Trout & Offshore Fishing

Discover an essential part of Tasmania's history at Bronte Park. It was once a construction village for the Tungatinah power scheme, now its a peaceful village of 20 self-contained cottages, a chalet, a caravan park, a hostel (the old hospital) and a village store that, of course, keeps just about everything you need. This is the heart of the islands lake district. People come from all over the world to outwit the wily trout, but you wouldn't know it when you're walking along a quiet river banks or rowing the only boat on a calm lake. Remember to take your rod! When you've proved yourself with the trout explore the rest of this scenic paradise. There's a network of walking tracks, and plenty of pools and streams to replenish your water bottle and cool your feet. Hunt for fossils and ponder the mystery of seashells far from the sea. Inspect the Power Station Museum for the incredible story of the people who brought electricity to the area. Walk the Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park (but a short drive away) and experience the cool magic of the wilderness.

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Lake Echo

Turn off the Lyell Highway (A10) at Bradys Lake to reach Lake Echo, with its excellent trout fishing and boat launching area. At all the Central Plateau lakes, keep a careful eye on the weather.

Trout Fishing (fly, bait or lure)

Native Brown Trout - Exhilarating Fishing at its best

Tasmania is reputed to hold the best stocks of Brown Trout and Rainbow Trout in the world. Hundreds of lakes and rivers offer the fly angler amazing opportunities to fish the best waters in the world at some of the cheapest rates available. We can organize for a guided tour or point you in the best direction to where we know the fish are biting. Accommodation in these areas is amazingly inexpensive too and the fishing is absolutely world class. Experience the fresh air and wilderness and fantastic scenery too. 

In the increasing din of city life it’s good to know there is a place on the edge of the world where you can cast a fly for wild trout and listen to the silence.

Tasmania’s wild trout fishery coexists with immense wilderness and more than one third of the island is World Heritage Area, national park, forest or marine reserves.

The fishery includes shallow lakes and meandering lowland streams, with abundant wildlife and birdlife for company.  Like the great wedgetail eagle that caught a morning thermal above a waking south west lake then lifted with lightning speed into the clouds and disappeared. Or the platypus watching your back cast.

The island is best known for sight fishing - the phenomenon of tailing trout feeding in clear waters only inches deep with anglers able to stalk and cast to fish only a rod length away. Another attraction of sight fishing is “polaroiding”, using polaroid sunglasses to spot fish through the glare of the water.

Talk to the locals and suss out the best spots yourself, book a guide who’ll help you with a tailor-made expedition or indulge yourself with a fully-pampered fishing retreat.

Editor of United States magazine, Fly Fisherman, John Randolph has rated Tasmania high on places to fish “among those wonderful places where fly fishers may stalk shadow shapes and tie into the fish of a lifetime”.

Blue Lake Lodge, on one of the world’s most prolific wild lake fisheries, has set consistent catch records since opening in 2000.  Guests landed more than 350 fish in one month alone from Arthurs Lake.

An experienced guide, Brett Wolf’s infectious passion for fishing probably counts for more than his undoubted depth of knowledge. It might be the first time you’ve been in charge of a fishing rod but he’ll soon have you casting like an old hand. 

His wife, Simone, is chef at the waterfront lodge, set in secluded bushland at the end of a two-kilometre private road.  Haute cuisine meals made from local gourmet produce are accompanied by Tasmania’s famed cool climate wines.

The new Rainbow Lodge operated by angling guide Neil Grose (and Nicole) offers intimate accommodation and personalised service a stones throw from the Great Lake. This puts you within minutes of some of Tasmania’s best waters including the famous “Little Pine”.

The trout season operates all year on some larger lakes but the action starts to heat up after August and runs until April for brown trout and May for rainbows.
 

Off Shore Fishing (Tuna, Marlin etc)

Tasmania's East Coast offers some of the best blue water fishing in the world. Tuna, Marlin, shark - it's all here. No matter what season we can organize your own boat or an escorted journey in our world class waters.

Off shore Fishing in Australia is the best in the world! The 7 a.m. dry run on safety and gear seems a lifetime ago. This is game fishing and it’s quiet on the 24 feet twin-hull shark-cat, bobbing above the Continental Shelf off St Helens, on Tasmania’s sparsely populated east coast. We start winding in the lines. Suddenly one of them screams through the reel and all hell breaks loose. A mako shark more than twice your size is on the other end. He’s so mad he tears a heap of line off the reel and leaps nearly 20 feet out of the water, flashing cobalt blue, before touching down for a two-hour battle. Shift back in the game chair and brace your feet. This is going to take all but 40 metres of the kilometre-long line and every bit of the 24 kg breaking strain stretched between you and him. Yesterday it was a 140 kg marlin and yellow-finned tuna up to 40 kg.  Today’s big daddy on the line will weigh in at 220 kg but right now you’re glad you don’t know. It’s enough to feel the fight in him and at the end of the afternoon, savour the elation when your companions help wrestle him into the boat. Maybe next time you’ll try a day of deep sea fishing in the temperate waters of one of the world’s finest saltwater fishing zones and settle instead for a manageable 10 kg striped trumpeter.

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