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Fly Casting

Fly Casting Saturdays at Brennan

Park Pool from 1.30pm. Come and sharpen your casting skills with

Roger.

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th/26

th May Goldfields Shield v.

Ballarat at Ballarat – fishing on Lake

Wendouree We need as many members as possible to

attend to help bring the Shield back to

Bendigo. For Accommodation Contact Jeff Willey

Diary Dates: 2

nd May Committee Meeting

4th

May Fly Casting

9th

May Fly Tying

11th

May Fly Casting

16th

May Fly Tying

18th

May Fly Casting

23rd

May Fly Tying

25th

May Fly Casting

25th

/26th

May Goldfields Shield

30th

May General Meeting

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Club Championship Alan Chisholm leads with a 1.3kg fish

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Email: jsinge@bigpond.com

Bob Garlick Phone: 54 395356

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Minutes of Committee Meeting Thursday 4th

April 2013

At Brennan Park Clubrooms

The President opened the meeting at 7:35pm.

Present: R. Garlick, J. Willey, L. Crimeen, R. Booth, G. Hellsten, A. Choat and A. Chisholm.

Apologies: D. Keegan, J. Singe, T Jacobs, P. Bowman and G. Shelton.

Minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed a true and accurate record.

Moved: A. Chisholm 2nd

: L. Crimeen Carried

Business Arising: To be dealt with in general business.

Treasurer’s Report: As the Treasurer was absent no report was tabled.

Correspondence:

1. Various FF Club newsletters;

2. Bank Statement;

3. CVFFC re: Presidents weekend;

4. Yarra Valley FFC re: 4WD & Fishing Show;

5. Jindabyne Family Fishing Challenge; and

6. Various flyers from fishing related companies.

General Business:

1. Jeff Willey to book two cabins for the Goldfields Shield to be conducted on the weekend

of the 25th

/26th

May. Members wishing to attend to ring Jeff Willey by the April

meeting at the latest.

2. Al Chisholm reported that the gates on the Western side of Carin Curran Res remain

locked and he is still waiting for a response from Murray Goulburn Water.

3. Al Chisholm also reported that stocking of natives to continue as per the Recreation

Review.

4. Roger Booth informed the meeting that Jim Baumgurtel will be visiting the club in

September and that he will contact Goulburn Valley Fly Fishing Centre later in the year

to organize the deferred trip over to Thornton.

5. Greg Helsten reported that Tullaroop Res is to get extra trout this year.

6. Casting will begin at Brennan Park Pool from 6th

April. Starts around 1:30pm.

7. Les Crimeen reported that Barkers Creek Res looked like a sheet of glass tonight. He

also reported that club members Robbie MacLaurin and Chris Tacke fished streams in

the north east catching mainly small trout but hooking one around the 5lb mark.

8.

There being no further business the President closed the meeting at 8:15PM.

Jeff Willey

Sec

President’s Topics Flycasting has started at Brennan Park Pool under Roger Booth and Les Crimeen’s tutelage. Do yourself a favour and front up to learn lots of tips and methods to improve your casting and therefore your catch rates. Also casting is the perfect opportunity to match your rod with different lines to suit your casting and fishing techniques for different locations be they small stream or lake. In May the Goldfields Shield will be at Lake Wendouree where Steve and Tom Charles, Jeff Willey and Alan Choat caught fish recently in Ballarat’s Two Fly Event. No doubt we will get a sound briefing on the methods, line setups and successful flies that enabled them to coax fish from the weed beds. Locally the fishing has been very patchy with fish rising only once when they have made an appearance. Alan Chisholm caught 2 stockies that were fin clipped and I netted a brown of 1lb on gold bead head nymph at creek end of Barkers Creek Reservoir. Recently, I called in to Tullaroop Reservoir on a windy day with the water having gone down considerably since I last visited with the island near the Church now accessible by vehicle. Speaking to a local he told me that the evening before, plenty of fish were taking insects on top of the water, off the eastern shore of the island. The water at both Tullaroop and Cairn Curran is very clear and smelters should be happening in the coming months. The John Crane Fly Tying Competition is getting towards the pointy end so get tying with only 2 more tying sessions remaining. Your last chance to win the club championship will be on 25

th/26

th May when we compete against

Ballarat in the Goldfield Shield at Lake Wendouree. See you on the water. Jaco.April 2013.

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Coming Monthly Sunday Outings

June 23

rd - Newlyn Reservoir

July 21st - Hepburn Lagoon

August 25th

- Cairn Curran

September 22nd

- Tullaroop

Please place these dates in your diaries.

Fishing Report

Unfortunately I have a shortage of any recent fishing reports at the

moment. However, I am sure that members will be interested to

know that a museum “to preserve, protect and celebrate the art,

the craft and the joy of fly fishing is being set up at Clarendon in

Northern Tasmania. For those with access to the World Wide Web a

temporary website has been set up to inform us about the museum.

www.afm.net.au has excellent information about the museum.

Clarendon House is near Evandale and is one of the many

properties in Tasmania that is run by the National Trust of Australia.

There have been some small brown trout caught at Barkers Creek

Reservoir recently. I think the best local news I have heard was the

news that Lake Wendouree in Ballarat seems to be recovering from

the drought. Steve Charles, Jeff Willey and Alan Choat all caught

fish in the two fly event held recently at Lake Wendouree. From the

reports I heard the fish in Wendouree are in excellent condition and

growing well. Lake Wendouree will be a venue to keep in mind in

springtime.

A good friend is looking to buy some old editions of Flylife

magazine. In particular, if anyone has a copy of the following

editions: 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 or 21. Could you please contact me?

Mobile 0418323220. Thanks, Joe Singe

Casting Encounters.

The series of specific casting clinics are underway.

These casts and techniques are designed to help you improve your chances at targeting trout.

They are all about giving you better opportunities to present your flies to fool those trout.

It is not tournament casting.

Outlined below are the dates for the casts and techniques that will be covered.

The pool will be open from 1.30pm.

These sessions will commence at 2pm. on the nominated Saturdays at the pool.

Session 2. Sat. 4th May. The standard Roll cast. Plus the Peter Hayes so called Roll

Cast, [Shooting cast.] This is a must technique to have, and Peter regards this cast as his

most advantageous. [Joe Singe.] Watch Joe fling his cast across the pool.

Session 3. Sat. 11th May. The Single Haul and The Double Haul, this cast is an essential

technique for you to cast into wind, cast with power and accuracy and have greater control

of all your casts.

Session 4. Sat.18th. May. The Bow and Arrow/Flick cast.

With Rob Roles. [The Master.] A cast for really tight confined spaces.

Session 5. Sat. 1st June. My Swish and Flick casts. Casts for confined spaces.

Steeple Cast. A rarely used cast, but is it can be useful.

These clinics may be run again throughout the casting season, if there is a demand. Roger March 2013.

Quote of the Month.

“I believe that the solution to any problem----- work, love, money or whatever-------

is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.”

John Gierach. “Standing in A River Waving a Stick.”

Casting Encounters.

Just last March I was fishing in the Corryong area in very hot conditions and I

expected to find numerous ‘Hoppers and Willow Grubs’ in evidence all about the Rivers.

Unfortunately that was not the case and the ‘Willow Grubs’ were non-existent and very

few ‘Hoppers’ were present. The Nariel Creek although running strong and clear was at 24

degrees and no Trout were to be seen and the Thougla Creek running at 19 degrees produced

only two small Browns to a ‘Parachute Adams’. However the Swampy River was running

a very fast 90 cumecs and a cool 17 degrees. This was an ideal temperature for Trout to be

active I did not see one rise on that River [except to my fly] over the full six days. Now 90

cumecs is a powerful flow and the River ran hard against the edges. The ‘Hopper feeders’

love to lay close to the banks waiting for a hapless Hopper to fall in, unfortunately there

were very few Hoppers about, but we fished the edges and by casting no more than three

feet out from the banks we rose twelve Trout and landed ten in one afternoon. All caught

on ‘Keam’s Autumn Hopper’ pattern slapped down hard at the edges in the fast flow, [I

broke my rod on one cast] the Trout’s reaction was instantaneous at the splatting fly.

A hard flow against the bank.

An eager Trout on the ‘Hopper.’

Overnight the flow fell to 60cumecs and the fishing dropped off. The Trout were no longer

in numbers along the banks and the splatting of the fly hard at the edges did not bring up

as many as before. Eventually after a few days the River ran at 3o cumecs and the Trout

response to the splatted fly fell right away. We only managed another eight Trout in four

days. It seemed to me that a falling River moved the Trout from the swift edges out into

deeper waters. It needs the River at a constant level and flow for the Trout to acclimatise

to the conditions . Roger April 2013.

A good ‘Hopper’ feeder from the edge.

Right up against the bank.