Biggest fattest bass i have ever seen.Ben
Biggest fattest bass i have ever seen.Ben
well i took the canoe up today with a old school friend to have a flick around beneath the dam. Well most of the fish seem to have moved on we canoed maybe 200metres downstream before the river just turned into a massive swamp but you could see the water at it's highest was a good 50-60cm higher so hopefully most of those bass that went over made it into the river. We put into the dam and had a flick and both landed a bass going 45 and 47cm. Anyway its a nice bit of water that dam but i might go back later this year and put into the maroochy river itself. It would appear that alot of fish would not have survived going over the spill way aswell we saw 2 dead fish with massive wounds dead on the surface when we went for our pointlss voyage beneath the spillway.
Just a question. Are you allowed to fish Ewen Maddock dam during closed season? I can't find anywhere that it's listed as one of the excluded impoundments?
"A closed season applies to Australian bass throughout Queensland from 1 June to 31 August except in and from waterways upstream of Baroon Pocket, Bjelke-Petersen, Boondooma, Borumba, Cania, Cressbrook, Fred Haigh (Lake Monduran), Gordonbrook, Hinze, Lenthalls, Maroon, Moogerah, North Pine, Somerset, Wuruma and Wivenhoe dams; Claude Wharton and Jones weirs; Isis Balancing Storage (Lake Gregory) and Clarendon, Dyer (Bill Gunn Dam) and MacDonald lakes." dpi&f
Strange that it isn't mentioned but i assume that it is an oversite since every other stocked impoundment in queensland is exempt.
Go down a bit further on the page you got this from and there is a contact address. Contact them and tell them that you were fishing for bass during the closed season and dragging them up a bank and dropping them back in. See what they say. Also you could ask them if Ewen Maddock is subject to the closed season. It could be expensive to assume it is an oversight.Originally Posted by Jeremy87
These are the numbers for you. If you find out you're wrong, you can report yourself!
Fishwatch hotline
To report unlawful fishing in Queensland, please call the 24 hour Fishwatch hotline on1800 017 116 (toll free within Queensland)
For general fisheries enquiries, contact the DPI&F Call Centre on 13 25 23 (for the cost of a local call from anywhere in Queensland).
What it's all about
The Fishwatch hotline was created so that suspected unlawful fishing activities can be reported direct to the Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol by the general public.
Unlawful activites include:
- unlawful use of nets
- fishing in closed waters
- fishing in closed seasons
- taking female crabs (Jennies)
- taking undersize fish
- taking excess to specified bag limits on fish
- using excess numbers of crab pots/dillies
- destruction or disturbance of marine habitat
- intefering with other persons crabpots/dillies or other fishing apparatus
- taking oysters from licensed oyster grounds
well at the end of the day this thread has been very interesting thanks guys this is why ausfish is a great site.
TT
ewen maddock spills over everytime we get good rain around here, last time we got good rain it spilled and there were large golden perch and bass all stranded at the bottom of the spillway, no where to go, people were putting them in buckets and running them back up to the dam, ewen maddock isnt even stocked anymore anyway
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