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Northern Suburbs Flyfishing Club Northern Flyline February 2010 Northern Suburbs Flyfishing Club Editorial Committee Members You know you‟re getting old when you start complaining about Glen Cox, President young people. I haven‟t started complaining about them yet, but 0438807296 I do wish they‟d think harder about disposing of their rubbish. Bill Ogilvie, Vice President Whiling away the hottest part of summer along waterways with 0415327307 friends and slabs of VB is something we‟ve all done. When bush Jeremy Skuse, Secretary camping with friends, I admit that a few beers would often end 0402091685 in a rendition of Kai San in the early hours, or a few stupid Peter Young, Treasurer pranks like throwing an aerosol can on the fire, but never did we 0417116192 leave rubbish behind. Cain Polidano, Editor For my generation (gen X), I think it‟s because littering was a 0404703296 serious „social no-no‟. We were conditioned to dispose of our [email protected] rubbish from an early age, we had the „Keep Australia Beautiful‟ Greg Roberts, Social Secretary campaign rammed down our throats. In primary school I re- 0448040400 member singing songs about litter bugs…Litter Bugs come in Peter Watson, New Member every size, every size, they‟re really monsters in disguise, in disguise, Contact 0412545216 some are … it could be me or it could be you!” If we were Jason Cooney, Flytying Coach caught littering the playground you‟d be publicly shamed in 0418915279 front of the school. Paul Milcev, Webmaster These days there is more emphasis on cleaning-up rubbish than 0404818648 preventing littering, hence, „Keep Australia Beautiful‟ has been Daryl Wallis, Casting Coach replaced with „Cleanup Australia‟ weekend and grounds people 0407822258 are employed at school to pickup rubbish. Surely this is the John Smith wrong approach because we all know that prevention is better 0437713419 than the cure. It‟s time we let gen Y know that it‟s not OK to John Kruska litter. Cain 0437713419 In this edition President’s page 1 Updating the club logo 4 Member profile 5 Jury still out on the Stevo 5 A few good fish, part I 6 Classic chalk streams of SW England 9 Move to lock-up of freshwater fisheries 11 Flytying 12 Taponga river report 13 Minutes 13 Northern Suburbs Flyfishing Club www.flyfishing.org.au Northern Flyline February 2010 President’s Page Glen Cox Welcome back everyone and Happy New Year. I hope you all had a good Christmas and managed to have a relaxing break from the hectic routine of work. You should have all received a copy of this year‟s syllabus by now. If you have any queries or sugges- tions regarding it, please bring it up at the February meeting so we can consider them and try and get it finalised as early in the year as possible. Web Site Paul Milcev has been working hard on look web site, which we hope to have up and running in the next few months. The new site will be easier to keep up to date as more members will be able to ac- cess the „back room‟ and be able to make changes (pending committee authorisation). New photos are always welcome and help to keep the web site looking fresh. We also need some step by step fly patterns to be put up (photos and text). If you can help, please contact Jason Cooney. 0418915279 or [email protected] December General meeting Thanks to vice president Bill Ogilivie for chairing the last club meeting for 2009 and playing host to Steve Hoagland from Derek McKenzie Outfitters who was our guest speaker that night. From all ac- counts Bill did his chances of becoming our next president no harm by doing a very competent job. Thanks again Bill. Fundraiser We are holding a BBQ stall at Eltham Bunnings on Saturday 20th February. This will be our major fundraising venture for this year. If we can get enough members to help it will only involve a couple of hours of your time. It would be good to see some new faces helping out at this event, instead of leaving to the usual suspects. There are far too many members in this Club who are prepared to let others do all the work. Contact Greg Roberts on 0417 119 415 or [email protected]. FFF-CCI Pre-testing Northern Suburbs Flyfishing Club www.flyfishing.org.au 2 Northern Flyline February 2010 Fellow members Andrew Connell and Bintoro are putting together a course for anyone interested in trying to obtain their FFF-CI (Federation of Fly Fishers Certified casting instructor) certificate. The course will include all the theory and practical elements required to enable you pass the stringent test- ing procedures. The cost will be $50 for the course which will be held early this year (date TBA). To register your interest, Contact Andrew on 0418 530 073 or at [email protected]. Storage cage lock We have had problems with the combination lock on the casting equipment cage over the break. Apologies to those who hoped to get the hoops out over that time for a bit of practice. The problem has been rectified with a new lock. Casting Pool cleanout Thanks to John Kruska, Daryl Wallis, Leff Andropof, Boyd Wilson, Andrew Connell and Bintoro for doing the mucking out of the casting pool this year. The pool required urgent attention as Paul Arden from the sexy loops website and Peter Hayes asked if they could jointly hold a workshop at our pool on Saturday, January 30. Fly line raffle Chris Baty of Compleat Angler presented the Club with a GPX WF6 F fly Line as a way of thanking the Club for hosting their recent bait-casting day at our Clubrooms. We have decided to raffle it as a fundraiser for the Club. Tickets are $5 each and will be drawn on a at the first movie night in 2010 which is April 30. Guest Speaker We have Dr Richard Marchant from Museum Victoria as our guest speaker at the February General meeting on Feb 4. Richard is senior curator in entomology and is obviously an expert on all the bugs that inhabit our freshwater waterways. It should be an interesting talk to start the year. Upcoming trips The first trip in February is a day trip on Saturday 6th to the Acheron River around Buxton. The meet- ing time and place to be determined at the General meeting on Feb 4. The Rubicon and Goulburn are not far away. At the time of writing this, the weekend trip to Timberlake on 12/13/14 Feb. chasing natives is fully subscribed. Please contact Andrew Connell on 0418530073 to put your name on the reserves list. As previously mentioned Saturday 20th is the Bunnings BBQ fundraising day. The March trip is a family trip and is on the Labour Day, long weekend to Mount Beauty staying at Northern Suburbs Flyfishing Club www.flyfishing.org.au 3 Northern Flyline February 2010 Mount Beauty Caravan Park ring (ph.5754 4396) or get on to www.holidaycentre.com.au to book. There is the Kiewa River or Mount Beauty Pondage close by, or you can easily access the Mitta River over the hill or Rocky Valley Dam at Falls Creek. So there are plenty of options. Book a site soon if you want to go on this one. So that‟s a heads up on what lies ahead over the next few months. Get involved and enjoy your Club, I reckon the more you put in, the more you get out of it. Updating the club logo NSFFC committee From discussions around the clubrooms or from snippets in the newsletter, you may have heard that the committee is putting in place a strategy to grow membership. As part of the strategy, there are a number of changes underway, including the development of a new resource rich website, a revamped newsletter, new and more frequent training courses, overhauled club rules, new flycasting events, the purchase of equipment and new club trips. While improving what we do will help retain members and keep the trickle of new members coming through, to substantially increase the membership base we need to make the club and flyfishing more appealing to other demographics besides middle to old-aged men. Unfortunately the history of flyfish- ing in the old country (like hunting and polo) has left an enduring popular image of flyfishers as being a bit twee, old-fashioned and elitist (if you don‟t believe me, visit a Rodd and Gunn clothing store). As we all know, this is not really what flyfishing or our club is about. Our club, like flyfishing today, is dynamic and highly innovative and that‟s the image we want to portray to the public. The launch of the new website this year and the re-designing of our club logo will support our “new” image. The purpose of our logo is to not only to increase the recognition of the club, but also to build and re-enforce an image of the club that we want to portray to the community. In the past, the image portrayed by a logo may not have been that important in attracting new members, but the internet has changed that. Each year our logo is now viewed by hundreds of visitors to our website, and when we move to our new website, this number could potentially be thousands. If you doubt the importance of the website in attracting new members, ask any new member how they found out about us and you‟ll overwhelmingly here „the website‟.
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