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South Esk 20/4/2014

A few pics from todays fishing session at the Sth Esk river.

George and I caught 12 trout. I got mine on softies and George caught a few on fly.

Cheers Phil.

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: Category: Esk and other Northern Rivers; Published: 27 April 2014; Hits: 9198

Esk and other Northern Rivers

South Esk River Report 21/4/2014

Arrived at the South Esk with George Papp around 11am and fished till 3pm. I used soft plastics, while George tried the dry fly. We managed twelve between us and i got onto a couple of beauties around the 3lb mark, which were kept for a feed. The rest were released. Saw a few moving on top to caddis and spinners. Caught mine on Berkley Black & Gold T.Tails,and George got his on a hopper pattern. All fish were in top nick and fought hard, but this will be our last trip for the season.

Cheers Phil Zanetto

: Category: Esk and other Northern Rivers; Published: 23 April 2014; Hits: 7361

Esk and other Northern Rivers

PB Rainbow Trout Caught in the Mersey River 15/4/2014

Well I did leave much earlier today for another session in the Mersey River at Kimberley and I was in the river by 10.30 am this morning. I was going to come back to this area in a couple of days, but this morning I decided to go back and start fishing from where I finished up yesterday. Conditions were much cooler today and there was a cold Easterly breeze blowing too. The good thing about where I am going to fish today, is that the river is sheltered from Easterley winds.

: Category: Mersey River; Published: 23 April 2014; Hits: 7706

Mersey River

I've had better days 10/4/2014

After a day and a half of light rain and drizzle, it finally eased off this afternoon so I headed off to Merseylea for a short session before the rain returned as forecast. There wasn't any wind to worry about and it was still quite mild as well making ideal conditions for a spin. The Mersey was running nice and clear and I did notice a few small browns jumping in a couple of sections upstream, so I new there were a few fish about.

: Category: Mersey River; Published: 12 April 2014; Hits: 6680

Mersey River

Easter Fishing News

Scallop Season Opens
The 2014 recreational scallop season opens from this Saturday, 12 April and runs until July 31. The D'Entrecasteaux Channel remains closed to protect scallop stocks, so you cannot take or possess scallops in this area or transit through it with scallops on board your boat. Reports last year indicated that scallop divers were most active on the East Coast from Coles Bay to Marion Bay.

: Category: IFS, DPIPWE, MAST and Peak Bodies; Published: 11 April 2014; Hits: 3455

IFS, DPIPWE, MAST and Peak Bodies

Lake Leake Report 6/4/14

Young Gun well and truly shows up the Old Gun!

With not a breath of wind in site, pop rang up and said to get the boat out as he was coming to “try” and show us young one up… drinks1 We were on the water around 12:15pm trawled across the bay with a variety of different lures on. Connor had on a Berkley Gulp Pumpkin seed (That Todd Lambert gave him the day before, thanks Todd!!! cool1) pop had on his trusty old’ black, red and gold and I had on a Gold Mepps Spinner. Connor had a nice hit, and lost it. Then Pop was onto one, but only a perch. We headed out towards the southern end of the island, having a bit of a drift and spin, but the drift was nearly impossible as the lake was mirror image! Not a ripple on the water. From there we decided to trawl up to the Snowy, were we pulled up and had a few more casts, but nothing. By this time it was around 1:30, and a heap of boats had come out onto the lake. We fished there for a while, but nothing.

: Category: Lake Leake; Published: 08 April 2014; Hits: 7178

Lake Leake

DASHER RIVER GIVES UP A FEW BROWNS 2/4/2014

After the weather finally cleared here in Sheffield today I headed on over to the Dasher River (at 3.15pm) some ten minutes from home at Claude Road. After a one kilometer walk through the paddocks I reached my starting point where I would fish my way back upstream to the main road bridge. I was a little surprised to how low the river level was especially after last weeks 57mms of rain here. It was also a very dark tannin colour too, but still looked good enough for a spin. The sky was now clear and there was just a medium South Westerly breeze blowing which was enough to keep those little pesky flies away that hang around the cow paddocks.

: Category: Other Rivers; Published: 08 April 2014; Hits: 7480

Other Rivers

GREAT AFTERNOON SESSION ON THE DASHER RIVER 3/4/2014

After a fair afternoon on the Dasher River yesterday I thought it would be worth while to try it once again this afternoon. I have another friendly land owner who lets me fish his property and so I made the decision to try there today. I will have close on two kilometers of river that I can fish and I'm hoping it will fish a little better than where I fished yesterday. The wind was much stronger and gusty today and this was good as it will put a ripple on the surface which is better than being flat calm.

: Category: Other Rivers; Published: 08 April 2014; Hits: 7452

Other Rivers

A MUCH DIFFERENT TRIP TO MERSEYLEA THIS TIME 1/4/2014

I decided to head back to Merseylea (at 2.30pm) and have another spin along the same stretch of the Mersey River where I did fairly well for the Pirtek Fishing Challenge last Sunday week. On my arrived Neil Morrow from the IFS pulled up along side me and we had a nice chat for around 45 minutes before he had to head off. Neil was doing the rounds checking on the Anglers Access areas to see if they needed tidying up or repairs. He did tell me that the IFS were very concerned about the amount of rubbish that had been left laying around at Lake Kara and if it keeps up, well it could well be closed to fishing.

: Category: Mersey River; Published: 02 April 2014; Hits: 6543

Mersey River

JUST AN AVERAGE SESSION ON THE MEANDER RIVER TODAY 31/3/2014

Being the last day of March and given that the conditions were pretty good I thought I would give the Meander River a go today after lunch. The weather was a little on the humid side with a light East to North Easterly breeze and very heavy cloud cover making it reasonably good for trout fishing. The only down fall was the wind direction, but in saying that it was very light and so it hopefully won't effect the fishing that much.