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Special Interest => Habitat and Conservation => Topic started by: Jim_Tait on March 03, 2014, 12:42:15 PM

Title: True Tales of the Trout Cod
Post by: Jim_Tait on March 03, 2014, 12:42:15 PM

Folks check out the wonderful historical information and short video presentations that has been compiled for this 'True Tales of teh Trout Cod project - re-enforces more than ever why we shouldn't be letting any more of Australia's great rivers succumb to ill planned development pressures http://australianriverrestorationcentre.com.au/mdb/troutcod/videos.php (http://australianriverrestorationcentre.com.au/mdb/troutcod/videos.php)

Title: Re: True Tales of the Trout Cod
Post by: Sweetwater on March 03, 2014, 01:54:11 PM

Hi Jim

I watched a few of them a while back, great listening to some of the history.

Title: Re: True Tales of the Trout Cod
Post by: aussiebasser on March 03, 2014, 08:02:05 PM

Thanks for sharing that Jim.  In the Ovens River history, Bert Carmody's brother married my father's sister, I knew him as uncle Bert, and Wally Mitchell was my mothers cousin.  Mum and Dad had a property at King Valley Valley, and Mum grew up in Edi at the junction of the King River and Boggy Creek.  Dads family had the Whorouly pub near the Ovens River for a while.

Title: Re: True Tales of the Trout Cod
Post by: Jim_Tait on March 03, 2014, 08:15:05 PM

They would of seen the native fish in the good ol days then no doubt!

Title: Re: True Tales of the Trout Cod
Post by: aussiebasser on March 03, 2014, 08:27:06 PM

Dad and Mum's father would fish for Bream near the Edi cutting in the King River.  I had many trips to the top of the Buffalo, King, and Buckland rivers but all we caught were trout.

Title: Re: True Tales of the Trout Cod
Post by: Jim_Tait on March 04, 2014, 04:46:12 AM

The breeding success with Macquarie's lately will hopefully result in them getting a leg up again I spent a bit of time looking for them when I lived in Canberra - the image attached is one we found in the upper Murrumbidgee

Title: Re: True Tales of the Trout Cod
Post by: aussiebasser on March 04, 2014, 06:42:45 AM

We got a few in Dartmouth fishing Downriggers, but I've never got one in a river.  They mentioned a remnant population in the Buffalo River but I never encountered them.