And the Association will see the fruits of this labour this weekend when 80 anglers and committee members participate in the eighth annual Brogo Bass Bash.

The competition is booked out each year with anglers coming from around the State and Australia.

"It's getting increasingly hard to catch these fish in their native areas, so the stocking program has allowed anyone from the public not just association members to go and catch a bass at will," Mr Redman said.

The average size of the bass in Brogo dam is around 30 centimetres but there are also some monsters with biggest fish recorded being 50 centimetres long and around four kilograms in weight.

The most recent release was 30,000 fish earlier this month.

Mr Redman and the stocking association also assist Narooma bass breeder Bruce Lawson in collecting the brood stock from local rivers with the relevant permits of course.

Bass do not make all that good eating, according to Mr Redman, but anglers are allowed to keep one fish per day, although this weekend's competition is a catch and release event.

The fish are remarkably hardy with survival rate believed to be as high as 95 per cent.

Mr Redman tells the story how a farmer bought a batch of 100 bass for his farm dam and then several years later drained and netted the dam finding 105 fully-grown adult fish.