North East Tasmania Dean Price
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I really like Tasmania it is just lovely and the fishing was really good on this trip. I hired a pushbike and it slowed things down for me to really experience the locations in a way that motorized transport cannot. I met some other pushbike riders and they said they cover anywhere between 60-100 kilometers a day. I probably did about 30-40 a day as I was fishing a lot of the time. One of the advantages of tenkara is the minimal gear that I could carry on the bike. I had three rods, several spools of different level line and more than enough flies. A great place to fish tenkara style is the North Eastern part of Tasmania. Medium and small streams of great variety are offered to fly fisherman with a week or two to spare. January has nice summer weather with the occasional day or two
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that can be cold and wet. Bridges and high banks reveal cruising hungry fish often feeding and ready to eat flies. Grasshoppers and other insects become the fish’s main diet in the summer, so dry flies work well.
