Just a reminder … if you haven’t paid 2025/26 membership subscriptions they are due now.
Next Meeting
12 Nov – special presentation by young gun angler Patrick Brennan. More information soon.
Next Activities
26 Nov – Fly tying via Zoom 7:30 – Hares Ear/pheasant tail nymph with Claude
Nov – new dates 21-23 Nov – Saltwater trip led by Ryan. Contact him, or leave a comment here, if you would be wanting to stay in the house – filling fast.
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 80th 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.
More details in due course, but the fishing is occurring at Tuross Head. Ryan is leading and has reserved one house, but rooms are booking up quickly. Contact him, or leave a comment here and we can link you up.
Feel free to make your own accommodation arrangements and join in for the fishing.
The lodge has booked us in for Fri 13 to Sun 15 Feb.
For your forward planning at this time. I’ll advise cost and full details closer to the date.
The corn fed caddis was the subject of a previous evening that clashed with a footy match. https://canberra-anglers.asn.au/blog/fly-tying-23-apr-sunken-ant-corn-fed-caddis/
For sparkle gnat, see https://www.flyfishfood.com/blogs/dry-fly-tutorials/sparkle-gnat
Colours for sparkle gnat depends on what material you have and personal preferences.
Some examples from the night
Keyword dryfly wetfly
You can now expect emails from “@canberra-anglers.asn.au” addresses.
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.
Our annual lessons are on again for three weeks. Mornings of 14, 21, 28 Sep. First two near Questacon and final week on water. All details in the flyer.
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:
The program page https://canberra-anglers.asn.au/blog/program/ has been updated for the forthcoming season. Fly Tying sessions now have their topics and leader provided.
Dates for Feb trip to Jindabyne have been added and Nov saltwater trip amended.
