Lake Maraboon fishing

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Lake Maraboon fishing

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Lake Maraboon, near Emerald, is Queensland's second largest lake, covering 15,000ha.

It has excellent facilities with a holiday village on site.

The lake has the potential to be an excellent fishery with plenty of timber, stone banks and shallow areas, but has been inadequately stocked.

Barramundi, murray cod, silver perch, saratoga and yellowbelly have been stocked in years past but fish stocking has been insufficient to reach the lake's potential.

Cod, yellowbelly and saratoga are thought to have formed small breeding populations. Yellowbelly are now the main catch.

Leathery grunter are also available.


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Lake Maraboon/Fairbairn Dam

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Hello

Bit of extra info.

Lake holds 1.3 million megalitres at full capacity.

Stocking has been going on here since 1988. See attached photo.

Big barra are caught along with big murray cod ( 81,000 murray cod stocked here twenty years ago).

Largest cod of 1.4 metres a couple of weeks ago. Local farmers have been catching them up to 15kg or so in feeder creeks for a few years.

Biggest barra I know of was 1.28 metres that we caught 2 years ago whilst checking out claims of big cod busting off lures meant for golden perch. The causes were big barra not big cod. Barra was too injured for release (swallowed lure into gills)

Maraboon is now part of the Qld stocked impoundment scheme.

Same bag and size limits as other dams EXCEPT no bag/size limits for murray cod as they aren't native to the river. The same applies to redclaw.

Fishstocking was previously undertaken by supporters trying to wrestle $2 from drunks at pub raffles. Qld Fisheries Extension officer kept promising to do something with a bucket of eggs and a big stick but never did.

Ditto for Lake Theresa at Clermont.

Local fisheries people were eventually bypassed and approval was recently organised via the freshwater fishstocking assoc of Qld.

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Ronj
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