Last night’s office, about an hour before twilight finally disappeared. Oatland’s Lake Dulverton foreshore is a popular overnighter for those travelling the Midlands Highway, and certainly enjoys a better reputation than the one foisted on it by The Mercury, in January 1898:
Lake Dulverton is little more than a quagmire — a breeding ground for pestilence and fever.
The lake has been transformed in recent months — flooded for the first time since 1990 — and teeming with more than 6300 brook and rainbow trout.
And, each afternoon, the local schoolchildren try and haul them in. For the majority it is has been their first opportunity to fish.
Organised by local angler Kerry Mancey, below, the lake has been stocked with 6000 yearling rainbows (about 200mm) released by the Inland Fisheries Service and supplied by Springfield Hatcheries in north-east Tasmania, who had them surplus to their needs.
And on October 20-21 two more lots of adult fish, mainly brooks, were released by the Australian Maritime College. The 300-odd fish were also surplus to their research needs.
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