Tasmania
== South Esk. Longest river in Tasmania. Session 2 010 Nationals. I has what Peter Walsh called the swamp after last competition. A beat of around 200 meters long but 90% of that behind tangled willow trees. Amongst the trees there was no acces to the main river but there was access to pockets of…
Last Updated: May 20262010 Nationals session 3. Beat 10 below the road bridge. The river was up over a meter from the second session and was basically unfishable. Rav and Mark Youngman instead on trying to fish their beats up near the gorge insisted or being relocated. I am sure my beat was equally dangerous and…
Last Updated: May 2026This is a list of flies that I know all work well for the lakes around Miena and Bronte in Central Tasmania. For the sake of convenience I have broken the list below up into 4 distinct sections: The first table deals with "Matching the hatch" and is best read in conjunction with an article I first…
Last Updated: May 2026==Perhaps the most iconic lake in Tasmania and for many the most iconic lake in Australia. Arthurs is a hydro lake that was created by the damming of the Upper Lake River in the early 1960's and the flooding of the areas that contained Blue Lake, Sand Lake and the Morass Marsh. From a fly fishers…
Last Updated: May 2026==I Have only fished the Upper Derwent River a few times now around November between 2005 and 2009 Nationals so I am by no means an expert on this fishery. Having said that I have researched it and this information may be helpful. The general flows have been around 50 cubic meters per second (50…
Last Updated: May 2026