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Tiny creeks and sea run trout - Christopher Bassano
Presented from Issue 105, August 2013
Christopher Bassano fishes over 250 days a year. This interview was recorded just before he headed off to fish for Australia in the World Fly Fishing Championships in Norway 14-17 August 2013.
I live on a small stream and at the start of the season I like to go off on a bit of a discovery mission and fish the headwaters of the creeks and rivers I feel an affinity with.
These small rivers include the St Pats, Meander, Forester, Little Forester and others. The further up you go on these rivers the clearer and lower the levels. They are often less affected by the rain and runoff and you get some good opportunities. Get as close to the source as you can and you will find some good dry fly fishing. Don’t limit yourself to those I have mentioned. Most headwaters will hold trout.
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Lake Crescent 11/9/2014
From Martyn Evans at Lake Crescent.
Its great to see visibility is a little bit better we spent a couple of hours along the shore rolled a couple and caught one nice buck 2.8 kg cleaned on plastics another older gentleman caught 2 around 4 pound mark on the ever reliable green and gold ashley.
Looking forward to heading back up to try some surface lures after dark.
Regards Martyn Evans
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Great Lake 11/9/2014
Aiden Hume with a 4.5 kilo brownie caught in Haddens Bay Great Lake - Thursday 11 September
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Tide Books
Tide Books for Tasmania ($5) on sale Tuesday 16 September.
Find them at Tamar Marine, Franklin Marine, Marine and Safety Tasmania, Boat Shack, Devonport Boat and Tackle, Tasmanian Map Centre, Oyster Cove Chandlery. I will add more as they order books.
Contact mike@tasfish for wholesale supplies.
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IMAS - Deep reef ecosystems study
Please find attached a media release and further informatio that may be of interest, and centred on a deep reefs ecosystems study being funded by FRDC.
Best regards,
Craig
2014 NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Eureka Prize for Environmental Research
Media Release from UTAS
Catalyst (ABC) which is available on IVIEW until the 25/12/2014
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Blackmans Lagoon
I headed to Tomahawk on the weekend, and decided to have a fish in Blackmans Lagoon on the way down. Arrived at around 1:30ish and got my 3 metre Zodiac off my 4wd with my 2 hp Johnston and headed off, the weather was very bright with 10 knot winds decided to try a Yep golden seducer around the edges. Bang had my first fish on and had this trout on for 15 mins and wasn't sure if it was a brown or a rainbow, but it was a good fish. Got it within 5 metres of the boat and saw the fish and know straight away that's it a really nice fish and could of easily be double figures, but then the hook pulled... Damn!! Kept on fishing for another 30 mins and hooked up a nice rainbow around the 4lb mark and was a very nice solid fish.
Cheers Bailey Zanetto
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Tooms Lake 7/9/2014
Dale Howard, his son Trevor and myself went to Tooms today,
The weather was sensational, managed ten nice rainbows on Yep black n gold Flappers and Red Rascals.
We kept 5 and released 5.
Regards, Todd
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Tamar Calamari 7/9/2014
Matt and I bagged out on Calamari today off Tamar Heads.
Most were this size.
With kind regards
Richard Sherriff
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Lake Leake 29/8/2014
Lake Leake continues to give up some nice fish although the time put in to achieve these results is often long and arduous .Pictured is Noel Washington of Hobart with a couple of quality fish (out of his bag of four) landed in a recent early morning session .
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Carp Management Program Annual Report 2013/14
The 2013/14 Carp Management Program Annual Report has now been completed and is available for public access at the link below. Find out the latest news on the 2013/14 season with the Carp Management Program and how the battle against carp in Lake Sorell is progressing. Read about the trials and development of new carp eradication techniques and what the season ahead is going to entail.
Please read the report here
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From the Archives ... (last chance)
Fishing on the Wild Side
Fishing on the Wild Side
Mike Fry doesn’t only live on the Wild Side of Tasmania, but also goes fishing in probably the wildest boat ever to troll for trout—certainly in Tasmania.
When your mate says ‘What are you doing tomorrow, want to come up the Gordon for the night?’ it would be pretty hard to say anything else except “you bet” and start checking out your tackle box and packing your overnight bag. But if your mate was Troy Grining and he wanted to give his new 52ft, high speed cruiser a run across Macquarie Harbour, test the new onboard dory with a chance of landing a nice Gordon River Brown you would have to feel privileged. I didn’t say anything about getting on my hands and knees and kissing his feet…just having a lend of ya’ but I did feel very appreciative.