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: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Category: Fishing Competitions; Published: 29 August 2017; Hits: 4256

Fishing Competitions

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Earlier Reports

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Category: Fishing Competitions; Published: 29 August 2017; Hits: 3912

Fishing Competitions

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; Hits: 2184

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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; Hits: 4493

IFS, DPIPWE, MAST and Peak Bodies

2017 08 24 wild brown trout on Rapala 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; Hits: 3604

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; Hits: 4793

Tuna Fishing and other Game Fishing

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; Hits: 4581

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; Hits: 6818

Presented from Issue 110, June 2014
Winter is a time when we tend to slow down, the days are shorter and the weather is predictably cold, wet and windy. Some of us stop fishing all together and are happy to wait out the winter while others eagerly await the winter run of juvenile Australian Salmon. These fish often sneak into the quiet estuaries that are now free of summer anglers, skiers and jet skiers. They come into these estuaries to feed on the scattered bait schools, worms and prawns that live over the sea grass and shallow rocky shorelines.

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Category: Australian Salmon; Published: 20 August 2017; Hits: 7077

Presented from Issue 110, June 2014
Winter is a time to reflect on the past season and contemplate the new one. In recent articles I mentioned what a hard season it was - especially for fishers of the dry fly. We had some good fishing to hatching stoneflies in November, but after that the best results were usually on wet flies with sinking lines.

I reckon this sort of fishing is hard work, but it certainly gave us some good results. Of course it makes sense, because as we all know eighty percent of a trout’s food is in the water, not on it. So with little surface activity it has been most important to find the depth the fish are at.

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Category: Jan’s Flies; Published: 20 August 2017; Hits: 4617

Jan’s Flies

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