Trout season is closed and there’ll be no more events till next year … get your ideas/volunteer to run an event in the 21-22 program to our hardworking Secretary – so far I’ve heard: no doubts Oct for Lyle Knowles, Dec coast trip, Feb Jindabyne, Apr Brindabellas. Step forward to volunteer ideas and willingness to organise. I wonder if someone might champion CAA involvement in the NSW Council of Freshwater Anglers Interclub in May.
June Chill report and some photos here.
I should have reported on a short trip to Vanity’s that Peter and I undertook, but since the only fish were some mini-fish below the crossing there was little to report, except to say it was fun to hook the tackers and give them a free ride into the upper section of the river rather than fighting their way up the fish ladder.
Nathan Miles, the head researcher for our trout research program, gave a Zoom talk on Wed 2 June arranged by NSWCFA. This was the second such talk and was well attended. One hopes that future talks will be as interesting. NSWCFA is hoping to upload a video of the talk, meantime, I’d suggest much of the slide material came from the DPI Fisheries Research website. Nathan put that up on the chat. While I wasn’t able to capture it, but I’m pretty sure it is this one ….
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/recreational/fresh-rec-fish-research
NSWCFA subsequently had a Zoom meeting with DPI’s Jim Harnwell and Mr Bryan vanderWalt on the troubled Anglers Access website. Both Jim and Bryan are committed to energising this project and putting it onto a formal standing. NSWCFA is creating a small group to represent angler’s expectations of the site. The current version (I’ve seen at least three so far) is available on the page referred to above. If you have any comments, please pass them through Jason M (CAA delegate to NSWCFA) or me.
The date for the Kid’s fishing workshop at Jindabyne had been published, but is no now showing as ‘to be advised’… withdrawn after discussions with the hatchery manager. I’ve been advised that it is likely that next January there will be fishing workshops at Gaden.
Lots of stuff has gone up on the News Blog this month… don’t forget you can subscribe to get an automatic email notification, rather than have to wait for the monthly newsletter. Also there’s been some action on our Facebook page … remember you don’t need to be a Facebook subscriber to look.
In other matters here, some very interesting fly patterns from Mike. Also a report from our new gipsy Stefan and the old gipsy Ian.