Canowindra Carp Muster – NSW
July 20 @ 6:00 am - 3:00 pm AEST
Join OzFish and Mid Lachlan Landcare for another FREE family friendly fishing and cleanup event!
Our natives are at risk from invasive European Carp, so it’s time to band together and remove these destructive bottom feeders from the Lachlan River and surrounding wetlands! While we’re at it, we’ll clean up some rubbish from around and in our waterways.
We’re hosting a Carp Muster to remove as many as we can, helping to improve the health of our local waterways.
It’s free to enter and there’s prizes for the biggest carp and most carp caught, with categories for kids, teens and adults. In order to enter your carp into the prize categories, you must also collect at least 50 items of rubbish from local waterways. A prize will also be given for most rubbish collected.
Date: Sunday 20 July 2025
Time: 6am – 3pm AEST
Venue: Age of Fishes Museum, 129 Gaskill St, Canowindra NSW 2804
What to bring
- Bring your fishing gear.
- Please wear sun-safe clothing and enclosed shoes.
- Make sure to bring drinking water and snacks for the day.
Competition times
- 6:00am at the OzFish hub on the day.
- 2:00pm to 2.30pm
- At the OzFish hub at the Age of Fishes Museum
- 2.30pm to 3:00pm
- No late submissions will be accepted.
This event is also a Yabby Trap Drop Spot! Bring along any old and unwanted opera house yabby traps and get an Oar-Gee Plow lure. Opera house nets are illegal in NSW and those collected will be recycled into useful products for anglers, with the proceeds being used to support habitat restoration.
Registration is essential. We hope to see you there!
Competition Rules Register now
The event is run by OzFish and Mid Lachlan Landcare as part of the Landcare NSW – OzFish partnership, with funding support from Australian Government through the CRC Program, behalf of the ANZ Community Foundation and BCF – Boating, Camping, Fishing.