New Trout Dam opening in the Mornington Peninsula

[arpie]

Hi guys

Ro Paxevanos recently 'reviewed' the DevilBend Reserve dam (near Mornington Peninsula) that will be opened to the public in Mid December 2012! It is a 'decommissioned' water dam & after lobbying by local anglers to open it to the public, I bet the opening day will be well attended! It will be opened at night as well - tho fishing will be restricted to a 5hectare area (from an availability of 250ha water in the lake.) Hopefully, more areas will be opened as time progresses - and who knows, eventually it may even be opened to Yak fishing, if lobbied by local yakkers!!

It has been well stocked with brown & rainbow trout & supposedly has some cod as well!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBSmFdmzSvc&feature=plcp

Info on the park

http://parkweb.vic.g...evilbend-n.f.r.

A map of the lake

http://parkweb.vic.g...vilbend-Map.pdf

Cheers - good to see local govt working well with anglers!!

Roberta

[luderick -angler]

Hi Roberta,

hows things? I have been following this one closely the Vics are so lucky they have a lot more access to trout waters close to Melbourne than we do! Hopefully it works out and as you say they open up more waterway!

[arpie]

Hi Royce

All is good!! Been pretty busy in the last couple of months ....... and it won't get any easier in the lead up to Xmas!! I will be hunting some of the big blackies that lurk around the leases tho, soon!

Yes, they sure are lucky to have such a productive waterway made available to them!! 24/7 access if you are prepared to walk in.

From memory, there is a big pond up the back of Pittwater somewhere that they could do that to!!! Big BASS would be a bonus tho!!

cheers

Roberta