Fly fishing resources – Google Maps, pictures, slideshows
Free Google Fly Fishing Maps
Please feel free to browse through these fly fishing location maps created by RiverFly Tasmania. All care has been taken in the accuracy of the information presented, but as always, please use common-sense and do not rely on these maps solely for any purpose. Permission must be sought to access private land (land titles are accessible through TheList www.thelist.tas.gov.au) or for more information on access points, visit the Inland Fisheries Website at www.ifs.tas.gov.au
Wild Tasmanian rainbow trout
A guide to Tasmania’s Fastwater streams. Fly fishing location Google Map, created by Daniel Hackett. Featuring the favourite fastwater streams of fishing author Greg French, as listed in his article ‘The Broken Rivers’, FlyLife Magazine number 59, Autumn 2010.
- Mersey River fly fishing
Mersey River – fly fishing location Google Map by RiverFly Tasmania. The Mersey River is a medium to large freestone river in northern Tasmania. It’s middle reaches are 1 hour west of Launceston, whilst its lower reaches flow out at Devonport. It is a long, varying system that starts in the Walls of Jerusalem WHA. The system features brown, rainbow and sea trout, along with hatches of mayfly, stonefly, caddis and terrestrial falls.
http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?source=s_q&ie=UTF8&t=h&hl=en&msa=0&msid=117475467823539205987.000467a15fc8a10b2eb5f&z=10
- St Patricks River Tasmania
St Patricks River – fly fishing location Google Map by RiverFly Tasmania. The St Patricks River is a small to medium sized fastwater in northern Tasmania, about 45 minutes east of Launceston. http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=117475467823539205987.000467a001c44e2412b8c&z=14
- Brumbys Creek
Brumbys Creek – fly fishing location Google Map by RiverFly Tasmania. Brumbys Creek is a complex mix of broad, slow moving water, and fast moving runnels. Not unlike a giant spring creek at times, Brumbys Creek is Tasmania’s most popular river fishery, and regarded as a challenging but rewarding match-the-hatch destination. http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=117475467823539205987.000467a2a5ea58323a6d2&t=h&z=14
- South Esk River Tasmania
South Esk River – A fly fishing location Google Map by RiverFly Tasmania. The South Esk River is Tasmania’s longest river, and features excellent trout fishing, particularly for dry fly fishers targeting mayfly hatches or hopper falls. Despite it’s size, free-range angler access on the South Esk is generally poor and hard to find. Many large properties on the river are on old titles which extend land ownership to the middle of the river. It is essential that permission to access is sought from the landowner prior to fishing rivers passing through private land. Despite the access hurdles, the South Esk is among the best of the classic meadow-streams. http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&t=p&msa=0&msid=117475467823539205987.00046d28fd736a50aef5a&ll=-41.442694,147.121997&spn=0.021586,0.038495&z=15
- Western Lakes
Western lakes day walks - A fly fishing location Google Map by RiverFly Tasmania. The Western Lakes is Tasmania’s icon wilderness fishery, a land of three thousand lakes, lagoons and tarns, most containing wild brown trout. The area is a listed World Heritage Area, and features sightfishing to trout raning from 1lb to 15lbs. The fishing is best described to foreigners as ‘flats fishing for trout’: the lakes and lagoons are typically shallow, crystal clear over a silty bottome, so the trout are hunted out by the searching angler. http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=117475467823539205987.00046aba6d007b79a4436&z=11
Free Slideshows
The Source —Tasmania by Gin-Clear, featuring Daniel Hackett from RiverFly Tasmania. Available for purchase from our online shop here.
Raft-fishing Tasmania – A slideshow featuring Tasmanian raft-fishing highlights, by RiverFly Tasmania
Fly Fishing the Mersey River by Daniel Hackett - click here Flylife Magazine video clip
ImagesClick any image to view a larger version. All images copyright.
Images from In Season Tasmania, by Daniel Hackett and Brad Harris.
[...] first initiative, I have been able to create and post a series of free fishing maps on our site (www.riverfly.com.au/fly-fishing-maps-pictures-images/). This has included map-guides to fishing the Mersey River, St Patricks River, Macquarie, Lake and [...]