October Fishing Report, Oberon, New South Wales

October Fishing Report

I started my newcomers off on Oberon dam, one of them managed two small rainbows and lost another, which is not bad for a newcomer to the sport.

We also observed one or two large fish smelting out wide. On our first trip to a stream we visited the Duckmaloi River.

There was a good hatch of midges and caddis. Another slightly larger fish was taken. I did see a really good brown around 1.5kgs feeding in a back eddy.

It was a mixed bag of weather but the rains have really greened the area up.

One property I visited on Tuesday had over 32mm in the gauge over the weekend.

For dams you need various sizes of Mrs Simpsons and Black Woolly Buggers weighted and un weighted. Try fishing tandem rigs with a small nymph or stick caddis on the point. It always pays to have some midge patterns and midge balls in your fly box.

My most recent trip was to the Fish River, again it was running high and dirty from more rain but clearing as the weekend went by.

Over two days over 20 fish were landed and one or two went to .75kg. Most fish were taken on a double rig of  tandem nymphs one weighted, and fished under a small natural wool indicator. On Saturday there was a large numbers of termites and caddis. We observed one or two fish feeding voraciously in the back eddy on a big pool and another fish was taken on a dry at the tail of a pool.

In a few weeks we should have some  really excellent dry fly action.

Tight Lines

John