Murray cod
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hey im new 2 this site im from australia i have had my cod 4 a while now he is atleast 25cms so he is relatively small he eats any fish the same size or smaller, yabbies, shrimp pellets and beef heat, here is some pics of him in his 6 foot tank enjoy 
Hey
This is my Murray Cod, purchased as a fingerling he is now around 13cm long, pics are a bit out of date sorry.
enjoy
This is my Murray Cod, purchased as a fingerling he is now around 13cm long, pics are a bit out of date sorry.
enjoy
With all those carp, you can either eat them, the main reason they have been moved around the world, or make them into fish food. Bit of a waste to throw them away?
A Predator fish that eats cheese!!! Very cool. Wish my dats would eat cheese!!!
This is based on the first picture caught on cheese bait.
This is based on the first picture caught on cheese bait.
Richie said:
Nup, they taste like crap unless you take the time to prepare them properly (salt the meat and use spices etc.) I know I have tried to eat them! There was an old Italian guy who used to fish near us on the Murray and he told us how you could cook them so they were reasonably edible but its not worth the trouble. Especially when you catch so bloody many of them!
Its illegal to put them back into the water so the only option is to bury them a certain distance from the bank.
We used to walk through the back water lagoons, they would be about chest height(but he mud was nearly waist deep!) and we'd feel around and herd 100's of them into a corner of the lagoon and just throw them on the bank with our bare hands - some were so big you had trouble dragging them out of the water! We would literaly pull hundreds of fish from each lagoon!
Hehehe, ahhh carp. Worst fish ever introduced in history lol
Yeah ive caught a few carp, and seen plenty over 10kg but havent caught one that big myself.
Oh and that lagoon sounds AWESOME! that would be heaps fun!
OH btw, im getting another murray cod, im changing my substrate too because if you saw in my last pics, the substrate is black which gives him that wierd colour so i will use some light browny coloured substrate with BIG river rocks! COOOOOOL!
Yeah ive caught a few carp, and seen plenty over 10kg but havent caught one that big myself.
Oh and that lagoon sounds AWESOME! that would be heaps fun!
OH btw, im getting another murray cod, im changing my substrate too because if you saw in my last pics, the substrate is black which gives him that wierd colour so i will use some light browny coloured substrate with BIG river rocks! COOOOOOL!
Hey fellas,
I live in Melbourne in the western suburbs, i wouldn't mind a good fishing trip to kill some time fishing for carp. If you guys can spare some great spots for carp fishing let me know please... PM me or on here will do fine...we could even get together at the location if you guys are interested?
Let me know
I live in Melbourne in the western suburbs, i wouldn't mind a good fishing trip to kill some time fishing for carp. If you guys can spare some great spots for carp fishing let me know please... PM me or on here will do fine...we could even get together at the location if you guys are interested?
Let me know
The place we used to go to was near Tocumwal, the exact spot is hard to find because you have to cut through private property(a couple of cow paddocks and through some bush), but the beauty was that no one really knew about it at that stage so we would camp there for 3 or 4 days without seeing anyone else. Loads of carp!
The backwaters are seasonal, the river floods, all the carp go into the bush and then the water receeds and the fish are trapped in these lagoons which keep getting smaller until the carp number are concentrated so much you wade through the water and feel them brushing against you! The water is that muddy the only time you can see them is by looking for the disturbance on the top of the water as they swim around. This one time it was really bad, so many carp. The reason we tried to catch as many as we could was coz as soon as the river floods again all these fish end up back in the main river!
The backwaters are seasonal, the river floods, all the carp go into the bush and then the water receeds and the fish are trapped in these lagoons which keep getting smaller until the carp number are concentrated so much you wade through the water and feel them brushing against you! The water is that muddy the only time you can see them is by looking for the disturbance on the top of the water as they swim around. This one time it was really bad, so many carp. The reason we tried to catch as many as we could was coz as soon as the river floods again all these fish end up back in the main river!
