Kev707 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Is there any reason why there are no man made fisheries stocked with trout in Sydney or Australia??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderick -angler Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 What do you classify as man made? You can consider all the Snowy Hydro lakes and pondage as man made! Lake Lyell, TCD, Lake Wallace etc and there's all the privately stocked farm dams in the central west and Victoria! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev707 Posted December 22, 2016 Author Share Posted December 22, 2016 Yeah true I understand that... Im from Scotland. Been here ten years... Snowy Hydro, Lyell, TCD etc are stocked but they are not fished regularly. I am talking a place stocked two to three times a week and people fishing them well daily, also th being more accessible to a wider audience. Than the above mentioned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Kev there's lots of trout hatcheries in New England ,NSW and Tasmania where the public can pay to go and fish for Trout and even Atlantic Salmon. Is that what you mean? Cheers, BN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev707 Posted December 22, 2016 Author Share Posted December 22, 2016 Yes this is what I mean mate! maybe a hole in the market for Sydney?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volitan Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 (edited) There was a trout farm near Lithgow - on the left of the highway just before the jail. You could fish there for a fee. I think it closed down about 5 or so years back. i went in there for a look around once. There were people catching and barbecuing trout. No effort or skill required - the fish were pellet-fed so they jumped on anything which looked like a pellet. The fish had to be artificially fed because it's a lot of fish in a small area so natural food plays no role. personally, they have to be wild fish for me to want to fish for them. I don't like put-and-take fisheries, though I suspect that's becoming a minority attitude. Edited December 22, 2016 by Volitan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volitan Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 (edited) Also remember a similar thing at a barramundi farm. I was staying at Mission Beach in Qld so it must have been somewhere near there. People fishing in large rectangular pools. They did seem to be enjoying themselves. Back in Sydney, there was also a place that advertised having a 'Fishing pond' just off Windsor Road, about one kilometre up Boundary Road. I think maybe it was at a caravan park. I understood it to be a pay fishing pond. I drove past last week and the sign appears to be gone. so it's been done a few times. Edited December 22, 2016 by Volitan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackfish angler Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 8 hours ago, Volitan said: There was a trout farm near Lithgow - on the left of the highway just before the jail. You could fish there for a fee. I think it closed down about 5 or so years back. i went in there for a look around once. There were people catching and barbecuing trout. No effort or skill required - the fish were pellet-fed so they jumped on anything which looked like a pellet. The fish had to be artificially fed because it's a lot of fish in a small area so natural food plays no role. personally, they have to be wild fish for me to want to fish for them. I don't like put-and-take fisheries, though I suspect that's becoming a minority attitude. No more its gone . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackfish angler Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 11 hours ago, luderick -angler said: What do you classify as man made? You can consider all the Snowy Hydro lakes and pondage as man made! Lake Lyell, TCD, Lake Wallace etc and there's all the privately stocked farm dams in the central west and Victoria! Royce is spot on they are the only ones I know also . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bessell1955 Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Volitan, the was Avina Caravan park on Commercial Road Vineyard. The park has just been sold, so I don't know if the fishing still exists . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 11 hours ago, Kev707 said: Yes this is what I mean mate! maybe a hole in the market for Sydney?? I think Sydney may be too warm for trout so any "trout farms" are either further south or at altitude. Cheers, BN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volitan Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 1 hour ago, bessell1955 said: Volitan, the was Avina Caravan park on Commercial Road Vineyard. The park has just been sold, so I don't know if the fishing still exists . Any idea what species of fish was there ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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