Bass or Barra hey? Good question the answer should be easy you would think…. But opinions are like egos everybody has one! From a selfish point of view of a Barra junky the answer is Barra. It’s a great mixed bag there at the moment and some would say that the Barra have been a great success…. And they sort of have been in a way apart from the earlier stockings. Will be interesting to see what the Barra fishery will be like after another big flush out to sea. One thing we know for sure is the Bass fishery has been a great success. Almost every Bass angler I’ve spoken to that has fished most Bass impoundments in QLD & NSW say the same thing…. “Lenthalls is the best Bass dam around”
If the Barra decide to stay in there it would be madness to commingle the stocking of Bass & Barra in a small dam like this. Now these are approximate growth rates only.
Bass @ 55 cm and time taken to grow that size = 15 to 20 years.
Barra @55 cm and time taken to grow that size = 1 year.
Golden perch grow around 5 times as quickly as Bass also.
Commingling of slow and fast growing fish is something that is being tossed around by stocking groups and DPI. Just hope we get it right!
#Cheers Les