Fantastic event that was well organised and mostly equally well executed. My rotation for the competition was: DENNETT RIVER On day one my departure time for my Dennett session was 7am. Competitors were supposed to be dropped of at their beats with at least 1 hour of time available to set rods up and walk … Read more
Shared post 1 hr Facebook/Australian Team 2018 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships Ireland Stephen Chatterton has been selected to represent Australia in the 2018 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships in Northern Ireland. Chatto (as he prefers to be called) describes himself as “a journeyman fly fisher that has been lucky enough, and honoured, to be selected to … Read more
This is one of the flies that I have tied for an impending trip to N.Ireland to fish in the 2018 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships. My research shows that there can be Autumn hatches of caddis and occasionally olives and midge. Those sort of hatches often occur in relatively shallow water and often the fish … Read more
I tied up a few extra coral and white booby blobs today. I’m hooping that they will work as well in N.Ireland at the Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships as they work on rainbows here in Australia. Head off on 24th August.
The first snippet headed “Monaro” provides the first credible incite I have seen that alludes to why trout fishing in the lake has declined in the last 6 years. The second snippet headed “Pumped Hydro” adds to my concerns for the lake. Since the Snowy MKII upgrade was muted I have been expressing my concerns about redfin being introduced to our trout lakes.
NSW Department of Primary Industries Recreational Fisheries Manager, Craig Watson, said that 10,000 Estuary Perch fingerlings were released. “The fish were bred at Narooma Aquaculture and are being released with the assistance of local fishers,” Mr Watson said.
Estuary Perch are found along the eastern seaboard through NSW, into Victoria and South Australia and including Tasmania.
My bead head fly box has around 25 different nymphs and I have it set up so that the 6 flies that I have the most faith in and consequently use most often are all together as shown in this photo. Clearly supplies of a couple of these are down a bit so over the next week or so I’ll focus on tying the following from left to right in the photo shown.
This had to be done once a year and should be thought of as a cathartic process rather than a chore.
Cania Dam has been on my bucket list now for a couple of years and consequently I have been undertaking quite a lot of research so that when I do get up there hopefully this year I have enough information to make a reasonable job of that fishing trip. This is what I have found so far.
