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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.

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Tonic releases Blue Mirror Limited Edition

Tonic Polarised Eyewear, the new leader in high quality fishing sunglasses, has released a special Blue Mirror Limited Edition. Available in Tonic’s popular Evo and Shimmer frame styles, the Limited Edition is a stylish solution for high-glare conditions. The Blue Mirror lenses were specially developed for Australian anglers and outdoor enthusiasts, and share their high-tech optics with all of Tonic’s growing range of lightweight polarised optical glass lenses.
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2008 4m Lyndcraft Boat For Sale

  • 2008 4.0M Lyndcraft
  • 30hp 2stroke Mercury
  • Lowrance sounder
  • New Min Kotta Ipilot with deep cycle battery
  • Full engine and boat covers
  • Front and rear casting decks
 
$10 000.00 
Contact Martin O'toole 0412 296 694 
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Category: Tackle, Boats and other Equipment
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Alvey Reels - Auto Retract Cord Holder

Your fishing time is precious! Now you can catch more fish by using an ‘Auto-retract’ cord holder and eliminate the annoying tangles of cord on the deck of your boat  when using lure retrievers.
The auto retract cord holder stores your lure retriever cord neatly and safely and keeps your boat deck free of loose coils, thereby avoiding tangles or tripping over cord.

Category: Tackle, Boats and other Equipment
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50 Years of the Ultimate Four-Stroke

 

2014 is a milestone year for Honda, with the company celebrating the 50th anniversary of the very first Honda four-stroke outboard engine, the GB30. A modest 4hp engine, it represented the noble ambitions of Honda’s founder, Soichiro Honda, to manufacture only four-stroke engines for the benefit of the environment and generations to come.

Category: Commercial Interests
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Broadbill caught off east coast by Paul Digney.

Broadbill Sword Fish caught at Bicheno 02/03/14 on a drop line while fishing for Blue eye Trevalla
 
3.7 mtrs long, estimated between 280/300kg 
Category: Tuna Fishing and other Game Fishing
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George Town Fishing Forum

Are you able to come along to George Town Fishing Forum next Tuesday 12th March?
It would be great to have you there. Click Read More!

Category: Super Trawler
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The Margiris gets a frosty welcome in Ireland

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/worlds-second-largest-supertrawler-enters-irish-waters-30058458.html

Category: Super Trawler
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Can we trust the Prime Minister to keep his word? 

 
Category: Super Trawler
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Seafest

Read all about it here 

Category: Events
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Honda Marine Launches Two New Stunning Models

Honda has unveiled its much-anticipated BF80 and BF100 outboard engines, further reinforcing the brand as a leader in the four-stroke market. The release coincides with Honda Marine’s 50-year anniversary, which is being celebrated throughout 2014. The new 80 and 100hp outboards provide new levels of performance in their sectors by using Honda’s world-renowned technologies such as BLAST™ and VTEC (BF100 only), all the while ensuring excellent fuel economy.

Category: Commercial Interests
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Hello everyone, I thought it would be a good time to introduce myself.
My name is Stephen Smith and I have been managing the website tasfish.com since May 2009.
It has been an epic journey of learning and discovery and I am indebted to Mike Stevens for his help, support and patience.
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From the Archives ... (last chance)

"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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