Apologies to those who read the September newsletter when first published. I made an error in future events with date of September meeting and Mayfly Madness. Corrected issue here.

A big issue this month.  High point is the report on our AGM, with a new committee (welcome Xenii) and all the awards for the club trophies (well done all of you).

After the AGM the meeting had some discussion on matters trout cod and Snowy Hydro 2.0.  I’ve pursued some of the matters raised and report back here.

At least we had one member do well on our Black Lake visit (just look at the cover photo) – we others just need to try harder!

Many thanks always to Greg S for his on-line snippets.  Always entertaining.

Two final items:

• a reminder that the August meeting is important as we need to consider and vote for some changes to our Constitution.
• Casting to the Public is coming very soon.

This is a quiet time of the year and reflected in the size of the newsletter. Much appreciate the efforts by the contributors: Greg S has excelled himself, James provided some quite envious images from saltwater in warmer climes and Ryan has reported on a less than stellar club trip to Merimbula. By the way, the ‘Joe’ who Ryan referred to is Joe Manzano, the guy who taught us to tie his shrimp fly back in June https://canberra-anglers.asn.au/blog/fly-tying-25-june-2025-joes-saltwater-shrimp/

My session with fly tying paraloop/hackle stacker only drew two observers so there’s no report here – I encourage everyone to check out the various YouTube links, it is an interesting technique.
Don’t forget to put the AGM and the fly casting into your calendar.

While there were no formal CAA events, many members headed uphill for the last of the stream trout fishing.  Bucking the trend, Ryan and Tom headed to the coast chasing some willing Australian salmon.  This has enthused him for a mid-winter estuary trip down to Merimbula.  Already I can see much interest evinced on the CAA Whatsapp group.

While BJ wasn’t able to wet a line during a work trip overseas, he provided us with some very attractive Canadian fishing photos.

This month’s fly tying saw a special guest lead, and intriguing material.  The attendees were fascinated and saw multiple opportunities.

As always, many thanks to Greg S for the outcomes from his Facebook trawls.

It should be a very informative meeting this month with Jaime giving us the inside word on local insects.

The Tumut trip has come and gone with a number of folk having success, new skills acquired and Stefan (in his swansong as organiser) bringing his culinary skills. We now go into a bit of a winter hibernation in respect to club events, but feel free to propose something to the committee – I have memories of Damian’s ‘Back to Buckenderra’ trips in the depths of winter.

Lachy is showing his worth as delegate to the NSW Council of Freshwater Anglers with a report on the quarterly meeting.  We should not ignore the opportunity to recruit their assistance when we have fishing related issues in our region.

Greg S has come good with some more of his interesting snippets from the web and I’ve had quite a few myself – notably Mark, Guy and Norm reporting on one successful day recently.

The numbers for our Brindabella trip seemed to drop away from our normal turnout – I wonder what happened there.  Many thanks Ryan for setting it up, even if you weren’t able to attend.

Meantime, a couple of reports on private trips: KNP and brief notes on NZ.  April fly tying images and instructions were on our news blog, but the session didn’t go ahead.  CAA is expanding its use of WhatsApp – information and some ground rules here.  Some notes on ACT fishing regulation compliance.  NSWCFA have released some notes/links to presentations from the mini-conference last month.  Greg S’ Facebook finds plus my in-box.

Fair bit of news here.  Stefan’s Tumut trip postponed by a week, our trip to Buckenderra had limited success – maybe better success beckons with our next two trout trips, those tieflyers have been at it again this time with a dry fly – whoohoo, more Internet items of interest from Greg S and finally some images from two of our members jetting about and a full report from Greg W from when he was living in UK.  The last item is in our ‘Places to Visit’ blog.  If you haven’t already explored the full extent of our blog please do.  Contributions are always welcome, and it has been a while since our fishing trip chefs provided a new recipe for our cookbook segment.

Lachy and Neil, who recently volunteered as Delegates to NSWCFA, are showing their energy with a report on the recent NSWCFA mini-conference on ‘the Future of Fishing’.  Lots to think about here.  Any thoughts can be passed to those two for carriage to the next General Meeting in May.

We’ve had a counter on our website for just short over 25 years – how time flies – and we’ve just passed 30,000 clicks … I think a pretty impressive milestone.

Despite the rivers fishing pretty poorly, seems that folk are catching fish.  I even managed one on the Snowy but since he had his nose buried in the side of my net, my photo isn’t sufficient standard and doesn’t make the cut for this edition.

Many thanks to my regular contributors – and now a new one in the form of Mark (mate of Claude and Gary) on his first trip to New Zealand.

Reports on our Jindabyne trip and one photo from Pat in New Zealand (again!).

I’m always looking for contributions – for the April edition I’ll need them a little earlier than usual – let’s say 28 March?

We’ve come out of the summer break and dire reports on trout fishing continue – water levels are down and some of the lowland streams have stopped flowing.

This issue has come along really well with multiple reports, including local successes and recent CAA events.  Fish stocking (of natives and threatened species) are documented after CAA successfully obtained supplementary funding for cod stocking in the Yass River and members were involved in trout cod research stocking.  Talking about research and threatened species, CAA has been invited to be involved in a UNSW research project – more information given in the newsletter, come along to the Feb meeting to hear all about it.

The saltwater trip to Tuross went off well – thanks Ryan for another well organised event.  Reports and lots of photos here.

The Fly Tying on Wed 27^th had some technical issues and ended up using WhatsApp video rather than Zoom.  Video quality was not up to Zoom standards, but the outcomes still looked pretty good.

Greg S has submitted some gems from the Internet, plus some helpful words from Claude on releasing fish in good condition.  I’ve added some stuff on Alan’s favourite Penny Knot and a simplifying graphic on angler rights in respect to the edge of streams (remember that this regulation has never been tested in court, and we should maintain good relations with landowners, it is basically the same as our backyard regardless of the technicalities of the law).  All of which prompts me that I really need to get up to date with our Tips collection.

Finally, three CAA members who are also members of the Queanbeyan branch of MAS successfully stocked some streams south of Captain’s Flat.  Here’s hoping they do all right.

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