The Ultimate Trout Fishing Experience

Let Trout Fishing guide Peter and his trout fishing team, guide you to your ultimate "trout fishing" experience.

Tasmania is world famous for its wild Brown Trout lake fishery. The highland lake country is more or less in the geographical center of the state at an altitude of 1000 meters. This area is an easy one and a half hour drive from either Launceston, or the capital, Hobart. Our team of guides work daily from the Great Lake area during the season which is open from August to April inclusive.

We are the only fishing guides living, and working, full time in the highlands and as such our local knowledge is without peer. This, coupled with the use of 4WD veichles and tri hull sportfishing boats, ensures that you experience the finest trout fishing attainable at the time of your visit.

We have two distinctly different types of lake fishing available in the highlands. The larger, deeper, man made hydro storages like Great Lake, Arthurs, Dee Lagoon and the smaller, shallower intimate natural lagoons and tarns of the western lakes. Most fishing is sight fishing for brown trout that average close to three pounds.

Through out the season visiting anglers could expect to savour some of the most exciting and challanging trout fishing. In any one month an angler could be chasing tails in the shallows, polaroiding on a crystal clear day. Alternatively practicing the art of Loch-style fishing and the excitement of wind lane trout fishing .

If solitude in a pristine wilderness environment has appeal, you will enjoy your guided fishing in the "Western Lakes."

To the west of the Great Lake at an elevation of 1200 meters lies the 'Land of 3000 Lakes'. A world heritage area only accessible by foot this unique wilderness tundra is the home to literally thousands of shallow, gin clear lakes, lagoons and tarns. You can sample world class sight fishing to some fish in excess of 5 kg. Camping, fly fishing and tramping in this special place will provide an experience that stays in your mind forever.

South Western Tasmania is a place of rugged beauty and tall mountain ranges. The relative inaccessability to all but the keenest of anglers has meant that the fishing here remains unspoilt. Although these fisheries are remote and the environment wild, our well appointed bush camps are the ideal way to experience this unique part of the world. The summertime mudeye fishing in places like lake Pedder is legendary whilst the wind lane fishing techniques we have developed at Lake Burbury will leave you breathless. Where else could you sight fish and catch 45 wild rainbows in a single morning?
Experience the wilderness fishing in the Western lakes and you will forever be awaiting a "blue sky Day."

We have two distinctly different types of lake fishing available in the highlands. The larger, deeper, man made hydro storages like Great Lake, Arthurs, Dee Lagoon and the smaller, shallower intimate natural lagoons and tarns of the western lakes. Most fishing is sight fishing for brown trout that average close to three pounds.

Through out the season visiting anglers could expect to savour some of the most exciting and challanging trout fishing. In any one month an angler could be "chasing tails" in the shallows, polaroiding on a crystal clear day. Alternatively practicing the art of Loch-style fishingand the excitement of wind lane trout fishing .

Tasmania offers this country's most diverse river and stream fishing. We invite you to experience these wonderful fishing opportunities with Andrew Harker, our specialist river guide.

The fish that live in these fertile lowland streams are always fat and short, a sign of abundant and high protein food. They always fight twice as well as their size dictates and for me there is always a special feeling in my heart as I watch these sensational sportfish slide through the pools and kiss mayflies from the mirror calm surface.

The trout season opens on the rivers in August. During the first two months these rivers are often running high and they frequently flood into the surrounding grazing land. The rising water is the signal for most of the trout in the river to migrate into the paddocks where they search the flooded backwaters for drowned worms and new born frogs. The trout are nearly always seen tailing in only inches of water and it is a very visual and exciting way to fish for the larger trout that at normal water levels are much more reclusive and wary.

The Ultimate Trout Fishing Experience - Fly Fishing the pristine wilderness of the rivers and lakes of Tasmania is an experience that you will never forget.

Let Tasmanian Fishing guide Peter and his trout fishing team, guide you to your ultimate "wilderness fishing". Experience the challenge of "Sight fishing" and Polaroiding to large brown trout 'grazing' in reedy lake margins.

If your personal fly fishing challenge is stalking trout... Your heart may skip a beat as you watch a trophy size brown trout open its mouth to engulf your fly.

Alternative fly fishing experiences available

You may choose to cast a fly to speckled river trout on our beautiful lowland streams, or classic dry-fly fishing during prodigious mayfly hatches on our large, cool, clear Tasmanian lakes.

We will take you to the trout. Their knowledge of Entomology, fly patterns and fly fishing, will provide you with unforgettable Tasmanian fishing experience.

Come join us and have fun fly fishing for bream.


September 2001
G'day Peter,

Thanks for an excellent trip. Your knowledge and experience really made my trip to Tasmania worthwhile and left me with very positive memories of a lovely and mysterious place.

Tassie fishing was different from my expections. Your direction on where to situate, how to spot incoming cruisers, where to place intercepting casts, choice of flies and retrieve type were all critical to success. And your suggestions on other venues to fish on my own were most helpful.

Your advice and instruction was invaluable - I could easily have gone fishless for days if left to my own devices. I am pleased to learn new techniques to improve my fishing success in all situations and you were very generous in sharing your knowledge.

I highly recommend your services and look forward to fishing with you and Lisa in the future.

Best Wishes,
Sid Wales
California, USA

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