and with about 620 pages on cod.
It covers Stuart’s ex- periences while he worked in NSW fisher- ies on freshwater Aus- tralian species.
The book covers his
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