Inland Fisheries Service News
Rare Fish Found At Woods Lake
The Arthurs paragalaxias appears, after nearly 20 years, to be re-establishing in Woods Lake. The Arthurs paragalaxias is a small native fish that once inhabited both Arthurs and Woods lakes. During the mid 1990's, numbers of this native fish within Woods Lake declined to low levels. By 1997, the fish could not be found at...
Boom gate open to Nineteen Lagoons
The Parks and Wildlife Service have advised that the gate at Lake Augusta, allowing access to the Nineteen Lagoon area, is now open. With the weather warming up it is an opportune time to visit this region and experience some of the special fishing that this area in known for. Beware weather conditions can change...
Are you ready for Whitebait season?
The 2015 whitebait season opens for fishing on Thursday October 1 and remains open till Sunday 11 November 2015. The season is open on the following waters: Little Forester River Brid River River Tamar including the Trevallyn Tailrace River Derwent Huon River Rubicon River (except 50 m above or below the weir) Don River River...
Don’t get caught out – make sure you have a licence before you go
It is expensive to get caught fishing without a licence - $308 per offence and this would certainly take away the enjoyment from a day’s fishing. Over the past seven weeks IFS Fisheries Officers have detected 29 offences for fishing without an angling licence or being in possession of an assembled rod, reel and line...
As the weather gets better so does the fishing with the opening of Rainbow Trout Waters on 3 October 2015
The 2015/16 rainbow trout season is looking like it is going to be a good one with the current water levels and recent catches of good sized fish in brown trout waters. With the opening of the rainbow trout waters on Saturday 3 October and the great weather we have been experiencing, there has never...
