Snowy River To be Artificially Opened

[Mattblack]

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It's open!!!

Shame about the boat ban....that would have been fun to shoot at full throttle

[purple5ive]

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It's open!!!

Shame about the boat ban....that would have been fun to shoot at full throttle

YEAH, if you can make it past the sand bars!

[Whiskers]

I went down to Marlo this morning(as did a lot of people) to watch them open the entrance from the cliff top lookouts.

The first water started running through at about 11.15 a.m. Just a trickle at first and then gradually increasing in velocity. As the velocity of the outflow increased the chanel steadily increased in width.

By 12.30 p.m. it was visibly noticeable that the outflow was very strong and the water level in the estuary was dropping. Going back to the jetty at Marlo the estuary gauge was already showing a drop of almost 15cm. There was also a significant downstream current running again.

Because the chanel was excavated as opposed to being blasted the opening was visually nowhere near as spectacular as when they blasted the Bemm a month or so ago but it was still interesting.

I reckon anything that swims is going to be lurking around the entrance tonight and feeding up on a glut of prawns and baitfish that will be swept out to sea.
:water:

[Fishbref]

Interesting: tried to fish the jetty a couple of nights last week for naught - there was a shipload of good size prawn all over the place though...

[tbcha1]

Interesting: tried to fish the jetty a couple of nights last week for naught - there was a shipload of good size prawn all over the place though...

Do they get to a good size at marlo?
we were there early feb and they were all bait size really. But then again we were deep. Read somewhere someone went prawning at lakes and he went waist high. We were around knee level

[Fishbref]

Interesting: tried to fish the jetty a couple of nights last week for naught - there was a shipload of good size prawn all over the place though...

Do they get to a good size at marlo?
we were there early feb and they were all bait size really. But then again we were deep. Read somewhere someone went prawning at lakes and he went waist high. We were around knee level

Yeah; great size - someone had discarded a bunch of flathead skeletons right under the carpark wall and they were all over it like a rash, in less than half a metre of water.

[April Fool]

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Shame about the boat ban....that would have been fun to shoot at full throttle

YEAH, if you can make it past the sand bars!

I think he has the tenacity to do so!!!!!!!

So if it doesn't rain, I guess the mouth will close again? And to start with, if by chance we had heavy rain prior to the artificial opening, it would have opened itself eventually?

It sounds like a natural process which only gets 'rectified' when it impacts private property (or was that another opening?). When the mouth is closed, how does this affect the fish? Are they simply not there cos they detect the closing and they p!ss off to open salt waters therefore leaving nothing for us to catch and therefore poor fishing? Or does the stagnant water kill off the system?
Cheers
Team Bender
Has faith in Mattblacks boating aggressiveness!

[Whiskers]

UPDATE

Nearly three weeks now since the sand bar was artificially opened and the estuary is slowly coming back to normal with good tidal flows again.

The water in the estuary is still heavily coloured due to the silts being carried down from the run off from the flooded paddocks. The Brodribb River is still very dirty but the Snowy River is clean and clear.

Fishing wise it's been a tough few weeks. Plenty of "picker size" bream but good fish have been scarce. There's still some good flathead about and over the last week or so there has been a heap of tailor in the system. Dawn and dusk has been the prime time to get them.

:water: