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"Angling is an art - Hannah Ledger
and an art worth your learning.."
Presented from Issue 112, October 2014
So said Izaak Walton in the 1600s. It seems that Burnie’s Hannah Ledger has combined angling with art rather well. Hannah is a fish fanatic, outdoor enthusiast and budding, self-taught artist. From as young as she can remember, she has always had crayon in hand, colouring book under arm and as she’s grown as a painter, jars full of paintbrushes and cupboards full of ready-to-go blank canvas’.
A country girl at heart, Hannah was schooled at Yolla District High School, a small ‘farm’ school in the states North West, then went on to Hellyer College where she was given the opportunity to really grow her art skills; And by grow, that meant skipping the classes that would probably have more an impact of getting her somewhere in life, like English and Math to spend every spare minute with the art teacher, painting or drawing.
As typical teenagers do, they make poor decisions- and after being accepted in to one of the countries top art schools, turned down the offer and decided to move to the big island, where she lived for 5 years working in what seemed ‘dead end’ retail.
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Issue 112 October / November 2014
On sale in Tackle shops now - in Newsagents Thursday 9 October.
Contents include how Mike and Todd caught three fish in Lake Crescent that weighed 30 pounds, plus heaps more as below.
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Coastal Catches 2/10/2014
There are a lot of anglers from the Burnie area looking forward to this weekend as it is the Burnie Show holiday on Friday and many use it as a start of their fishing up in the highlands. The weather can be changeable but it is generally when things start to get a bit warmer and Trout fishing starts to fire.
The road from Lake Augusta to the nineteen lagoons area is now open so there is easy access to the area. It’s one of the premium Trout fishing locations in the state and I expect there will be a few folk from Burnie there on Friday. The IFS have advised that to road is better condition than the past few years and they have requested that anglers stick to the speed limit to keep the road in good condition.
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ABC News
Controversial plans to expand Tasmanian salmon industry, environmentalists accuse farms of polluting ocean
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Concern Rises Over Salmon Farm Pollution
What: Release of report that shows gaps in scientific monitoring of salmon farm impacts in south-east Tasmania and concerns from local landowners about expansion plans of polluting salmon farms
When: 10.30am Wednesday 1 October
Where: Environment Tasmania meeting room, Level 1, 100 Elizabeth St, Hobart
Who: Rebecca Hubbard, Marine Coordinator, Environment Tasmania and Karen Harvey, Southport landowner
For more information:
Rebecca Hubbard 0401 854 912
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The 2014 whitebait season opens Wednesday 1 October
The 2014 whitebait season opens Wednesday 1 October and will remain open until Tuesday 11 November.
The rivers open for whitebait fishing are subject to a schedule of annual rotations of open and closed waters. Whitebait fishers will need to ensure that the river they are proposing to fish is open for this season.
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Rare Books
If you are a fishing book collector - especially of rare books - click the link below.
How to get a $69,900 book for $690.
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Coastal Catches 25/9/2014
Some of the weather that we are getting lately is almost unbelievable with relatively calm days and very little rain. It seems there are a lot of anglers taking advantage of the conditions and wetting a line.
I was down at Sisters Beach on Sunday and the target for the morning was Calamari Squid. We got onto a few good ones and I have been experimenting with a method that I was told about a while ago and it has been fairly successful. It basically involves hanging a squid jig under a polystyrene float and using a small silicone rubber float stopper to set the depth. The advantage of this is you can set the depth so your squid jig is just above the bottom which leaves it in the strike zone and it also results in less jigs being lost. It worked for us and it is a method I will persevere with.
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Yep Tassie Tackle - The Lure Of Tasmania's status.
Trev and I had a nice trip to little lake on Sunday caught fish on hard body lures , the fish are a lot bigger than the last couple of seasons in my opinion cant wait to get up there in the summer
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Lake Cresent
Help needed. In 1973 Billy Zotch caught a very big trout in Lake Crescent on a Big Bat lure.
Do you know that lure? Do you have one or a photo. Free gift if you can help. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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- Category: Lake Crescent
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Burnie
Great day fishing on the water off Burnie Sunday 21 September - Anthony Taylor, Anthony Wolfe from Coastal Marine and the boys! More fish were released than kept..but had plenty for a good Sunday night bbq!
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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.