Inland Fisheries Service News
Limit your take, don't take your limit!
While many of Tasmania's inland fisheries are self sustaining and can easily sustain harvests that would occur should everyone take their bag limit, there are a few that definitely cannot. Generally the fisheries that require stocking have reduced bag limits but even these waters risk being fished out if bag limits are taken regularly. Where...
Bad weather didn’t stop anglers on opening weekend 2012/13
Despite dire weather forecasts for Saturday and Sunday many anglers headed out for the opening weekend of the new season. While bad weather did eventuate on the Sunday, Saturday was not too bad as a start to the season. There is little that will deter a keen angler for the start of the season. Inland...
Improvements at Arthurs Lake in time for the 2012/13 season.
The IFS has completed an upgrade of Gunns Marsh Road from Jonah Bay to the northern end of Cowpaddock Bay. This road has deteriorated over recent years and was becoming a real obstacle for anglers. Due to higher lake levels over the past two seasons the Cowpaddock and Tumbledown bays have become increasingly popular therefore...
Opening of the 2012/13 trout season this weekend
The 2012/13 brown trout season opens this weekend on Saturday 4 August. As with past years the Inland Fisheries Service expects that anglers will turn out in numbers across the State for the opening, which is a traditional celebration of the new trout fishing season. The Service will have several teams of Authorised Officers patrolling...
Big salmon stocked in the lead up to the 2012/13 season
The IFS has stocked several waters across the State with big Atlantic salmon in the lead up to the opening of the 2012/13 season. In early July Craigbourne Dam and Lake Meadowbank were stocked with 150 salmon each and on July 10 another 150 salmon were stocked into Lake Rosebery, the fish for these stockings...
