Low alpine scrub and pale dead timber in the foreground of Great Lake, with distant hills on the far shore

Tasmania's Central Highlands lakes

Miena sits at the southern end of Great Lake (Yingina) on Tasmania's Central Plateau.

  • Tasmania · Australia
  • 8 waters
  • 5 guides & lodges nearby
  • 4 shops nearby
Photo credit

Great Lake (Yingina) near Liawenee, Central Highlands, Tasmania. Photo: Peripitus, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

More about Tasmania's Central Highlands lakes

Miena sits at the southern end of Great Lake (Yingina) on Tasmania's Central Plateau; Arthurs Lake, Penstock Lagoon and Little Pine Lagoon lie close by, Bronte Lagoon and Lake Echo lie to the south-west and south, and Launceston and Hobart are the cities to the north and south.

Meet local guides and lodges

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5 guides and lodges within 80 miles (4 fly-focused, 1 lodge). Unclaimed listings, built from each business's own website: confirm licensing, rates and dates directly.

All Tasmania guides
  • Rainbow Lodge Guided Fly Fishing Tasmania

    Miena, TAS · 1 mi

    Raft trips · Beginners & lessons · Arthurs Lake & Great Lake

    • Unclaimed
  • Unique Fishing Tours

    Launceston, TAS · 42 mi

    Saltwater & ocean charters · Beginners & lessons · Arthurs Lake & Great Lake

    • Unclaimed
  • Tasmania Fly Fishing

    Launceston, TAS · 44 mi

    Drift boat · Saltwater & ocean charters

    • Unclaimed
  • Red Tag Trout Tours

    Blackmans Bay, TAS · 76 mi

    Beginners & lessons · Multi-day trips · Macquarie & Lake Macquarie

    • Unclaimed
  • Diver’s Fishing Charters

    Hobart, TAS · 66 mi

    Saltwater & ocean charters · Beginners & lessons · Derwent River

    • Unclaimed

All Tasmania guides

The Tasmania's Central Highlands lakes area

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The circle is the 80-mile area this page covers, around Miena. Tap a water for its page. Shops and guides appear where they publish a street address on their own website; all of them are listed below.

Map of the Tasmania's Central Highlands lakes area: its waters, shops and guides

Map of Tasmania's Central Highlands lakes: the 80-mile area this page covers, its waters, and shops and guides with an exact address.

Waters around Miena

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The rivers, lakes or flats this hub is organised around. Where a nearby guide or lodge names a water on its own website, we say how many do. Seasons, closures and permits differ by water: check the agency pages under licence and rules.

No live reading is shown on this hub page; open a linked water for the agency gauges and sources we hold for it.

Species guides mention

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5 guide and lodge websites nearby name species of their own; counted below. This is what they advertise, not a promise of what you will catch.

  • Rainbow trout4
  • Brown trout3
  • Flathead2
  • Bream1
  • Brook trout1
  • Snapper1
  • Tuna1

Licence, regulations and access

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Buy the permit from the agency or rights-holder and read its current rules before you go. These are the authoritative pages; nothing on this page grants or implies access to any water, and no fee is shown because none was read from an agency page with a date.

Inland Fisheries Service Tasmania (inland angling licence)

Fees on the agency page

Tasmania's inland waters need an angling licence from the Inland Fisheries Service.

Licence page

Nothing here grants or implies access to any water.

5 guide and lodge listings

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Within 80 miles. Fly-focused operators first, then the best-documented listings. Distances are straight-line from the town centre. Every listing is unclaimed and built from the business's own website and an open map record; confirm licensing, rates and dates directly. Lodges and motherships are labelled as such.

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4 shop listings nearby

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Fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop's own website gives its location; otherwise the shop is included because it is in one of the towns around Miena. Confirm hours with the shop before you go.

Rates pages (2)

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2 nearby operators publish a rates page. We never copy rates or estimate a budget for this hub; these links open each operator's own rates page.

Parks and visitor offices

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For the non-fishing days, or the people travelling with you. Official sources only; what to do there is for their pages to say. We do not list or price lodging or flights for this hub.

Gear checklist

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A stillwater fly-fishing checklist for lakes and ponds: a 9–10 ft 5–6 weight rod, floating and intermediate lines, chironomids and leeches, and float-tube options, with estimated prices and where to buy.

An angler stands knee-deep in a calm lake with the rod bent, playing a trout

Lakes & stillwater

9′–10′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating + intermediate lines · Rainbow, brook and brown trout in lakes

Open checklist

Watch: stillwater trout basics

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Chironomids, leeches and where fish hold in a lake.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • Catch More Trout in Lakes Using Indicators – Stillwater Fly Fishing TipsEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Stillwater Fly Fishing Is Simpler Than You Think! | Introduction to Stillwater Fly FishingEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Why is this Chironomid Fly Pattern So Versatile? | Two-Toner BC Chironomid | Fly Tying TutorialEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

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Stories from Tasmania

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly, tagged with a water in Tasmania, Australia.

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Sources for this page

All 5 sources

Guide, lodge and shop listings come from the Legendary directories (open map records checked against each business's own website). Everything else links to the publisher below; this page copies none of their text. A destination hub organises discovery; it does not assert public access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions, and it estimates no price.

Links checked 22 Oct 2026. Not a claim of access or conditions.