Fork Tailed Catfish in Somerset?

[Fitzy]

A report that fork tailed catfish are now being caught in Somerset is a concern.
If anyone catches one there, please kill it & then let let me know about it.
Some idiots at Wivenhoe were recently asked what they were doing with the heap of small forkies they were catching. Reply was "we're gonna use them for cod live bait".
If you want to use them for live bait, fine, use them in Wivenhoe. DON'T take them anywhere else. To anyone who has taken a forky to Somerset for live-bait, you are a BLODDY IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! # > > >

For those that do the right thing, your help is appreciated.

Cheers,

Fitzy..

[Redback]

fitzy they are not natives i pressume

[Fitzy]

Hi Redback,
They are a native fish, but were never native to the Stanley River or Lake Somerset.

[Redback]

hi fitzy
??? no problem were they already in the brisbane river
and there must of been one hell of a barrier on the stanley for them not to be there just curious
cheers Redback

[Fitzy]

There was possibly a barrier in the old Stanley Gorge that is underwater now, about where the Somerset wall is.
I'm told that forkies were extremely rare even in the Brisbane River where Big W is now, until the 74 floods. After that they were pretty thick there.

fitz

[Fisherman02]

if your ever thinking of having a catfish buster just tell me ill be down the brisbane river in a flash!
cheers jack
that goes for lake wivenhoe too just give me the word