Our colleagues at the Monaro Acclimatisation Society have been successful in seeking a grant to repair road damage near Snowy Lakes. More here including photos.
Our annual Tumut trip was a big success with everyone onto fish and looking good. The river was well up again. We need to recruit someone into CAA who has the decision making on the timing of flows . I had some success on the Thredbo after I couldn’t get to Tumut.
A report from a local river by Ryan is here. He’s been exploring locally, though a little bird tells me that Greg W and Lachlan have also been scampering around checking out trout waters on most Mondays. I look forward to a private briefing.
We have an update from our North American correspondent Jason M. He’s settling into the DC area trying to find good shops and good fishing. No doubts we’ll here more.
Some news snippets – eg that Monaro Acclimatisation Society has joined the 21st Century and established a Facebook page. You might want to monitor it for news about the Snowies.
While talking Facebook – many thanks to Ryan for signing up to join Shaun and Bill as our Facebook page administrator. No doubt he will bring a ‘younger’ perspective to what might be uploaded. We have over 600 followers of our page – almost exclusively local and it seems few CAA members. Recently our stats are showing a large number of visits to our website/news blog/newsletter etc have come via Facebook – well done Shaun. I have asked the Committee whether we should establish an Instagram presence (to appeal to an even younger audience). Any thoughts to Claude please.
Our club logo embroiderer has moved away from Canberra. We have identified a replacement so those who would like to have the CAA logo on their own shirts have the opportunity to do so, in advance of any bulk purchases of shirts by the club.
As always, any and all submissions from members for future newsletters will be appreciated anytime. I’m aware two members are off to fish the Mataura and hope we might get some photos/stories.
Folks, we are going to receive a special presentation from Neil Nelson of Illawarra Fly Fishers. This will be on Zoom and being Zoomed in to Raiders also. 7:30.
Neil described his talk thus:
I met up with a mate (David Screen who was President of Lakeside FFC) who is doing a stint in Doha, Qatar and spent a couple of days there before we flew to Zagreb and then onto a small town on the North West of Slovenia called Tolmin – we fished for marble trout and rainbows in some very spectacular country, so the presentation will show a little bit of Qatar and more of Slovenia.
