Inland Fisheries Service News
Highlands Bushfest 22-23 November 2025
Looking for something to do this weekend? Why not head up to Bothwell and attend the Highlands Bushfest. The IFS will be in attendance, together with Anglers Alliance Tasmania and Trout Guides and Lodges Tasmania. Come and say hi and have a chat. There is a lot to do and see at Bushfest...and of course eat!...
Anglers Access Track Maintenance
Over the past week the Inland Fisheries Service has completed annual maintenance on the access tracks to the Meander River at Warners Road, along with Four Springs Lake . The Meander tracks provide foot access to the challenging and picturesque part of the river downstream of Meander Dam. This part of the river sustains good flows of highly oxygenated...
How many casts does it take to catch a $5,000 tagged trout? Just two!
While Inland Fisheries Service (IFS) staff in our New Norfolk office were chatting with a local anger who was contemplating buying an angling licence for the 2025-26 season — in walked Allan Kelly, saying “he’d just caught a brown ‘slob’ trout with a tag in it”. Allan, who splits his time between Scotland and Tasmania,...
Fry stockings targeted to get the best results for our rivers
As most anglers would be aware, trout populations in many Tasmanian inland waters throughout 2024 and into early 2025 were negatively impacted by a higher than usual populations of cormorants. As part of our response to this issue, the Inland Fisheries Service (IFS) completed a series of back-pack electro-fishing surveys in rivers and creeks across the...
“Oakley Special” Lands First $5,000 Tagged Trout of the Season!
As the old saying goes, “Ten percent of anglers catch ninety percent of the fish”, and Leo Oakley is definitely one of that ten percent! A long-time licence holder and passionate trout angler, Leo has spent much of his life fishing across Tasmania. He is often found at his retirement shack in the highlands and...
