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Our President is an avid podcast listener. He’s suggested that this series from The Flyfisher team is worthy of a look. According to their note “What we have in the pipeline is informative chats with some big-name characters that we can’t wait to air. If you’re Aussie and you flyfish, you’re going to love this commentary”.
The podcasts are being offered via a number of channels. Their website is only showing Episode 1 but perhaps it will become their main gateway. https://theflyfisher.com.au/blogs/news/the-flyfishers-podcast
I have included this in our “useful links” page.
BJ led. “The Bredbo – first fly of the Monaro?”
BJ said that it’s like a March Brown Wet but slightly different. It’s a hopper pattern which may still be relevant this season. Special bits are mottled wing slips (hen or turkey or partridge brown) and Golden Pheasant tippets plus partridge beard hackle. Everything is infinitely variable.
BJ wrote that a very good description of the fly can be found at http://www.fishingwithflies.com/Bredbo.htm
BJ Provided some hints in this scan.
After the tying session he provided an image of his flies having a test swim. Saying “Should have shown this before camera off. The tented wing helps them sit in the still water film for quite a while”
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As has been discussed and forecast at CAA meetings, the club has affiliated with ANSA NSW. This brings a number of benefits including access to a group Public Liability Insurance and another voice in respect to recreational fishing. While the club as an organisation is affiliated, ANSA offers the opportunity for our members to also join as individuals the association (for a nominal fee) with benefits such as personal accident insurance and being able to register for the ANSA record book. More will be explained in a forthcoming Newsletter (and also on our website in due course).
Learn more about ANSA here.
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So, the club has recommenced meetings with a great ZOOM talk by Neil Nelson from Illawarra FlyFishers on his adventures in New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay area – hitting some spectacular rivers. Fly tying has recommenced with two new instructors coming forward with Claude and Lyall being unavailable – well done guys. Finally our first club event in an age down to Jindabyne – a perennial well received event staying at CSIRO Ski Club lodge. Many thanks have been passed to the club from ours.
Also, people have been getting out on their own. Some reported here, others only via the grapevine. Don’t forget folks, reports on your successes are always welcome for the newsletter.
BJ has done it again with a cracking brown achieving cover pic status.
Don’t forget that Claude is running the Tantangara trip in just a few weeks. He would like people to RSVP by Fri 25 Feb. More information is here.
Jaime has slipped some secret instructions to me, maybe a photo sometime. I can attest to the value of this fly after watching Jaime use it on a river that shall not be named.
MICRO-CADDIS FLY
This fly has become my favorite dry fly since last season. The main reason is because it just works very well for picky fish, those that refuse almost everything, that’s where it shines!
It’s also a very simple and easy fly to tie. Basically only one material: CDC feathers (if we skip the obligatory hook and thread). But here is a better description of all you will need:
HOOK:
Original recipe asks for #20, better if it’s a dry fly hook. However, I have been tying it in #18 and has worked well. I will try to avoid going smaller than that. I mean, you can tie it as big as you want and will catch fish but as I said above, it really shines when you find picky fish and that commonly (although not always) implies small flies. I love the Hanak 130 BL because the bent-in point. I want to emphasize the use of a dry-fly hook because is ligther. This fly doesn’t have too much material to keep it floating so the less weigth we put in it the better. Besides, the feathers tends to wear-off fast (however, and surprising, it floats very good cast after cast even after lossing many of the feather fibers).
BODY & WING:
2-3 CDC feathers. For the body, I normally choose tan or natural feather color. For the wing is better to use ligther color (ligth gray or white) to increase visibility. As said before, the fly does’nt have too much material and wears-off fast so ligth color helps to keep track of your fly, specially in choppy water.
THREAD:
I use 30D or 50D because it doesn’t need anything stronger. Also helps to keep the fly ligther. Use the thinner you have/feel comfortable with. Match the color with the body CDC.
OPTIONAL: any material to create a trailing shuck – examples: clear color ice dubbing, antron yarn.
TOOLS:
Besides the vice, bobbin and the whip finisher you will need a hackle plier.
TIPS:
Apply floatant liquid as soon as you tie it to your tippet. It keeps it floating cast after cast. Use the floatant powder if starts sinking. In general, this fly dries very easy just with a couple of false casts.
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