Tasmania Fishing - Overview

Location: Brady's Lake in Tasmania's Central Highland

Tasmania offers exciting and productive trout fishing. This beautiful island state, off the southern Australia mainland, is an angler's paradise. Crisscrossed as it is by rivers, lakes and shallow lagoons called tarns, its pristine, unspoiled environment attracts fishermen from around the world seeking to pit their skill against the guile of the wild trout.

Because the most productive waters are the broad, shallow, crystal-clear lakes where prolific mayfly and caddis hatches and big wild trout abound, trout fishing here is best compared to stalking the flats for bonefish. Anglers walk the edge of the lagoons looking for browns and rainbows on the rise or tailing (the Tassies refer to this as "polaroiding"). Morning and evening hatches are spectacular. At times 50-100 trout in the 3-5 pound class can be seen feeding actively in a single day. Tasmania fly fishing is at its best from mid- to late-November through February, though most waters remain open until the end of April.