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Nick Frazer with his personal-best 81cm cod on his father’s Barambah Bidjiwong Surface Lure. This sh was released after the photo was taken.
Cod breeding starts at Glenlyon Dam
* from P86
on for the past 15 years.
packed and stacked for your sporting use dur- ing closed season.
We are seeing cod recovery taking place in our study site ar- eas within four major northern Darling Riv- er systems – no more stocking of cod in the Dumaresq.
Our local and region- al farmers are going through a tough time – at the time of writing no allocations of water had been given and all storages are currently in low supply.
Finding it cold in the morning, Nicklas Lecei layered his clothes with a onesie out t and caught this 101cm cod. Pictured with his father and brother.
DAM LEVELS
CURRENT AS OF 16/7/2020
DAMS PERCENTAGE
MAR APR MAY JUN AUG
Atkinson 65555
Awoonga Bjelke-Petersen * Boondooma *
Borumba *
Burdekin Falls *
Callide *
Cania *
Coolmunda *
Dyer/Bill Gunn *
Eungella *
Fairbairn *
Glenlyon *
Hinze
Julius
Kinchant *
Leslie *
Macdonald
Maroon * Monduran/Fred Haigh * Moogerah *
North Pine/Samsonvale * Peter Faust/Proserpine * Somerset *
Teemburra *
Tinaroo*
Toonumbar
Wivenhoe *
Wuruma *
Wyaralong
70 69 66 66 65
25 23
20 18 17 36 35 34 97 96 93 94 95 92 30 30 28 52 50 58 29 29 28
38 37 100 99 106 98
33 32 56 53 33 31
4 3 90 89 18 16 14 14
3 3 3 88 88 87 14 13 12
101 99 100 96 77 82 14 14 104 101 61 60 63 61 39 36 69 62 72 70 83 80 98 99 72 74 69 69 53 52 63 62 99 98
5 13 14 96 95 93 92 91 88 85 86 85 13 13 13
For updates on dams, visit sunwater.com.au or seqwater.com.au
*This symbol indicates that a Stocked Impoundment Permit is required to sh these dams.
100 100 102 58 57 56 60 59 58 32 30 27 64 62 60 68 68 67 79 78 78 99 99 99 73 72 71 66 66 67 50 49 48 61 60 60 96 96 95
It’s a case of doing more research trips with our team of rec- reational anglers now, which should be car- ried on for perhaps six more years.
We need to see big rains during pre- spring to get things up and going once more.
Breeding season has kicked in for cod once again in our rivers but we are in drought, which has put pressure on water flows in local waters.
No allocation of wa- ter means that any rain is welcomed and not having any flow in riv- ers is not a good sight.
I ask again for an- glers, who use the excuse that they only fish for yellowbelly during closed season, to stay away from the rivers during this long drought.
At the time of writ- ing storage levels were Glenlyon 14 percent, Pindari 12 percent, Co- peton 12 percent, Les- lie 11 percent, Storm King had no water and were trucking it into town, and Coolmunda 28 percent.
Use all those stor-
The one thing going for all these dams is that they are all fish- ing very well.
ages that have fish
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