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{{+1}}NSW – Fishing season reminders{{-1}}
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Closed seasons for popular fresh water species in NSW for 2018.{{end}}
Last Updated: January 1, 2018
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{{+1}}Estuary Perch{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
{{+1}}Topping up my bead head nymph fly box{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
{{+1}}SELF SERVICE YOUR PFD{{-1}}
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This had to be done once a year and should be thought of as a cathartic process rather than a chore.{{end}}
{{+1}}Cania Dam{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
{{+1}}Bass – record numbers stocked in NSW{{-1}}
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A record 429,000 Australian Bass have been stocked into dams across NSW throughout 2017. Australian Bass are a sought after sports fish with bait, fly and artificial lure.{{end}}
{{+1}}Snowy Mountain Rivers{{-1}}
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On 27 October 2017 at 20:10, Tim wrote:
Hi,
I was watching a fly fishing show of the Willow Grub being used in NZ waters. Any idea of the success rate if used in the Snowies around Thredbo area?
Regards, Tim
Reply: Chatto 28 October 2017 at 06:41
HI Tim,
I can remember going through a similar thought process after a trip to NZ about 15 years ago and coming home and tying up a few version of these tiny flies. Willow grubs are essentially tiny surface / sub subsurface flies and I fished with them on and off for a couple of years on the Thredbo and the Mowamba but the success rate was very low.
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For surface feeding fish old fall backs like small red tags and coch-y-bonddu consistently working better on the Mowamba for rising fish and hair winged royal coachmen works better for me on the Thredbo & Eucumbene.
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For nymphing, where there is reasonable current in the river, my default flies are a skinny PTN or a small orange spider on the point and a TBH duracell (with appropriate TB weight to get the fly bouncing along the bottom) on a dropper about 60-80mm above the point fly.
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Hope this helps.
Regards
Chatto.
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{{+1}}Fishing season reminders{{-1}}
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Just a few reminders here about the main closed seasons in NSW ... better to be safe than sorry.{{end}}
{{+1}}Spring comes early{{-1}}
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Based on my diary what I call spring for the Boyne River in Central Queensland arrived about 20th August last year and the year before. This tear I reckon that it arrived a week earlier. The criteria I bases that on is a dramatic change in the weather patterns and the behaviour of budding fruit trees ... last week several local fruit trees were suddenly ablaze with their spring blooms. That followed just a couple of "Indian summer days" following a relatively cold snap. Now cold snaps in Central Queensland are mild at the best of times with overnight temperatures dropping down to around 8 degrees. This week the overnight temperatures are back up to around 15 degrees and the daytime temperatures up to 29 degrees.
Water temperatures have been on the climb as well and that has got the barra moving.
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Yesterday was a good start for the season with 3 barra landed of which two were between 60 and 70 cm plus a couple of other fish including a bream and a couple of small queenfish.
Water temperatures ranged fro 21.2 to 25.8 during the day with the fish most active around mid day when the water was a balmy 24 degrees.
Note the barra hooked jut off the edge of the gill plate!
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{{+1}}Trout v redfin{{-1}}
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500 rainbow larger-than-usual trout have been released in Oberon Dam in the hope the large fish will slow the population growth of redfin.
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Ray Tang from the Central Acclimatisation Society helped carry out an experiment in July. “Basically, it’s a pilot release. An experiment to try and combat the prolific redfin. It breeds so prolifically it is known to destroy trout fisheries and any other fishes,” Ray said. Redfin or European perch was named a Class 1 noxious pest by the DPI in 2010. Redfin are also impacting other species of fish in Lake Wallace and Lake Lyell.
“Wallerawang anglers hope to follow in the same footsteps as Oberon. We believe people have introduced them to the lakes when they didn’t know how much danger they actually cause.”
Mr Tang said he hopes the eight-month old trout released will grow to maturity and, due to their large size, place pressure on the dam's redfin population.
For more on this story see the Lithgow Mercury.
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