Four Springs Lake is looking good for increased fishing action in autumn, when all trout will be keen to lift their condition for winter.
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A new jetty is being built for anglers just south of the car park. It will be rock-filled so visitors should watch out for trucks taking in material.
With Four Springs Lake Reserve a day-use only area, new signs remind visitors that camping and fires are prohibited there, including at the car park.
As mentioned before, the Inland Fisheries Service is working to control cumbungi, or bulrushes, at Four Springs.
Bulrushes along the southern shore will be slashed again late this month and other infestations were sprayed with an aquatic-friendly herbicide on February 7. If not completely successful, this treatment will be repeated in 2019.
Good catches from saltwater continue down East, what with Tasman Sea surface temperature 20 degrees close to St Helens. Nice trevally were taken on bait recently by wading out from a Humbug Point shore near the bar.
Brine is still nearly 19 degrees in the South East off Eaglehawk Neck, where one happy party boated ten southern bluefin tuna last Saturday.
Then those keen on crayfish will welcome recent news from Recreational Fisheries that rock lobsters can now be taken from all biotoxin zones, following the opening of the Maria Island Zone last Sunday, February 18.
The IFS also supports removing noxious weeds from Great Lake, with officers recently joining volunteers in pulling up invasive ragwort from Elizabeth Bay. Although up to 200 acres is now clear, the the project will need to continue for several more years before ragwort is removed from the area.