Awoonga Reservoir - QLD

Lake Awoonga is located 30km from Gladstone in Central Queensland and boasts spectacular lake and mountain views and picturesque waterfall. Excellent recreation facilities are provided free to the public by the Gladstone Area Water Board with shelter sheds and barbecues, walking paths and playgrounds. Enthusiastic anglers come to Lake Awoonga to catch the famed barramundi of which over two million have been released into the lake. The largest caught by November 2005 weighed in at a hefty 30.3kg! In addition, Lake Awoonga is one of the only dams in Queensland to have been stocked with mangrove jack. Lake Awoonga has been voted the no 1 impounded fishin lake in Australia for barramundi and one of the top ten impounded fishing lakes in the world.