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In Season - Tasmania - A Year of Fly Fishing Highlights

by Daniel Hackett and Brad Harris http://www.inseasonflyfishing.com

Rod and line in Tasmania

R Slater 1904

Fishtas

http://www.fishtas.com
Fishtas specialises in information for all anglers. We cover the coastline of Tasmania and most Inland waters. Our intrepid reporters are the grass roots anglers who participate in this site, everyday people who have a genuine love of recreational fishing.

Inland Fisheries Service

http://www.ifs.tas.gov.au/ifs/
Managing Trout Fishing In Tasmania

Hobart - Spot On Fishing Tackle

http://www.spotonfishing.com.au/hobart.html
Spot On Fishing Tackle Pty Ltd was formed in 2001 by a number of individually owned and operated Fishing Tackle stores. The group head office provides both administration and marketing services to its members including retail management assistance. Although the group was only established 21 February 2001, collective membership already spans Australia with 7 stores in South Australia, 1 in Tasmania, I in Victoria and 1 in Queensland...

Moonah - Catch

http://www.catchtas.com.au/products/fishing.html
Our fishing range includes a wide variety of fresh and salt water tackle and accessories. These are trusted brands...Shakespeare, Daiwa, Shogun, River to Sea, Jarvis Walker and others. We can meet the needs of the enthusiast through to the pro angler...

Wild Trout Angling Outfitters

http://www.wildtroutangling.com.au
Beautiful and functional, Wild Trout landing nets are manufactured in Tasmania to last a lifetime...

Arthur's Lake

Lake Information
Satellite View,
This is Tasmania’s most popular trout fishery, receiving more anglers and more angler effort than any other water in the State. Damming the Upper Lake River and flooding the area that originally contained two lakes, Blue Lake and Sand Lake, and the Morass marsh made the modern day Arthurs Lake...

Currawong Lakes

http://www.troutfishtasmania.com.au
Satellite View
Currawong Lakes is firmly established as one of the best fly fishing and bird shooting destinations in Tasmania. We offer year round pursuits for the outdoor sports enthusiast. From fly fishing for trophy sized rainbow or brown trout with one of our experienced guides on one of our three lakes to traditional walked up bird shoots over trained gun dogs we will provide you with a truly memorable experience. We also offer accommodation in our self contained cabins with expansive views overlooking our pristine lakes...

Great Lake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lake_(Tasmania)
Satellite View
The Great Lake is a half man made lake located in the central north region of Tasmania, Australia, within the sparsely inhabited Central Highlands municipality. Its original size was much smaller, it is dammed at its southern outflow for hydro-electricity production. It is Australia's second largest freshwater lake (Lake Pedder is considered to be the largest), 1,030 metres above sea level. The lake has an area of 114 km². It is used for hydro-electric power, fishing, and tourism...

Lake Echo

Description
Satellite View
Lake Echo is managed as a brown trout water and the trout fishing season commences on the Saturday nearest the start of August and concludes on the Sunday nearest the end of April. Bag limit is 12 trout per day, size limit is 220mm and all angling methods are permitted...

London Lakes

http://www.londonlakes.com.au
Satellite View
Comprising 4,200 acres of unique high country, London Lakes is the ultimate fly fishing experience. The two shallow lakes, Big Jim and Samuel, are easily waded. Both abound with big brown trout and Samuel also has huge rainbows. According to the World Champion French fly fishing team, you have the best tailing fishing and mayfly hatches on the planet...

Natone Hills Fly Fishery

http://www.natonehillsfishery.com.au
Satellite View
Private fly fishery where all fly fishers can be accommodated. Well stocked lakes with a variety of good sized healthy Rainbow and Brown Trout. Expert tuition available as well as all gear for hire, good facilities including BBQ for cooking the Catch and Rendezvous for light refreshments. Ideal location within easy reach of the Bass and Ridgley Queenstown Highways : Tourism accredited, testimonials available. Special rates for groups. Accommodation on site...

Anglers Net

http://www.anglersnet.com.au/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33
Tasmania Fishing discussions...

Ausfish Australian Angling Forums

http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/showthread.php?t=73098
Tasmanian chat about all types of fishing...

Sports Fish Tasmania

http://www.sportsfishtasmania.com/mx/index.php?page=2
Tasmanian's largest online fishing community - Please visit our online forums for the most up to date reports and fishing discussion. Membership is free so please sign up to become a member of Tasmania's largest online fishing community...

Blue Lake Lodge on Arthurs

http://www.bluelakelodge.com.au
Blue Lake Lodge on Arthurs is situated on Arthurs Lake in the beautiful Highland Lakes District of Tasmania. Our expert local guides will ensure you have a memorable fly fishing experience in Tasmania. Even if you are not an experienced trout fly fishermen, come to arthurs lake, relax and we'll teach you to trout fly fish like a professional...

Great Lake Hotel

http://www.greatlakehotel.com.au
The Great Lake Hotel is situated on the shores of the Great Lake. Miena, Tasmania. In the heart of Tasmania’s Central Plateau, the Great Lake Hotel is ideally situated to take advantage of many excellent trout waters...

Rainbow Lodge

http://www.flyguide.com.au/lodge.htm
For the first time at Great Lake there is a guiding operation that offers comfortable, cottage style, private fishing lodge accommodation in the hub of the Central Highlands. Rainbow Lodge is nestled amongst the character fishing shacks of Miena, with wonderful views towards Great Lake and over the beautiful scenery of Haddens Bay...

Sweetwater Villas

http://www.sweetwatervillas.com.au
Tasmanian game-fishing waters stretching from Flinders Island in the north, past St Helens and all the way down the east coast to the Tasman Peninsula, are home to more than 20 national gamefish records. And there are about a half a dozen world records for southern bluefin tuna with fish of up to 120kg...

Fishing Events Calendar

Calendar
Opening and closing dates, and other events

Tasmanian Trout Expo

http://www.tasmaniantroutexpo.com.au
The Tasmanian Trout Expo is an event for all fisherpersons from the very young to the older generation and the professional. It is an event to promote our beautiful state, Tasmania, as the Fishing Capital of Australia, and Cressy as the Gateway to Trout Fishing Paradise. The expo also provides information on where and how to go Trout Fishing in Tasmania...

Bronte Fly Fishing School & Camp

http://www.devonportflyfishingclub.net.au/Bronte.aspx
Each year the Devonport Fly Fishing Club holds a Fly Fishing School/Camp at Hut Bay, Bronte Lagoon, aimed at teaching the art of fly fishing to beginners. In addition an intermediate course is held for those wishing to hone their skills. The emphasis is on teaching beginners the necessary skills to catch fish...

Highland Lake - Learn To Fly Fish

Tuition
You have decided to give fly fishing a try but don't know where to start or you have cast a fly rod a few times but are frustrated with the result or maybe it is time to blow the dust off that fly outfit that you received as a gift. Regardless of the reason or your level of experience we can help...

Rod & Fly Tuition

http://www.rodandfly.com.au/fly-casting-tuition.htm
Our one-day basic fly fishing class runs from 9 am to 5 pm. In the morning you practice knot tying and dry-land casting then off to the water to apply what you have learned...

Inland Fisheries Service - Managing trout fishing in Tasmania

http://www.ifs.tas.gov.au/ifs/
This page has been produced by the Inland Fisheries Service...

Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute (TAFI)

http://www.tafi.org.au
The Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute (TAFI) is a marine research centre that supports the development and sustainable management of living marine resources...

Fly fishing Tasmania

http://riverfly.com.au/blog/
Pictures and notes on fly fishing trips etc...

Hells Gate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_Gates_(Tasmania)
Hells Gates is the name of the mouth of Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania. It is a notoriously shallow and dangerous channel entrance to the harbour. The actual channel is between Cape Sorell, Tasmania on the west and Entrance Island on the east (the main length of the harbour runs southeast of Hells Gates). There is a wider area of water between Entrance Island and Macquarie Head, but it is too shallow to get a boat over...

Shore Fishing

Locations
The island of Tasmania is south of the mainland and closest to the Antarctic. It has the perfect climate for Trout, and definitely boasts the best trout fishing in Australia. Don't be fooled though, fishing Tasmania's rivers, beaches and coastline can produce awesome results. It is truly an unspoiled paradise.

Flinders Island - Island Adventures

http://www.flindersisland.com.au/fishingtours.html
Fishing - Island Cruises - Inter-Island Transport - With our two 10 meter Powercats we can take you Fishing to the warm waters of the Continental Shelf, only an hour and a half from Lady Barron...

Hobart - Mr Flathead Tours

http://www.mrflathead.com.au
Mr Flathead offers fishing tours out of Hobart Tasmania. Fish the best local bays or just go sightseeing on the water. Treat yourself, family or friends to some well-earned leisure time and come aboard “Mr Flathead” for a memorable fishing and sightseeing trip with a qualified and experienced local guide who knows all the “HOT SPOTS” and beautiful sights that the locals commonly refer to as “Paradise”...

St Helens - Gone Fishing Charters

http://www.breamfishing.com.au
Gone Fishing Charters is a fishing charter operation concentrating on fish on the East Coast of Tasmania...

St. Helens - Professional Charters

http://www.gamefish.net.au
The waters off St. Helens on Tasmania's east coast provide world-class saltwater gamefishing opportunities. As summer approaches the warm oxygen rich east Australian current from the north clashes with the cold nutrient rich current from the south. The resulting sea surface temperature rise, formation of eddys and current lines provide ideal conditions for the pelagic gamefish to hunt and feed. Tasmania is home to 8 world records for Southern Bluefin Tuna as well as numerous Australian records for the other pelagic species...

Tasman Peninsula - Doongara Fishing Charters

http://www.doongarafishingcharters.com.au
Doongara Fishing and Charters is based at Eaglehawk Neck, located on the beautiful Tasman Peninsula in South East Tasmania, Australia. The area is renowned as one of Tasmania's premier game and sport fishing locations...

Andrew Harris Fly Fishing Report 2006

http://www.andrewharrisflyfishing.com/tripreports/2006_tasmania.htm
I first traveled to Tasmania, Australia in February 2002. I spent a whole month and enjoyed myself immensely. With the variety and quality of the fishing, the ease of travel, and friendly people, it was just a great destination. When I was contacted by Tasmanian fly fishing guide Daniel Hackett in the summer of 2005, it didn't take much to persuade me to plan my next trip...

RiverFly Tasmania fishing report – July 2009

Report
Great news for Tasmanian fisher’s has been the big-wet of late. Just a few days ago, Mole Creek (on the Mersey River) saw 150mm’s of rain (that’s half-a-foot!) in a day, and all the rivers, including the drought ravaged Macquarie River, are in flood...

RiverFly Tasmania fly fishing report – November 2009

Report
The fishing during mid and late October was a typical mixed fare of red-hot and ice-cold fishing days! Highlights were black spinner and ant falls on the Macquarie , Meander and South Esk rivers , a red-spinner day on the upper Macquarie, and steady fishing on the St Patricks River. Somewhat predictably, the best days were those with steady weather patterns, with winds from the north. South-westerly days were difficult...

TasFish

Reports
Reports on all types of fishing in and off Tasmania...

Tasmania Fishing Trip Reports

http://www.anglingreport.com/Tasmania_Fishing.cfm
The Angling Report has 2 Tasmania subscriber-written reports. These are actual trip reports submitted by their angling subscribers...

Fishing Tasmania

http://fishingtasmania.net
Fishing Tasmania is the online magazine of Anglers Alliance Tasmania (AAT) which represents the interests of all Tasmanian and visiting licensed anglers and works with State and Local Government through the Inland Fisheries Service to ensure the sustainability and potential of Tasmania’s recreational fresh water fishery...

Gonefishingtas

http://www.gonefishingtas.com
We are a fishing website based in Tasmania Australia. Oh but its only Tasmania I hear you say..... well get ready for some world class fishing action right here on our doorstep! Not only do we have world class lakes for trout but we also have a brilliant estuary & river systems located all around the state...

Trout Fishing Tasmania

http://www.troutfishtas.com
Trout fishing, and in particular fly fishing, is the one passion in my life besides my children. As I only fly fish, the following information on these pages deals mainly with this topic...

Gary France & Fiona Dewar - Trout Territory

http://www.troutterritory.com.au
Come to Tasmania, Australia's island state, and discover the secrets of fishing for wild Brown and Rainbow trout on the waters of Tasmania's northern lowland rivers and streams and the central highland lakes...

Mike Tenner - Rod & Fly Tasmania

http://www.rodandfly.com.au
Fly fishing in Tasmania with experienced trout fishing guide Mike Tenner will get your blood racing as you face off against wily Tasmanian trout and salmon...

Neil Grose

http://www.flyguide.com.au
Neil has been guiding in the Central Highlands for nine years and has spent a life time chasing trout in all manner of Tasmanian waters. Born and bred in Tasmania, Neil grew up in the North East of the state fishing the multitude of streams and rivers found in the area. Educated at Launceston Church Grammar School, Neil’s love of fly fishing was fostered by fellow students and teachers who were fly fishers...

Paul Kaine's Guided Fishing Tasmania

http://www.guidedfishingtasmania.com.au
We are proudly the longest operating professional trout guides to reside full time in the Great Lake region. Our business provides a diverse range of fishing related services including; guided trout fishing, boat hire, tackle hire, fishing lodge accommodation and Drift Stopper boat fishing drogues...

Peter Hayes Guided Fishing

Packages
We offer one of the most professional guiding services available anywhere in the world. We do not compromise on anything...

Trout Guides and Lodges Tasmania Incorporated (TGALT)

http://www.troutguidestasmania.com.au
Trout Guides and Lodges Tasmania Incorporated (TGALT) is an industry body, that was voluntarily formed in 1981, initially called the, Tasmanian Professional Trout Fishing Guides Association. Its primary purpose was to provide anglers with a source of trout guides that they could be assured, would provide a safe, appropriate and professional service...

Highland Gold

http://highlandgoldtasmania.com.au
For any Trout fisherman, there’s no destination quite like Tasmania. It offers fly fishing opportunities that vary widely by season and technique. Now there are two DVDs that enable you to learn everything you need to know to make the most of all of these different conditions in the company of one of the State’s leading guides: Christopher Bassano...

Tasmania Fishing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xKb_Wohj7M
Neat bit of synchronised fly fishing...

Trout Tasmania arthurs lake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FheaGvBzJts&NR=1
Nice footage of splendid trout catching...

Tuna fishing tasmania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWsrCv-W5k&NR=1
Exciting footage of a number of tuna fishermen...

The Museum of Trout Fishing

http://salmonponds.com.au
The Museum of Trout Fishing is situated within the cottage built in 1865 for the first superintendant of the Salmon Ponds. The Salmon Ponds, circa 1861, is the oldest trout hatchery in the Southern Hemisphere. It was the birthplace of trout in Australia and the origin of Tasmania’s legendary trout fishery.