Centrepin

Firstly a little about where we fish. We fish a couple of places about 1 hour walk from the car. I have seen only one other person who fishes here for Blackfish First spot is just the greatest Blackfishing spot you can imagine for the variety and abundance of weed. Just have to walk to the spot and you berley with your feet breaking weed and sending it into the spot. You get lots of bites and fish are very picky. Interesting fishing with changing weed types, leader length depending on tide and swell. These rocks are low to the water and can’t fish unless swell < 1m. Best 1 hour before high tide to 1 hour after. 1.2M <High Tide <1.8M. Now swell on Sunday was > 1.0M so could not fish this spot. We fished another headland to the south. This is much deeper water without the same access to abundant weed. Fish do not bite as freely but the downs are more definite and most times result in hookups. Rock platform is much higher off the water and can be fished safely with swell up to 1.5M. Caught up with the other guy who fishes the area and we fished for about 3 hours Fish started biting at high tide and were slow but consistent. Ended up keeping with 12 fish between us about 30 – 35 cm’s. This was an average session for this spot but better than when it was last fished about 3 weeks ago. Weather was lovely and enjoyed the day immensely. Cheers, Geoff

Royce, Great to hear from You. Rock Blackfishing is 12Foot Ocean Rod . Reel is alvey side cast modern equvalient of 50A5E. Estuary 10 Foot glass made from ex Flyrod same reel. Trout is Loomis GL4 4 Weight and Hardy Featherweight. Great to hear from the shakey isle. I'll write more when i get the chance. Where do / did you Blackfish? Talk more soon. Geoff

Well done on a great day out. Looks like the Harbour is doing well. We got some off the roocks as well will post soon. Geoff

Thanks to all you guys. Great to make contact. Donna, Roberta is right not difficult. The fairer sex generally do better than the blokes as they have more control and finesse. My wife has been flyfishing for about 12 months now and is doing well. She caught fish in Brindabella's and just loves fly fishing. We try to get as much dry flyfishing as possible as your see so much of the fish and what is happening around you. Will post soon if Blackfishing Royal National Park this weekend. Bye for now, Geoff

I have been an avid voyeur of this site for some time now. Work commitments kept me from Fishing for a long time and I have received great joy in reading of the exploits and joining in the success of others. So thanks so much to Hodgey, Roberta, Rickster, Nanook, Luderick Luke and so many of you for giving me a diversion from the daily grind and keeping me sane when times were tough at work. So I finally was able to get fishing this year so a few of the exploits to follow. The most recent Brindabella and the Snowies. I have fished the Goodradigbee coming in from Rules point and had good fishing with lovely camping. The access from the Canberra side to the area I wanted to fish meant a long 4WD section and having seen the access on Maps I was keen to try with my optimistic view showing about 50k's of 4WD. Arrived at Brindabella Bridge 8.30pm and I was keen to press on. The more sensible one in the party convinced me finding the way in daylight would be a better option and if it was only 50k's could be covered with time to spare before the appointed fishing start time 10.30am. Found a delightful spot next to the river, opened up the cartop camper and slept well. Got going at 7.30am. The 50k's turned into 100k's with 20ks of backtracking. Got to the spot about 11.00am and very glad did not attempt in the dark. By now time to set up camp have some lunch and prepare for an arvo fish. The day was bright and clear with a few hoppers jumping about. Fished the first runs above the camp and found lot’s of small rainbows. In fact the river was well stocked with fish up to about 30cms. Fish rose fairly freely to a well presented dry and probably landed 10 or so and this kept us interested for the afternoon. Kept one fish for Breaky the next day. Had a lovely fire and a pleasant walk in the evening. Next day was bright and clear again and though we had a good day the size of the fish was not what we had come to expect from this area. Previous trips we found the fish harder to catch and used weighted nymphs a lot more but the fish were 25 – 40cm’s in about the same numbers. We had consumed more fuel than planned to get to this point and getting back out the same way could be an issue so with this in mind and the size of the fish we decided to head out through Rules point and fish the Upper Eucumbene. First run we came upon we saw fish pairing up ready to spawn. Told Evi about the process and the antic of cavorting love making than can be seen. Left the spawners alone and fished with dries in the runs. Caught some lovely Rainbows on size14 Adams and a couple of browns about 1 lb. We just released a fish when I heard splash / splash in the next run and could witness the whole process. The Female digging the Redd, the Male pushing would be suitors away. The opportunists waiting downstream for spilt eggs. I am always fascinated by the beauty of trout and this time was just as special. Caught another lovely Brown and called it a day after about 2 hours fishing and watching. Drove home through Cooma very satisfied with a diverse and interesting weekend.