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October 2011.

Well the river season has opened with a blast and there have been great reports in relation to most of our local rivers and lakes.

I have spent quite lot of time fishing the Eucumbene River either side of Providence Portal. It has been fantastic with plenty of double figure days. Most fish have been rainbows in the 40 to 50 cm range but there have also been a few browns showing up. Short line nymphing and swinging flies have both worked very well and there have also been a few fish turning up to the dry around dusk. Best flies have been TBH hybrid nymphs, BH orange spiders, TBH mayfly nymphs and very small THB woolly buggers. Have a look at them in my bead head fly box.

August to December are the best months for polaroiding Lake Jindabyne and this year has been the best polaroiding season we have seen for years. The 'doom sayers' predicted that the flushing of the Snowy River with water from Lake Jindabyne would kill the fishing off for a few months. They were so wrong ... what happened was that yabbies, which are one of the key trout food sources in Jindabyne, found themselves high and dry as the water dropped 3 meters over one week. This made them targets for trout as they moved back into deeper water to build new holes. As a consequence there have been plenty of trout patrolling the edges looking for yabbies. The fishing hasn't been easy as most often the banks that host the best yabby populations also have a lot of drowned vegetation including what we call 'gotya' bush ( the name says it all) so whilst there have been plenty of hook ups it's often been difficult to avoid getting snagged up as hooked fish zig zag through the gotya bush as they flee back to deeper water ... heaps of fun anyway and very satisfying when you do land a fish. I practice catch and release and I hope you embrace it too so that we can preserve or fish populations. Best flies have been my yabby and bibio bugger fished with stealth and cunning.

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