Walking fishing trip in Southern Tasmania

[Mafeking09]

HI all. I', thinking of taking a mate and our daughters on an overnight fishing/walking trip. We both like fishing and he's keen to get into walking. We live in Hobart. Last year we went into Lady Lake then Lake Nameless which was sensational but it's up North. I've heard Silver Lake is great but the walk pretty boring. Any ideas? This is a try out for my mate and his daughter to get them primed for a trip through Cradle later this year.

[mjdalessa]

Possibly Lake Skinner in the Snowy Range, or Duckhole Lake if that has fish (near Adamson's).

[Mafeking09]

Nice ideas. What about southern end of Central plateau?

[ofuros]

How about Lk Fergus(in via little pine lagoon), Lk Olive(via gowan brae rd), Lk
Ina(has a old hut at the northern end) or maybe Clarence Lagoon(for brook trout)......a lifetime of endless options to explore really.

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[Graham51]

Lakes Belton and Belcher both have trout and great scenery.

If you can get your hands on a copy of Tasmanian Trout Waters by Greg french you should come up with a lot more options. Try the library.

[Joel]

Hey, Lake Silver is not in southern Tasmania, its in the central plateau. The walk in is awesome, not boring at all and is really easy too. The fishing can be good but you need the right weather for mayfly or it's really tough. Antimony is right next to it and is awesome if it's bright. If you want to fish in the south then go mt field or hartz. Or maybe new river lagoon if you want some adventure. The tight loop lodge is cool but pretty skanky to stay in. Id prefer to camp at silver. I saw a juvenile devil at night last time I was there.

[ofuros]

As Graham51 pointed out in his post, if you wish to combine bushwalking & trout fishing....do yourself a favour & buy/loan a copy of Greg French's book.
It covers the entire state....from wiggly blue lines to big puddles.

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[Mafeking09]

Thanks All. I DO have a dog eared copy of Greg's book. Based on that I did one of the best short walks ever - the walk into Malbena and a night on the island after paddling out in a leaky raft. Last year we went to Lady Lake and NAmeleless. I heard the Silver Lake access included a long stretch along the road? Is there another route?

Belton and Belcher over the back of Field have been suggested - sounds great combo fish/walk.

[ofuros]

Since you have already done Lk Malbina, how about turning right to Lk Noami,
- across to the south end of Lk Rotuli - over to Lk Galaxis - then on to your final destination
...Silver lake via the same access route.
There's also an Emergency hut at Lk Antinomy, the neighbouring lake to Silver, if you need it.

From memory there's remnants of a plane crash on Naomi's shoreline somewhere.....
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=141&p=695
http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/24845/197502847.pdf

Whatever route you choose, enjoy your trip.

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[Mafeking09]

That route to Silver Lake sounds great.

[ofuros]

Fishing, walking, camping, bounding wallaby's, mobile hairy boulders(wombats) plane crash debris.....
...should make for an interesting trip.
Fingers crossed......you'll catch some wily brown trout too.
Enjoy your adventure, Mafeking09.

[Mafeking09]

INdeed - key thing is access through Gowan Brae? Last time we travelled up the valley and took our life in our hands and drove across the old bridge with a tyre on each log!

[ILUVSWTAS]

INdeed - key thing is access through Gowan Brae? Last time we travelled up the valley and took our life in our hands and drove across the old bridge with a tyre on each log!

Did this trip a month or so ago, the bridge although looks dodgy, is fine. It's the local at the concrete hut with rifles you need to be wary of.... No shooting signs everywhere, and they had about 40 roo's strung up blatantly.

[Mafeking09]

Decisions made - Lake St Claire - Mt Rufus- Shadow/Forgotten Lake for a fish and O nighter and then back. Great little prep walk for taking our girls on the Overland track at Christmas.

[ofuros]

Enjoy your trip Mafeking09, hope the fish are biting......