St Helens Grand Slam - Rules and Entry form

Date: 24 January. This is St Helens Regatta day and it will be part of the day's events. Sponsors include www.tasfish.com, Coastal Marine, Castlemaine xxxx and Fuji Australia. We thank St Helens Rotary Club for their support.

Artificial lure or fly only, no berley. Three fish make up the Grand Slam. Australian salmon, silver trevally and bream. Catch these three, measure and photograph with a digital camera, on the brag mat provided, and add the lengths together for a total length. A form will be provided and some cameras if you don't have one.

St Helens Grand Slam and how to catch the Grand Slam fish.

From Tasmanian Fishing and Boating News December 2008 by Jamie Henderson

Over the last few years we have seen fishing activity in St Helens grow rapidly and with it has come various forms of fishing tournaments and competitions. Serious events such as ABT Bream Qualifiers, Pro Bream Tournaments and Game Fishing Competitions as well as small family based fishing competitions designed to get mum, dad and the kids down to the water.
Now we have the crème de la crème, The Tasfish.com St Helens Grand Slam, the brainchild of Mike Stevens from Tas Fishing and Boating News. This event (which really is just a day of fishing madness, mayhem, silly banter, skullduggery and good times loosely disguised as a fishing competition) will be run on the fish rich waters of God's own estuary, Georges Bay - St Helens, during the annual Regatta Day, 24 January, on the Australia Day long weekend in January.

News from Dee and Bronte lagoons

Just a note or two about a trip a couple of weeks ago to Dee and Bronte lagoons. Drove from Hobart to the Dee via Tarraleah on Wednesday afternoon. Stopped for an hour or so at Tungatinah Lagoon where I managed to catch a lean salmon of 550mm and only just a kilogram (cleaned). It took a soft plastic fished deep from the southeastern shore. It had a medium sized stainless steel hook stuck in its throat and was trailing thick line with a swivel and another hook. I estimate the line to be about 12lb breaking strain yet the fish has broken it off about 2 metres along from the hooks. I guess it must have run around some of the Hydro’s steel bits which lie in the lagoon in that area. I was using 6lb nylon and had no trouble landing the fish. Although quite lean, its flesh was still pink and it tasted OK.

December Tas. Fishing and Boating News out now.

For years I have been aware of something called the 80/20 rule or the Pareto principle. It is named after an Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who suggested that 80 percent of the Italian income went to 20 percent of the population. Pareto died in 1923. Since then it has been used in many areas. It is a common rule of thumb in business and in many areas. In business 80 percent of the income comes from 20 percent of the customers, but hey, we are meant to be discussing fishing here.
In fishing the Pareto Principle seemingly also applies with 80 percent of fish caught by 20 percent of anglers. Most of this though can be put down to the study and learning of anglers.

Noel Jetson - Life and Flies

by Glenn Eggleton

Jet-Fly, as Noel was commonly known by his clients, was Tasmania’s first professional fly fishing guide. He had great fly fishing teachers in David Scholes and also Dick Wigram. Dick taught him to tie flies and one thing Scholes taught him was that presentation is usually more important than imitation.