Another beautiful day gave me the chance to head off and try a section of a small river, one that I haven't fished for around five years. I thought seeing as we had a good flood back in June 2016 and some reasonable rainfall this Winter it may have a few nice trout back in it. The only problem is getting into it because it is well hidden with heavy foliage and requires a four to five hundred meter bush bash to reach it. Once there I could see the bush was a lot thicker now than it was back when I last fished here. I was in two minds whether or not to venture into the bush, but I did. Nothing better than a challenge that's for sure even it is going to be a tough one. Half way into it I was having second thoughts if I had made the right decision, I did think about turning back. I didn't though, I pushed on then finally heard the sound of the water rushing over the rocks in a shallow section of the stream. Then it was only a matter of finding an entry point and not slip down the steep bank that was covered with blackberry bushes.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Other Rivers

Published: 02 September 2017

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Read more: Tough few hours in a small tannin river - 2017-08-31

Please follow this link to Christopher Bassano's reports from the 2017 World Fly Fishing Championships Slovakia

Report Number One

Report Number Two

Report Number Three 

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Fishing Competitions

Published: 29 August 2017

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Please follow this link to Christopher Bassano's reports from the 2017 World Fly Fishing Championships Slovakia

Final Results Report

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Fishing Competitions

Published: 29 August 2017

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By Christopher Bassano - Report 2

I was met at the airport in Ljubljana by my good friend, Yann Caleri and his girlfriend, Sarah. Yann had been working with the French Youth team at the world championships a few days earlier and they had won the gold medal. He was clearly chuffed and so he should be. Yann was a terrific competition fly fisherman when he competed, having fished in seven world championships with six top ten finishes. I don't think anyone could boast such a consistent record. Unfortunately, he never did win an individual medal of any sort but multiple team medals do sit on his desk at home. As he always says to me, "I am the king of the chocolate medal", meaning he couldn't ever finish in the top three. I wish he had because not only is he a class angler, but he is also a wonderful guy. 

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Fishing Competitions

Published: 29 August 2017

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Read more: 2017 World Fly Fishing Championships Slovakia 2017, Report 2 - Preparation

Source - http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/sea-fishing-aquaculture/

Rock lobster

The recreational rock lobster season in the Western Region closes from Thursday 31 August at midnight.

Striped trumpeter

The striped trumpeter fishery closes for recreational and commercial fishers for a two month period from this Friday, 1 September to 31 October inclusive. The closure protects fish during the spawning season when they are most vulnerable to capture.

Check season dates for Striped trumpeter

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: IFS, DPIPWE, MAST and Peak Bodies

Published: 29 August 2017

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Read more: Recreational Fisheries - Season reminders 2017 08 29

After having physio this morning and given the weather conditions were absolutely beautiful I headed off to small stream in the upper reaches of the Mersey River near Weegena.. This little river quite often fished well early season while there's good flow in it, I'm hoping it will do so this trip too. Once the water level drops it's a tough little stream to fish, so now is the time to give it a go. I started off using a small gold bladed #00 Aglia and had a follow in the first five casts. That brown came up and nudged the trebles with it's nose a few times before it turned and moved off. I knew then and there the spinners weren't going to work here today so changed over to a gold/black F-3 Rapala to see if that would get the result I was after. Well, I had only moved upstream some twenty meters when I was onto my first brown for the session. It was a well conditioned fish that went just on 350 grams, like 98% of the fish I catch it had it's photo taken and was soon back in the river.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Mersey River

Published: 28 August 2017

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Read more: Top day on a stream in beautiful conditions - 2017-08-24

Presented from Issue 110, June 2014
Tuna and offshore The tail end of May and June saw Eagle Hawk Neck firing. The school sized fish were anywhere you cared to mention and if you found them when they came on to feed you were bound to have success.

July will be no exception with the added hope the big jumbos have thickened up with the cooler weather. We are exceptionally spoilt in regard to the distance we can travel to find fish in Tasmania. You will drive over a lot of fish if you think you have to bee line to the Hippolyte rocks and Tasman Island to get fish. Areas just outside Pirates Bay have been holding good bait and in turn good numbers of Southern bluefin tuna.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Tuna Fishing and other Game Fishing

Published: 27 August 2017

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Read more: Don’t stop just yet - The game fishing season keeps going - Kelly Hunt

It's been two weeks now since I damaged the hamstring and I felt it was time to put it to the test. Even though I have to see the physio again on Thursday, to me it feels good enough to have a short spin session in a river. Left Sheffield at 1:15 PM and arrived near the river just before 2:00 PM. I soon had the waders & boots on then off for leisurely forty minute walk that included a little bush bashing before I was finally at the rivers edge. All I had to do then was to find an easy entry point, instead of sliding down a steep river bank. It only took me a couple of minutes before I found one that was good enough, providing I took it easy. At last I was back to what I love doing most, spin fishing a river for that elusive trout.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Leven River

Published: 27 August 2017

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Read more: Only one trout caught and hamstring all good - 2017-08-22

Presented from Issue 110, June 2014
With the arrival of winter, the trout season has, once again, come to an end in Tasmania. If you are still keen to chase trout, there are still a few options. Some inland waters, such as the Great Lake, remain open and, when the weather is good, can provide wintertime fun. Many anglers will take advantage of this, but just as many won’t! It is the time of year when trout spawn and, to a lot of anglers, catching these fish is less challenging – the fish are more likely to be in poor condition and therefore do not put up as much of a fight.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: St Helens

Published: 21 August 2017

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Read more: St Helens trevally - A soft plastic approach - Michal Rybka