Fairbairn Dam

It is arranged 18 kilometers from Emerald and nearly over the tropic of Capricorn line, Lake Maraboon is Queensland's second biggest lake. It is 265 km west of Rockampton and 900km from Brisbane.

At a monstrous 15000 hectares surface zone when full and holding 1.3 million megalitres of water, the Fairbairn Dam was built in 1972 over the Nagoa River "Hole" making Lake Maraboon Aboriginal for "where the dark ducks fly" The Nogoa's sister streams incorporate the Dawson, Comet, Don, Isaac, Connors and Mackenzie Rivers that shape the Fitzroy River arrangement of Central Queensland. Constructed basically to benefit the Emerald Irrigation Scheme, which delivers about 25% of Queensland's cotton and also huge zones of citrus.

The lake is ruled by masses of standing timber, soak rough banks and wide regions of submerged level nation from the primary bowl ideal to the headwaters. This makes for perfect fish natural surroundings however requires a firm hand on the tiller while exploring at much else besides a troll in a few territories.