London Lakes Lodge, Tasmania

Lake Big Jim is four minutes by car from the Lodge and is perhaps Tasmania's finest tailing trout water. From October, large browns cruise inshore to "tail" the very shallow lake margins. Lake Big Jim provides four kilometres of tailing trout waters reserved solely for London Lakes' guests.

Lake Samuel is an exciting dry fly fishing and polaroiding water with spectacular hatches of mayfly, damselfly and beetles - just a three-minute walk from the Lodge. An added benefit of a stay at London Lakes - "Wild trout fishing at the doorstep." No long hours travelling to and from the Lodge

Lake Highland Waters is the third lake in the London Lakes chain of fishing experiences, a private water with residential lodge sites, developed and managed by London Lakes.

There is excitement in the air as this trophy trout water is approached - to cast to large trout within inches of the water's edge will test the nerve and short distance casting skills.

The Serpentine River, a stream on the property which is perfect for anglers seeking small fish in tiny streams, is an ideal "hopper" water for the summer the months.

London Lakes has constructed its own private fly fishing stream, known as the Oxford Pools. It will eventually be fifteen kilometres long. Stage One of this stream opened to Lodge guests on September 1, 2002, with about twenty pools containing brown trout to five and one half pounds. Seeded with mayfly in 2001, a small hatch was expected and indeed arrived in November / December, 2002. When the beetle fall occurs, the Oxford Pools should provide exciting dry fly fishing. This signature stream can only be fished in the company of a registered London Lakes' angling guide. Flies will be limited to dry fly and nymphs; wading is prohibited; all fish must be released; angling will be from the bank only; the stream will not be fished on consecutive days.

The Oxford Pools is a stream designed for the trout, not the angler - most pools have a short rocky run enabling spawning during the winter months of June and July. Most pools also have a flood area where fish have access to food-rich grassland when the pools overflow. The Oxford Pools run through a quiet isolated grassy valley with a water-table only a few feet below the surface. When pools are constructed they fill with water within a few days and water flow is provided by release of water from Lake Big Jim. This little stream will not be unlike "Flat Creek" outside Jackson Hole in Wyoming, United States of America. See also the London Lakes Stream Development project with photographs.