Our Flathead Champ just can’t help himself at Hinchinbrook

Welcome to the July edition of Flycast.

Iain Morrison

The “know your fish” this month is the Estuary Cod (Epinephelus coioides) as suggested by Julian who caught three different fish that may or may not be different species during his recent trip to the Hinchinbrook Passage. Read More »

Dawn with her 1.61kg Rainbow caught on a Christmas Beetle fly

Welcome to the June edition of Flycast.

We enjoyed our short sojourn with the family in Darwin although once again no fly fishing. It seems that actual fly-fishing guides are in short supply in Darwin even though there is a very active fly fishing club. Read More »

Welcome to the May edition of Flycast.

As Monty Python would say, “Now for something completely different.”

The Dunmore article reports that Redfin perch have become prolific in the main lake in front of the lodge. Whilst wading through shallow water flooding the surrounds of the lake we noticed a large number of very small fish that we took to be juvenile redfin. Read More »

Three hardy souls brace the rain at Nundle

Finally my pleading for articles from club members has paid off, great reading this month with many interesting articles contributed.

I had a great time as always in Nundle – read Rodney’s report in this newsletter. Still speaking of Nundle, Robin has contributed “The Ten Commandments of stealth”. Read More »

Another month slipped past without an official outing due to inclement weather, let’s hope that the Weather Gods smile on us for our trip to Nundle later this month.

Our fish of the month for March is the alluring and beautiful Common Dolphinfish, a visitor to our waters and especially FADs during the summer months. Read More »

Don's boat

Newsletter editor Iain

In this edition, weather predictions have again played havoc with our monthly outing plans but there is good news from members who made the trek to the Macleay River for bass last month, check the photographs of happy anglers displaying their first Bass caught on fly. Read More »

Greetings from Darwin! That is how I intended to start this newsletter. Apologies for the delay. Full of good intentions, packing our laptop I really thought this edition would be written whilst away. However, once up there, that’s another story. I do have two good justifications though. Read More »

Bonnie and I would like to take this opportunity to wish all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Many thanks to all for the friendship that you have shared with us these past years. We have had, and look forward to many more great times on the water and out of it in 2022. Read More »

By the time you read this column some of our members will already be at Dunmore Trout Waters and will be immediately followed by another party of eager anglers hoping to take advantage of the initial group’s experience and not to waste time fishing with flies that proved unproductive for them. Read More »

The Covid virus struck again last month and the long-awaited trip to Dunmore to celebrate the opening of the 2021 trout season had to be cancelled as Port Macquarie went into a seven day lockdown. Fortunately our Club had arranged for the trout release to take place on Monday 27th September, the day before the lockdown was declared. Read More »