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{{+1}}Will Snowy 2.0 be a white elephant?{{-1}}
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This article builds on concerns previously published on this website:
April 2022 edition
of the NSW Freshwater Fisher
There is continuing concern that Snowy 2.0 is a $10 billion white elephant, despite the project being well underway. From a recreational fishing point of view, it will introduce noxious and pest fish into the headwaters of the Murrumbidgee, Murray and Snowy Rivers, probably ruining both the native fishery and trout fishery.
The project was meant to cost $2 billion and be completed by last year. Latest estimates are that the real cost will be $10 billion and completion will take 10 years, not the 4 years originally estimated. The power stations and tunnels will alone cost $6 billion. Electricity consumers will have to bear the additional $4 billion cost of grid connections - something that was not mentioned in the original grand announcements, and the construction of which has not yet been approved.
Large areas of Kosciuszko National Park have been ruined by clearing, blasting, hundreds of kilometres of roads and tracks, and millions of tonnes of excavated spoil will be dumped in Tantangara and Talbingo Dams. Four high-voltage transmission lines have to be built through eight kilometres of Kosciuszko National Park with a cleared easement swath up to 200 metres wide.
This was all enabled by Federal and NSW government subsidies and exemptions from environmental legislations.
In the rush to announce this massive pipe dream put forward by Snowy Hydro, it seems there wasn't enough thought given to many of the consequences and unknown costs...an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Ted Woodley on 15 March says "Senate Estimates papers confirm the announcement was cobbled together in less than two weeks after the concept was floated by Snowy Hydro."
Read the full article about Snowy 2.0 by Ted Woodley in the Sydney Morning Herald at this link.
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Last Updated: June 18, 2022
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{{+1}}NSW – Online map helps anglers access new fishing spots{{-1}}
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NSW - Online map helps anglers access new fishing spots ... so how good is this?{{end}}
{{+1}}Threadfin Salmon{{-1}}
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Threadfin are fantastic table and sport fish with big tails and plenty of vigor and would pull a similar sized salt water Barramundi backwards. They also have a well earned reputation of being finicky and difficult to catch.{{end}}
{{+1}}Bream{{-1}}
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Bream are a species that grow slowly. By the time they reach the minimum legal size they are typically around 5 or 6 years old. So please consider catch and release.{{end}}
{{+1}}Flathead{{-1}}
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Flathead are definitely one of the easier species of estuary fish to catch on fly. They will respond to a wide range of traditional and specialist flies and you will catch them as a by catch when your fishing small flies (from a flathead's perspective) to species such as bream and whiting and relatively big flies (from a flathead's perspective) even when fishing for barra.{{end}}
{{+1}}Articulated bugger fly – new colour combination{{-1}}
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I started making soft plastics in gar fish colours about a year ago in response to identifying that a lot of the buffing of big barramundi that you hear at dusk and into the night is barra targeting garfish. I have now added gar fish inspired colouring to my articulated bugger range and have found that to be a great dawn and dusk time fishing colour combination.{{end}}
{{+1}}Knots – FG knot how to tie{{-1}}
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Since I perfected this tie of the FG knot I have not suffered a failure of the knot and it has accounted for heaps of big barra.{{end}}
{{+1}}Check list – lake loch style fishing for trout{{-1}}
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For those many years that I lived in the Snowy Mountains region of NSW loch style fishing for trout was absolute favourite fishing preference. This is my check list of items I take on every trip when targeting trout on fly from boat.{{end}}
{{+1}}Check list – big fish on fly{{-1}}
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To enjoy and be successful in the task of catching big fish on fly a good starting point is to have the right back up gear, fly fishing gear and tools on hand. So here is my "check list" of the items I think you need on hand when targeting big fish on fly.{{end}}
{{+1}}Soft plastic – paddle tail plastisol based *****{{-1}}
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Soft plastics are a great offshore option. I particularly like dropping Alpha Gar and Alpha prawn soft plastics on 1 to 2 ounce weighted jig heads or elevator jigs so as to cheat fast tidal runs and have a chance at connecting to big predators.{{end}}