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The Isisford Barcoo Recreational Fishing Club invites you to its annual fishing competition on the banks of the Barcoo River at the Oma Waterhole.
This year’s Isisford Fishing Competition will be held on the weekend of July 26-28, 2024.
The event starts at 10am on Saturday and finishes 11am on Sunday, and competitors can fish all day and all night if they wish.
The only requirement is that the fish be measured alive.
Nominations are taken on Friday afternoon at the control point from 1pm to 6pm and start again on Saturday morning at about 7.30am.
The Friday night entertainment will include football televised on the big screen at the control point, raffles and the bar will be open.
Categories are adult and junior, and eligible species are yellowbelly, black bream, and catfish.
Nomination fees are $30 for adults and $10 for juniors.
And you don’t have to catch a fish to be in the running – your name goes into the draw automatically for both major and smaller prizes.
This year features a new category, the Lake Eyre Basin rangers environmental award ‘Most invasive species caught’, sponsored exclusively by Longreach Tourist Park.
The award will be given to the person who catches the most of these invasive species – sleepy cod, red claw and gambusia (also known as mosquitofish) – the most can include either all of one species or a combination of these.
And the Barcoo River Rats have included a team competition for teams of five.
The team must be registered, with each team member registering their chosen fish.
Once measured, that team member cannot enter any other fish.
The winning team will be determined by the total length of the five fish measured.
It all starts on Saturday, with nominations, displays, raffles and merchandise, and food vans and the bar will be available over the whole weekend.
Novelty events will feature on Saturday afternoon at 2pm, with hay bale rolling, foot racing, children’s sack racing and horseshoe throwing, and Adam Kilpatrick kicks off for some evening entertainment at 7.45pm.
Portable toilets will be available along the riverbank and ‘little Oma’, with toilets and showers available at the control point.
Firewood can be purchased, with funds going to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Prizes and presentations will take place on Sunday at 12pm and competitors will need to be present for the major prize draws.
Thanks to the generous sponsors, some great prizes can be won, both cash and random draws.
For more information, visit the Isisford Fishing Competition Facebook page or phone 0427 588 069.
