Burrumbeet Creek carp slaughter!

[TrevKing]

" the place has been absolutely hammered by people with landing nets, drag nets, pitchforks " I don't see why people would do that ? what am I missing ? they will die eventually, are they taken to eat or fertilize their gardens ? or just to get them out of the water way ?

People thinking they're doing the right thing, and to some extent they are, but its not really necessary. Some people enjoy it I guess. The majority of fish taken have just been left to rot or chucked back in the creek dead.

I saw an article today saying that the lake is less than a meter deep the whole way through and people are netting them in bulk, taking a couple of tonnes of fish for fertilizer. Apparently a heavy sinker and a big hook cast into the lake results in a fish being foul hooked every cast.

[hornet]

" the place has been absolutely hammered by people with landing nets, drag nets, pitchforks " I don't see why people would do that ? what am I missing ? they will die eventually, are they taken to eat or fertilize their gardens ? or just to get them out of the water way ?

People thinking they're doing the right thing, and to some extent they are, but its not really necessary. Some people enjoy it I guess. The majority of fish taken have just been left to rot or chucked back in the creek dead.

I saw an article today saying that the lake is less than a meter deep the whole way through and people are netting them in bulk, taking a couple of tonnes of fish for fertilizer. Apparently a heavy sinker and a big hook cast into the lake results in a fish being foul hooked every cast.

I see .. I think ? each to their own I suppose ..

[GTSHoon]

Jeez, even though its greath theyre getting cleared out i think its terrible they are leaving them to just suffocate like that, how hard is it for the council to just net them all out????
Imagine the outcry if people did that with any terrestrial animal!!!!!
Cam

[jsonh]

Has anyone tried eating carp before? I mean wow that's a lot of waste protein lol.

[muzza43]

You obviously were not around when mixo and 1080 were laid for rabbits, Cam. Cheers muzza43.

[Texas]

Bugger the carp, let them rot.
Poor Lauchlin was not going to be allowed in the ute.
Gra

[DougieK]

Has anyone tried eating carp before? I mean wow that's a lot of waste protein lol.

I dated a Hungarian lady for a while. Her family thought Euro carp were an excellent table fish. I never tried it.

[sloth]

I think it's pretty average leaving rotting carp behind you. That's someones fishing spot after all. If you're going to target them you should plan for how you're going to dispose of them.

Once it went the rounds on social media it seemed it was an open invite for every half-wit to go up, indulge in some "justifiable" animal cruelty then leave the locals with the problem of a trashed spot through garbage and hundreds of rotting carp.

Lack of respect for a living fish, noxious or not, (which seems to be easily and off-handedly dealt with as "it's only carp") but also massively disrespectful to the locals.

[Rod Bender]

......haven't been myself because I don't see the appeal but apparently the ground is now covered in dead fish and the place reeks of rotting carp.

I'm guessing you have fished there previously in the lake. If so, have you ever caught anything in their other than carp?
cheers
Jim

[TrevKing]

......haven't been myself because I don't see the appeal but apparently the ground is now covered in dead fish and the place reeks of rotting carp.

I'm guessing you have fished there previously in the lake. If so, have you ever caught anything in their other than carp?
cheers
Jim

Only ever caught carp there Jim but have seen a few eels and the odd reddie or rainbow come out in the past couple of years.