Next Meeting

14 Aug – 7:30 at Raiders Weston.  Our Annual General Meeting – come along to receive updates on finances and next season’s program. All Office Bearers will face election – nominate if you’d like to help shape the club.

Next Activities

16 – 18 Aug– BJ is taking us to Bondi Forest Lodge – a comfortable cabin near Bombala with a stocked lake. Hopefully we will conduct the 120 minute fly tying/fish catching challenge. Contact BJ to register – we have some already signed up, but there is plenty of room.

28 Aug – to be confirmed when we get next season’s activity program at our AGM. Fly tying by Zoom. Zoom invite and instructions will be sent via email and blog.

15, 22, 29 Sep. Flycasting.

New:

11-13 Oct. Nimmitabel with Paul.

Free to the public. All the info here:

July Newsletter arrived. Top items:

• Trout Allocation Committee meeting completed
• Gaden Trout Hatchery seasonal report
• Don’t get scammed buying a fishing licence in NSW
• New weather app – ‘Jane’s Weather’
• Big Trout finally looking respectable
• Grown-out fish released at Lake Eucumbene

https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=8ee287affb9dbb289b12fbd77&id=487092ae81

For those using our fly tying posts for ideas, I’ve started adding search keywords to the posts and have updated our fly index to explain how to use the index and the blog search function. Thanks Lachy for encouraging this change.

Flies are currently labelled with keywords to effectively create categories labelled wetfly, streamerfly, dryfly, emergerfly and nymphfly (have I missed something?). A fly pattern can have multiple keywords.

Amending all the posts is a work in progress 😀

https://canberra-anglers.asn.au/blog/fly-tying-index/

I got an email from a Canberra fishing acquaintance.

I viewed a Webinar back at the beginning of May titled ‘Webinar: the next phase for carp biocontrol’.

Not sure if you have viewed it, but thought I’d pass it on given the ongoing interest from NSWCFA et al re carp control.

Link to site where Webinar is accessible:

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-trade/pests-diseases-weeds/pest-animals-and-weeds/national-carp-control-plan


I note that identified priority actions include further research work to determine the susceptibility of non target species including Rainbow Trout, along with native species, and species in marine environments.

Cheers

Brett

Claude suggested that I might upload a template for Burley Line newsletter. That way people making contributions can send in documents using fonts etc that the newsletter employs. Indeed, maybe there are some budding co-Editors who’d like to have a go at producing a full edition in the event that I’m away.

If you find it too hard, don’t worry. I’m more interested in getting good newsy stories than having them formatted in the standard fashion.

At the NSWCFA OGM today the meeting discussed a report in relation to stocking of Tiger Trout into various waters.  DPI have been conducting a trial of stocking Tiger Trout into waters where trout are being predated upon by redfin.  The Tiger Trout are envisaged to be less susceptible to predation by redfin, but also to contribute to control of redfin by their own predation of the redfin pest.

NSWCFA are seeking advice from DPI on their observations, however seek your assistance in a piece of ‘citizen science’.  Would seek observations by you on any evidence of Tiger Trout predating on redfin from any Tiger Trout you might take home.

The Tiger Trout experiment has been on for a while now. Lake Lyell, Thompson Creek Dam and Lake Wallace (Lithgow version) have received them already

The Tiger Trout experiment has been on for a while now. Lake Lyell, Thompson Creek Dam and Lake Wallace (Lithgow version) have received them already

Also

https://www.facebook.com/NSWDPIFisheries/posts/121780536797848/