Inland Fisheries Service News
Freshwater Angling Forums
The Inland Fisheries Service (IFS) is hosting freshwater angling forums in Hobart, Launceston and Devonport in September 2025. The forums are an opportunity to have a chat about trout fishing in Tasmania, hear about the work being undertaken by the IFS and have your questions answered. We will attempt to record the forums and make...
Lake Plimsoll Stocking
On Tuesday 12 August the IFS stocked over 4,000 brook trout into Lake Plimsoll, weighing around 500 grams each. Brook trout are renowned to be fickle at times and very exciting at others, and are one of the biggest challenges in Tasmania's trout fishery! If you have catching a brook trout on your fishing bucket list,...
Taylor's Dam Junior Fishing Day
The Devonport Junior Anglers Club held their first fish out day of the 2025-26 season at Taylor's Dam at Latrobe on Sunday. Light winds and overcast skies made for ideal fishing conditions, with over 60 junior anglers participating in the day. Thirteen Rainbow trout were caught, which included a couple of thumpers up to six kilo!...
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....
