Inland Fisheries Service News
Aussie's lead the way
The World Fly Fishing Championship 2016 is being held Vail Colorado. The Australian team of five contains three Tasmanians. Captain Joe Riley, Jonothan Stagg and Christopher Bassano. We wish them all the best when competition begins on Wednesday. Go Australia.
Whitebait offender fined
On Tuesday 6 September, a defendant was fined $628 and had to pay $81.09 in court costs. The defendant appeared in the Devonport Magistrates Court on charges relating to whitebait. During the 2015 whitebait season the licenced angler took 4.5 kilograms of whitebait on one day from the Forth River. The Forth River was open...
Talbots Lagoon access update
We are pleased to say that Guildford Road has dried out and is now open to two wheel drives. Please drive with care. Anglers please note that Guildford Road is the only legal access to Talbots Lagoon. Many GPS units show a different route to Talbots Lagoon, this route shown is via private forestry roads....
Anglers Alliance Tasmania August
On Sunday John attended the Anglers Alliance Tasmania meeting in Ross. We put together a report which John presented to the meeting. For all the current IFS news have a look at the latest Anglers Alliance Report.
What a weekend!
We have been busy over the weekend. While we were out and about checking angling licenses we saw some great fishing. The Mersey River was firing, with water levels slightly higher than normal due to Friday nights rain. Many anglers did extremely well fishing with worms for bait. One fellow at Kimberly bagged six quality...
