Vermin day at NPD.

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Went to NPD this morning. Mate started the day off with a stinking slimy forky.

 Followed by a magnificent stick fish landed on 6lb mono.

Ended up with half a tub of vermin.

Fun day.
 Cheers
Ray

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Good onya 

Did you give the power tail the last rights?

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Certainly did got the big knife same as tilapia. They are a fairly rare catch and only seem to get them after a heavy rain event but no way do they go back to breed.
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Ray

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Certainly did got the big knife same as tilapia. They are a fairly rare catch and only seem to get them after a heavy rain event but no way do they go back to breed.
Cheers
Ray

I wonder how the power tails got into Lake Samsonvale..... Any ideas? I'm told that some guys caught bringing some small live forkies to Somerset from Wivenhoe to use as live bait for cod. 

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Got my first one in there in 2007, when we had an on water tagging day launching from the sailing club. That was the first one anyone in the club had heard of coming out of there. There have been semi regular catches of them in small number since, but no explosion of the mongrels as yet. Its gotta be coming though.

Introducing Forkies into a waterway is just an act of bastardry, at least Tilapia are a reasonable table fish, so you can sort of understand someone doing it.

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No idea how they got there never caught or heard of one caught upstream of Petrie weir pre dam.
Possible there was an initial very small founder population though.
Seem to come in 2 sizes 60 ish and 40 ish never caught one myself mate got one on the 2010 tagging day (pic)
Rays boat seems to attract them, with Brian onboard bound to get one   

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Went back this morning and scored another 16 for the bin in around an hour and a half. Using redclaw flesh for bait.
Good fun on light gear. The gar were a pest as I was fishing in only 4 feet of water.
Didnt even bother trying for a bass.
 CHeers
Ray

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Back again today for some more. Also noted on the catch cards 3 foirkies caught.
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Ray

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Yeah, one by me, went out to get my shrimp pots, only took my lures, as usual not a touch trolling or casting - bummed some bait of Ray and Rick then put a few tillies away myself. 9 Tillies and 1 forkie was the final score for me. Worse thing was the size of the forkie, obviously a smaller version, so definitely been breeding up.

They certainly go well, first big one was on the 2 kilo rod, it just wandered off and I couldn't turn it, eventually breaking the 6lb line as I got frustrated. Changed over to a bass rod with 10lb leader for the rest. Still gave me lots of stick.

This is fast becoming the NPD double for the day.

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I recently started a new job doing landscape maintenance along the Gateway Motorway between Nudgee and the motorway bridge over the Brissie river and every drain,channel and puddle has Tilapia in them. One puddle was only 3 inches deep at the most and just a depression at the bottom of a batter (slope down the side of the motorway at bridge approaches) and would surely be dry if the rain stopped. Bow waves throughout the shallow water and heaps of 2 - 3 inch Tilapia happily swimming away in a spot that is higher than all the surrounding area so they must have got in there during the floods/high tide combination of conditions. They are in every waterway I have seen so far - beyond control now. Pat.

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Well me n a mate got this fork 200 meters from the wier

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They are still thick. 29 in 90 minutes would have got more but was only using 6lb line and fish kept running into snags.
 
Cheers
Ray