We have been covering the Great Winburndale Trout Muster, near Bathurst, for 5 seasons now and the project to re-establish a Macquarie Perch population in the catchment they were named after is going very well, according to the NSW Fisheries scientists in charge.

It is a win-win scenario with thousands of wild Brown and Rainbow Trout taken from a protected water supply catchment, where angling isn't allowed, to an accessible fishery down the road at Portland.

The native fish are thriving and the Trout fishery that has been created in the Portland Millpond is outstanding, according to Ray Tang from the Central Acclimatisation Society.

Scott Levi was there to capture the operation involving some great volunteers from the Central West and native fish experts, whom you will meet in this episode of The Big Fish.