There is a huge park in Sydney called Centennial Park. It's 1 klm east of the CBD.
There are lots of ponds in it, and like all inland waterways it has a carp problem.
So once a fortnight, they let people go carp fishing! It's under the banner of the Volunteer Ponds Group. Since November last year, they have removed 1.1 tonne of carp from the ponds.
So three of us took off from the office at 2.30pm last Tuesday and we were fishing by 3pm. It's such a nice park, nestled in the eastern suburbs, the odd horse goes round the riding track, packs of eastern suburbs tossers on cycles whiz past, and there we were fishing.
There were about a dozen blokes and a few kids. Most of the blokes looked like tradies. Two blokes wandered down in nice gear and started fly fishing. I'd be betting they were lawyers who lived locally.
They didn't catch anything.
The preferred bait? Bread. Those fish have grown up on bread.
Hans caught a 6 kilo fish and Kien caught a 4 kilo. Being an Aussie born Vietnamese, I think it broke his heart that he couldn't take that fish home and cook it up.
I suggested to the ranger that they should think about releasing some pigs in the park so we could go shooting, too.
Scott
There are lots of ponds in it, and like all inland waterways it has a carp problem.
So once a fortnight, they let people go carp fishing! It's under the banner of the Volunteer Ponds Group. Since November last year, they have removed 1.1 tonne of carp from the ponds.
So three of us took off from the office at 2.30pm last Tuesday and we were fishing by 3pm. It's such a nice park, nestled in the eastern suburbs, the odd horse goes round the riding track, packs of eastern suburbs tossers on cycles whiz past, and there we were fishing.
There were about a dozen blokes and a few kids. Most of the blokes looked like tradies. Two blokes wandered down in nice gear and started fly fishing. I'd be betting they were lawyers who lived locally.
They didn't catch anything.
The preferred bait? Bread. Those fish have grown up on bread.
Hans caught a 6 kilo fish and Kien caught a 4 kilo. Being an Aussie born Vietnamese, I think it broke his heart that he couldn't take that fish home and cook it up.
I suggested to the ranger that they should think about releasing some pigs in the park so we could go shooting, too.
Scott
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