Tooling up for Tassie

I was lucky (or as all of my mates would have you know, unlucky) enough to get married a couple of weeks ago and have just spent the last 2 weeks in Tassie (I'm actuarially still here!!).
I managed to sneak a couple of rods in to the car (as if I wasn't going to) for the trip cause I just knew there would be an opportunity to have a fish somewhere in the apple isle.
First port of call was a morning on the Great Lake with an old mate Steve 'Steersie' Steer. The lake was as flat as a crap carters hat and the wind was a chilly 3 degrees and about 5 to 10 knots. After about 3 hours we had 7 trout in the boat with the best nudging just under 4 pounds.
We caught most of them on the new 3" Craw (this thing is so hot) which just looked like it was going get them on from the off set! Using 1/16oz size 1 Nitro jigheads and camo & pumpkinseen colored craw's we worked the edges of islands and some of the shore line in the north of the lake.

That done I had some down time (time spent with the family) till I was meet with the mighty Derwent River in Hobart. HOLY SH*T!!!!!!! This place is just cranking with bream!!!!! To give you an idea, I stood on the one rock (that's right trend setters, stood in the one spot) and caught 12 bream from 800g to about 1.3kg inside 1 hour and all within walking distance from the room. And the next day I fished from a boat!! Jeeessssssssssaassss!!!!!!!!!
I can't even try to explain who good this fishing is but to keep it simple, Steersie and I put a bag of 5 together that weight 7.1kg........ and talking to Steersie, that was a pretty crap days fishing!
Highlight for me was listening to Steersie tell me about the bad luck things that have happened to him when he's fished this river in the past and then seeing him slip and fall in and the boat ramp right in front of me...... hahahahahaha still laughin old mate....... sorry!
I fished a few moring by myself and caught some lovely big bream and every time I put the hooks in I couldn't help but smile and think how untouched and awesome this fishery is and the potential it has.
I'll post some photo's as soon as I work out how!

Berkley plastics and Tassie where a hit for me and if your heading down there soon and want some local info, call in and see Steerie at GotOne in Launceston, cause he's da man!!!!

Cheers & beers

Royter.