BOONDOOMA DAM

Boondooma dam 300kms north west of Brisbane and about a 4 hour drive it is a perfect family getaway with a good caravan park on the foreshore with plenty of cabins and powered and unpowered camping sites leaves you no excuse to come for the weekend or a week. Open to all water activities from kayaking, tubing with the kids lunch on the boat with friends and most of all wetting a line. Boondooma is stocked with Australian bass, golden perch and a growing population of Saratoga and abundant red claw. Its basin is 7km long and quite narrow no more than 1km wide with two river arms that run into the end of it the Stuart and Boyne rivers.Fishing for bass and golden perch you can use a number of techniques from fishing the timbered arms with plastics, spinnerbaits, cranks, lipless cranks and blades. Casting to the edge either looking for laydown logs and rocks using spinnerbaits cranks and lipless, freestanding timber and sunken rock piles blades, plastics and lipless cranks. Fishing the basin you can work blades, plastics and lipless cranks down the step rockfalls, deep points you can use plastics, spoons and blades making long casts sinking lure to the bottom and either hoping or slow rolling past the point back to the boat. Deep flats are much the same as points same lures and techniques will apply to this style. Trolling deep diving hard bodies throughout the lake is also very effective.

Saratoga are still growing in numbers at the moment and are still a bit of a surprised by catch. Caught manly up the back of the Stuart and Boyne around the trees and little bits of weed the dam has. Red claw can be caught in good numbers setting Potts baited with dog or cat biscuits and old fruit and veggies set in depths anywhere from 12ft to 20ft.

Fishing for bass and golden perch you can use a number of techniques from fishing the timbered arms with plastics, spinnerbaits, cranks, lipless cranks and blades. Casting to the edge either looking for laydown logs and rocks using spinnerbaits cranks and lipless, freestanding timber and sunken rock piles blades, plastics and lipless cranks. Fishing the basin you can work blades, plastics and lipless cranks down the step rockfalls, deep points you can use plastics, spoons and blades making long casts sinking lure to the bottom and either hoping or slow rolling past the point back to the boat. Deep flats are much the same as points same lures and techniques will apply to this style. Trolling deep diving hard bodies throughout the lake is also very effective.

Fishing for golden through the day can kill the time while waiting for the Barra to wake up. Fishing soft vibes and blades on the stepper rocky walls casting in shallow and hopping them down the face to deeper water is a good technique or sitting over the top of the school vertically hopping the lure in there face will also work. if you are wanting to get a feed of red claw this is the place to do setting pots around the tree stumps in 15ft of water using cat or dog food and rockmelon should see you eating a red claw dinner.