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Forbes Carp Muster – NSW
August 24 @ 7:00 am - 3:00 pm AEST
Join OzFish and Parkes-Forbes Landcare for a FREE family friendly fishing and clean up 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 on Saturday 24 August at the Wiradjuri Dreaming Centre at Lake Forbes Water Park in Forbes 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’s prizes for the biggest carp and most carp caught, with categories for kids, teens and adults.
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.
