Peter just forwarded me an email from the Australian River Restoration Centre.
They are conducting a short survey into community understanding of the river. This is to inform their advocacy activities.
Survey starts here.
The draft action plan is open for public comment till 17 Nov … not much time folks.
The draft suggests there could be significant impact on the stocking of other fish including trout, also restrictions on fishing in trout cod identified sanctuaries.
Public presentations are being held at various locations including Queanbeyan:
Trout Cod Action Plan Community Workshops:
Monday 13/11/23 – Wagga event at Mantra Pavilion, 22/30 Kincaid Street, Wagga Wagga, 5.30pm-7.30pm registration open here
Tuesday 14/11/23 – Barooga event at Barooga Sports Club, 10 Burkinshaw Street, Barooga, 5.30pm-7.30pm registration open here
Wednesday 15/11/23 – Bathurst event at Panthers Club, 132 Piper Street, Bathurst, 5.30pm-7.30pm registration open here
Thursday 16/11/23 – Queanbeyan event at the Royal Hotel, 85 Monaro Street, Queanbeyan, 5.30pm-7.30pm registration open here
Available here:
https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=8ee287affb9dbb289b12fbd77&id=3fe1b7c8db
Key points:
Many thanks to those who provided words and photos.
A few reports here from Opening Weekend. Seems that those who went up had some very good results – well done all.
Reports from Lyle Knowles shows the river is producing well, albeit a bit smaller than we’d like.
Peter has done well on local lakes too. Lovely colour on that yellowbelly.
Ryan is set to take us to Tuross and Texas Mike has shared a view of some of his more successful flies for Tuross – very kind of him. They look very different to the pineapple express nymph that John led us for Oct fly tying.
MAS has been busy again. Their efforts with Snowy Hydro and Rec Fishing Trust to improve access roads around Snowy Lakes continues along with placing style to help us get over fences. Peter and I got to put in some quite large ‘fingerling’ browns into selected sites on the Snowy River – a great day exploring these lower reaches.
A beaut YouTube video with some simple, but very useful, fly tying tips. Have added to our Flytying and ‘tips’ blog.
Some entertaining and inspiring stuff in my ‘In Box’ this month. Lots of news, especially about brumbies in KNP.
I forgot to remind those last few that fees are due.
This popped up in my inbox. Some useful advice for those who catch and release.
https://www.ginkandgasoline.com/fly-fishing-tips-technique/14-ways-to-prevent-fish-mortality/
Claude provided this link with some really useful tips.
The NSW Government has announced the resumption of aerial shooting to reduce brumby numbers in KNP
The delayed report from the Senate inquiry into feral horses has been published. I found the following to be the most telling recommendations:
Recommendation 1
7.31 The Committee recommends that the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, in collaboration with its state and territory counterparts, undertake an impact and population assessment of feral horses at the national level.
Recommendation 2 7.35 The Committee recommends that the Minister for Environment and Water list habitat degradation, competition and disease transmission by feral horses as a Key Threatening Process under the Environment Biodiversity and Conservation Act 1999.
Recommendation 3
7.36 The Committee recommends that, after the Key Threatening Process is in place, the Minister for the Environment issue a Threat Abatement Plan as soon as is practicable, in order to reduce the threat of feral horses in the Australian Alps.
Recommendation 4
7.39 The Committee recommends that in partnership with the states and territory, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority undertake work to measure, monitor and record the quality of Basin water resources in and flowing from the Australian Alps, with particular reference to the impact of feral horses.
Recommendation 6
7.44 The Committee recommends that the Australian Government take a lead role to achieve cooperation between state and territory governments in the formulation of management plans for National Heritage listed places, including in the Australian Alps National Heritage place. The Australian Government should establish agreed mechanisms to resolve disputes between jurisdictions to ensure that National Heritage values are being protected.
Recommendation 10
7.57 The Committee recommends that the Australian Government increase funding to the states and territory, who are the primary land managers of the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves, to enable them to ensure National Heritage values are upheld and threatened species are protected from extinction.
Recommendation 12
7.62 The Committee recommends that the NSW Government update the Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan to allow the use of aerial shooting as one of the available feral horse control methods if deemed appropriate under strict safety, scientific and humane practices.
Recommendation 14
7.70 The Committee recommends that the NSW, Victoria and ACT Governments urgently review the safety of staff working in and around national parks, and work with local law enforcement agencies to ensure that staff are properly protected in their workplaces.
John led a small group. Some images of the product here. They were variations on the pattern available here:
https://flystream.com/effective-flies-the-pineapple-express/
New: we have an index of our fly tying resource to look back over the years https://canberra-anglers.asn.au/blog/fly-tying-index/
Keyword wetfly nymphfly
I was looking back searching for a particular fly and realised how large our records are now. And that the lack of an index made it tedious to search.
So I have created a pretty basic one and will, in due course, include it somewhere on our home page.
https://canberra-anglers.asn.au/blog/fly-tying-index/
Would welcome any feedback, eg how many entries on each page … not sure if I can have no limit.
Also, are you aware that our blog has a search function … only works if you have correct spelling. At the very bottom of any post (including this post) and the bottom of our main blog page.