A family-oriented fly-fishing club covering the Port Macquarie Hastings region, NSW.
Dutch Baughman, a fly fisher from Texas, has this excellent website with PowerPoint presentations free to download. The website is intended as a personal resource to explore your fly fishing journey. Each Fly Fishing Topic includes a slide presentation or document you can download to your computer free of charge. Read More »
In a recent Facebook post someone in the Northern NSW Trout Fishing group (quite an interesting group) said they had caught a fish (see below) and were unsure what it was, and so posted that photo. They soon received a number of replies indicating it was a River Blackfish. Read More »
Volume 15, No. 5, December 2022
Welcome to our last HFF Newsletter for the year.
On Sunday the 28th, thirty members attended our yearly Christmas Party at the Newport Village, which I think from the feedback received, everyone seemed to enjoy. As usual, Tru-Blu catering fed us very well with a great selection of roast meats, veggies and salads. Read More »
This month’s fly should be tied in four parts. The plan is to production tie. Complete step one on 10 or 6 hooks. Then step two on all the hooks etc, until you have the finished product. Keep them in order if you are a new fly tier. Read More »
Volume 15, No. 4, November 2022
Welcome to our November Newsletter. As has happened a bit this year, our October outing to Stuarts Point had to be cancelled due to the weather. Read More »
The Green Mudeye was developed by Adrienne and Peter Scheindl around 1960 to imitate the Hemi-cordulia tau or more commonly known as the Mudeye found at Lake Eucumbene in NSW.
What follows is Paul Fedeles’ variant:
Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson), also known as Narrow-barred mackerel, are a highly prized sport fish on light tackle. Spaniards are a pelagic species that frequent reef habitats between deeper oceanic waters and the mainland. Fast swimmers and predatory in nature, they make scorching high-speed runs when hooked and often display impressive aerobatics. Read More »
Smith’s Lake at the Frothy Coffee sandbar.
Forty minutes with the bread flies for nothing. When the mullet would chase but not eat the bread flies, regardless of size, floating or sinking, I went for this.
Thirty minutes with the “Unnamed” – nineteen landed and multiple “quick releases”. Read More »
Volume 15, No. 3, October 2022
Welcome to what is sadly our last Edition as editors of Flycast.
After retirement in 2005, we travelled down the East Coast from Port Douglas to Mallacoota before finally settling in Camden Haven as our “forever home” twelve years ago. At that time we thought we would never be grandparents but that changed a little over three years ago with the arrival of our distant Junior member Zoey. Read More »
According to both the Australian Museum and Wikipedia the Silver Drummer grows to about 80cm in length and a maximum weight of 1.1kg, however a Queensland spear-fisherman has officially recorded a 6.8 kg specimen. There are also several photographs on the internet of fish approaching 7kg and these are clearly silver drummer and cannot be confused with the much larger black drummer. Read More »