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Boat fishing the lakes is very good with thousands good size browns & rainbows stocked in them.. Those Atlantic salmon were very nice, I did them in the smoker. cheers Adrian

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

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

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

You're welcome any time Des... cheers Adrian

Here's a short 2-1/2 minute video for the coming trout season using a Mepps Aglia Furia inline spinner, it's just one of a large variety of Mepps inline spinners that work well on the trout throughout a trout season. Thanks for watching & stay safe in/on the water this coming season. cheers Adrian (meppstas) #mepps #tackletactics #okuma #platypuslines #meppsaglia #meppsbug 4 Comments Sort by

Thanks Mick, will do my best to keep rubbing it in mate, hopefully I still have a few years left in me to do so too.. Thanks for watching the video too, it's very much appreciated.. cheers Adrian

Another (mid January) of my 23/24 trout season spin sessions, this one was a good one when I caught & released my 300th trout of the season. This spin session was just before the Cormorants arrived in big numbers, there were already a few here but when the rest arrived this little stream was hit hard and hardly a trout was seen from then on. Thanks for watching & stay safe on/in the water..Our trout season opens again on the 3rd August so it will be quite interesting to see how the rivers & streams fish, they weren't all that good from mid January right up to the end of the season

I used to love going after the blood worms in and around Outer Harbor back in the day when I lived in Sth Aust, most of the areas that I used go for them are closed off now. I used to go to Pelican Point & under the Outer Harbor Wharf for them, I gather that's all closed off now as it's been around 36 years or so since I've done it, been in Tassie for the last 24 years. They're one of the best baits around that's for sure.. cheers Adrian

Brown trout spawn in the rivers during late May though June & July that's the reason our season is closed those three months, waters that are classed as rainbow trout waters close approx one month later and reopen in September as they spawn later than the browns. Water temps does have a big effect on trout fishing in both rivers & lakes, early season the trout can be a little sluggish with low water temps of 3-6 degrees, Myself I prefer the water temps in the rivers to be 9-15 degrees as that's when the trout seem to be most aggressive. Sometimes early season can also depend on the wea

Our trout season for the rivers/stream & lakes starts on the Saturday closest to the 1st August & closes on the last Sunday closest to the end of April each year. There are several lakes open all year round and a few rivers that are classed as rainbow trout waters close a month later & open a month later than brown trout waters. We've had our driest Winter that I can remember since moving here back in March 2000, May rainfall was 45 mm, June 106 mm, so far for July just 1 mm, there is rain on the way sometime Sunday or Monday at this stage. Temps here in Sheffield have been very lo

Only one month to go before the 2024/25 trout season opens so here's another of my 2023/24 trout season spin sessions, this trip was mid January not long after the influx of Cormorants hit the rivers & streams here in Tasmania. Thankfully. I did manage to catch and release a few wild brown trout before this little stream was cleaned out... cheers Adrian (meppstas)

This was one of my best trips fishing the fast waters of the Meander River during the 2023/24 trout season. Fastwater fishing is never easy and every trout that's caught is very well earned, it's tough but it can also be very rewarding as well. cheers Adrian

This trip was back in January before the Cormorants hit the rivers here in big numbers, as the title states 5 from 9, trout few and far between was spot on.. There's also a few photos from the spin session below the YouTube video as well.. cheers Adrian (meppstas)

As Kelvin stated, Savage Gravity lures Micky, saw these on Ebay $10-50 each. cheers Adrian

I meant to put this short six minute musical photo slideshow with the photo books a couple of days ago.. I kept it short as not to send the viewers to sleep, the original video runs for 20 minutes.. It was hard working out what photos to use as I had so many, there's probably (& there is) a lot more good photos that I could have added, but one has to stop somewhere don't they. I will have 101 videos "My Rivers & Fish" (when I put 98, 99, 100 & 101 together) that go back a long time, and boy has the rivers/streams changed over those years with the many floods that we've had in that

Thanks Bjorn & Des, it's something I like to do at the end of each trout season, always to look back on when I can't fish the rivers/streams in the near future.. I have 15 seasons of photo books now.. cheers Adrian

With the trout season now closed for three months I went ahead and did my yearly photo books of the rivers/stream & trout that I caught & released throughout the season. Seeing as I took over 2,500 photos during the trout season I had to keep it to two medium size books as well as keeping the cost to a reasonable one. The good thing is that I held of until Snapfish had a 70% off which included extra pages. Here's a few photos from both books, there's also a short 6 minute video musical photo slideshow on my YouTube channel as well, details at the bottom of the photos.. chee

A great write up as always Des with plenty of tips etc.. Quite few decent fish caught and some nice feeds to be had too.. cheers Adrian

Thanks guys, certainly very lucky down here with the scenery & beautiful rivers/stream to fish. Over the last three months the rivers/streams and even the highland lakes have been over run with Cormorants. The rivers/streams that I fish are now scarce on trout, in fact several small streams have been cleaned out. I spent a couple of hours in the Mersey River yesterday and never spotted a trout at all, this time last year the trout were plentiful in the Mersey. Our trout season closes tomorrow (28th April) for three months, touch wood, hopefully there will be some recovery over the next thr

This was my only trip to the Leven River so far this season, it hasn't fished all that well over the past couple of seasons but i thought it was time to give it a go before the season closes. cheers Adrian..

Brilliant report/article & photos Des, plenty of great info as well.. Those flatties were a good size, mouth watering actually.. Thanks for another ripper trip Des,, cheers Adrian

This trip was early on in the season, a spin session when the trout went from one lure to another. It turned out to be quite a good spin session as well with some beautifully coloured wild brown trout being caught & released. cheers Adrian (meppstas)

Hi Mick, I'm slowing down a little of late due to the lower back getting worse, I'm sure I'll try to put in as many trout season as possible to each those numbers too. I doubt there would be all that many trout fisher's that would have caught 98% of their trout on the Mepps inline blade spinners either, nowadays most of them are using soft plastics and hard body lures. I find it very challenging when fishing for trout with a inline blade spinner. I do carry a mixed supply of small (30-60 mm) hard body lures with me & I have used them from time to time and done reasonably well on them. As f