A family-oriented fly-fishing club covering the Port Macquarie Hastings region, NSW.
A family-oriented fly-fishing club covering the Port Macquarie Hastings region, NSW.
Blue threadfin Eleutheronema tetradactylum Australia has two species of threadfin salmon, the blue threadfin (Eleutheronema tetradactylum) and king threadfin (Polydactylus macrochir), also known as blue salmon and king salmon, respectively. They are fast-growing predatory fishes that feed on small fishes,…
Pomatomus saltatrix Tailor are pelagic fish found around the world in temperate and subtropical waters, except for the northern Pacific Ocean. Tailor are known as bluefish in the USA, and shad in South Africa. Seasonally abundant, often found in large…
Most, if not all of us will have heard and seen the devastating effects of the recent flooding; businesses, livestock, homes and precious memories have been lost.
But we are at our best in adversity don’t you think?
Friends, neighbours, emergency personnel and yes, strangers have come to tirelessly assist those in need as it was at Ron and Dawn’s.[...]
March was meant to be a busy month for the Club but Hughie sent us a great deal of “Pennies from Heaven” that changed our plans. As it turned out we were still busy but not as pleasantly as anticipated.The…
I have been busy. Bonnie bought me one of those portable all in one fly tying kits for Xmas and this was an incentive to organise all my fly tying gear, sort through materials and, much to her relief, clean…
Macquaria ambigua Golden Perch, also known as yellowbelly, callop, perch, Murray Perch or white perch, naturally inhabit the Murray-Darling river system (except at high elevations) and exist in the internal drainage systems of Lake Eyre and the Bulloo River. Adult…
Welcome to this month’s HFF Flycast Newsletter. First let me apologise for the delay in the January Newsletter. Co-editor Bonnie and newly appointed sub-editor “Izzy” assisted me in the rapid preparation of the Newsletter after our return from Darwin and…
Most trout and salmon can be successfully crossed and most hybrids are infertile. One of the most notable hybrids is the tiger trout, a fish produced by fertilising brown trout eggs with brook trout milt. The tiger trout (Salmo trutta…
The eel-tailed catfish, Tandanus tandanus, is a freshwater fish native to the Murray-Darling river system of eastern Australia. The scientific name for eel-tailed catfish comes from a name for the fish in an unidentified Aboriginal Australian language – Tandan, which Major Thomas Livingston Mitchell recorded on his 1832 expedition.[...]
I hope all of you had a great Christmas and a happy New Year’s celebration. Let’s hope that we never experience the problems of 2020 again. COVID19 is obviously going to be with us for the near future however our…