Posts Tagged ‘trout’
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{{+1}}Fishing season reminders – NSW{{-1}}
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Hopefully this small blog post will keep you in touch with the dates for fishing seasons in NSW for popular species such as bass, trout and cod.{{end}}
Last Updated: February 2, 2022
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{{+1}}Squirmy caddis{{-1}}
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Somewhat of a fusion of a traditional caddis pupa emerger and a squirmy wormy this fly has earned a place in my fly box as a great middle or top dropper fly for both a loch style team and a river team.{{end}}
Categories: Flies, Loch flies, My 'trout' lake wet fly box, My 'trout' river wet fly box, Trout flies
Tags: #fishon, #fishonfly, Lake nymphs, lakes, premium, rivers, trout 
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{{+1}}NSW government gives green light to Snowy 2.0{{-1}}
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The NSW government has given planning approval for the multibillion-dollar Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project, prompting warnings the move will cause the extinction of a rare native fish species.
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Mark Lintermans, an associate professor at the University of Canberra, resigned as chairman of the NSW Fisheries Scientific Committee, saying the giant project would likely transfer invasive fish into the final 3 kilometre stretch that plays host to the critically endangered stocky galaxias. As part of the approval, the government granted Snowy Hydro an exemption from two critical provisions of the NSW Biosecurity Act that was designed to prevent the transfer of invasive species, Professor Lintermans said.
“I cannot continue to serve a government that so wilfully ignores the destructive impacts of Snowy 2.0 on two threatened fish species,” Professor Lintermans said in a statement. The invasive climbing galaxias and redfin perch would also have a significant effect on the endangered Macquarie perch.
Planning and Public Spaces Minister Rob Stokes said “In March we approved the Snowy 2.0 Segment Factory and this month we have approved the Snowy 2.0 Main Works, enabling the creation of new jobs and the flow of substantial investment into our state,” Mr Stokes said.
The project's owner, Snowy Hydro, would be required to invest almost $100 million for biodiversity and environmental offsets to protect the values of the Kosciuszko National Park, he said.
When completed, the scheme will involve the construction of a 27-km tunnel to pump water from Talbingo Reservoir to the Tantangara dam, with electricity generated by releases from the upper reservoir. The government touted the benefits of the new project, which it said would create as many as 2,000 new jobs and inject $4.6 billion into regional NSW.
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{{+1}}Lakes – loch style basics{{-1}}
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I was introduced to loch style fly fishing when I became involved in competition fly fishing through Fly Fish Australia and i now regard it as one of my preferred fly fishing techniques and certainly a way of targeting fish that I was not previously aware could be caught.{{end}}
{{+1}}TBH Dross nymph variant{{-1}}
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In 2018 I was introduced a fly called a Droz nymph that had skipped my attention even though it has been used for several seasons with great success in Tasmania, Victoria and even NSW. It's now one of the first river flies that I tie on.{{end}}
{{+1}}2019 trout river season – almost upon us{{-1}}
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Because the 2019 trout river season due to open across our eastern states I have started a review of my various fly boxes that will come in to play. For me My "trout" river wet fly box is the most important fly box in the open season so that has been my first fly box reviewed. These are the changes I have made:{{end}}
{{+1}}Red TBH CDC black fuzzel jig bugger{{-1}}
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This fly is one of a series of 4 woolly bugger flies that I tie specifically for river fishing and if I only had one woolly bugger in my river fishing fly box this would be the one.{{end}}
{{+1}}Duracell jig nymph{{-1}}
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I was attracted to this fly because it is made of two of my favourite fly tying materials UV Ice dubbing and CDC. It has looked like a winner since I first saw this fly and it has not let me down. Designed by, as I understand it, Craig McDonald it is a very popular fly in Europe and fast developing a following in Australia and New Zealand.{{end}}
Categories: Featured, Flies, My 'trout' river wet fly box, Trout fliesTags: #fishonfly, Beadhead nymphs, Beadheads, premium, tasmania, trout 2 Comments »
{{+1}}Chatto’s black alpine buzzer{{-1}}
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This is the second in the series of three versions of the same fly. This first in the series is the bloodworm version. which is the original colour of the pupa as it emerges from the slime on the lake bottom. Over a short period of time the bloodworm changes to a dark colour with varying amounts of red present as the transformation occurs. As it reaches the surface the dark colour mellows and the pupa assumes a grey or olive colour similar to its terrestrial colour.{{end}}
{{+1}}Chatto’s bloodworm alpine buzzer{{-1}}
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This is the first in the series of three versions of the same fly and is representative of the original bloodworm colour of the pupa as it emerges from the slime on the lake bottom. The second fly in the series is black with flashes of red representing the pupa as changes to a dark colour with varying amounts of red present as the transformation occurs. The third fly in the series is representative of the colour of the pupa as it reaches the surface the dark colour mellows and the pupa assumes a grey or olive colour similar to its terrestrial colour.{{end}}