I seem to recall seeing this trick before of soaking your leader to get rid of memory, but this one came up on my feed recently. Takes a bit of time getting to the point but the results are well demonstrated.
Seems the trick doesn’t work with fluorocarbon.
Claude’s favourite Internet guru
NCA has engaged ACT team to do a fish survey of Lake Burley Griffin. Makes for interesting reading and might change your favourite fishing location. Some very familiar names in the list of authors.
https://www.nca.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-02/2023-24%20Fisheries%20Survey%20for%20Lake%20Burley%20Griffin.pdf
Boss Outdoors is a very generous supporter of CAA. I’ve seen the occasional video fishing report by Nathan and I’ve missed a trick in not promoting them. They are quite professional and come out weekly reporting on local conditions. Nathan has brought old Pratty’s reports back to a new channel.
Here is this week’s report on Rainbow Lake and nearby Sponar’s Dam.
https://youtu.be/170uzL3wO7g?si=oIHMKQzd1_xEwtPq
You should consider subscribing yourself to the channel, or wait for CAA News blog to notify. Looking at their archive there’s a lot more to watch.
Owen showed me this the other day. It is three pages of images of flies (don’t believe the prices as the material is quite old) and we thought a useful resource for newcomers.
I’ll also provide a link to this in our ‘useful links‘ page
Simon Gawesworth’s video on YouTube is 30 odd minutes and gives an excellent step by step tutorial on the basic overhead cast.
Prompted by the recent trout stocking changes, Steve Starling has weighed in with a thoughtful piece on trout in Australia.
Available on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/starlos.fishotopia/
The direct link to the article is
The TaleOut online magazine has produced another great (Australian) article.
https://www.taleout.com.au/how-to/how-to-learn-trout-behaviour
Ben has produced two other videos covering the next two trout food insects – stoneflies and caddis.
I can’t say I’ve seen many stoneflies, but his references to squallids and salmonflies put some context to other American videos I’ve watched.
The caddis one is very relevant.
I wonder if we could get him to do one on mudeyes/dragonflies.