About Riverfly and Daniel Hackett

Daniel has been a full time professional guide since 2002, specialising in Tasmania’s famous northern midland streams surrounding the historic town of Longford. Daniel has recently expanded his horizons from the magnificent Brumby’s Creek, Esk rivers and Macquarie River to take in Tasmania’s small spring creeks, the larger rivers of the north-west, as well as the famous Western Lakes and World Heritage Area.

RiverFly was created in January 2005 as Daniel spread his wings to create his own specialist river guiding business. This has enabled Daniel to offer the most diverse range of Tasmanian river fishing destinations available in Tasmania, including raft-based fishing. Daniel is now widely regarded as the leading river guide in Tasmania.

See the below links to some of the articles Daniel has featured in:

Australian Traveller Magazine, The Walls of Jerusalem

Brumby’s Creek article, Flylife Magazine

Tasmanian River Renaissance, FlyLife Magazine

Daniel is fully licensed and qualified with senior first aid certification and restricted coxswain’s ticket. Daniel’s raft is in full commercial survey and RiverFly Tasmania is covered by full public liability cover.

Daniel started fishing as soon as he could walk, in the small streams of the Snowy Mountains. Years later his fly fishing career began as a teenager whilst living in County Clare in Ireland where trout, pike and Atlantic salmon were the targets. Since then he has fly fished in Ireland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and of course his home state of Tasmania.

Daniel has fished in three Tasmanian fly fishing championships and has qualified to fish for Tasmania in two Australian championships. In 2002 Daniel was the Tasmanian fly casting champion and runner up in 2003 and 2004. Daniel is also a proficient casting instructor and has a relaxed and concise manner when teaching or improving your casting.

Daniel’s academic qualifications are also impressive; he has an MBA in Marine Resource Management near completion to add to a Diploma in Aquaculture, a Graduate Diploma in Fisheries Management and a Graduate Certificate in Fisheries Management. Daniel knows trout from the inside out and back again as both a scientist and as an angler – a unique combination.