Regarding Four Springs brown trout, the Inland Fisheries Service is checking on the progress of 2000 spawners transferred last May from Great Lake and marked by clipped dorsal fins - the small, soft top-rear fins.

The service asks anglers to note how many of these they catch compared with those not fin-clipped and to advise via infish@ifs.tas.gov.au

Bronte Lagoon is a highland fishery often not affected by snow and anglers there are particularly pleased with recent trout catches, plentiful and in top condition.

Excellent browns and rainbows to 2kg are also reported from Blackmans Lagoon.

Anglers Alliance members have recently installed a new webcam at Lake Leake. To check it, go to Anglers Alliance Tasmania.

Lake Leake shores have been well-covered with snow, like those on the Central Plateau.

Tooms Lake was stocked with 500 small domestic rainbows just before the season opened. Its water level has remained relatively low - as at Lake Sorell, where more rain is needed to fill marshes.

Open again, Lake Sorell has often fished well early each season, but due to carp eradication measures, Sorell this spring and summer will sometimes be closed, temporarily and at short notice.

Meanwhile, in saltwater, schools of smaller bluefin tuna are rewarding anglers off St Helens and Schouten Island.