Tasmanian Fishing Report – 30 / 10 / 2020
Finally the weather clears allowing anglers to access clearing waters in both the salt and fresh ...
Saltwater
Sand Flathead continue to bight well this week as inshore bays, inlets and rivers start to produce fish and water temperatures rise.
Tiger Flathead continue to pick up for the season in deeper 50m plus water.
Striped Trumpeter become available on Sunday after the annual closure. 1st of Nov being the start date.
Australian Salmon are widespread with good captures coming from Cremorne and Channel areas.
Sand Whiting are still available in good numbers in Storm and Frederick Henry Bays.
Silver Trevally are taking baits, lures and soft plastics at St Helens ... smaller fish have been encountered further south around Orford and Marion Bays.
Sea trout are biting again with huge whitebait runs firing them up in the Derwent and Huon estuaries.
Atlantic Salmon continue to make their presence felt with a 4kg specimen taken drift spinning at Granton late last week in the Derwent. Has there been another escape?
Calamari still a little patchy.
Freshwater
Arthurs Lake continues to give up fish to the fly in the shallows while spin and troll anglers find the going a little slow
Great Lake has finally come on line for the year with some magnificent fish being caught last weekend drift spinning into shore. Hard body bibbed minnows seeming to be the best option. As with most lakes this year these fish are fit and fat !
Bronte Lagoon continues to astound anglers with the quantity and quality of both the browns and rainbows it also is producing this season trolling and drift spinning working well.
Penstock Lagoon is fishing well but has tapered off tad.
Woods Lake is high and fishing well to all methods as most lakes do in October. Size has picked up a bit this year with some fish nudging 2kg.
Lake Leake remains constant with some quality brown and rainbow trout being caught predominantly by spin and troll anglers.
A 4kg Atlantic Salmon caught late last week at Granton drift spinning into shore while chasing sea run trout.
Bibbed minnows such as this Megabass X80 being used right across the to spin for trout from the shore or boat.
