Counting down for anglers ready to rock

The East Coast Stock Rebuilding Zone, covering practically all this coast south of Eddystone Point, re-opens for recreational anglers on Saturday, December 4.

Promisingly, divers north of Eddystone were pleased with numbers and size of crays they took recently.

Unfortunately, other anglers are reporting takeable flathead hard to find in the east, but good numbers of calamari squid are still being reported at the Tamar estuary mouth, together with sizeable King George whiting over the shallows there.

Inland, Four Springs Lake continues to attract anglers, especially from late morning onwards when insects like mayflies become active - along with trout looking for them.

Up top, Great Lake's level is a metre higher than it was at this time last year so anglers have even more of this vast water to prospect for hefty browns and rainbows.

Now that northern trout streams have fallen back to their usual levels, trout anglers might well check Brumbys Creek and linked rivers downstream which will again benefit at times, now and through summer, from refreshing surges of cooler Great Lake water.

Probably because of these flows, mayflies of interest to fly-fishers seem to show here in fewer numbers on any one day, but over a longer time than on other rivers.

Arthurs Lake 1.41 (metres from full)

Great Lake 10.80

Little Pine Lagoon 0.47

Penstock Lagoon - spilling

Woods Lake - spilling

Lake St Clair 1.53

Lake King William 1.24

Lake Echo 2.96

Bradys Lake 0.23

Bronte Lagoon 0.94

Laughing Jack Lagoon 0.34

Meadowbank 0.37

Lake Gordon 20.69

Lake Pedder 1.07

Lake Plimsoll 0.81

Lake Murchison 13.66

Lake Mackintosh 2.43

Lake Rosebery - Spilling

Lake Pieman 0.32

Lake Mackenzie 2.81

Lake Rowallan 2.67

Lake Parangana 0.07

Lake Cethana 1.28

Lake Barrington 0.86

Lake Gairdner 1.43

Lake Paloona 2.44

Lake Leake 5.20 (FSL 5m)