The 2021 whitebait season is almost upon us, and opens on Friday 1 October. The season will run for 6 weeks before closing on Thursday 11 November.

A whitebait licence is required to fish for whitebait. Licences are available for $33 from the IFS website, Service Tasmania outlets and selected tackle shops.

A whitebait licence permits anglers to take a maximum of 2 kilograms of whitebait per day, and a total of 10 kilograms for the season. Please check the 2021-22 Inland Fishing Code for the regulations relating to whitebait fishing. 

The following waters are open to whitebait fishing this year:

• Black River

• Brid River
• Don River
• Duck River (except 50m above or below the weir)
• Henty River
• Huon River
• Inglis River
• Little Forester River
• Pieman River
• River Derwent
• River Forth
• River Leven
• kanamaluka/River Tamar
• Rubicon River (except 50m above or below the weir)

With the weather warming up why not purchase a licence and go catch a feed of whitebait, or any number of the sea-run trout chasing the bait upstream around the State at the moment!