RiverFly Tasmania adds lodge accommodation to its business

RiverFly Tasmania is once again offering river-based lodge accommodation and all inclusive packages to its guests. Through a strategic alliance with Quamby Estate, a large anglo-indian 1820’s estate just 15 mintues west of Launceston, we now have a new home for the accommodation side of our business

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The giant stonefly and Max Christensen’s Bloody Mary

In Flylife Magazine Spring 2008, I wrote an article on the Mersey River in Northern Tasmania. Within this article I spoke of hatches of giant stoneflies, and the large bouyant dry flies used to imitate the adult insect – flies such as our WMD Hopper, or the slightly more crass Chernobyl Ant. Well, it appears that this is a hatch that hasn’t passed through time completely un-noticed.

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Fly fishing the Tasmanian Western Lakes

  UPDATE – for more information on guided fly fishing in the Western Lakes, click here – RiverFly Wilderness Huts. During the last week of January each year, I spend a week in the Western Lakes region of Tasmania – this is a region of stark beauty, harsh weather, and remote World Heritage listed wilderness. If you’re…

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