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Yes Daphnia they are tiny and form a white slim in the gut, and when the rainbows are eating then they can be hard to catch. They also give the lake trout there orange colour flesh as well as other crustations (yabbies).

Fished Eucumbene Dam from the 18th till the 26th of April fishing was hard. Trolling averaged around 6 fish per day with 2 boats but putting in long hrs up to 12 hrs per day trolling mainly tassies and deep divers. Somedays caught nothing. No luck at Cobrabald, Buckenderra, Seven Gates, Frying pan or up the Portal. Heard the brown trout had there first run up the river with the rain before Easter. Some bait fishermen were doing well up towards the portal landbased in the evenings Fishing best Adamidaby Bay and Springwood Rainbows were full of the small lice mainly Browns eating mainly yabbies Best trout browns 66 cm weight 7.5 lbs on a Red Stukey.

The world's largest fishing vessel, the factory freezer ship Lafayette, has turned up in Pacific waters east of Australia. The controversial 49,000-tonne Lafayette, and six attendant trawlers, registered on satellite-tracking systems north-east of Norfolk Island on Friday, Greenpeace said. The Russian-flagged and Chinese-owned vessel is five times the size of the Dutch factory trawler Margiris, which was banned from Australian waters in 2012. ''It should be very worrying to the region that a vessel of the size of Lafayette would target fish in the South Pacific,'' Greenpeace campaigner Nathaniel Pelle said. Advertisement ''The waters where it is now face a crisis of overcapacity. A vast number of vessels are making their way into the Pacific chasing reduced fish numbers.'' Lafayette's appearance left regional fisheries organisations scrambling to find out what would likely disappear into its blast freezers. Pacific Andes said it was headed for the jack mackerel fishery. ''It is not taking on board fish in Australian waters,'' a Pacific Andes spokesman in Hong Kong said. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/worlds-largest-floating-fish-factory-in-pacific-waters-20140216-32tv0.html#ixzz2tXrcPPRA

Yes stuffed, the larger ones look like they had a throw down stubbie in them full of yabbies. Not much of a fly fisherman but will have a go, from around australia day to anzac day is great for brown trout in the lake depending on the levels.

Yes you can catch them with drop nets only on Eucumbene, we did try this for 3 days on the darker banks but had not luck.The ones in the photos are out trouts stomach. All trout we caught were eating yabbies.

Fished Eucumbene Dam from the 6th till the 13th of October fishing was generally hard with the fish shutting down over the weekend the the cold change 12-13th. Trolling averaged around 7 fish per day, 1 boat but putting in long hrs up to 9 hrs per day trolling. No luck at Seven Gates, Frying pan or up the portal but may be due to the conditions low barometer. Heard the fishing on the river for the opening was hopeless less than 5 fish from 100 so anglers. Rainbows marking down on the thermocline at 3.5- 4m taking flat line tassys. Eating lice in the thermocline according to the bloke from fisheries- very helpful. Browns eating yabbies on the bottom clear marks on the sounder caught on lead lines and deep divers trolled way back. 2 best trout browns 59 and 58 cm weight 5-5.5 lbs. Fishing poor on the dropping barometer and wind was a shocker Only saw 4 fish rise the whole trip.

Super Trawler saga continues: Now it's the super freezer! 21 Jan 2013 News comment by Fisho staff writers THE arrival last year of a massive foreign-owned super trawler wanting to decimate baitfish stocks around most of the southern half of the continent caused considerable controversy, with angry anglers pressuring the federal Government to ban the huge industrial fishing vessel. The campaign was a success, with federal Environment Minister Tony Burke forced to act after protests by thousands of fishos. But Seafish Tasmania, the company behind the super trawler venture, hasn't given up. Fisho understands the company now wishes to use the 142m vessel as a floating freezer so that a fleet of trawlers can feed it with baitfish. The vessel is able to process and freeze thousands of tonnes of fish per day. Traditionally, the fishery operated by having trawlers come back to port each day to offload their catch of redbait and blue mackerel both important baitfish for key recreational species such as southern bluefin tuna, marlin, yellowfin tuna and sharks. The fish are also a vital food source for seals, dolphins and other marine mammals. THE arrival last year of a massive foreign-owned super trawler wanting to decimate baitfish stocks around most of the southern half of the continent caused considerable controversy, with angry anglers pressuring the federal Government to ban the huge industrial fishing vessel. The campaign was a success, with federal Environment Minister Tony Burke forced to act after protests by thousands of fishos. But Seafish Tasmania, the company behind the super trawler venture, hasn't given up. Fisho understands the company now wishes to use the 142m vessel as a floating freezer so that a fleet of trawlers can feed it with baitfish. The vessel is able to process and freeze thousands of tonnes of fish per day. Traditionally, the fishery operated by having trawlers come back to port each day to offload their catch of redbait and blue mackerel both important baitfish for key recreational species such as southern bluefin tuna, marlin, yellowfin tuna and sharks. The fish are also a vital food source for seals, dolphins and other marine mammals. Seafish Tasmania plans to sell these fish to African nations for about $1 a kilo. In previous years fleets of foreign super trawlers ravaged the African fisheries, thus making them unviable for local fishermen and causing food supply issues. Anglers and environment groups have questioned the rationale around letting a super trawler responsible for wiping out the African fisheries catch Australian fish to sell to African people who could easily feed themselves if the super trawlers hadn't caught all their fish! This latest bid by Seafish Tasmania has been strongly questioned by angling leaders. "We need to understand more about this proposal. Having a fleet of smaller boats supply the super trawler continuously with baitfish may causes the same sort of concerns that we had with the supertrawler localised depletion," Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation CEO Allan Hansard said. "In fact, it could even be worse as you'll have numerous trawlers all fishing a specific area and bring their catch back to the 'super freezer' for processing. "Our position on this is the same as for the supertrawler, we want to see the science on the stock and movement of the SPF before any decision on how it is fished is made." Fisho understands the Australian Fisheries Management Authority is currently assessing the super freezer proposal. In Fisho's opinion, the federal Fisheries Minister Joe Ludwig needs to take control of this situation and purchase Seafish Tasmania's "small pelagic fishery" quota. Further, Fisho takes the stance that industrial fishing is not an option in Australian waters we've all seen what it's done to fisheries in other parts of the world. It's just not sustainable, no matter how allegedly "well managed" it is. Surely no one apart from those who stand to profit from this venture and maybe a few old school fisheries scientists and managers who believe in the "fish it hard" philosophy, would want super trawlers/super freezers working our waters? And how in all honesty can the federal Government allow this sort of intensive exploitation occur when it is currently planning on banning recreational fishers from 1.3 million square kilometres of Australian waters as part of its marine parks plans? Doesn't the Government realise how hypocritical it would be to allow a factory freezer to process thousands of tonnes of baitfish while at the same time banning mums, dads and kids from wetting a line? Stay tuned for further updates! For further reading click on this link http://www.fishingworld.com.au/news/super-trawler-saga-continues-now-it-s-the-super-freezer

European super trawler set to plunder Australian waters 14 Jun 2012 CONTROVERSIAL super trawler, the FV Margiris, a giant vessel measuring 143 metres long, with a net 600 metres long and a capacity of 9500 tonnes is set to target baitfish in Australian waters. The super trawler that has caused controversy for its role in fishing off Europe and West Africa is now coming to Australia, courtesy of SeaFish Tasmania in a joint venture with its Lithuanian owners. According to a report in Tasmania's Examiner, the massive trawler will be based in Devonport from where it will target slimy (blue) mackerel baitfish along the Eastern seaboard in Commonwealth waters, from Queensland down to Tasmania and across to Western Australia. The vessel has a total allowable catch of 18,000 tonnes a year, freezes its catch on-board, and can stay at sea for six to eight weeks at a time. The frozen mackerel blocks will reportedly be cold stored in Devonport, and shipped out to West Africa and Asia. The move is understandably causing widespread uproar among recreational and commercial fishers and environmental groups, due to valid concerns over the long term impact such large scale harvesting will have on the marine food chain. Greenpeace oceans campaigner Nathaniel Pelle said the organisation had confronted the Margiris off the coast of Mauritania in March, for its role in what it says is overfishing in the North Sea and South Pacific ''to the point of plunder''. The environmental group claims the industrial super-trawler is part of the European Association of pelagic freezer trawlers (PFA), responsible for "some of the worst fishing excesses on the planet.'' It said PFA vessels had been reponsible for jack mackerel stocks off Chile plummeting by 90 per cent. "There has never been a trawler of this scale in Australian waters to my understanding before and that is a serious concern that we just don't know what effect it will have on the food chain," Greens MP Kim Booth said. However, Australian unions are supporting the trawler because the majority of crew will be from Tasmania and the Federal Government says vigorous checks will be applied to its catch rates. Share on emailEmailinShare.0reader comments try the trawler in canberra no baitfish but a huge batfish there with enough hot air to stop the freezer ken on 15-Jun-12 04:35 AM Yep thats right "STOP" us from fishing in scientific studied fish zones & let other countries come in & slaughtering our fisheries,, all for money!! mabe we should give the goverment more money to fish as thats all it takes by the sounds of it!! They already take money from us for fishing wich should be every Australian free right please explain??? Brett on 14-Jun-12 09:30 PM FROM THE FISHING WORLD WEBSITE

Mark Very Busy with work. Will be fishing SHOOTOUT with Mike on REEF MAGIC subject to weather. Hope to catch up with Rob and yourself in Port Stephens Steve

Mark (Boattart) Are you and Rob fishing the shootout Steve