Inland anglers will have good reasons to look forward to the next brown trout season.
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Besides many waters now being stocked with browns and rainbows, access to well-liked Tooms Lake has been improved through funding by the Inland Fisheries Service and Marine And Safety Tasmania.
Thanks to the lake's current low level, contractors were able to remove stumps and snags near the boat ramp, extend gravel to the existing water level and repair the rock armour along the sides of the ramp.
Tooms Lake, however, will need to rise by about 30cm to -2.30m to make boat launching possible. Check levels at www.bom.gov.au - latest River Heights for the Northern Rivers.
Then Chris Wisniewski of the IFS has advised of good progress being made with the ten new toilets being built to service popular trout fisheries.
Down South, the Tyenna River is an esteemed trout stream which has benefited from volunteers recently replacing willows obstructing access with native rushes, shrubs and trees which will shade the river and stabilise its banks.
Recently, an angler, trolling hard plastic lures in Craigbourne Dam, found launching his boat difficult but was happy to finish with his limit of brown and rainbow trout. Although the rainbows were plump but small, anglers have also encountered some very big Atlantic salmon there.
Saltwater sidelights down East include squid, with one angler bagging sizeable calamari over sand just inside the Georges Bay bar.
Well South, Bluefin tuna have been targeted at Fortescue Bay but many have not been big, with one northern angler recently boating four in two days, the biggest 17kg.