Peter Faust Dam is on the Proserpine River and when full, covers 4350 ha with a capacity of 500,000 ml.  The Dam was constructed for irrigation, flood mitigation and town water supply.  It is situated 26 km inland from Proserpine and construction was completed prior to December 1990, just before the big wet of 1991.  Although anticipated to take 10 years to fill, the Dam was at 98% after this first wet season.  Since then the water level steadily fell to approximately 40%, but the level is now at 78% after two years of good wet seasons.

Since the inaugural meeting of Faust Dam Fish Stocking Association Inc. on the 1st May 1990 the committee members have establishing a fishery which was described by Modern Fishing magazines Rod Harrison who first fished the Dam during December 1998, as the best fishing he had ever experienced in an impoundment.

The stocking group with assistance of D.P.I. have stocked Barramundi, Sooty Grunter, Sleepy Cod and a few Saratoga.  Only the Sleepy Cod and Saratoga will breed in the Dam.  The Barramundi have only been stocked since March 1996, when we received a special permit to stock 100,00 Cairns strain Barramundi.  These fish have been a great success, with the larger fish measuring 1.2 metre's and weighing over 30 kg.  Sooty Grunter are more readily caught, and fish in the 3 to 4 kg range are being caught regularly. Sleepy Cod are showing up in good numbers with electrode fishing surveys, but only a few are being caught by line.  Although Saratoga have been seen in the Dam, only three confirmed catches have been made since their release.