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Winter is looking promising

31/5/2021

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Fishing is rarely predictable, and the last part of this autumn has proved the point. Following a deluge at the start of May, the month moved into a period of mild, settled weather. There were even trout caught on mudeye patterns! Then the weather flipped again, and suddenly we were back to rugging up in full foul weather gear. Fortunately however, midge don’t care about cold, and they’ve been out in droves, providing reliable evening action, and sometimes, A-grade daytime action too. The photos below include Cam with a matching pair of male and female monsters, both caught on Milly Midge during a massive early afternoon hatch.       
 
But what was that about unpredictability? The midge are pouring off on a couple of lakes where they’re normally not a feature, yet they’re sparse (so far) on a couple of lakes where we’d expect a lot more by now. And although the May fishing has been mostly consistent, there was a run of a few days in the back half of the month when it was tough. The guests were still catching fish, but it took more effort than usual. Then just like that, the trout are back again, in the usual cusp-of-winter spots, and behaving pretty much as we would expect them to.
 
In the background to all this, May rainfall has been well above average; temps for the month as a whole have evened out to bang on average – warmer at the start and colder at the end. The springs are all flowing now and the lakes are rising. Winter is looking promising.     
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