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Fisheries Victoria and the Eildon community will again host the Goulburn Fishing Festival on
5th and 6th September 2014, coinciding with the opening of the riverine trout season. Bring the family and make a long weekend of it. There will be fishing workshops and accommodation prizes along with professional cooking demonstrations. For the kids, free entertainment all weekend including a jumping castle, face painting and lots of fishy activities. The festival also aims to highlight the terrific trout fishing on offer in Eildon’s rivers, pondage and giant lake. Alternatively, learn more about Lake Eildon’s increasingly popular native fishery, which is based on stocked golden perch and Murray cod. Trout and Murray cod are grown at our Snob’s Creek hatchery, which will be open for free tours on Saturday. http://www.depi.vic.gov.au/fishing-and-hunting/recreational-fishing/recreational-fishing-initiative/goulburn-fishing-festival-2014  

The June 2014 edition of the Fly Fisher is now available and the contents include: The contents of this edition are:

• The Vice Presidents Report
• Calendar–Coming Events
• Committee – Officers and Delegates 2013 – 2014
• Corroboree Billabong Odyssey Trip Report
• Millbrook Lakes Trip Report
• Membership Fees Reminder
• DEPI Notice on Victorian River Season
• DEPI Notice on Brook Trout Bag Limit
• SFF Fly Tying Activity
• Casting About and Recent Results
• General Meeting Minutes
• It’s All About the Cane & VFFA Cane Day
• Accommodation Offers
• Membership Nomination Form
• Member Contact Details

To access the public version of the June 2014 Fly Fisher please click here: SFFJun2014 Members – Please note that to access the full version of the June 2014 Fly Fisher you will need to login and go to the Current Fly Fisher section under the Club Magazine tab.

Upcoming Club Trips:

• Tarwin Estuary                               22^nd June                         Trip Leader           Scott Dargan
• Purrumbete Lake                          26^th -27^th July                  Trip Leader           David Wood
• Gerry Bolt Newlands? (TBA)        2^nd August                      Trip Leader           Tony Hyett
• Noojee Trout Farm                       17^th August                       Trip Leader           Tony Hyett
• Daylesford Family Weekend       12^th -14^th September      Trip Leader           Colin McMillan

Guest Speakers:

• Rod Barford, President of the Australian Trout Foundation (ATF). 11th June 2014 (Members’ Night).

While I have been on Paternity leave with my child for the last 3 months, I did get to spend a couple hours of an afternoon on the Styx River in Tasmania near Maydena. We had been camping out at Lake Pedder for a few days and where on our way back into Hobart.

For those who are unfamiliar with the Styx, the fish in there can be notoriously spooky as the river is “Gin” clear in parts and access almost requires a jungle machete or lumber jack boots, (the ones with spikes on it) to climb over the fallen logs.
The first time we were there on a club trip, we saw some fish but they were long gone as soon as the fly line shot overhead.

On our way in to Maydena from Pedder, I asked my wife if we could take a look at the Styx we stopped at the first bridge over the Styx. It was a very warm afternoon in late March and much to my surprise there where fish rising all over the river downstream of the bridge.
I quickly grabbed my rod and proceeded to bush bash down the edge of the Styx to quietly enter at the bottom of a long pool. There were fish rising all around me, very unusual from my past experience, they normally would have been gone like a rat up a drain pipe. I stood casting  20 mins with no avail, and the fish didn’t seem to be bothered either. With 5 fly changes later, I notice a some beetles that had been falling into the river. They were Jassid beetles that are endemic to area. they have a orange underbelly and grey tortoise shell wing case. Of course I did not have one exactly like it, but I did have the a brown deer hair beetle that was orange enough.

Then I heard the toot from the horn on the defender, my 13 month old daughter had cracked it and it was time to go.

As we passed through Maydena on the other side, I bumped into Tyenna Dave and he also confirm that small brown flies  on the are the go Tyenna River, big and orange on the Styx. Generally orange Jassid beetles or orange Stonefly Nymphs will do the trick.

Brown Deer Hair Beetle:

Frederique scoping out the “rise”, also future fly fisher:

View from the first bridge over the Styx with water slightly stained with tanins from another river that branches into it slightly upstream:

 

Note: All members can write a post on there recent fishing ventures or anything else. You don’t have to wait for the Newsletter!

Due to some technical difficulties previous versions of the newsletter had been lost.
To access the PDF version of the February and March 2014 Fly Fisher please log in and go to the “Archived Fly Fisher Editions” under the Club Magazine tab.

March Newsletter 2014 Table of Contents:

• The Vice Presidents Report
• Calendar – Coming Events
• Committee – Officers and Delegates 2013 – 2014
• Powlett River Trip Report
• Big River Trip Report
• SFF Fly Tying Activity and Club Maintenance Update
• Tales from Tasmania
• Casting About
• General Meeting Minutes and a Note from the Editor
• Accommodation Offers
• Membership Nomination Form
• Member Contact Details

February Newsletter 2014 Table of Contents:

• The Vice Presidents Report
• Calendar – Coming Events
• Committee – Officers and Delegates 2013 – 2014
• The Christmas Party in Pictures Pages
• Patterson River Trip Report
• Casting About
• General Meeting Minutes and a Note from the Editor
• Accommodation Offers
• Membership Nomination Form
• Member Contact Details

To access the PDF version of the April 2014 Fly Fisher please log in and go to the current Fly Fisher Edition under the Club Magazine tab.

Contents:

• The Presidents Report
• Calendar – Coming Events
• Committee – Officers and Delegates 2013 – 2014
• Steavenson River Trip Report
• Millbrook Lakes Trip Report
• SFF Fly Tying Activity and Club Maintenance Update
• Casting About
• General Meeting Minutes and a Note from the Editor
• Accommodation Offers
• Membership Nomination Form
• Member Contact Details

To access the PDF version of the December 2013 Fly Fisher please log in and go to the current Fly Fisher Edition under the Club Magazine tab.

Contents:

• Presidents Report
• Calendar – Coming Events
• Committee – Officers and Delegates 2013 – 2014
• The Millbrook Trip Report (Part Two)
• Eucumbene Trip in Pictures
• Casting About & The Southern Fly Tying Circle

• VR Fish News

• Marysville Golf and Fishing Day Trip Report

• ‘Tassie 108’ Trip Report

• November General Meeting Minutes

• Accommodation Offers