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Grahame Wicks, 1999, Trout Stream and Fly Rod – Review by Shaun

The book follows a familiar pattern, a series of stories based on a series of fishing trips. It’s no less interesting as a result though – the main selling point for us is that it’s very local. Grahame fishes the Cotter, Point Hut, Angle Crossing, Frying Pan. The stories are from his very early fishing career in the 70s, so there’s a nice local history aspect here as well. The book is a local pressing and might be a little hard to find. I’m happy to lend my copy if this is the case.

Phillip Weigall, 2009 & 2011, Fishing Season and Fishing Sense (Two Volumes) – Review by Shaun

Phil’s prose style is pretty clear and straightforward, not remotely flowery. He still manages to capture the reasons why we fish, and the feelings that go along with it. The local content is appealing, and Phil peppers his stories with advice and technique that make me want to get the highlighter pens out. If you can find a copy of Trout Stories from 2004, it’s also written in a similar vein. (Editor: – I’ve got that in my library J)

Fly Tying 24 Feb 2021 – F Fly

Claude led the way.

Recipe:

Hook: Hanak 130BL #14-20

Thread: 8/0-16/0 Black

Tail: Nothing or Pearl Crystal Flash

Body: CDC or Possum Fur or any other fine dubbing you have

Wing: 4-6  CDC feathers

Details:

The F Fly is one of the simplest and deadliest fly patterns. It is a Great all round Trout  fly pattern. Tied in a range of sizes and colours it imitates a range of  insects the CDC wing silhouette can be used to represent many caddis, olives and midge species.

The F fly is very effective in both rivers and still waters. 

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Ginninderry and Bidgee Access

From BJ:

This is a couple of years old but I ran into a “ranger” when I walked down from Shephards Lookout entrance with rod in hand a few weeks ago.

They are restricting access while reforming the land use, but informally tolerating fisherman. However land use negotiations with Corkhills next door mean that the fence lines might become harder than they were on the north side of the river.

They’ll be building a water “park” access for the Gininderry residents.

https://ginninderry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Attach-A-Ginninderry-Corridor-POM-1.pdf

February 2021 Burley Line (Newsletter Issue 164)

Apologies, I should have uploaded into our ‘Gear‘ blog the report by Jason on his experience with a lightweight raft before first uploading Feb Newsletter. It is there now.

Seen at Tilba Tilba:

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles”  More quotes from Doug Larson here.

The shift from December to January for our Jindabyne trip proved very successful.  A huge report is enclosed.  Also reported is Claude and BJ’s efforts in the Carp Capers – many thanks guys for the words and photos.  Jason M has excelled again with two articles – his side trip after our Coastal Outing off shore to Montague Island, plus a quick review of his latest lightweight ‘canoe’ … looks more like a swimming ring to me 🙂