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Just a reminder … if you haven’t paid 2025/26 membership subscriptions they are due now.

Next Meeting

15 Oct – monthly meeting has been displaced by a special re-enactment of our first meeting 80 years ago. More details via email.

Next Activities

12 Oct – For members only. Streamcraft halfday on water led by Claude. More details via email.

18-19 Oct – Mayfly Madness led by Paul. This may be full, check with Paul.

22 Oct – Fly tying via Zoom 7:30 – Griffith sparkle gnat and corn fed caddis led by Neil and Lachy

25 Oct – Lyle Knowles Trophy weekend. More details via email from Lyall.

October 2025 Burley Line (Issue 216)

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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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September 2025 Burley Line (Issue 215)

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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.
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ANSA AGM/Dinner

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As an affiliate to the NSW branch of the Australian National Sportfishing Association (ANSA NSW) https://www.ansansw.com.au/ CAA delegates have been invited to the Annual General Meeting/Presentation Night hosted by Canberra Fisherman’s Club on 30 August. Dinner will be a roast meet buffet. RSVP by 15 August – CAA members should contact CAA Executive/Membership Officer if you’d like to represent CAA as our delegate.

A Prolific Series of Fly Tying Tips

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Initially saw a clip on dubbing loops which popped in my YouTube feed https://youtu.be/1LonbwRq8kM?feature=shared  Some good hacks. I couldn’t work out what was happening at 4:00 but it is simply that instead of spinning with loop vertical, he drapes it over his finger so the part of the loop with material comes off the shank horizontal but then turns vertical to the spinner. If you go to https://youtube.com/@flyfishfood?feature=shared and go to playlists you can go through each clip of skill builders.

Here someone has used AI to take the mickey out of Cheech and discuss the reason we fly fish 😊 “the podcast where we pretend standing in freezing water at 5AM makes us outdoorsmen” – out of the mouth of babes it seems.  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKaQWvES88w/