Fishing Tasmania is the ultimate Tasmanian fishing guide! It is a quality magazine that comes wrapped with a free informative DVD titled ‘How to catch Bream on lures’, plus a free Fishing Tasmania sticker.
It retails for $10.95 and is available in newsagents throughout Australia and selected fishing tackle stores in Tasmania.
The purpose of the magazine is to attract increased participation in fishing in Tasmania for the future sustainability of the fishery.
Fisheries management is funded primarily through angling license sales, so the more people that buy licenses and fishing gear, the better it is for all. We encourage you to seek out a copy of Fishing Tasmania Annual and show your support by displaying the free sticker on your car or boat.
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The 2010-11 angling season starts on Saturday 7 August, with the traditional opening of brown trout waters. Rainbow waters will remain closed until Saturday 2 October this year.
Here are the current guidelines issued by the Inland Fisheries Service for locals and visitors alike.
Get a Licence!
You require a current angling licence to fish at any open inland water in Tasmania (including farm dams on private property), except at a registered private fishery where you generally pay to fish.
You can purchase or renew an angling licence by visiting a licence agent (at major tackle stores or any Service Tasmania shop). Licences can also be purchased or renewed online
Angling licences range in price from a full season adult licence at $66.50 to a short term weekend licence for $20.
The full season licence offers anglers the best value for money; being a 12 month licence with the opportunity to fish every day of the year; and with significant discounts for juniors (80% less at $12.00), pensioners (45% less at $36.50) and seniors (25% off at $53.00).
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Inland Fisheries has added a new brochure and map for Craigborne Dam.
It is available, along with many others, for download here.
More funding for carp eradication teams
By SARAH GRAHAM | Minister for Primary Industries and Water, Bryan Green announced that an additional $400,000 will be provided for the Carp Management Program in this year’s State Budget.
The Service has invested heavily in the control of carp at lakes Sorell and Crescent over the past 15 years. It has received financial support primarily through State government funding and to a lesser extent, the Commonwealth government.
During this time, the Service has successfully contained the carp invasion to these lakes, which was its number one priority. It went on to significantly reduce the carp population in both lakes using innovative technology, and last year, appears to have achieved a total eradication of carp from Lake Crescent.
Favourable environmental conditions last year, however, led to limited spawning and successful recruitment of juvenile carp in Lake Sorell.
This was a major set-back for the carp team which was so close to achieving its long term goal of eradicating the pest fish from Tasmanian waters.
The additional funding in this year’s budget will buoy the spirits of the carp team and it will enable the implementation of further strategies to gain greater control of the carp population in the extensive waters of Lake Sorell.
This work will focus on the capture of as many of the juvenile fish from the 2009-10 spawning as possible, while preventing any further spawning or subsequent population outbreaks in the 2010-11 season.
Meanwhile, the carp team will continue to closely monitor Lake Crescent for the presence of any carp. — IFS
Electrocuted carp catch
The Director of Inland Fisheries, John Diggle has ordered the closure of Lake Sorell for fishing this coming season due to the outbreak of juvenile carp last summer. This special closure is enabled under the Inland Fisheries (Delay or Prevention of Spread of Controlled Fish) Order 2003.
The restriction covers public access to Lake Sorell and on land surrounding the lake down to its high water mark as wells the outlets of both Lakes Sorell and Crescent, and on land around these outlets below their high water marks. It applies to all activities that might result in contact with the water, including hunting, angling, boating, wading and swimming.
The closure is required to support the IFS in its work to control carp in the Lake during the coming season, when a major operation is planned to eliminate juvenile fish and prevent further spawning during spring and summer.
Woods Lake Road has been steadily improved since this photo in 2005
Road maintenance work on Woods Lake Road has been undertaken during the closed season and is now complete. The work, which involved correcting road side drainage, installation of delineators at culverts and the filling of potholes, was jointly funded by the IFS and Hydro Tasmania.
The extent of the work was from just past Yengena settlement at Arthurs Lake Dam all the way to Woods Lake Dam, a total distance of approx 12.5km.
Anglers can do their part in limiting damage to the road surface, their vehicles and boats by travelling at speeds conducive to the conditions. The recommended maximum speed, in ideal conditions, for this type of road is 20-40 km/h. — IFS
