Inland Fisheries Service News
Opening weekend fishing report
With our officers out and about across opening weekend, here is a summary of how the season kicked off for anglers. Four Springs was its usual early season productive self. All methods of angling took fish, with fly anglers very happy to see fish around the edges in the northern part of the lake. Lure...
Xander's first trout...just wow!
Dad's (Nathan) decision to fish at Big Waterhouse Lagoon made for a great proud dad moment when his ten year old son Xander hooked and landed a whopping brown trout, all by himself. With an early start they began trolling hard bodied lures. A couple of hours later they had caught three brown and one rainbow trout....
Shallow Waters - Slow Down and Trim Up!
Many of the very best fisheries in Tasmania are shallow and feature extensive weed beds which provide the basis of the food chain that supports the trout fishery. Aquatic invertebrates such as snails, crustaceans and insects thrive in these underwater weedy habitats and in turn, the trout thrive on the extensive food source they provide. Revered insect...
40 Years of Opening Morning Banter!
Saturday's trout season opening saw a time-honoured tradition play out for the 40th year in a row! A small group of anglers from Penguin once again donned their winter woollies, armed to the teeth with all things fishing and greeted the new season at dawn. Their numbers have dwindled over these past 40 years, and as...
Opening Weekend Option #12 - Yingina / Great Lake
Well, it’s nearly here. Season 2025-26 begins tomorrow morning, or for some of the keenest 12:01am tonight! We conclude our Opening Weekend Options series with the most fished lake in the state, Yingina / Great Lake. It’s Winter in the highlands. It will be cold, but the weather forecast on Saturday is for a cloudy...
