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Well its been one of those seasons where it looked like it was going to be a better than average summer. In the local lakes Rainbows and Browns started off feeding fairly freely both around the edges and of course in the shallow bays with plenty of drowned vegetation producing plenty of midge and great fishing. In one December week I had 3 days where I boated 42, 51 and 36 rainbows all over 40cm. The rivers started strong also and plenty of both Rainbows and Browns took up residence in the normal hot spots.

Then the weather changed and so did the fishing. What happened to summer ... I have had summer days where I have had the fire on at home and of course predicting what weather you might face a week into the future has been difficult at best.

More recently its been very hard to find fish in both the rivers and the lakes consistently and I put that down to changing weather conditions and water levels.

Always the optimist I am hoping that there will be a late rush of summer and settled conditions that bring on better times.

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