One of the world’s finest examples of wilderness preserved, Tasmania’s Lake District is renowned for fishing, boating and splendid solitude. In this serene and beautiful haven, temperate rainforests invite exploration. Tranquil lakes brimming with enormous brown trout tempt anglers.

Stupendous Lake Pedder
At the northern edge of Tasmania’s south-west wilderness lie Lake Pedder and Lake Gordon, together forming Australia’s largest freshwater catchment, holding about 27 times more water than Sydney Harbour. The 350,000 brown trout fry released into Pedder’s waters in 1972 have spawned a race of giants.

Landscape of pure lakes
One of the world’s most remote wildernesses, Tasmania’s Southwest National Park wasn’t fully explored and mapped until the latter half of the 20th century. Tasmania’s most spectacular bushwalk, Western Arthurs Traverse, packs 30 lakes and 25 major peaks into a distance of just 20 kilometres.

Angling heaven awaits
Secluded Lake Sorrell on Tasmania’s Central Plateau is surrounded by a sanctuary for native animals. The lake itself is full of rainbow and brown trout. Nearby Lake Crescent is another angler’s paradise, One trout caught there weighed 12 kilograms – and that was after it had been gutted and cleaned.

Wilderness lakeland
Lake Arthur and Great Lake are not only hauntingly beautiful, they are famed for fishing, with trout eggs having been introduced as long ago as 1864. The first European to see Great Lake was a Danish convict, Jorgen Jorgenson, who earned a pardon by exploring for the Van Dieman’s Land company.