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2. Central Highlands (Tasmania) - Wikipedia

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   The Central Highlands of Tasmania are home to famous trout fishing lakes and boasts some of the best trout fly fishing found anywhere in the world. The location played host to the 2019 World Fly Fishing Championships. The Central Highlands are on the bucket list for many fly fisherman with popular locations including Great Lake, Arthurs Lake ...

3. Mersey River (Tasmania) - Wikipedia

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   The Mersey River is renowned for trout fishing, offering opportunities to catch brown and rainbow trout. [10] Recreational activities along the river include whitewater rafting, kayaking, and water skiing. The river hosts events such as the annual Devonport Regatta, which features boat racing, swimming, and woodchopping competitions.

4. Red Tag (artificial fly) - Wikipedia

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   The Red Tag is an artificial fly originally designed as a dry fly for grayling and trout in the north country of England. The fly pattern, when introduced into Australia, particularly Tasmania, became extremely successful and popular for brown trout and remains today as one of the most essential flies for Australian fly anglers.

5. World Fly Fishing Championships - Wikipedia

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   The lakes and lagoons are situated near the small town of Miena, Tasmania, including Penstock lagoon, Great Lake and Little Pine Lagoon. The geographic centre of Tasmania is located on the western shore of the lagoon. [57] The species of fish caught were brown trout (Salmo trutta) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).

6. Plenty, Tasmania - Wikipedia

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   Plenty was gazetted as a locality in 1959. [3] River Plenty Post Office opened on 27 March 1869, was renamed Plenty in 1895 and closed in 1956. [4] The town is notable as it was the location of the first introductions of brown trout outside their native range when in 1864, 300 of 1500 brown trout eggs from the River Itchen survived a four-month voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall to Melbourne on ...

7. Cressy, Tasmania - Wikipedia

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   Cressy is a small town 35 kilometres (22 mi) south-west of Launceston, Tasmania. It came into existence in the 1850s to service the surrounding wheat farms. At the 2006 census, Cressy had a population of 670. [2] It is known as Tasmania's "Trout capital" for the good fishing in the area.

8. Brown trout - Wikipedia

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   The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo, endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally as a game fish, even becoming one of the world's worst invasive species outside of its native range.

9. Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area - Wikipedia

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   The Tasmanian Wilderness is probably the best known of the rest. [6] Tasmania is approximately 296 km (184 mi) north to south and 315 km (196 mi) east to west, [7]: 6 and about 300 km (190 mi) south of mainland Australia. Around 30 per cent of the state's land is reserved under some category of conservation land tenure. The Tasmanian Wilderness ...