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This trip was short & sharp, very cold water & weather didn't make it easy at all. Just a couple of wild browns caught & released before all hell let loose with the wind. Thanks for watching & enjoy the musical photo slideshow after the short rundown.. Cheers Adrian (meppstas) #mepps #meppsaglia #tackletactics #okuma #platypuslines

Weather is really crappy again here in Tassie so no fishing done, did get to see the spine specialist on Wednesday, not a thing they can do for my spine. Getting closer to 78 years of age had a lot to do with it not that I minded as I wouldn't have gone for the operation anyway. They've put me on a trial run of anti-inflammatory tablets that I can take each day without having any effect on the kidneys. Hopefully this weather will settle down soon so I can get back in a river.... cheers Adrian

Stunning back drop. Yeah I love my small stream fishing also but the lake fishing over there just looks so good. Bet those salmon tasted good. Cheers

No Hunter, small streams & rivers only, I did fish Lake Barrington (it's open all year round) around 16 years ago during the closed season when they dropped a heap of Atlantic salmon in it. The inland fisheries continue to stock the Lakes but will not stock the rivers which is a joke, they believe in self recruitment in the rivers. With the large floods that we've had that cleaned of a full seasons spawning and now with another influx of Shags (cormorants) the rivers are stuffed at the moment. Near the end of last seasons trout season I counted 72 Shags in the Mersey River, fishers came ac

Well I finally managed to have my first trip of the season a couple weeks ago, haven't been able to hit the water due to constant lower back problems with (spinal stenosis) 5 discs in poor condition. The weather wasn't all that flash but it was certainly good to get back in a river that's for sure. Haven't been fishing since this trip either, seeing another spin specialist next Wednesday. This is the first time in the 24 years year in Tassie that I've only had one trip to a river seven weeks into a trout season, not happy Jan.. The cormorants (Shags) are still in the rivers as well, so it will

a mate and I were fishing for sharks on the seaward side of the section bank off StKilda. we had 4 balloons out, all with European carp on about 4,30 in the afternoon the 30 took off and it was spooled with 660m of Platypus pretest before we could pull the anchor it stripped all 660m of line and didn't stop once I picked it for a large Hammerhead that had come up our berley slick about an hour earlier. I have never seen a run like that in my life and my mates 30 Inter was too hot to touch after it was emptied

Simple rig - Sliding sinker above swivel using the easy slide clip. Then 1m trace with 2 x 8/0 snelled hooks. Need the biggest live bait you can get, any legal sized live bait. Only pin the live bait with one hook near the head leaving the other dangling below. Live bait to be about 1m off the bottom. Best to fish high tide to low tide & 1 hr afterwards. No hits, then go home. For the big models, winter time is best on still freezing cold nights. Preferably on a new moon. Mid sized mulloway can be caught all year round. If you can fish near/around structure then thats the way to go, but I

STOCK DEPLETION of Yellow Fin Whiting ~ A Summary of Conversations. . I have engaged in a few recent conversations with many longtime Yellow Fin Whiting fishermen since my previous post: “A Threatened Species” … https://www.facebook.com/groups/1383810555282311/posts/3589648064698538/ They are experienced, talented fishers, with well established records, detailed in their many fishing reports in past fishing forums. Stretching back well before the days of Facebook fishing groups. They have all been unanimous in their observations of a steep decline in YFW catches.