Winter Redfin Lake Burley Griffin 2010`

I did a few trips out over the last week to Lake Birley Griffin and the redfin have schooled up and are easy picking once you have found them. Managed to land 80 odd in an hour or so on the last trip where it was a fish a cast for that hour. The suprising thing is the size of the fish we have caught. Most fish around the 30-35cm mark with a few going over 40cm.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• fishing
• australia
• canberra
• lake
• burley
• griffin
• buckleys
• lures
• outlaw
• spinnerbaits
• redfin
• english
• perch

[UndoneB4Broken]

i hope you made use of this fish. im a local my self but to see such good meat go to waste is some how disturbing. being such a good eating fish aswell. instead of throwing them back or throwing them away with such a copius ammount you should have taken them to one of the local homless shelters or something

[BuckleysLures]

@UndoneB4Broken most were taken by a couple fo fellow anglers on tha bank mate. Im not too keen to hand them off to other people to eat as the water quality in LBG is pretty ordinary. I wont eat them myself so handing them onto a homeless shelter and making others crook wouldnt be very nice at all. But if the people who take them from me want to eat them, best of luck to them.

[ThePhasMan]

Us in England can only dream of such good perch fishing as they are not that common, hard to catch in our waters and prised as a catch and return sport fish.

I understand that they are a pest there, there surely must be a market for a company to buy all the live perch you guys catch, ship them to the UK to stock depleted waters.

Sadly we nearly lost all Perch in the 70s but they are making a comeback - but I doubt they will never get a prolific as you have them.

[BuckleysLures]

@ThePhasMan wish we could round em all up and send them back, along with the carp mate. They thrive over here in most areas and are a real threat to our native species. A group of local fisherman are having a day out this sunday to round up and cull as many as we can from one of our local impoundments. I should have a video up if the fishing is good. Im not sure of the record here is australia, but 6lb wouldnt be too uncommon in some areas. Biggest ive landed is 42cm, which is a good size fish

[pedro29]

I just don't understand why you kill so much fish... and i will never do

[BuckleysLures]

@pedro29 they are a pest in our waters, very very bad for our native fish, Thats why they are not returned to the water.

[hampster469]

what lures u using? top video!!

[johnniwonton1976]

G'day mate! I'm in West Oz and tried so many times for these pest! I've only caught fingerlings? What was the water temp are you guys fishing in cause i know the heat slows them down on the feeding stage and are your retrievals on your lures always slow or would you retrieve faster in clear water?

Could you help me please.

[pigeonfromhell]

may be a pest but lovely fried in egg and flour. best I caught was 3.5 lbs near corowa about '76 then we moved to coast

[ThePhasMan]

Incidently, whats the Oz record in pounds for a redfin (Perch)?

In England it's now 6lb 4oz but thats rare - anything over 3lb is huge.

[MrMyshed]

that a good catch i catchem on lake eldion ive got a nice spot and alwas get 5/8 good size fish im heading up this weekend with my son top vid boyz i subed sub bak

[iamfisherman1]

@PoliticalExile3 in victroia it is illegal to return red fin aswell as carp back into the water ways and if your caught doing it it is a very pricey fine