Fishing near New Norfolk, Tasmania

New Norfolk sits on the River Derwent in Tasmania's Derwent Valley, and the river is the centrepiece of fishing in the area. The Derwent here holds wild brown trout sustained by natural recruitment, with sea-run trout moving through the upper estuary reaches. The Salmon Ponds on the nearby Plenty River — a Derwent tributary — is where the first brown trout in the southern hemisphere were hatched in 1864, making this district the birthplace of Australian trout fishing.