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Jayden told me yesterday about a kid’s workshop at Gaden this Sunday. I wondered whether he was referring to the Go Fishing/Open Day on Sun 12 Oct, but no …

After being constrained due to their major construction work, Gaden has burst forth with activities open to the public. There’s a whole new bunch advertised here focussed on women and kids https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/recreational/resources/fishing-workshops/kids

Flycasting for the public final day is on the water at Lake Ginninderra. North/Western end of Diddams Close off Ginninderra Drive -35.226164 149.070104. Nengi Bamir Beach near the boat ramp adjacent to the dam wall.

We can provide rods, but you’ll need to bring your own flies. Call in to Boss Outdoor Canberra . Please get barbless hooks, or at least crush them. Makes it much easier to remove in the unlikely circumstance of hooking something other than a fish.

A few photos and short report on Facebook

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Come and the visit the massive upgrade along with Go Fishing activities. It is ticketed (free), link below.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/gaden-trout-hatchery-open-day-tickets-998171827807?aff=oddtdtcreator

The AGM saw trophies awarded. Congratulations to recipients – photos in next Burley Line. Congratulations also to the new committee (familiar names and faces but with the addition of Paul Mc – welcome). Well done to the committee for their work in 2023/24.

Consequent to the AGM:

• We have the 2024/25 program uploaded. More fly tying dates will be added in due course.
• Everyone should be aware that club subscriptions are now due and that uou need to be financial to be covered by our insurance. All the details, and a form to update contact details, are here.
• Our Natives Assessment Tool has been validated. There’s been no change needed.

Free to the public. All the info here:

July Newsletter arrived. Top items:

• Trout Allocation Committee meeting completed
• Gaden Trout Hatchery seasonal report
• Don’t get scammed buying a fishing licence in NSW
• New weather app – ‘Jane’s Weather’
• Big Trout finally looking respectable
• Grown-out fish released at Lake Eucumbene

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For those using our fly tying posts for ideas, I’ve started adding search keywords to the posts and have updated our fly index to explain how to use the index and the blog search function. Thanks Lachy for encouraging this change.

Flies are currently labelled with keywords to effectively create categories labelled wetfly, streamerfly, dryfly, emergerfly and nymphfly (have I missed something?). A fly pattern can have multiple keywords.

Amending all the posts is a work in progress 😀

https://canberra-anglers.asn.au/blog/fly-tying-index/

Claude suggested that I might upload a template for Burley Line newsletter. That way people making contributions can send in documents using fonts etc that the newsletter employs. Indeed, maybe there are some budding co-Editors who’d like to have a go at producing a full edition in the event that I’m away.

If you find it too hard, don’t worry. I’m more interested in getting good newsy stories than having them formatted in the standard fashion.