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licence 2016 Recreational sea fishing licences for abalone, rock lobster, scallops, nets and set lines are now on sale at Service Tasmania and online.
Please note that licence refunds will not be granted if you are unable to fish in some waters due to biotoxin closures.

Buy your 2016-17 licence

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Articles; Category: IFS, DPIPWE, MAST and Peak Bodies; Published: 18 October 2016; Hits: 5252

Read this inspiring artilce here :

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-16/fisheries-officers-push-for-carp-free-tasmania/7936798

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Articles; Category: IFS, DPIPWE, MAST and Peak Bodies; Published: 17 October 2016; Hits: 4284

Anglers Alliance Tasmania is co-ordinating a free Statewide Junior Anglers Day on Sunday 30th October 2016 , giving anglers 17 years of age and under a good chance to catch trout at a number of venues across the state stocked by the Inland Fisheries Service.

The day will be a great opportunity for children who are interested in fishing but don’t necessarily come from a fishing family, to come along and receive some guidance from experienced anglers.

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Articles; Category: Events; Published: 13 October 2016; Hits: 4130

Events

ljad 2016 This event will be held at:
Launceston Aquatic Centre
Wednesday, 26 October
6.00pm 7.30pm

Following on from our highly successful Life Jacket Awareness Days in Hobart and Queenstown, MAST is conducting another demonstration in Launceston. Come along and find out what really happens when you end up in the water wearing the clothes you go boating in.

See the flyer here !

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Articles; Category: Events; Published: 06 October 2016; Hits: 4235

Get into fishing! The first ever national Gone Fishing Day is happening on Sunday, 16 October! It's a great opportunity to take family, mates or just yourself fishing in the great Tassie outdoors. Either register below for one of the Fishcare supported events around the state or as an individual at the Gone Fishing Day website - you could win a prize!
For Tasmanian Locations, click Read More below

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Articles; Category: Events; Published: 06 October 2016; Hits: 5548

Read more: Gone Fishing Day 2016

Have you tried whitebait fishing?

With favourable conditions, this season is looking like a great whitebait season.
The 2016 whitebait season opens for fishing on Saturday October 1 and remains open till Friday 11 November 2016.

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Articles; Category: IFS, DPIPWE, MAST and Peak Bodies; Published: 29 September 2016; Hits: 4221

IFS, DPIPWE, MAST and Peak Bodies

AAT recently contacted Forestry Tasmania re access to Lake Rowallan and were told all access roads to Lake Rowallan have been closed including the Borradaile Plains access. The Parangana bridge is out and there have been massive washouts and landslides with vast quantities of replacement fill to be put in place eg 70,000 m3 in one washout.
Remedial work has started and will take some time (months not weeks) and this is the reason roads have been closed.
A video by Rod How is available on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLafM92cLn0
Thanks to Rod for making this video public.

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Articles; Category: Lakes; Published: 19 September 2016; Hits: 5901

Trout Fishing

grammar05 Grammar Girls team in action at Cressy Trout Expo today (Monday). Pictured are 3 teams from Launceston Grammar Junior currently competing at Tasmanian Schools Trout Fishing Competition, including 1 all girl team.There are over 400 students out here.
The Grammar team sponsored by TasFish.com for the second year.exciting day ahead.

Click Read More for more pictures.

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Events; Category: Fishing Competitions; Published: 19 September 2016; Hits: 5542

Fishing Competitions

2016 09 10 great colours in this meander river brown A heavy frosty morning meant for a nice sunny but cool day and also a good one to go fishing in a river somewhere.. I decided it would be the Meander River which is 45 kms from Sheffield. I'm hoping the river level has dropped low enough so I can get in and fish it. I couldn't get a reading of the river levels online due to the gauge still being out of order since the June floods. So I'm going to take the chance and hope it will be okay. Once there I could see it was down and just wade-able going by a log the juts out from the river bank. I have used this log as a gauge for many years now and I know when the river is at a safe level for wading. Today it's borderline, so I decided I would have a session in the river. I'm not going to take any chances though, if I get to a stretch of water that doesn't feel right then I won't be going any further. Besides I'm not sure what has changed on the river bottom either, has it been washed out in places or is it still as it was before the floods. I could see how high the river had been during the floods, the good thing is that there's still plenty of undamaged foliage along both sides of the river.

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Rivers; Category: Meander River; Published: 12 September 2016; Hits: 4841

Double the Savings September 2016 with Honda Marine Looking to grab a rippa double deal this September on a Honda outboard?

Honda is pleased to announce that customers can now double their savings with up to a MASSIVE $2,000* off selected Honda outboards during September 2016!

Read the full PDF here

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Articles; Category: Commercial Interests; Published: 09 September 2016; Hits: 3906

Commercial Interests

We would like to make you aware that we have recently posted a report by Stewart Dick on our website that reports on the recent Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships held in Canada. Congratulations to team 'Australia Gold' who won the team bronze medal at this event. We would also like to congratulate team 'Australia Green' as we know both Australian teams worked together closely as a group, and the success belongs to all Australian angers who attended the event, not just the gold team members.

: Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training; Parent Category: Events; Category: Fishing Competitions; Published: 09 September 2016; Hits: 5209

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