BARRAMUNDI FISHINGLAKE MONDURANMonduran Dam
Located approximately 20klms from the Town of A huge body of water, Monduran dam is an impressive waterway which offers superb barra fishing 365 days a year. The waterway travels over 30klms upstream from the dam wall, an open basin with weed fringes greets you and as you travel up stream the landscape changes to a maze of flooded forests and submerged timber. Barramundi by nature are a structure orientated fish, and it’s these flooded forests that many huge Barramundi call home. Are you up to the challenge of heart in the mouth barra fishing in dense timber forests? Being the fifth largest dam in Choosing a guided trip with Rob Wood will fast track your knowledge, and give you the skills necessary to turn up next time with a plan which will enable you to find fish and target them successfully. Currently in excess of 100,000 Barra fingerlings are stocked into Monduran Dam per year, already boosting the existing an impressive amount of fish that have been stocked since the late 90’s. In 1997 the Monduran Anglers and Stocking Group (MASA) was formed and through the dedication and hard work of both past and present members, Monduran Dam is now at the top of the impoundment Barra scene. Its relative closeness to A charter on Monduran will teach you how to find Barra, what types of habitat it prefers and why, tactics when fishing in heavy cover, what lures will lead to success and techniques that will have you catching barra when others struggle. There is a vast array of tactics and methods that are extremely successful on Monduran. If you fly to Bundaberg we can organise airport pick up with our courtesy bus and arrange accomodation at one of our local motels or you can stay with us in our in our local hotel and enjoy some of the best meals in SE Queensland. We have a permanent Chef who can arrange your meals personally.Take advantage of our value added pakages which include all meals,accomodation,airport pick up and charter.
Barramundi
The mighty barramundi is without doubt one of Wild, local saltwater fish have been purchased and transported to Monduran Dam by our local stocking group MASSA. The fingerlings are then released into the Monduran catchment and left to fend for themselves. This stocking is at a rate of 250,000 fingerlings per annum. Roughly 30 percent of those fingerlings will go on to survive, meaning incredible numbers of barra roam in the depths and among the snags at Lake Monduran. An abundant food source combined with optimum weather conditions see the fingerlings grow at a staggering rate, tagging data suggests that once they reach 12 months of age the fish then go on to put on an average of 3.5kg per year. Barramundi as young as 4 years old (average is five) can reach the magic metre mark once this milestone is reached the fish tend to take on a classic “impoundment” look, with broad shoulders, a scooped head and chunky flanks. Much like their saltwater cousins, impoundment barra fight hard and fast, with lightening turns of speed and impressive aerial displays. They are a fantastic fighting species and incorporate fast running spurts of power, head shaking and often clear the water a number of times before coming to the net. There are many misconceptions amongst the fishing fraternity regarding these fish but make no mistake impoundment barra are an incredible challenge, fight like mad and will test your skills. Are you up to the challenge?
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