Anglers busy along the East Coast are being rewarded.
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Given the time of year, squid are now plentiful and widespread, and while clouds of seagulls over Georges Bay at St Helens last Sunday marked schools of Australian salmon, one party hauled aboard 20 to two kilograms in an hour.
Then southward off Four Mile Creek, anglers putting out at breakfast time have been boating plenty of flathead and gummy sharks while down near Chain of Lagoons.
Another casting bluebait from Lagoons Beach smartly hauled in six beefy blackback last week.
Although blue eye trevalla are well out on the shelf, closer in are striped trumpeter between Bicheno and Schouten Passage, together with albacore tuna down to Wineglass Bay.
Bluefin tuna are also reported in Schouten Passage.
Farther south, bream are coming from the Swan River as usual, but of late mainly from clear brine which can take finding there.
Effective lures have included copies of shrimps and minnows.
Inland, Brushy Lagoon anglers are advised by the Parks and Wildlife Service that Brushy Lagoon Road will be closed from next Monday, February 27 to March 27, inclusive while new, permanent bridges are installed to replace those damaged by floods last year.
When bridges have been replaced, seven kilometres of this access road will be graded and re-sheeted during a period of about four weeks, but Brushy Lagoon Road will not need to be closed.
Anglers are still catching unusual trout from the St Patricks River above the fish farm damaged by floods last June.
Good sized tiger trout were recently topped by a 1.4 kilogram albino rainbow, in good nick and on the feed.
Meanwhile, of the carp left in Lake Sorell, the Inland Fisheries Service reports removing 289 of them in the last quarter of 2016.
While this is 191 fewer carp than in the same quarter of 2015, there are fewer carp overall.
With warmer water flooding marshes last year, the IFS changed to using big barrier traps in front of them to catch many of the few remaining carp which were making their first major push inshore since their last big spawning in 2009-10.
Great Lake water via Poatina Power Station is boosting flows on many week days down Brumbys Creek and waters linking with it downstream, the lower Macquarie and South Esk Rivers.
In other news, anglers will be pleased that super-trawlers are likely to be permanently banned, at least from operating within three nautical miles of the Tasmanian coast, via legislation before state parliament in March.