Forbes Carp Muster – NSW
March 1, 2025 @ 6:00 am - 3:00 pm AEDT
Celebrate Clean Up Australia Day fishing on the river!
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 on Saturday 1 March 2025 at the Wiradjuri Dreaming Centre at Lake Forbes (Forbes NSW), to remove as many as we can, helping to improve the health of our local waterways.
You can fish at Lake Forbes, or anywhere in the region, as long as you’re back at the OzFish hub at the Wiradjuri Dreaming Centre at 2pm to weigh in your carp. It’s free to enter and there are 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.
Registration begins at 6am at the OzFish hub at the Wiradjuri Dreaming Centre, but in the meantime, you can catch all the competition rules via the link below. While we’re removing carp from the river, this is a catch and release event for natives! All native fish must be returned to the water.
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 Parkes-Forbes Landcare as part of a Landcare NSW – OzFish partnership, with funding support from Australian Government through the CRC Program and BCF – Boating, Camping.