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Fished the lake in central Canberra a few times over the years. Very good near the sailing club. Early trips required killing the carp, so I didn’t fish. They had carp events intended to reduce numbers: saw dozens caught and killed, sometime by pushing a bank stick through the head. Nasty I thought. Later it became a choice, so I happily fished and caught off the top and returned them. Nothing large but good Sport on fly tackle.
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In reply to Post #7
You don't mean Centenial Park do you between Paddington and Bondi Junction ?
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Me and my expat mate did some under the radar carp fishing in Sydney, I think it is called Central Park. It was at night and we had to hide Every Time a car went past! We did catch a few though, nothing massive, but they do go to over 40lb in those lakes in the park.
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In reply to Post #3
It depends where you are. In NSW it’s not prohibited from returning them from where you caught them from. There does seem to be a push again to release KHV again in Victoria. That being said, I’m not sure how much traction that will get after COVID.
One thing that really irks me, is that they have just legalised Bowfishing, albeit with some rules; but we all know that rules are made to be broken.
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In reply to Post #3
Probably is, was the same in the US when I was younger, maybe not now.
There was talk about deliberately introducing KHV to sort the Carp 'problem' in Australia, was discussed on the forum a while ago iirc.
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I thought it was illegal to return a carp in Australia.. sure I heard that somewhere
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Watched a really great video the other night from an ex pat campaign fishing a big pit in Australia. Some mega fish and non were harmed. Well worth a watch!
https://youtu.be/xG5xN0pkUWw?si=JT-_lNueD67cqEa4
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