Lake Boondooma

After our overnight stay at Kingaroy, Team Turtle headed, once more, into the mountains and to Lake Boondooma.  Another beautiful spot and supposedly a great Bass fishing Lake - along with several other species of fish.

Team Turtle got itself organised and before we long our camp was set up, Tuf Tinnie was in the water and we were ready to get into the fishing.  Well, the next day anyway!

Our Camp on Lake Boondooma

Once more, the fishing gods had taken a bit of a break and all of the fish had swum off and hidden in the murky brown remnants of Queensland's recent floods.  Or that the raging torrents of floodwater had dragged them over the spillway of the dam.

The staff at the Lake told us that our camp would have been about half a metre under water during the height of the floods!!  And that is a lot of water.

The upside of no fish was that the Red Claw were very prolific in the Dam.  Well, that would be an alternative so we hauled the Red Claw traps out of The Trailer, set them with apples and potatoes and found some appropriate spots for them.  After setting the traps, we attempted to do some fishing.  No luck so we headed back to camp.  On the way we decided to check the traps and found that we had actually caught some.  Wow!!  And only after about an hour - how good were we!

First Little Red Claw

Dinner!!

We had reset the Red Claw traps and so the next day we went back out to check them.  Lo and behold, on that outing we caught a fish.  Well, it wasn't a very big fish and it was caught in the Red Claw trap but it was a fish!!

The Captain - Not Happy.  The Fish - Very Happy

The other traps were very productive as far as Red Claw went and we took home a very good feed that night.

Relaxing at Sunset

The next morning was looking good so we set off again to check the traps and recovered another reasonable feed (no, we are not turning into shellfish).  Reset the traps and went back to camp for lunch.  As it was our last full day at Boondooma, we decided to head out in the afternoon and try our luck, once more, with the fishing.  Found what looked like a nice spot and started trolling.  The Deckie looked up from her task and saw a beautiful rainbow on the other side of the lake.  Very nice except for the rain laden clouds that were just in front of it and heading our way...

The Rainbow and The Rain Clouds

We hauled our fishing lines in as The Captain felt it prudent to try and find a little bit of shelter - which we did and waited out the storm.  Couldn't believe that we waited nearly all day to go out fishing (afternoon is sometimes best) just to be caught in a storm!

Gave up on the fishing, checked our traps and then headed back to camp.

We were up bright and early on Tuesday morning, went and brought another lot of Red Claw in and then packed up our camp for our next part of the journey.