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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:36 pm Post subject: Sioux City
A couple of old mates from Wagga headed up to Sioux City at the top end of Talbingo Dam NSW for the June long weekend . Been years since I have been there
Fishing was pretty quiet but at least they didn’t have to take any ice with them like we do up here when we head out for a few days
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:21 am Post subject:
couple of years back my eldest girl was in canberra working so I went and did the chrissy thing with her as she was on her pat malone down there....we packed up some goodies and rented a cabin at lake eucumbine grabbed a wee rental boat and i managed to score some sweet little rainbow trout to about 45cm on 2kg great fun this was christmas eve about 2pm and about 25 degrees...blissfully fishing away in a little bay when suddenly everything went dark I looked over my shoulder to see a black cloud about 1 metre off the water steaming across the lake...the water was literally steaming the temp plummeted little specks of hail started peppering us sensibly dressed in shorts and t-shirts the wind blew up to a good 25 knots then it started to snow there was enough snow to make a little man and throw some snowballs around luckily the rocks had some heat in them so we huddled next to some for warmth when the fun had worn out...things eased a little and we did the dash back to the ramp my daughter huddled at the front of the boat under a towel and me frozen to the tiller of the mighty 4hp
trout tasted good though and there was a bottle of bundy under the tree in the cabin that tasted even better
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:35 am Post subject:
Hawkeye ,
I can vouch for it being cold we were up there also ,didnt need ice beer froze in esky ,the diesel froze in my sons hilux also. Great part of the world though.
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:38 am Post subject:
itsinmeblood wrote:
blissfully fishing away in a little bay when suddenly everything went dark I looked over my shoulder to see a black cloud about 1 metre off the water steaming across the lake...the water was literally steaming the temp plummeted little specks of hail started peppering us sensibly dressed in shorts and t-shirts the wind blew up to a good 25 knots then it started to snow there was enough snow to make a little man and throw some snowballs
I just love the High Country and the Trout in those mountain lakes Those big lakes can chop up real bad, real quick; many lives have been lost on Eucy I had the same thing happen to me at Jindy one Christmas Eve a while back………..fly-fishing around Curiosity Rocks and the snow starts hammering down. Put a foot on the ground in about an hour. Another time we got snowed in at the Eucy river below Sawyers Gap, had the sleep the night in my Tojo shorty, did’nt have enough fuel to run the heater all night so I froze me bollocks off! Definitely the place for neckin’ Stones Green Ginger “Mac”, has to be purchased from the Snow Goose at Adaminaby although!
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:53 am Post subject:
It's a very unforgiven place if your not prepared for it we learnt our lesson a long time ago ,we got stuck at Tantangra in the middle of summer with a blizzard luckily we got a fire going sleepless night though .
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:09 pm Post subject:
That is a cold night, I hope they had a good fire and sleeping bags. Good on them, usually means a nice day though, doesn't it
I played golf along the Murray last week, and the fairways were like that, thick with frost. It was hard work just to get out of the heated motel room.
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