Pay $70/kg or catch your own flathead

It’s enough to send the average fish lover diving for the tackle box.

Dane Hansson (correct), 29 of West Moonah catching a couple of flathead to cook up for dinner tonight off McGee's Bridge at Midway Point.

It’s enough to send the average fish lover diving for the tackle box.

News this week that the humble flathead was selling for up to $69.95 a kilo brought out plenty of Good Friday fishers including Dane Hansson who threw in a line off Midway Point.

Mr Hansson managed to hook two flatties and save himself a fortune.

“It only cost me a little bit of bait,” he said.

Other Easter holiday revellers chased down goodies in an Easter egg hunt, took in the SFL football or attended church services.

For many children it’s the season of Easter eggs, for others it’s an excuse to hook a fish and for the faithful there is a deeper meaning.

As anticipation builds ahead of the Easter bunny’s arrival, Tasmanians have been urged to reflect on the real meaning of the holiday period.

Catholic and Anglican Church leaders, speaking to hundreds at packed Good Friday church services yesterday, said it was a time to think about hope, truth and living a good life.

Eva Warren, 4, of Oakdowns, races for the best spot in the RHH Foundation Easter Egg hunt at the Botanical Gardens.

“Easter is a time when we remember Jesus,” Anglican Bishop of Tasmania John Harrower said. “I would hope for all Tasmanians as we chomp on our Easter eggs that we might take an opportunity to work together for the common good and for all that’s good in life and that we [can] bring hope, find forgiveness and reconciliation.”

John Harrower, Anglican Bishop of Tasmania.

Catholic Archbishop of Hobart Julian Porteous said Easter was an appropriate time to remember that failures could be transformed.

“When Christ died in Good Friday, it seemed everything was a failure. It seemed everything he had done had come to nothing,” he said.

“Sometimes in life things don’t seem to work out and we don’t have the sense of success we were hoping for.

“But if we are faithful to truth, to goodness and to righteousness — then we realise these are the things that really count.”

Archbishop Porteous spoke to a crowd up 600 attending the 3pm Good Friday service at St Mary’s Cathedral yesterday, and about 100 attended the 10am service at St David’s Cathedral.

Catholic Archbishop Julian Porteous at St Mary's Cathedral.

A record number of eager egg hunters converged on the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens yesterday.

The fourth annual Good Friday fundraiser — held to raise money for the Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation — attracted a sellout crowd of 3500 children aged between 3 and 13.

Together they devoured tens of thousands of chocolate eggs.

Foundation chief executive Heather Francis said it was like watching a “massive great vacuum cleaner descend” — with the egg clean-up taking only two minutes.

Nine-year-old Dekota Scott, of Goodwood, was a first-time egg hunter and had a few personal highlights.

“Probably seeing the Easter bunny and watching the Scallywags (performing),” she said.

Anglers had their own hunt on yesterday, trying to snag the traditional Good Friday feed of fish.

More fishing weather is forecast for Hobart today, with a partly cloudy day heading for a top of 19.

Easter Sunday tomorrow has a chance of showers and a top of 21, while Monday will be a cooler 16 with a higher chance of showers.