November 2025 Inland Fisheries Service News Archive
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,...
