isolated thunderstorms this afternoon and overnight...

Weather Stuff:

A cold front combined with a trough will cross over night with the slight chance of a thunderstorm. The westerly winds should pick up tomorrow easing later on Thursday.

Fishing Stuff:

Fished Arthurs on the weekend and all managed to land fish. Andrew W landed 6 nice trout, which he was happy about as he now may have to wait until February or even December next year before returning to the lake. I caught 2 and summed up the courage to flick the fly around for some fun. The weather was great but no good for fishing from the shore. Graham from Q’land caught 2, which one weighed in just under 3lb. He caught his trout on a pink and white sea fishing bibbed lure affectionately know as the “jellybean”. Welcome to the Trout Fish Tasmania club Graham.

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October 2006 - An extraordinary month...

Weather Stuff:

Info from the BOM:

Tasmania had some quite extraordinary weather during October, all sorts of records were broken at different sites: hottest day, coldest night, warmest night and lowest rainfall.

October was a month punctuated with extreme events - a record hot day on the 12th with severe bushfires in the south and record cold days on the 16th, 21st, 28th and 29th with severe frosts reported in the north and snow to low levels reported across the state.

Many stations in the north had their lowest total October rainfall on record, including Burnie, Devonport, Scottsdale and Launceston. Devonport had less than 5 mm for the month, a tiny fraction of its October normal 66.9 mm.

Fishing Stuff:

Looking forward to Andrew W’s trip South. He has every piece of gear imaginable ready to go. I think the weather will play a big part to how well things go, hopefully the Easterly will stay away!

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Lake Echo is fishing well....

Weather Stuff:

There is a cold front sneaking up from the SW today, which will freshen the winds and cool them down by tomorrow. There may be some possible showers about tomorrow, but only very light if they happen at all.

Fishing Stuff:

Fished the Cam River for a few hours last night. It is certainly quite different to the Mersey and Forth. When the tide comes in, it doesn’t waste time either. As soon as the tide started coming in the whitebait started to move then shortly after the fish followed. I can only assume they were trout as I didn’t land anything. Talking to some local fellas, they said were catching sea runners up to 5lb. But they didn’t catch anything either. Simon was kind enough to give me a call Wednesday night to let me know that he had “bagged out” at Lake Echo. He managed 15 fish for the trip. So there is another milestone down.

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