Trout Waters

Arthurs Lake Tasmania Located in Tasmania's Central Highlands, Arthurs Lake is around 45 minutes from Cressy in to the Jonah Bay boat ramp, which gives access to the Cowpaddock and beyond, and most of the northern end of the lake. Arthurs Lake is a consistent, viable, sustainable fishery, and the most popular, most productive trout lake in Tasmania. Midge hatches, Mayfly, and beetle falls are some of the most common occurrences on Arthurs. As well as this, it boasts a huge aquatic food bowl, with snails, shrimp, scud, and Jassid. Arthurs Lake is a premier wild brown trout fishery [...]

Four Springs Lake A trophy trout fishery Four Springs is a low altitude lake in the northern midlands of Tasmania. It is a purpose built fishery, with a lot of shallow areas a well as deep water. It has excellent weed growth and over the decade as it has evolved, the diversity in insect life has become rather dramatic. We enjoy fishing Four Springs early and late season. Spring is a magic time of year on Four Springs. On the best days, which I would have to say are overcast, warm, and drizzly, the hatches can be phenomenal and when [...]

Cradle Mountain area In the Cradle Mountain area, good fly fishing options include lake Lea, the Vale River, and Talbots Lagoon. Lake Lea Lake Lea is a very short distance from Cradle Mountain Lodge, very near to the Vale River in the Vale de Belvoir. Lightly tannin waters, great to wade and polaroid. It's rather shallow, with consistent gradients. Vale River The Vale rises out of the ground flowing south away from Lake Lea, not into it. This is Karst country, water being pushed up through limestone, and like the chalk streams of England, is crystal clear. There are [...]

Brumbys Creek Tasmania A lowland river, from day one a trout fisher can expect to find a display of feeding fish in some of the shallow areas... tails and swirls! When the light is good, at any stage of the season, because the water is mostly crystal clear, the sight fishing is top class. Situated five minutes from our door, Brumbys Creek is supplied with clean, cool water from Great Lake in the Central Highlands via the Poatina Power Station. There is a wide variety of fishing to be found along its course with some beautiful freestone sections and [...]

Great Lake Tasmania Only 30 minutes from Cressy, Great Lake is a deep and clear vast inland sea on the north rim of the Great Western Tiers in the Central Highlands of Tasmania. It houses an excellent populations of wild brown and rainbow trout Super windlane fishing, froth lines and food slicks bring about sometimes intense surface feeding frenzies and great dry fly fishing opportunities. At other times, subtle rise forms appear in calm slicks as chironomid emerge during cool, overcast conditions. Find the food and you'll find the fish. Rainbows feature well in these conditions and Great Lake [...]