What a load of rubbish

ONE issue that is of concern to many grass-roots anglers is the dumping of rubbish in the Central Highlands, with refrigerators, televisions and mattresses all being on the found list.

Most anglers do the right thing and dispose of their rubbish in an appropriate manner.

However, it has been found that some people are actually driving from other locations and dumping their household rubbish in the Great Lake area.

This may seem like a difficult problem to solve, but perhaps a few free days at disposal areas could go a long way towards helping with this issue.

An even simpler remedy and a good motto to live by is: If you take it in with you, take it home.

Bluefin create a storm

THIS week many fish have been caught from many locations, but southern anglers are excited at the news of bluefin being caught in Storm Bay.

The lads on board Choonachaser had great success last weekend, with some good school fish being caught in close.

The rainbow trout season has now closed so the fish can “do their thing”, and fish transfers at Liawenee are going flat-out, with some great numbers being moved around the state.

Adult fish at an average of 1kg have gone into places such as Four Springs, which received 4000 recently.

Penstock Lagoon has received 2458 fish since the brown trout season closed.

Another 255 went into Lake Crescent, plus 1000 adult browns into Lake Leake.

No doubt more transfers will occur while fish are migrating up into the canal at Liawenee.

As one seasoned angler said: “It bodes well for increasing the size of fish in the Great Lake.”

Milt and eggs are also stripped from adult fish at Liawenee and then transferred to the hatchery at New Norfolk, where the young fertilised fish are grown to the fry and yearling stage and then moved around the state.

Most hatchery fish are rainbows that are moved around the state on behalf of the Inland Fisheries Service.

For instance, 500 rainbow were taken from the hatchery at Bridport and moved into Blackmans Lagoon.

Another 500 were relocated to Big Waterhouse Lake.

Adult Atlantic salmon that are surplus brood stock at the end of their life and of no further use to farms are donated to the IFS and also moved into selected waters around the state for anglers to try their hand at.

Waters such as Craigbourne Dam in the South and Brushy Lagoon in the North are two such places that receive regular injections of surplus brood fish.