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Mersey River Still Giving Up The Odd Trout 2/9/2015

With a change forecast for later on tonight I thought I would get a spin session in this afternoon at Merseylea once again. I headed to the middle bridge this time and walked on down through the paddocks to the river. It was still running at a medium to high level but still just wade-able in most sections. I kept with the little black bladed black fury from the other day to see how it would go in today's dull conditions. The first couple of runs didn't give up a fish bit the next run was much better. After flicking the spinner up into the headwater several times and letting it drift into a large eddy it was finally taken by a nice 430gm brown. I fished several more runs some of which I changed over to the hard body lure as they were much deeper runs. Nothing at all was taken over the next two stretches of river where I decided to cross the river to a backwater run.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Mersey River

Published: 11 September 2015

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Good brown taken at Merseylea - 31/8/2015

Another ripper of a day much the same as yesterday so I was off to Merseylea once again, this time I left at 1.00pm and went too the lower bridge. Being a Monday I was hoping that no one would be there, but when I arrived there was a 4wd parked some 200 meters on a track below the bridge. This was good as it meant he had headed downstream or was sitting in the bush bait fishing. I was heading upstream to fish any way so there's not a problem. I only had a short walk through the paddocks to where I could cross over to get a backwater that I like to fish. It wasn't long before I was there flicking the same hard body lure that I used yesterday. This backwater didn't give a yelp again this trip either. That's two trips here without it giving up a fish, I have no idea why it didn't because it normally gives up a few trout.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Mersey River

Published: 11 September 2015

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Junior Anglers Day

Anglers Alliance Tasmania is co-ordinating a free State wide junior angling day on 11 October 2015. The day will feature a number of locations across the state being stocked with trout by the Inland Fisheries Service for juniors 17 years of age and under to experience the good chance of catching a wily trout. This day will also be a great opportunity for children who are interested in fishing but don’t necessarily come from a fishing family, to come along and receive some guidance from experienced anglers on how they might approach trout fishing. Bait and some fishing gear will be provided along with giveaways and soft drinks. All parents need to do is to bring the kids along between 10am and 3pm to one of the following venues:-

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: IFS, DPIPWE, MAST and Peak Bodies

Published: 10 September 2015

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The Ultimate Berkley Fishin’ Gear Giveaway

Buy $25 of Berkley Fishin’ Gear and have 50 CHANCES of winning $1000 of Berkley Fishin Gear!
Entry is simple and there’s 50 CHANCES to WIN. Thats $50,000 in prizes.

Prize packs consist of Berkley plastics, jigheads, line and leader.
Each prize contains:
31 packs of Gulp!, 30 packs of PowerBait, 20 x packs of Nitro jigheads to suit, 4 spools of Fireline and 4 spools of Vanish leader.
There’s light estuary, medium estuary and offshore packs to choose from.

HOW IT WORKS

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Commercial Interests

Published: 05 September 2015

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Fair two hours at Merseylea 30-8-2015

I left home just on 1.30pm in beautiful weather conditions and headed on over to the Mersey River at Merseylea. I went to my usual spot only to find a couple of cars parked there and being a Sunday with such great weather I don't blame them for having an outing on the river.

I did bother seeing if they were bait fishing or if they had headed off for a session in the river with lures or the fly. I drove on up to the top bridge and found it clear of vehicles which was unusual as this area is normally busy. Parked the car, on with the waders etc and I was soon in the river working my way upstream.
The river was still a little higher than I would have liked but it was wade-able and that's all that mattered to me. I was using the same rainbow pattern slim 6 cm Muzza's hard body lure that worked for me on the last trip to the Mersey River. The river bottom was like an ice skating rink here as it well and boy it's tough going and even more so in waist high water.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Mersey River

Published: 01 September 2015

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Mersey River, Low Enough At Last 26/8/2015

Finally after not having any rain for four days the Mersey River was just low enough for me to get in and have a spin session. Not that it was real low, but it was just low enough for fishing if one took care in doing so. There was still plenty of water coming down and with the river bottom being so slippery it was a matter of knowing the river and where it was safe enough to fish without being swept away. In saying that, I did have a one moment when I thought I may have been body surfing the fast water in the spot where I chose to cross over to get to a backwater run. It was well above my knees and with the rocky bottom being slimy it was hard trying to get a good footing even with spiked felt sole wading boots on. Any way I did make it across to the backwater in the end without taking a plunge.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Mersey River

Published: 30 August 2015

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Abbott Government is about to approve the slaughter of more dolphins

You won’t believe it. The Abbott Government is about to approve the slaughter of more dolphins by the foreign factory trawler Geelong Star. Send an urgent email here to the Environment and Fisheries Ministers and make sure they don’t approve more dolphin deaths.

Dolphins are known to feed at night, and after the Geelong Star killed nine dolphins in its first two fishing trips, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority banned it from night fishing. But now, the operators of the Geelong Star are crying poor and lobbying to lift the night fishing ban, even though they don’t have a proven way to stop dolphins and seals dying.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Super Trawler

Published: 28 August 2015

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The Premier, Will Hodgman on the Geelong Star freezer factory trawler

Listen to Premier Will Hodgman on Heart 107.3 Thursday 20th Ausgust 2015 either via this link:

https://audioboom.com/boos/3489545-tasmanian-premier-will-hodgman-discussing-the-states-fishing-industry

or in this web page below. 

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Super Trawler

Published: 24 August 2015

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Gillnetting in Tasmania has caused impacts on species

Research has shown gillnetting in Tasmania has caused impacts on species.

Read the report here

Further images are below (Click Read More)

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: IFS, DPIPWE, MAST and Peak Bodies

Published: 22 August 2015

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