Posts Tagged ‘Trout Fishing Tasmania’
Tasmanian fly fishing report – December 24, 2018
Mayflies and gum beetles have been the theme of December so far, along with sub-tropical low pressure systems and lots of easterlies! This has meant lots of rain in the east, and really good flows (sometimes too high!) down the two Esk rivers, and the granite streams. Snowflake caddis falls have been brilliant. The Mersey has also…
Read MoreTrout fishing Tasmania report – August
The Tasmanian season is well into a third week, and the fishing has been great. Well-timed rains on opening day produced brilliant flood-fishing on some of the smaller lakes, with RiverFly customers managing two days’ with double-digit catches. Even cooler is that many of these fish took the dry, including the 1864 Fastwater Dun. Among other lakes Bronte,…
Read MoreMid-season rundown from RiverFly 1864
The season so far… Spring and early summer river fishing has been very dynamic. River levels were extremely reactive to rainfall (rising quickly), which meant taking each day as it comes from a fishing-planning perspective. With the extra flows and floods, the average fish size in the Mersey and Meander was bigger than previous seasons,…
Read MoreRiverFly 1864 Hatch Chart – 27 August 2016
Here’s the latest Tasmanian fly fishing Hatch Chart, from RiverFly 1864. The frogs have started on Lake Leake, and despite heavy on-and-off snow they are close to the waterline on some of the 19 Lagoons. Sea-runners and bait are starting to aggregate in the Derwent and Mersey estuaries, and the small streams are still fishing…
Read MoreFly Fishing Tasmania Hatch Chart and Fishing Report
It’s been a brilliant week for fly fishing in Tasmania. The lowland rivers are having excellent daytime mayfly action, and early morning caenids have just started. The mayfly season has also begun on the lower altitude highland lakes, with Penstock and Woods featuring good hatches for nearly a fortnight now. Lake St Clair Lagoon just had a…
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