It’s the quiet time for club events, but there’s still been plenty happening.  Great job by Xenii on the front cover, a Victorian trout fishing report, some cute crab flies tied, lots of images on our WhatsApp, a huge Googong cod spotted in the Canberra Times (included here courtesy of their Editor and it being spotted by the ever productive Greg S).

Apologies, those who accessed the newsletter earlier would have been misled by my poor expression. The June Fly Tying was led by that wizard Xenii. Nathan was good enough to provide the facility at Boss Outdoors.

Bonus issue with reports on our Goodradigbee trip last month as well as the Tumut trip undertaken last weekend.  Some excellent results from our juniors recorded here.  More on the efforts to get more water into the Murrumbidgee.

Oh poop, somehow the dates for Tumut weren’t corrected in the newsletter. To be clear, it is 22-24 May.

Apologies for the ‘false start’ in issuing this edition – I forgot about an important item from the Committee relating to reporting our catches for trophy consideration – now added.

Ray and I have been in NZ so this edition is a bit of a rush job, leaning heavily on stuff uploaded to our Whatsapp channel plus some additional contributions including the Canberra Times permitting me to reproduce an article from the paper – thanks folks.  I’m gobsmacked by the effort that Claude and his team have put into the report on their recent trip to NZ.  Great fish over a large area of South Island.

No club event for March – cancelled as Claude was available to lead (and no-one volunteered to take it on?).  Instead we have some personal reports – an extensive one from some ‘usual suspects’, one from a regular contributor of other snippets and one from a keen junior member.

We have more from our WhatsApp channels – contact Claude to join up.

As always – some interesting links from Greg S as well as a report on his recent trip to the coast.  A fabulous report from Hector on his Canberra Day trip – since catching his first trout on fly at Jindabyne he’s really gotten into the swing of things.

Our web home page has references to the new individual membership for NSWCFA and MAS.

Well done Hector – photo of the month captures his joy.
Apologies from me for leaving off the promotion of Feb Fly tying in last newsletter edition.
A very full edition this month, with some generous submissions from those who went on the Jindabyne trip – many thanks folks, especially Bob’s record of interview (reproduced here with acknowledgement). I think everyone shared with me an impression of “fishing was hard but a most enjoyable trip”.
I report on a trip to NZ that I missed (drat). Inspires me to try to go again – others of you may be interested in our connections with Hastings Fly Fishing Club for access to their lodge.
We have more from our WhatsApp channels – contact Claude to join up.
Some good news from Peter for local fishing, and Gaden Hatchery expansions.
As always – some interesting snippets from Greg S.

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I thought the Christmas/New Year period might be pretty quiet with no meetings and only one club event, but there was a lot going on in our social media accounts.  If you aren’t there already, you should think about joining our WhatsApp channels.

Thanks to Claude for organising our carp event, and providing the report.  Was fun to watch the images get around to the participants in real time on the event Whatsapp channel inspiring everyone to put in their best shots.  Great to see a good roll up.

Two extended reports (also for inclusion in our ‘places’ blog) from Paul and Jason make for interesting reading.  What is notable is the lack of rainbows this season so far.

There’s also a snippet on hints for beginners in the local area.

Much appreciate Greg S’s continued support over the break – some really interesting stuff here.

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Apologies for the December issue being late, I was a bit ‘otherwise engaged’ – will tell you about the Sri Lanka cyclone over a beer.  Anyway, this means it’ll be a bit of a Christmas edition given there won’t be one in January.

It was great to see one of our new juniors (Aru, coached by the ever generous Peter) get his first Australian fish – well deserved photo of the month/cover shot.  Here’s hoping for many more and adding to his species list.  Scaling on the photo suggests 55 cm.

Reports here from near and far along with a big list of interesting snippets found by ‘cub reporter’ Greg S.

With Christmas and New Year approaching take care when travelling and we’ll see you in 2026.

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Email system restored – thank goodness.  Our shift means that emails from @canberra-anglers.asn.au will get through to Hotmail, yahoo and some other systems.

Just a gentle reminder, while we’ve had quite a rush of new members since the casting, plus some suggestion from long ago members enthused by our 80^th birthday, there are a few of our ‘regulars’ not paid.  That’s ok, situations change etc, but membership is essential for attendance at our outdoor events for insurance reasons.

We’ve had a number of club events which are reported on here – some excellent results early in the season, unfortunately we seem to be getting in hot weather early, please consider the conditions if you are fishing in the streams.

Thanks as always to Greg S for his tips – some very interesting items here this month.

Also thanks to our busy Secretary who has prompted me to include a few items that will be useful, especially for our newly joined members.  She and I are trying to think how make our ever growing knowledge base to be more accessible to all – some attempts have been made and discussed later in this edition.  I’ve also tweaked our “How to use our Blog” page to reflect the knowledgebase construct.

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Member subscription fees for 2025/26 fell due at the AGM in August – there’s only a few of our ‘regulars’ who haven’t yet paid their subs.

Great to see so many folk attend our Free Fly Casting for the Public sessions. A number of people signed up as members, including the young gun who graces our cover page – proving there are some good trout available in nearby waters that we often ignore.

As always, I can count on Greg S for his snippets, but increasingly there is stuff that pops up on our WhatsApp channels – the highlights are replicated below, but if you join the groups you’ll see them as they arrive. Also popping up, it was brought to my attention that the Victorian Fishing Authority have got a great new newsletter – there are fifteen back editions for your reading pleasure – link below.

People should check the address that their browser is using for our web home page. For some time it seems http://canberra-anglers.asn.au/ would display the correct page, but recently I’ve noticed it doesn’t show our news panel. The correct address is https://canberra-anglers.asn.au/ (the ‘s’ means it is a secure website). Google seems to give the correct address thank goodness.

As the club techo – apologies for some disruptions to our email system. We had been having troubles using our @canberra-anglers.asn.au email accounts to get to some members. We are transitioning to another email service, but there are a few hiccups. I hope normal, indeed better, operation will be commenced soon.

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