When It Doesn't Rain It Pours !

[Baccus]

Yes it is very frusrating and saddening to see so much death, but at the sametime seeing all the fry in the water is also some hope. Yesterday after most of the fish had died off the water was thick with fry of all sizes and species.
I would have loved to save the eels but no way was I risking the quicksand type mud, croc's or my fingers to an eel bite! Plus I was at work and had nothing with me to attempt resuces with.
But I might be getting two eels that a guy I work with did manage to catch, goodness knows how I would keep them long term, so I might only keep them long enough for a photoshoot and then release them into one of the local water ways that doesn't tend to dry up.

 

[the_lock_man]

It was Queensland in general that was on the news.
 
That dirty great big thing is an eel? Sheesh......

 

[techen]

Looks like a good holiday place.

 

[Baccus]

Yep the big bruiser was an eel and there where plenty more bigger than it again ! Absolutely HUGE. Yesterday I even saw a dead barra being washed down the river, it would have made so many anglers cry

  because it was easy over the legal size of 58cm and probably around the 80cm mark.
The sheer numbers of monster catfish (mainly salmon tailed) and a few eel tailed was also staggering, along with all the babies only about 5-10cm.

 

[dredgy]

I think I have a video of me cruising around in the 2011 floodwaters out near Yeppoon/Byfield. That came up over the bonnet.
 
I didn't think it was *that* bad this year, though I was out of the country for most of it. I could at least get flight into Rocky. The wind was up though, I lost a huge pine tree in my back yard.