Autumn hatches are on – fly fishing Tasmania

Wild brown trout on the mayfly

The Tasmanian autumn hatches have begun! We’ve had some ripper fishing during the past three weeks, everything from hoppers, aphids, ants, baetid and caenid mayflies. It’s been important to keep moving and to find pods of action. Dry flies such as our Mini WMD Hoppers, #16 Fastwater Duns, Bruisers Bugs and F-Flies have all been successful.…

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RiverFly 1864 is moving!

  Exciting news, RiverFly 1864 will be moving in late January. Our new home will be 29A Kingsway, Launceston (in the old Downtown Tackle building). Kingsway has had a very long history of being the focal point for fly fishing during the past one hundred years or so, so it’s great to be building our new hub there.…

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