Trophy awards and committee changes coming from our recent AGM are a big part of this issue. Images from Bondi Forest Lodge and other bits included.

Gaden Hatchery is conducting an Open Day on Sat 3 Oct to launch the new Snowy Hydro 2.0 trout grow-out facility. The management have asked whether any of our members might provide assistance with their conduct of a casting competition.

Membership fees are now due for 2026-27.

The 2026-2027 Event Program has been published on our website. The fly tying schedule is included. Note that a ‘TBC’ event appears on 17-18 Oct that isn’t on our membership card. Decisions on this will be made soon.

Some very sad news of the passing of Pat McFadden – he of some amazing fish both here, in Queensland and New Zealand.  Deepest sympathy to brother Paul and the entire family.

While our events are in hibernation mode, members have been getting about in warmer climes and having success.  A double dose of images from fly tying, for a change these were face to face care of the generosity of Nathan and Boss Outdoors.  Greg S has continued his trawling for interesting snippets on the web – keep it up mate.  I’ve been doing a bit of a deep dive into cold water pollution and DPIRD’s efforts to moderate the impact on natives.

Hope to see you all at the next meeting – Annual General Meeting, committee elections and trophy awards. Note, in the original newsletter the meeting start time was incorrect. Meeting starts at a special time of 6:00PM with an ordinary meeting to follow. Nibbles will be provided.

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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