RiverFly Tasmania season opening day 2010/2011 newsletter

Wild fisheries on the rise…  Over the past couple of seasons, mates and I have been exploring fisheries that barely see a person. We’ve explored the Mersey and Meander rivers from top to bottom, waded up and down the southern rivers and rainforests, and explored even more of the Western Lakes area. All of these…

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RiverFly Tasmania fly fishing report – Autumn 2010

Wild Tasmanian hopper feeder   Gone Fishing…  It’s been three months since our last fishing report, but with good reason: we’ve spent more than 50 days on the rivers since our last note, guiding through pre-Christmas red and black spinner falls, summer hopper hatches and the beginning of the autumn mayflies, and spent another 30…

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Tasmanian trout fishing – fishing like it’s 1959

RiverFly guide Patrick Horan has had evenings of a dozen fish or more on the margins of the South Esk, while RiverFly’s first guest of the season, Mischa, beat uber-flood conditions yesterday to land three fat, wild, Tasmanian trout among flooded headwaters

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