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Fishing Tasmania Expert Visits Farlows Of Pall Mall - News Release

 

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Fishing Tasmania Expert Visits Farlows Of Pall Mall - News Release

 

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I fly fished for brown trout in Tasmania a few years ago, and it was a great experience. Go for it by all means, but just be a bit cautious over who arranges it for you. Farlows are a hallowed institution, and I'm sure they would never host anything that doesn't cut the mustard. But I suspect they know how much to charge as well

[Vagabond]

I will be fishing Tasmania in about a month's time. Have fished there many times, both for trout and seafish. We have relatives there we visit every other year.

 

I would say to anyone contemplating parting with a large sum of money and expecting to catch large numbers of huge trout - beware the hype!

 

When many of the big dams were first flooded, there were two factors going for the production of big trout - firstly the huge population of native galaxids (a fish about the circumference of a minnow but twice as long) and secondly the newly flooded vegetation producing an explosion of freshwater invertebrates. (Think about the production of Grafham in its early years)

 

Both these factors contributed to large numbers of big trout. That is what made Tasmanian trout fishing famous.

 

However, trout eat galaxids faster than galaxids can reproduce - these little fish have no defence against large predators. So that source of trout food has almost disappeared. Also, once the submerged vegetation had been consumed, there was no more, and the lakes reverted to the level of production one might expect from an oligotrophic lake.

 

Still excellent fishing, in beautiful surroundings, but as in other mature trout lakes around the world, you have to work for your fish !

Edited November 16, 2009 by Vagabond

[JV44]

I will be fishing Tasmania in about a month's time. Have fished there many times, both for trout and seafish. We have relatives there we visit every other year.

 

I would say to anyone contemplating parting with a large sum of money and expecting to catch large numbers of huge trout - beware the hype!

 

When many of the big dams were first flooded, there were two factors going for the production of big trout - firstly the huge population of native galaxids (a fish about the circumference of a minnow but twice as long) and secondly the newly flooded vegetation producing an explosion of freshwater invertebrates. (Think about the production of Grafham in its early years)

 

Both these factors contributed to large numbers of big trout. That is what made Tasmanian trout fishing famous.

 

However, trout eat galaxids faster than galaxids can reproduce - these little fish have no defence against large predators. So that source of trout food has almost disappeared. Also, once the submerged vegetation had been consumed, there was no more, and the lakes reverted to the level of production one might expect from an oligotrophic lake.

 

Still excellent fishing, in beautiful surroundings, but as in other mature trout lakes around the world, you have to work for your fish !

 

The other thing to bear in mind re getting there from the Melbourne is that Ferry crossing can be how you say interesting depending on the sea state ,never fished for the Trout but did have a go off Jetty's/Rocks and in the lagoons the sport there was excellent esp off the rocks by the Ferry terminal waiting to come home .

The coastline just past Port Arthur and the prison heading west is a bit special to ,Looking forward to your reports Vagabond and very jealous face Steve.

Edited November 18, 2009 by JV44

[SWF]

The other thing to bear in mind re getting there from the Melbourne is that Ferry crossing can be how you say interesting depending on the sea state ,never fished for the Trout but did have a go off Jetty's/Rocks and in the lagoons the sport there was excellent esp off the rocks by the Ferry terminal waiting to come home .

The coastline just past Port Arthur and the prison heading west is a bit special to ,Looking forward to your reports Vagabond and very jealous face Steve.

 

Interesting.